Ann in London

2003-09-22 Thread Ann Barcomb
Hi, I'm going to be in London at the same time as the cpan thingie, which I'm not attending. If there's anyone else who isn't attending who would like to hang out, drop me a note. I'll be arriving in London late on the afternoon of Thursday, 2 October, and leaving in the afternoon on Monday, 6

Re: Tech Meets Plus

2003-09-22 Thread Mark Fowler
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Steve Purkis wrote: But I'd start by looking at lecture halls, and local perly-kinda businesses with rather large function rooms. And if you want to cut costs, let people fend for their own food. (I've head catering can be quite expensive...) Catering is also a major

Re: Tech Meets Plus

2003-09-22 Thread Mark Fowler
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, David Cantrell wrote: Or we could have tech meets every month. We did discuss this, but to be frank (and you can be betty) I don't think we want to see each other every two weeks. Mark. -- #!/usr/bin/perl -T use strict; use warnings; print q{Mark Fowler, [EMAIL

Re: Database setup

2003-09-22 Thread Leo Lapworth
I did something ages ago to convert an XML formatted file into the relevant SQL (was for postgress and I got it working for MySQL once as well). The nice thing was it also spat out the HTML documentation for the table as well. http://leo.cuckoo.org/projects/xml_db_schema/ It's very rough and I

Re: Dave Cross and Bill Joy - separated at birth?

2003-09-22 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:04:04AM +0100, Simon Wistow said: Joy Thompson! I meant *Thompson*. Joy is quite scary, but definitely not related: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/ceo/pics/img-joy.jpg

Re: Dave Cross and Bill Joy - separated at birth?

2003-09-22 Thread Chris Devers
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Simon Wistow wrote: Joy http://prometheus.frii.com/~gnat/tpc5-photos/Smaller_Dave_Cross.JPG Cross http://www.andfinally.com/images/headshot.gif Striking that Joy's photo has Dave's name, eh? :) On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Dominic Mitchell wrote: Joy is quite scary, but

Re: Richard III spare ticket

2003-09-22 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:46:01PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: I have a spare ticket to see RIII at the Globe this Saturday matinee 2:30. Front row seats (A25), 36.50GBP. Mail me offline if you're interested. ObLiteraryComputingCrossover:

Richard III spare ticket

2003-09-22 Thread Paul Makepeace
I have a spare ticket to see RIII at the Globe this Saturday matinee 2:30. Front row seats (A25), 36.50GBP. Mail me offline if you're interested. ObLiteraryComputingCrossover: http://shakespeare.thefreelibrary.com/King-Richard-III/3-4 (Act II, Scene 4) QUEEN ELIZABETH: A parlous boy! Go to,

Re: Richard III spare ticket

2003-09-22 Thread Paul Makepeace
Je 2003-09-22 16:52:10 +0100, Joel Bernstein skribis: QUEEN ELIZABETH: A parlous boy! Go to, you are too shrewd. go to in Shakespeare's time was a phrase indicating disapproval... Thus, clearly, Shrewdness Considered Harmful. Shrewd meant (in them times) biting/sharp, which was a

[OT] 5.8.1 RC5

2003-09-22 Thread Nicholas Clark
Jarkko has released release candidate 5 for perl 5.8.1 http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/J/JH/JHI/perl-5.8.1-RC5.tar.gz This is almost certainly the last release candidate, and I'd expect the real thing to escape within a week if no show stopper bugs are found. Test now, or forever hold your