Re: New York, New York

2002-12-11 Thread Billy Abbott
>> Yes! Two Boots is fantastic. Lordy but I miss decent >> pizza living in London. > >If you're looking for a gastronomic tour of New York... I've been recommended (for a slightly different taste to others) "Touch Of Hungary" in Queens. It's run by one of our ex-coders and her mum, and by all a

Re: New York, New York

2002-12-11 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 10:29, john muth wrote: > Yes! Two Boots is fantastic. Lordy but I miss decent > pizza living in London. > Some other nice things to do and see in NYC: the roof > garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the > Cloisters Museum way up at the tip top of Manhattan > island i

Re: Sift is hiring

2002-12-11 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 22:46, Dirk Koopman wrote: > why sigh? It's my old job. If anyone needs any inside track, just ask. > On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 21:19, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > *sigh* > > > > http://www.it.Jobserve.com/jobserve/EmailJob.asp?jobid=J6D2C249D65AA76F3 > > http://www.it.Jobserve.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emergency pubmeet, Friday 13th December / Social 9th Jan

2002-12-11 Thread Toby|Wintrmute
Hi guys, I'll try and make it, but as I've just started a new job, I'm not sure i'll be able to get away in time. (Although I would like to celebrate the new job with some pints at some stage. Although.. since i'll be serving pints as the nature of my new job, I'm not sure if i'll want to see mor

Re: Sift is hiring

2002-12-11 Thread Dirk Koopman
why sigh? On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 21:19, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > *sigh* > > http://www.it.Jobserve.com/jobserve/EmailJob.asp?jobid=J6D2C249D65AA76F3 > http://www.it.Jobserve.com/jobserve/EmailJob.asp?jobid=J8E30170576B6DD02 -- Please Note: Some Quantum Physics Theories Suggest That When the Consu

Sift is hiring

2002-12-11 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
*sigh* http://www.it.Jobserve.com/jobserve/EmailJob.asp?jobid=J6D2C249D65AA76F3 http://www.it.Jobserve.com/jobserve/EmailJob.asp?jobid=J8E30170576B6DD02 -- Dave Hodgkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: mod_perl2 (was) Re: [JOB]

2002-12-11 Thread Andy Wardley
Simon Wistow wrote: > As I understand it your problem is not 'I want to be transparent' but 'I > have naming issues' Kinda. > Which this would solve. Even if the User[tm] has to specify > > use Apache::Template => 2; The issue is that the non-portable part happens when the module is installed,

Re: New York, New York

2002-12-11 Thread Jonathan Peterson
Lucy McWilliam 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 along. Alternatively, any advice on where to stay, what to see, etc?

Re: New York, New York

2002-12-11 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 02:29:08AM -0800, john muth wrote: > Yes! Two Boots is fantastic. Lordy but I miss decent > pizza living in London. Yes, although it's against my nature as a Philadelphian, even I must admit that Two Boots has great pizza. The "two boots" in the name refers to Italy and

Re: New York, New York

2002-12-11 Thread john muth
Ditto Naples. And they still do it good, I had the pleasure of a business trip there a couple of years ago and ate nothing but pizza, the best I've had anywhere. It was like the best of what I love about the best NYC pizza but with impeccable sauce and mozzarella, thinner and crispier dough, cook

Re: mod_perl2 (was) Re: [JOB]

2002-12-11 Thread Simon Wistow
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:01:16AM +, Andy Wardley said: > This is written in XS, is specific to mod_perl 1 and doesn't work under > mod_perl 2. As far as I know, it's very difficult, if at all possible, > to put any kind of hook in to allow you to circumvent this process. As I understand it

Re: Perl Merchandise

2002-12-11 Thread James Powell
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:52:54AM +, 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 goo

Re: New York, New York

2002-12-11 Thread Roger Burton West
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 01:22:56PM +, David Cantrell wrote: >On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 01:10:37PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: >> So, was pizza invented in Italy or New York? >In Naples, IIRC, prior to Italian unification. But American-style pizza is sufficiently unlike the Italian sort that it

Re: New York, New York

2002-12-11 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 01:10:37PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 08:01:27AM -0500, Adam Turoff wrote: > > If you're looking for a gastronomic tour of New York, then you must > > visit Brooklyn for some pizza. > So, was pizza invented in Italy or New York? In Naples, IIRC,

Re: New York, New York

2002-12-11 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 08:01:27AM -0500, Adam Turoff wrote: > If you're looking for a gastronomic tour of New York, then you must > visit Brooklyn for some pizza. So, was pizza invented in Italy or New York? What's the story. I don't trust google for the answer to this one, I think it's got to co

Re: OT(ish): Advice

2002-12-11 Thread Shevek
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Lusercop wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:06:10PM +, Steve Campbell wrote: > > (1) If anyone tells you that their code isn't commented because "if you > > don't understand it you shouldn't be touching it", please kill them. > > procmail-3.22/src/sublib.c has this to s

Re: New York, New York

2002-12-11 Thread Adam Turoff
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 02:29:08AM -0800, john muth wrote: > > Yes! Two Boots is fantastic. Lordy but I miss decent > pizza living in London. If you're looking for a gastronomic tour of New York, then you must visit Brooklyn for some pizza. There's a Two Boots in Brooklyn (Park Slope, Brooklyn

Re: OT(ish): Advice

2002-12-11 Thread Lusercop
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:06:10PM +, Steve Campbell wrote: > (1) If anyone tells you that their code isn't commented because "if you > don't understand it you shouldn't be touching it", please kill them. procmail-3.22/src/sublib.c has this to say: | /* | * My personal strstr() implemen

Re: Perl Merchandise

2002-12-11 Thread Alex McLintock
At 00:33 11/12/02, the hatter wrote: 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. I was at a science fiction convention a few years back when a lady (with a clipboar

Re: OT(ish): Advice

2002-12-11 Thread Steve Campbell
On Friday 06 December 2002 10:34, Neil Fryer wrote: > I have a question for all of you, and hope that you can give me some > advice. I am have been a SysAd for the last 4 1/2 years, and I really > want to get out of this line, and into programming, but I can't > really afford to take a cut in sala

Re: vim

2002-12-11 Thread Marty Pauley
On Thu Nov 28 15:27:21 2002, Jonathan Peterson wrote: > I'm playing with vim. Either it's standard perl syntax file doesn't > support folding, or I can't get folding to work for some reason (setting > fold method to syntax..). > > Vague comments about remedying either situation appreciated. The

Re: Perl Merchandise

2002-12-11 Thread Neil Ford
On 11/12/02 1:16 am, "the hatter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 mar

Re: Perl Merchandise

2002-12-11 Thread Peter Haworth
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 01:29:02 +, Kate L Pugh wrote: > 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?

Re: mod_perl2 (was) Re: [JOB]

2002-12-11 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 11 Dec 2002, Nigel Wetters wrote: > Andy Wardley (AW) and Simon Wistow (SW) said: > AW>> There's almost no way to make one module work for both version, as > AW>> far as I can see, except to pepper the source with #ifdefs and > AW>> effectively bodge both versions into one file. And I don't li

Re: mod_perl2 (was) Re: [JOB]

2002-12-11 Thread Mark Fowler
Andy wrote: > Suggestions welcome. Abstract out the code that does the configuration interface, and then have it Do The Right Thing depending on what version of Apache it's running on. Mark. -- Mark Fowler http://www.twoshortplanks.com/ The 2002 Perl Advent Calendar [EMAIL PROTE

Re: mod_perl2 (was) Re: [JOB]

2002-12-11 Thread Andy Wardley
Nigel Wetters wrote: > SW> Apache::Template::ModPerl1 > SW> Apache::Template::ModPerl2 > > That would work. What you've described is effectively a factory method > that creates Apache::Template objects based on mod_perl version number. Actually it wouldn't work. Writing code to load and instanti

Re: async method calls

2002-12-11 Thread Steve Keay
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 09:25:15AM +, David Cantrell wrote: > For one of my crack-induced ideas, I have a humungous number of objects > floating around, which need to call methods on each other. When a method > is called on object $a, it may well then go on to call methods on $b and > $c, whic

[ANNOUNCE] Emergency pubmeet, Friday 13th December / Social 9th Jan

2002-12-11 Thread Mark Fowler
Hello. Before I give you the details of emergency meeting happening the day after tomorrow, advance notice of the dates for the meetings next year (all of which are on Thursdays - venues to be confirmed): 2nd Jan Small London.pm post New Years day drinks. 9th Jan Main Social. Come one, c

Re: [cam.pm] Christmas Perl Programming

2002-12-11 Thread Liyang HU
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 09:46:05PM +, David Cantrell wrote: > I decided what I was going to write, wrote it, but then ran out of > enthusiasm* and couldn't be bothered to munge it to fit the template. > However, because it may be of interest, what I wrote is below. [snip] > # othe

Re: mod_perl2 (was) Re: [JOB]

2002-12-11 Thread Nigel Wetters
Andy Wardley (AW) and Simon Wistow (SW) said: AW>> There's almost no way to make one module work for both version, as AW>> far as I can see, except to pepper the source with #ifdefs and AW>> effectively bodge both versions into one file. And I don't like AW>> the idea of having to maintain that. A

Re: New York, New York

2002-12-11 Thread john muth
Yes! Two Boots is fantastic. Lordy but I miss decent pizza living in London. Some other nice things to do and see in NYC: the roof garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Cloisters Museum way up at the tip top of Manhattan island if you like things medieval (even if you don't it's a beau

Re: async method calls

2002-12-11 Thread Shevek
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, David Cantrell wrote: > Sounds to me like I need threading. But last I heard, perl threading > still sucked. Alternatively, I could probably do something with POE, but > it's big n' fat n' undocumented*, or I could spawn a new process for each > object and talk over sockets

Re: async method calls

2002-12-11 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 09:25:15AM +, David Cantrell wrote: > For one of my crack-induced ideas, I have a humungous number of objects > floating around, which need to call methods on each other. When a method > is called on object $a, it may well then go on to call methods on $b and > $c, whic

async method calls

2002-12-11 Thread David Cantrell
For one of my crack-induced ideas, I have a humungous number of objects floating around, which need to call methods on each other. When a method is called on object $a, it may well then go on to call methods on $b and $c, which call methods on $d, and on $e, $f and $a, and so on. Yes, there can b