YAPC::Israel::2003::May::12 - Call for Participation

2002-12-01 Thread Gabor Szabo
Ladies and Gentlemen and other fellow Perl hackers, since I joined your list a couple of weeks ago I was in full lurking mode but for this announcement I have to come forward. I think that you, the organizers of the first YAPC::NiNA (Not in North America) should personally suffer from my announce

Search::InvertedIndex revisited

2002-12-01 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Sun 17 Nov 2002, Kate L Pugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there anyone here who's used Search::InvertedIndex and can point me > to some working example code? I'm having great trouble getting my > head around it. Just for completeness: I seem to have finally figured it out. Example script

Re: re-animating regexes

2002-12-01 Thread Tony Bowden
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 09:53:02AM -, Ivor Williams wrote: > Another niggle: /me avoids $a and $b like the plague, as they have special > meaning to sort. At a certain on-line video shop, there was once a very strange bug that took quite some time to track back to the use of $b for an instanc

The 2002 Perl Advent Calendar

2002-12-01 Thread Mark Fowler
Doesn't December come round quickly? http://www.perladvent.org/2002/ Announcing the third Perl Advent Calendar, the Advent calendar that features a different Perl module each day of Advent, and a bonus module on Christmas day. This year's improvements include each day hav

Re: Perl advocacy opportunity ...

2002-12-01 Thread john imrie
This is the contact email address for the compertition [EMAIL PROTECTED]

re: Perl advocacy opportunity ...

2002-12-01 Thread Jody Belka
robin szemeti said: > as a first step, getting plenty of Perl people signed up and making > Perl'y sort of noises on their 'internet specialist group' would > probably be no bad thing ... > > http://www.isg.org.uk/member.htm > > its free btw, > > -- > Robin Szemeti >From the rules: b. All probl

re: Perl advocacy opportunity ...

2002-12-01 Thread robin szemeti
as a first step, getting plenty of Perl people signed up and making Perl'y sort of noises on their 'internet specialist group' would probably be no bad thing ... http://www.isg.org.uk/member.htm its free btw, -- Robin Szemeti

Re: Perl advocacy opportunity ...

2002-12-01 Thread Leon Brocard
Robin Szemeti sent the following bits through the ether: > Thoughts ... ? I've entered the BCS programming competition three times in the past, got to the final too ;-) It is actually a lot of fun - I love solving problems. I'll try and explain how it works. The heats are about 12 teams of around

Perl advocacy opportunity ...

2002-12-01 Thread robin szemeti
hmmm ... http://www.news.jobserve.com/NewsStory.asp?SID=SID1259 Precis: the British Computer Society (http://www.bcs.org) run a programming competition every year (solve as many problems as possible in a given time) .. the languages on offer are C, C++ Java ... and new this year .. Visual Basi