Re: New York, New York

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:59:23AM +, Lucy McWilliam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I've decided to have a trip to NYC next spring, for various reasons. > According to Expedia, there are lots of good deals in March. I'm going to > tempt organisational doom and ask if anyone fancies coming al

New York, New York

I've decided to have a trip to NYC next spring, for various reasons. According to Expedia, there are lots of good deals in March. I'm going to tempt organisational doom and ask if anyone fancies coming along. Alternatively, any advice on where to stay, what to see, etc? L. Highway code - beware

Re: Perl Merchandise

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 01:16:53AM +, the hatter said: > Quite aside from the obvious anti-MS philosophy that I'm sure plenty of > people here understand (esp in light of the recent revelations of how much > MS are planning to lose on the x box and xbox 2, just to try and get into > the market)

Re: Perl Merchandise

On Wed 11 Dec 2002, Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why get a bad console with only 5 or 6 good games on it when you can > geta better console with more good games available 4 of which come *for > free* with it for less money? Because I want to steal cars, tanks, helicopters, and, er, g

Re: Perl Merchandise

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Simon Wistow wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:14:00AM +, Kate L Pugh said: > > This is what I want for Christmas: > > http://www.dabs.com/products/prod-info.asp?quicklinx=137J > > ObPlayStationHater: > > Why get a bad console with only 5 or 6 good games on it Same re

great excitement!

I seem to have two spare tickets for our little trip to see the second installment of Lord of the Rings. We're seeing it at the Streatham Odeon at 1830 on the 19th, and some of us are going for food afterwards. The tickets are UKP7, first two people to mail me off-list saying they can definitely

Re: Perl Merchandise

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:14:00AM +, Kate L Pugh said: > This is what I want for Christmas: > http://www.dabs.com/products/prod-info.asp?quicklinx=137J ObPlayStationHater: Why get a bad console with only 5 or 6 good games on it when you can geta better console with more good games availab

Re: Perl Merchandise

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Kate L Pugh di most certainly declare: > ... all Perlmongers have great taste in sexy underwear That must have been a fair amount of research you did. the hatter

Re: REVIEW: Domain Names: A Practical Guide

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:10:42PM +, Roger Burton West wrote: > A useful non-technical guide, primarily for lawyers. > > Simon Halberstam, Joanne Brook, and Jonathan D.C. Turner; Domain Names: > A Practical Guide; Butterworth's Tolley, 0-754-51491-9, 288pp > (softcover) I have posted this o

Re: Perl Merchandise

Dave Cross wrote: >> I wonder how many women will be asking for this for Christmas >> On Tue 10 Dec 2002, Belden Lyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder how many monger-wives will be receiving it anyway ;) Surely none, since, of cour

Re: Perl Merchandise

Dave Cross wrote: I wonder how many women will be asking for this for Christmas I wonder how many monger-wives will be receiving it anyway ;)

Perl Merchandise

Some interesting stuff has appeared in the Perlmonks store on Cafe Press I wonder how many women will be asking for this for Christmas Dave... -- It was long ago and it was far away And it was

Re: mod_perl2 (was) Re: [JOB]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 09:51:04AM +, Andy Wardley said: > There's almost no way to make one module work for both version, as far > as I can see, except to pepper the source with #ifdefs and effectively > bodge both versions into one file. And I don't like the idea of having > to maintain th

Interesting eval problem

The following code is a hack I'm trying to put together to allow me to read from a doom wad file into perl. Those of you with long enougth memories will remember that the doom wad file is in a packed binary format, so my code is supposed to allow a user to create a class on the fly from a C typede

[JOB] mobile stuff

I got cold called about this (4th time in a month I've been cold called - where were these people 2 motnhs ago?) He was pretty vague - but these are the details I got : The company is the mobile division of a global leader in all things media, the position is a Senior Programmer / Producer. The

[JOB] Guardian Unlimited (via-a-pimp)

An agent has punted me a Word document containing a spec for a job which seems to be at Guardian Unlimited strings doesn't reveal much in the Word document, but these seem interesting: Skills: Unix (Sun Solaris)/Linux (Red Hat) PL/SQL C or Perl HTTP/web servers Web application architecture Javas

Re: SQL Trick

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Nigel Hamilton wrote: > Here is an SQL trick that solves this problem: > > select * from table > where 1 = 1 > and a = 1 etc. > > It just makes things a bit easier ... any other tricks out there? This is sometimes useful but

SQL Trick

Hi, Here's a little trick, that another aussie at London.pm told me ... which I'd forgotten, but have now just remembered, and thought others may find interesting. Sometimes I need to dynamically create the "where" clause of an SQL statement. For example: select * from t

Re: Perl CGI and PHP - with some TT thrown in

- Original Message - From: "Dave Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 6:14 PM Subject: Re: Perl CGI and PHP - with some TT thrown in > > Have all the frontend in perl -- with maybe a namespace dedicated to the > PHP backend via. mod_rewrite.

Re: Perl and Time zones.

It may be a bit heavyweight for this purpose, but Date::Manip has a Date_ConvTZ function. Take care, Mark. On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Tamsin wrote: > Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 17:17:19 + > From: Tamsin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Perl and Time zo

Re: central installation of Perl

* Gabor Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-10 06:43]: > Then of course we found out that we have machines with older glibc > that won't run our compiled perl. Upgrading linux is out of question, > these have to have the old glibc. > > What is your suggestion ? Have you considered creating a build

Re: central installation of Perl

On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 11:35, Gabor Szabo wrote: > we have a few linux boxen and in order to make Perl > installation the same on all we try to have a centralized > perl installation. > > All the linuxes have /usr/localnfs mounted to > a central anyway filer so what we did is compiled perl on

Re: central installation of Perl

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:35:35PM +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: > Then of course we found out that we have machines with older glibc > that won't run our compiled perl. Upgrading linux is out of question, > these have to have the old glibc. > > > What is your suggestion ? > Is the central perl a st

REVIEW: Domain Names: A Practical Guide

[I got this through Alex, so it'll be on the Diverse Books site, but I assume it should go to london.pm.org's review list as well... Perl interest is peripheral at best, but it's a still not bad.] A useful non-technical guide, primarily for lawyers. Simon Halberstam, Joanne Brook, and Jonathan

Re: central installation of Perl

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Gabor Szabo wrote: > Then of course we found out that we have machines with older glibc > that won't run our compiled perl. Upgrading linux is out of question, > these have to have the old glibc. > Is the central perl a stupid idea ? > Shall we compile perl again with the olde

central installation of Perl

we have a few linux boxen and in order to make Perl installation the same on all we try to have a centralized perl installation. All the linuxes have /usr/localnfs mounted to a central anyway filer so what we did is compiled perl on one of our machines and installed it on /usr/local/perl/

Re: Perl and Time zones.

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Andy Wardley wrote: > Tamsin wrote: > > > its not actually that easy and have better things to do than to work out > > the time zones for 6000 places for which I only have a longitude > > and latitude > > If at first you don't succeed, re-define the problem to make it easier :

Re: Perl and Time zones.

Tamsin wrote: > I have a silly weather website - weatherpixie.com. s/silly/cool/ > its not actually that easy and have better things to do than to work out > the time zones for 6000 places for which I only have a longitude > and latitude I realise that time zones don't work like this, but if