Re: joint Perl/PHP social for July

2009-05-20 Thread James Laver
On 20 May 2009, at 21:30, Pedro Figueiredo wrote: The Crosse Keys near Cornhill? http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Crosse_Keys,_EC3V_0DR I'm noticing a slight trend towards Wetherspoons here... --James

Re: joint Perl/PHP social for July

2009-05-20 Thread James Laver
On 20 May 2009, at 20:46, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: You're not getting the hang of this pub minioning thing, are you? I believe I was asked to be pub minion for my excellent knowledge of beer in London, not for any knowledge of places with rooms that fit 80 ;) Two votes for a wetherspoons th

Re: joint Perl/PHP social for July

2009-05-20 Thread Pedro Figueiredo
On 20 May 2009, at 19:32, James Laver wrote: Calling all boozeaholics... I've just spoken to Matt Raines, the leader of PHP London and we're going to try and organise a joint social in July, bringing together the sadly misguided with the followers of the CPAN. Their meetings are bigger t

Re: joint Perl/PHP social for July

2009-05-20 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 20 May 2009, at 19:32, James Laver wrote: Any ideas? One of the cavernous Wetherspoons. And some of the places like, uh, the Pitcher and Pianos in Liverpool st. and Soho have entire downstairs bars that can be opened early on. You're not getting the hang of this pub minioning thing, are

Re: Gallifrey.pm tshirt

2009-05-20 Thread Léon Brocard
2009/5/18 Léon Brocard : > I think the time has come for a new London.pm tshirt, this time for > Gallifrey.pm: > >  http://astray.spreadshirt.net/en/GB/Shop/Article/Index/article/Gallifreypm-Men-9530899 By popular demand, women's tshirt (this one is slightly more expensive as the logo wouldn't fit

joint Perl/PHP social for July

2009-05-20 Thread James Laver
Calling all boozeaholics... I've just spoken to Matt Raines, the leader of PHP London and we're going to try and organise a joint social in July, bringing together the sadly misguided with the followers of the CPAN. Their meetings are bigger than ours, typically having 30 - 50. They also

Re: short term accommodation

2009-05-20 Thread Jasper
2009/5/20 David Cantrell : > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 05:10:13PM +0100, Jasper wrote: >> 2009/5/20 David Cantrell : >> > Also, trains++ for forcing me to take the time to read a book. >> Huh, some of us can multi-task. > > If you can read and ride a bike or drive a car at the same time, then > I'm b

Re: short term accommodation

2009-05-20 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 05:10:13PM +0100, Jasper wrote: > 2009/5/20 David Cantrell : > > Also, trains++ for forcing me to take the time to read a book. > Huh, some of us can multi-task. If you can read and ride a bike or drive a car at the same time, then I'm both impressed, and terrified that you

Re: short term accommodation

2009-05-20 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 04:29:06PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Stray Taoist wrote: > > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 03:51:51PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > >> Also, trains++ for forcing me to take the time to read a book. > > Oh, I so agree with that. > I do too. T

Re: short term accommodation

2009-05-20 Thread Jasper
2009/5/20 David Cantrell : > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 03:35:07PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: > >> I cut my beeb commute by half (quarter if you include money) by using >> a scooter. YMMV tho... > > I don't trust myself to not ride like a loon :-) > > Also, trains++ for forcing me to take the time t

Re: short term accommodation

2009-05-20 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Stray Taoist wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 03:51:51PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: >> >> Also, trains++ for forcing me to take the time to read a book. > > Oh, I so agree with that. I do too. Time driving a vehicle is largely wasted, IMO. Just sometimes it's su

Re: short term accommodation

2009-05-20 Thread Stray Taoist
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 03:51:51PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > Also, trains++ for forcing me to take the time to read a book. Oh, I so agree with that. m. -- http://weblog.straytoaster.co.uk/ # Gotta have a weblog. It is the law. http://www.flickr.com/photos/straytoaster # All the cool kid

Re: short term accommodation

2009-05-20 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 03:35:07PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: > I cut my beeb commute by half (quarter if you include money) by using > a scooter. YMMV tho... I don't trust myself to not ride like a loon :-) Also, trains++ for forcing me to take the time to read a book. -- David Cantrell | L

Re: short term accommodation

2009-05-20 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 3:24 PM, wrote: > Quoting David Cantrell : > >> When I return to Auntie's breast next month I'll be taking the stupidly >> named "London Overground" to Shepherds Bush then changing onto the >> Central Line for one stop to White City.  It's a quick n easy change. > > That i

Re: short term accommodation

2009-05-20 Thread peter
Quoting David Cantrell : When I return to Auntie's breast next month I'll be taking the stupidly named "London Overground" to Shepherds Bush then changing onto the Central Line for one stop to White City. It's a quick n easy change. That is quite a fast way of getting there and I used to some

Re: short term accommodation

2009-05-20 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 01:16:32PM +0100, James Laver wrote: > >and Shepherd's Bush (for London Overground and National Rail > >services) is not too inconvenient a stroll away. > A Milton Keynes-living former BBCer disagrees, says it's quite a trek > from the overground. I'd be inclined to say

Re: short term accommodation

2009-05-20 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Scott McWhirter wrote: > Hi all, > > So it looks like I'm going to be London for a few months working at the beeb. > > I'm not too familiar with london geography, but I'm looking for places > to stay/share/whatever that's a short commute to white city. Does > anyon

Re: short term accommodation

2009-05-20 Thread Peter Corlett
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 01:16:32PM +0100, James Laver wrote: [...] > Living in Zone-Stupid on the overground would thus not be doable (but it > can be amazingly cheap, I've lived at the end of the line in a lot of > places). Unless you did the trick where you walk out of the overground, > into the

Re: short term accommodation

2009-05-20 Thread James Laver
On 20 May 2009, at 13:06, Peter Corlett wrote: Wood Lane on the Hammersmith and City Line is also very close to the BBC, and Shepherd's Bush (for London Overground and National Rail services) is not too inconvenient a stroll away. A Milton Keynes-living former BBCer disagrees, says it's q

Re: short term accommodation

2009-05-20 Thread Iain Tatch
2009/5/20 David Cantrell : > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:40:30AM -0700, Scott McWhirter wrote: > >> I'm not too familiar with london geography, but I'm looking for places >> to stay/share/whatever that's a short commute to white city. > > Define "short commute".  Then use journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk

Re: short term accommodation

2009-05-20 Thread Peter Corlett
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 12:50:23PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:40:30AM -0700, Scott McWhirter wrote: >> I'm not too familiar with london geography, but I'm looking for places to >> stay/share/whatever that's a short commute to white city. > Define "short commute". Then

Re: short term accommodation

2009-05-20 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 20 May 2009, at 12:50, David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:40:30AM -0700, Scott McWhirter wrote: I'm not too familiar with london geography, but I'm looking for places to stay/share/whatever that's a short commute to white city. Define "short commute". Then use journeypla

Dim sum tomorrow, Baozi Inn, Chinatown, 1pm

2009-05-20 Thread James Laver
Our beloved acme will be unavailable tomorrow. Word is that he's having a rare orchid named after him in some flower show. To that end, someone must organise lunch, for it be thursday, and we do lunch on a thursday. Lets go to baozi inn, which serves delicious soup noodle and pork buns. ht

Re: setting up a file hierarchy

2009-05-20 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 06:30:03PM +0100, Ash Berlin wrote: > On 19 May 2009, at 17:19, David Cantrell wrote: > >On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 04:50:06PM +0100, Chisel Wright wrote: > >>On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 04:33:06PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > >>>I'll pay attention when it doesn't rely on Module:

Re: short term accommodation

2009-05-20 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:40:30AM -0700, Scott McWhirter wrote: > I'm not too familiar with london geography, but I'm looking for places > to stay/share/whatever that's a short commute to white city. Define "short commute". Then use journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk to look for stations on the Central

Re: Best practice for releasing Perl modules to staging and live

2009-05-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 04:59:50PM -0700, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > > On May 19, 2009, at 7:22, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> The way I do this is to build perl and all the modules I need on the >> development machine. Then I package up the whole lot as a single >> package. > > The big failure in this