Re: [OT] accessors pragma

2003-09-18 Thread Piers Cawley
Damian Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For what it's worth... Perl 6 classes will autogenerate accessors that return the underlying attribute itself as an lvalue: class DogTag { has $.name is public; has $.rank is public; has $.serial is

Re: Database setup

2003-09-18 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Wed 17 Sep 2003, Jonathan Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really? I just write the SQL in text files and run them through the database's built in client. I don't want the hassle of having to work out where to install these text files. Kake

Re: Online payment providers

2003-09-18 Thread nemesis
Jason Clifford wrote: On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, nemesis wrote: Netbanx: http://www.netinvest.co.uk/ncr/netbanx/ Of the ones listed these are the only ones I would specifically avoid. On the few occassions I've had to pay via their service it's been impossible as their site only seemed to work

Re: SWF spider

2003-09-18 Thread Simon Wistow
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 03:01:50AM +0100, Paul Makepeace said: Do the any .swf parsers provide a list of all the anchors and referred- to media in a movie? Put another way, given a .swf, is there a way of knowing what further HTTP requests would and could be generated from loading and/or

[ANNOUNCE] Social Meet 2nd Oct @ The Star + Tonight Tech Meet

2003-09-18 Thread Mark Fowler
[ First up, remember there's a tech meet tonight at The Angel at Old Street. See http://london.pm.org/lpma/2003-May/55.html for info ] Announcing the October social meeting of the London Perl Mongers, which will be held after seven on Thursday the 2nd of October in the upstairs room of the

Re: [OT] accessors pragma

2003-09-18 Thread Steve Purkis
Well, So far there's a 55/45 split for chaining, so I'll release a preliminary version with: use accessors qw( foo bar baz ); # same as accessors::chained use accessors::classic qw( foo bar baz ); use accessors::chained qw( foo bar baz ); The last one will guarantee

Re: Thinking YAPC::America::South::Brazil

2003-09-18 Thread David Landgren
Dan Sugalski wrote: [...] There are details in various places, but a good place to start is www.yapc.org and www.perlfoundation.org, which have information about holding YAPCs. (It may be a bit tough to find, as I think they're working on the sites, but it is there) YAPC::NA venue requirements

[ANNOUNCE] Tech Meet Tonight reminder: was Re: Social Meet 2nd Oct @ The Star + Tonight Tech Meet

2003-09-18 Thread Mark Fowler
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Mark Fowler wrote: [ First up, remember there's a tech meet tonight at The Angel at Old Street. See http://london.pm.org/lpma/2003-May/55.html for info ] CORRECTION: I am officially a moron, and can't use copy and paste to save my life. The details of tonight's tech

Re: Thinking YAPC::America::South::Brazil

2003-09-18 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, David Landgren wrote: Dan Sugalski wrote: [...] There are details in various places, but a good place to start is www.yapc.org and www.perlfoundation.org, which have information about holding YAPCs. (It may be a bit tough to find, as I think they're working on

nice part of San Francisco and hotel?

2003-09-18 Thread Robin Berjon
Hi, I'm going to Santa Clara next week and landing at SF airport a little over a day before I need to be there. Since I'd rather spend those hours in a fun place (as opposed to Santa Clara), I've been thinking about staying one night in SF. Thing is, I don't know the place, and all that guides

Re: nice part of San Francisco and hotel?

2003-09-18 Thread Mark Fowler
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Robin Berjon wrote: So, since this list is pretty international, I guess the *has* to be someone here that knows SF, at least a bit, and that would be able to recommend a not too expensive but nice/fun/full-of-bars area in which to pick a hotel. Dude, this is London.pm.

Re: nice part of San Francisco and hotel?

2003-09-18 Thread Richard Clamp
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 02:06:36PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: Dude, this is London.pm. I think you want SanFrancisco.pm. Are you sure? Remember how the typical hotel conversation goes with a local? Tourist: Say, where would I find a hotel here. Local:Sorry, I can't help - I

Re: SWF spider

2003-09-18 Thread Patrick Mulvany
You might find ming worth looking at. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ming/ They seem to like PHP for some strange reason but last time I checked it did have a perl interface. Paddy On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 03:01:50AM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: Do the any .swf parsers provide a list of

Re: nice part of San Francisco and hotel?

2003-09-18 Thread Robin Berjon
Richard Clamp wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 02:06:36PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: Dude, this is London.pm. I think you want SanFrancisco.pm. Are you sure? Remember how the typical hotel conversation goes with a local? Tourist: Say, where would I find a hotel here. Local:Sorry, I can't help

Re: nice part of San Francisco and hotel?

2003-09-18 Thread candace
On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 02:36 PM, Richard Clamp wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 02:06:36PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: Dude, this is London.pm. I think you want SanFrancisco.pm. Are you sure? Remember how the typical hotel conversation goes with a local? Tourist: Say, where would I

Re: Surrey.pm (was: back to the 80's)

2003-09-18 Thread Sam Vilain
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:06, Richard Atkinson wrote; I live in Guildford, Surrey and I'm also rather partial to beer. I think it must be time to organise the second ever Surrey.pm meeting. But /are/ there any decent real ale pubs in Guildford? It's all trendy wine bars these days,

RE: nice part of San Francisco and hotel?

2003-09-18 Thread Clayton, Nik [IT]
So, since this list is pretty international, I guess the *has* to be someone here that knows SF, at least a bit, and that would be able to recommend a not too expensive but nice/fun/full-of-bars area in which to pick a hotel. Coincidence -- I was out there staying with friends last week.

Re: Online payment providers

2003-09-18 Thread Jason Clifford
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Sam Vilain wrote: For new businesses though other banks tend not to offer the service without very large bonds, if at all. I didn't have £5,000 to £10,000 to give to the bank for this. I know of a company who were charged a £500,000 deposit for their merchant

Re: nice part of San Francisco and hotel?

2003-09-18 Thread Stéphane Payrard
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 04:09:17PM +0200, Robin Berjon wrote: Richard Clamp wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 02:06:36PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: Dude, this is London.pm. I think you want SanFrancisco.pm. Are you sure? Remember how the typical hotel conversation goes with a local?

Re: nice part of San Francisco and hotel?

2003-09-18 Thread Jasper McCrea
Clayton, Nik [IT] wrote: Don't get too hung up on hotel location. SFO is only about 7 miles square, so as long as you're in the city itself a cab from A to B isn't going to ^^^ Shurely some mistake? Jasper

Re: nice part of San Francisco and hotel?

2003-09-18 Thread Mike Jarvis
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 03:23:18PM +0100, candace wrote: too true, seeing as how i lived there for the four years previous to this, and i couldn't really recommend anything past picking something *NOT* in the tenderloin, There's a good hotel in the tenderloin, the Pheonix. Where the rock

Re: nice part of San Francisco and hotel?

2003-09-18 Thread Michael Styer
--On 18 September 2003 14:44 +0200 Robin Berjon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, since this list is pretty international, I guess the *has* to be someone here that knows SF, at least a bit, and that would be able to recommend a not too expensive but nice/fun/full-of-bars area in which to pick a

Re: Online payment providers

2003-09-18 Thread Jonathan Peterson
Online transactions always attract premium charges even though there seems to be little or not evidence to support claims that there is a higher risk of fraud. Well, I once set up an online shop using a traditional EPOS machine. Some windows box with an ISDN line to barclays did credit

REVIEW: Server load Balancing

2003-09-18 Thread Dean Wilson
Hopefully the formats correct first time on this one. Has anyone read any of the other load balancing books on the market? Dean -- Dean Wilson http://www.unixdaemon.net Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon?xml version=1.0? page title=Server Load

Re: Online payment providers

2003-09-18 Thread Georgi Kostov
hi. you could try www.moneybookers.com. i don't know how their fees compare to others, but as far as security goes, it's regulated by the Financial Services Authority of the United Kingdom (FSA). -- joro nemesis wrote: Hi all, I need to advise someone on online payment taking services (for

Re: nice part of San Francisco and hotel?

2003-09-18 Thread Stéphane Payrard
Without going back to Allen Ginsberg and the beat generation, to get in the mood, you should get some tales of the city by Armistread Maupin to read during the flight. Easy reading and fun. BTW: The editor of the French translation is appropriately located in Le Marais. But even if I was told the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Tech Meet Tonight reminder: was Re: Social Meet 2nd Oct @ The Star + Tonight Tech Meet

2003-09-18 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth: * *Leon Brocard will be talking about the plans for the CPAN cabal meeting in *a couple of weeks entitled How can we make CPAN even better? Posing that question to London.pm will likely bring on a slew of Acme modules to bring up your CPAN portion to 20% or

FW: Regexp::Common::comment

2003-09-18 Thread jeff.bunds
I just discovered Regexp::Common today, and it's most excellent. But I'm having trouble using $RE{ comment }{ Java }. Apparently doing something like: grep /$RE{ comment }{ Java }/, MY_JAVA_FILE; only catches comments of the form: // . . . and misses comments of the form: /* . .

Re: FW: Regexp::Common::comment

2003-09-18 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 12:03:08PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just discovered Regexp::Common today, and it's most excellent. But I'm having trouble using $RE{ comment }{ Java }. Apparently doing something like: grep /$RE{ comment }{ Java }/, MY_JAVA_FILE; only catches

Re: FW: Regexp::Common::comment

2003-09-18 Thread Dave Hinton
On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 05:03 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grep /$RE{ comment }{ Java }/, MY_JAVA_FILE; This is checking each individual line to see if it contains a comment. Catching multiline comments requires checking a group of lines as one. Try something like: my

Re: nice part of San Francisco and hotel?

2003-09-18 Thread Mike
So, since this list is pretty international, I guess the *has* to be someone here that knows SF, at least a bit, and that would be able to recommend a not too expensive but nice/fun/full-of-bars area in which to pick a hotel. Was in SF recently (Nov 02 and Apr 03), the Tenderloin is

Re: Surrey.pm (was: back to the 80's)

2003-09-18 Thread Andy Wardley
Sam Vilain wrote: How about the Weyside? Not an ale pub but a few on tap, and a nice meeting spot. Yep, that works for me. How about next thursday? A

Re: nice part of San Francisco and hotel?

2003-09-18 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 02:36:04PM +0100, Richard Clamp wrote: Are you sure? Remember how the typical hotel conversation goes with a local? Tourist: Say, where would I find a hotel here. Local:Sorry, I can't help - I {rent,buy,squat in} a {flat,house,elephant} I don't know about San