Clay Shirky on Shinto Shrines, Perl, Love and the Internet

2008-12-14 Thread Andy Wardley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1TZaElTAs Perl is a shinto shrine. Perl exists not as an edifice but as an act of love. Perl is a viable programming option again today because millions of people woke up this morning loving Perl. And more importantly, they love one another in th

Re: I'm afraid I'm leaving already :(

2008-12-14 Thread Kake L Pugh
On Mon 15 Dec 2008, bl...@perlbloke.com wrote: > I'm afraid I leaving this group. Goodbye, Lyle. Hopefully the whining quotient of the list will go down a bit now. If it doesn't, I'm sending you all to a Harvester for the next social. Kake

I'm afraid I'm leaving already :(

2008-12-14 Thread bloke
Hey People, I'm afraid I leaving this group. I was going to post this 3 days ago, but I thought best to let it sit over the weekend to make sure I felt the same way. There seems to be an air of fear for all the people who lurk on this list. For those that are brave enough to post, they soon ge

be excellent to each other (was Re: I think you meant... (was Re: london.pm.org web site - facelifted (v2)))

2008-12-14 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 09:24:05PM +, Andy Wardley wrote: > I welcome testing, feedback and comments, both good and bad. But it is > worth bearing in mind that this is voluntary work and any complaints that > are > *too* vociferous may fall on deaf ears. Or be met with directions to the > s

Re: london.pm.org web site - facelifted (v2)

2008-12-14 Thread Dirk Koopman
Andy Wardley wrote: Nigel Rantor wrote: I've already poked Andy about this when he put up the initial version. Here's my reply to Nigel, for the benefit of anyone else interested. Yes. I've always been a fluid-layout kinda guy. 800x600 is annoyingly narrow when you've got a large monitor,

Re: london.pm.org web site - facelifted (v2)

2008-12-14 Thread Andy Wardley
Dominic Thoreau wrote: If you could guarantee that full-blown machines would be all that was ever used, maybe. But this is simply not true. Plus the dot pitch is different, which can really screw up some layouts. True. I should have quantified that a bit better as referring to typical desktop

Re: I think you meant... (was Re: london.pm.org web site - facelifted (v2))

2008-12-14 Thread Andy Wardley
Nigel Rantor wrote: And I object to this attitude that one is not allowed to voice their opinion on a subject if the subject in question is some form of open/collaborative effort that one has not contributed to. I have no objection to you voicing your objections. And at the same time that doe

Re: london.pm.org web site - facelifted (v2)

2008-12-14 Thread David Cantrell
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 09:17:12PM +, Dominic Thoreau wrote: > On ultra-portable netbooks (like my Eee) and on mobile phones, this > sort of approach can make navigation impossible. > > If you could guarantee that full-blown machines would be all that was > ever used, maybe. But this is simp

Re: london.pm.org web site - facelifted (v2)

2008-12-14 Thread Dominic Thoreau
2008/12/14 Andy Wardley : > But these days, it's considered "officially" OK to assume that 1024x768 is > the lowest common denominator for screen width, which gives you a nicely > sized > bit of content-space to play with. Making it fluid upwards of that tends to > result in wide wide columns that

Re: london.pm.org web site - facelifted (v2)

2008-12-14 Thread Andy Wardley
Nicholas Clark wrote: Whilst we fully support "there's more than one way to do it", the availability of different hues of orange should provide more than enough alternatives. :-) Aha! Well the brown design *is* actually orange! It's exactly the same hue as the orange (30 deg), but de-saturate

Re: london.pm.org web site - facelifted (v2)

2008-12-14 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 07:35:42PM +, Nigel Rantor wrote: > If it was a site I actively used I would complain loudly and vociferously. > > As it is, I don't. So I won't. > > I've already poked Andy about this when he put up the initial version. On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 08:48:43PM +, Nige

Re: london.pm.org web site - facelifted (v2)

2008-12-14 Thread Andy Wardley
Nigel Rantor wrote: I've already poked Andy about this when he put up the initial version. Here's my reply to Nigel, for the benefit of anyone else interested. Yes. I've always been a fluid-layout kinda guy. 800x600 is annoyingly narrow when you've got a large monitor, so a fluid layout wa

I think you meant... (was Re: london.pm.org web site - facelifted (v2))

2008-12-14 Thread Nigel Rantor
Jonathan Stowe wrote: I think you meant "I would submit patches" - strange how sometimes your keyboard goes wrong like that. No Jonathan, I don't mean that. At all. If I meant that I would have said it. Do you see? And I object to this attitude that one is not allowed to voice their opinio

Re: london.pm.org web site - facelifted (v2)

2008-12-14 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 19:35 +, Nigel Rantor wrote: > Nicholas Clark wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 06:33:34PM +, Andy Wardley wrote: > > > >> I've added 3 more colour schemes (light brown, teal and purple) for those > >> who find the orange a bit too garish. I've also added a print st

Re: london.pm.org web site - facelifted (v2)

2008-12-14 Thread Nigel Rantor
Nicholas Clark wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 06:33:34PM +, Andy Wardley wrote: I've added 3 more colour schemes (light brown, teal and purple) for those who find the orange a bit too garish. I've also added a print stylesheet. Heresy! Whilst we fully support "there's more than one way

Re: london.pm.org web site - facelifted (v2)

2008-12-14 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 06:33:34PM +, Andy Wardley wrote: > I've added 3 more colour schemes (light brown, teal and purple) for those > who find the orange a bit too garish. I've also added a print stylesheet. Heresy! Whilst we fully support "there's more than one way to do it", the availab

Re: london.pm.org web site - facelifted (v2)

2008-12-14 Thread Andy Wardley
Léon Brocard wrote: Andy, care to put your changes live? All checked in. It'll need to be built on the target machine. I've added 3 more colour schemes (light brown, teal and purple) for those who find the orange a bit too garish. I've also added a print stylesheet. The stylesheet switcher

Re: Perl Christmas Quiz

2008-12-14 Thread Avleen Vig
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Chris Jack wrote: > 3) Write a Perl function that takes two references to arrays and returns the > intersect of them. If an entry appears n times in array 1 and m times in > array 2, the output should list that entry min(n,m) times. Bonus mark for one > line sol

Re: Perl Christmas Quiz

2008-12-14 Thread Torsten Knorr
> 3) Write a Perl function that takes two references to arrays and returns the > intersect of them. > If an entry appears n times in array 1 and m times in array 2, > the output should list that entry min(n,m) times. > Bonus mark for one line solutions. #!/usr/bin/perl -w #*** compare_int_arra