On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:47:29PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> Uri Guttman wrote:
>
> > brian d foy autoposts FAQ entries to comp.lang.perl.misc and they get
> > read and feedback is given to some of them. bdf has updated them as he
> > can when good stuff is posted about an entry. yes, many FA
On 17/09/2009, at 3:22 AM, abhishek jain wrote:
Hi,
Do perl have a kind of code encoder which hides the readable Perl
code by
encoding like we have in PHP.
I am working on a project and i dont want to give the editing /
viewing
rights to the user, also a right to expire the code after som
On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 19:26 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
> well that begs the question. i can easily cron this to whatever schedule
> people think is fine. the issue with once a week is that it will take a
> long time (2+ years!) to cycle through the faqs. maybe 3 times a week
> would work if that is
Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:47:29PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
Uri Guttman wrote:
brian d foy autoposts FAQ entries to comp.lang.perl.misc and they get
read and feedback is given to some of them. bdf has updated them as he
can when good stuff is posted about an entry. ye
2009/9/17 Dirk Koopman :
> So that then suggests that we need another list for any actual perl (code)
> related discussion?
I believe that is already considered off-topic on this list.
Beer is on-topic. Especially on a Thursday.
/joel
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 09:31:06AM +0100, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> Nicholas Clark wrote:
> >On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:47:29PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> >>Uri Guttman wrote:
> >>
> >>>brian d foy autoposts FAQ entries to comp.lang.perl.misc and they get
> >>>read and feedback is given to some of
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 06:10:12PM +1000, Kieren Diment wrote:
> I came across a codebase the other day where they just obsufucated the
> variable names - probably with truncted MD5 checksums or something.
> Certainly made it it a pain in the arse to read :), but nothing a
> determined rev
Those nice people at Gumtree[1] are really getting into the idea of
hackdays. Some of you may have already been to TwitterCamp and UXCamp
this year.
Well, they're doing another on this weekend (19/20 September). Charity
Hack '09 is this coming weekend. It's centred around finding ways to
ma
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 20:17, Uri Guttman wrote:
> brian d foy autoposts FAQ entries to comp.lang.perl.misc and they get
> read and feedback is given to some of them. bdf has updated them as he
> can when good stuff is posted about an entry.
They're also maintained on github, and people who want
On Sep 17, 2009, at 00:47 , David Cantrell wrote:
Uri Guttman wrote:
brian d foy autoposts FAQ entries to comp.lang.perl.misc and they get
read and feedback is given to some of them. bdf has updated them as
he
can when good stuff is posted about an entry. yes, many FAQs are
sadly
dated but ma
2009/9/17 Robin Berjon :
> On Sep 17, 2009, at 00:47 , David Cantrell wrote:
>>
>> Uri Guttman wrote:
>> brian d foy autoposts FAQ entries to comp.lang.perl.misc and they get
>>>
>>> read and feedback is given to some of them. bdf has updated them as he
>>> can when good stuff is posted about an en
2009/9/17 Robin Berjon :
> It could be FAQ Friday. I like that.
Fridays can FAQ off.
/joel
Off topicly off topic, as it's not even about that 4 letter P word.
So, we have quite a lot of our database queries in config files, with
placeholders, etc
Some of them are only supposed to return 1 row.
However, if our assumptions are wrong, they might return multiple rows.
This isn't a fatal bu
Hi Nicholas,
Would something like this work?
my $query='select * from table';
$query .= ' limit 1' if $stilltesting;
Ian
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> Off topicly off topic, as it's not even about that 4 letter P word.
>
> So, we have quite a lot of our database q
Dear All,
It is with great pleasure, and with some tardiness and lack of
expedience, that I announce the London Perl Workshop to be held on
Saturday 5^th December at the University of Westminster's New Cavendish
Campus.[1]
The theme for this year is Beginning Perl, which can be taken as Perl
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:14:52AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
> I'm not going to be able to go, but it would be good to have some Perl
> hackers involved.
I would be moderately interested but am a bit busy. Is anyone else
going - wd feel more confortable if people I knew were there.
I could pro
I am having a debate about Skype at $work.
I have a gut feeling that I don't like it. Tried to read the T&C and got
very confused. "Wool" "eyes" "over" "pulling" comes to mind.
What are other peoples views on it.
Andrew
2009/9/17 Nicholas Clark :
> Off topicly off topic, as it's not even about that 4 letter P word.
>
> So, we have quite a lot of our database queries in config files, with
> placeholders, etc
>
> Some of them are only supposed to return 1 row.
> However, if our assumptions are wrong, they might retu
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:34:56 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> Off topicly off topic, as it's not even about that 4 letter P word.
>
> So, we have quite a lot of our database queries in config files, with
> placeholders, etc
>
> Some of them are only supposed to return 1 row.
> However, if our as
2009/9/17 Andrew Black :
> I am having a debate about Skype at $work.
> I have a gut feeling that I don't like it. Tried to read the T&C and got
> very confused. "Wool" "eyes" "over" "pulling" comes to mind.
>
> What are other peoples views on it.
Those would be the T&Cs at http://www.skype.com/in
Dear All,
It is with great pleasure, and with some tardiness and lack of
expedience, that I announce the London Perl Workshop to be held on
Saturday 5th December at the University of Westminster's New Cavendish
Campus.[1]
The theme for this year is Beginning Perl, which can be taken as Perl
Just after the last message was sent that enormously excellent chap Sean
at New Cavendish campus managed to get confirmation from the Dean. The
venue is booked, arms are appropriately twisted, beer is flowing into
pipes and the rooms are being secured.
Three cheers are in order I think :)
5t
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Uri Guttman wrote:
> > "DC" == David Cantrell writes:
>
> DC> Uri Guttman wrote:
>
> >> brian d foy autoposts FAQ entries to comp.lang.perl.misc and they get
> >> read and feedback is given to some of them. bdf has updated them as he
> >> can when good st
My initial thought was that
SELECT ($your_select) IS NOT NULL;
would complain if more than one row is returned.
It does, but it also complains when more than one column returned, so
probably isn't useful.
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Joel Bernstein wrote:
> 2009/9/17 Nicholas Clark :
>> Of
Joel Bernstein wrote:
My main objection to Skype (which I do use) is that it doesn't
interoperate with users of other VoIP systems. SIP and suchlike
provide an open standard which Skype ignore.
/joel
Seconded.
On 17/09/2009 14:24, Andrew Black wrote:
What is the idea - can you work on somethign that interests you?
Same as any hackday event - hack on anything that you want.
Dave...
lists wrote:
Joel Bernstein wrote:
My main objection to Skype (which I do use) is that it doesn't
interoperate with users of other VoIP systems. SIP and suchlike
provide an open standard which Skype ignore.
/joel
Seconded.
Another objection that one might have (and the Indian Government
Joel Bernstein writes:
> My main objection to Skype (which I do use) is that it doesn't
> interoperate with users of other VoIP systems. SIP and suchlike
> provide an open standard which Skype ignore.
Mine is that you have to use Skype's software with it, because they
don't publish the protocol.
2009/9/17 Smylers :
> Joel Bernstein writes:
>
>> My main objection to Skype (which I do use) is that it doesn't
>> interoperate with users of other VoIP systems. SIP and suchlike
>> provide an open standard which Skype ignore.
>
> Mine is that you have to use Skype's software with it, because they
Dirk Koopman wrote:
lists wrote:
Joel Bernstein wrote:
My main objection to Skype (which I do use) is that it doesn't
interoperate with users of other VoIP systems. SIP and suchlike
provide an open standard which Skype ignore.
/joel
Seconded.
Another objection that one might have (and th
Seconded.
I'll third that for a first post :D
Though I do rather prefer iax though it's never managed to attain the
popularity of sip, which is a shame.
Skype has always made me nervous, it has all the making of a service
that might one day change it's pricing model, probably right abou
I thought Skype tried to set up a direct end to end UDP connection if
possible? Fallback is through some central servers.
That's what it says when you display the "technical info". I am not a
network expert though (don't know what UDP is for example!)
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Dirk Koopma
Bob MacCallum wrote:
I thought Skype tried to set up a direct end to end UDP connection if
possible? Fallback is through some central servers.
That's what it says when you display the "technical info". I am not a
network expert though (don't know what UDP is for example!)
Having used Skype ex
2009/9/17 Bob MacCallum :
> I thought Skype tried to set up a direct end to end UDP connection if
> possible? Fallback is through some central servers.
> That's what it says when you display the "technical info". I am not a
> network expert though (don't know what UDP is for example!)
Then they'
Andrew Black wrote:
I am having a debate about Skype at $work.
I have a gut feeling that I don't like it. Tried to read the T&C and got
very confused. "Wool" "eyes" "over" "pulling" comes to mind.
What are other peoples views on it.
I use it because its video services work better than Yahoo!
Nicholas Clark wrote:
Auto-posting a FAQ entry for discussion every $interval is in some sense
make-work - sort of "this list isn't busy enough - let's harness it for
another purpose." We don't currently have FAQ discussions on IRC or in real
life.
Agree, I can't see the point of posting thin
Robert Shiels wrote:
> Don't really want my mbox file filling up with them.
I dont mind doing reviews and the idea of a FAQ review
is a good one but trying to "push me" will not work.
I think the idea would have been shot down if I suggested posting
three or more FAQs to here every week.
Why no
Andrew Black wrote:
What are other peoples views on it.
I'm not that big a fan of it (dodgy client, memories of weirdness when
it first started out, it not being allowed at work to the extent of
being automatically uninstalled if you install it...) but am about to
have a meeting using it.
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> Another objection that one might have (and the Indian Government certainly
> have) is that all the traffic is routed through two sets of servers, one
> located in the US and one in the UK.
>
> It means that we can eavesdrop on them, but they c
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 6:28 AM, Andrew Black
wrote:
> I am having a debate about Skype at $work.
> I have a gut feeling that I don't like it. Tried to read the T&C and got
> very confused. "Wool" "eyes" "over" "pulling" comes to mind.
>
> What are other peoples views on it.
since the company cur
David Alban wrote:
but, giving into paranoia, i'm careful not to skype anything i
wouldn't want my company and/or ebay to see. just in case They're
Watching(TM).
If skype is behaving like a standard voip client (i.e. chit-chatting to
a central "directory" server, then setting up an (encrypte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Dirk Koopman wrote:
> Another objection that one might have (and the Indian Government
> certainly have) is that all the traffic is routed through two
> sets of servers, one located in the US and one in the UK.
Interesting... d'you have any referenc
Talking of sip, does anyone have recommendations for consumer voip services?
Ideally I'd like something I can make (direct dial) calls from on my
laptop+headset and it'd appear as a e.g. UK mobile. And take calls on that
number, perhaps ringing another mobile as well as the laptop.
Extra points fo
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 19:10 +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> Talking of sip, does anyone have recommendations for consumer voip services?
I'm using sipgate.co.uk, at a friend's recommendation. I only signed up
last month and I don't use it heavily, so I can't say much beyond 'it
works and it was ea
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> However the Indian Government are/were prepared to ban and filter out skype
> (setup?) traffic unless they could get a backdoor. Make what you want out of
> that (again El Reg passim).
The Indian Government want to ban Skype precisely *becaus
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Andrew Black wrote:
I am having a debate about Skype at $work.
I have a gut feeling that I don't like it. Tried to read the T&C and got
very confused. "Wool" "eyes" "over" "pulling" comes to mind.
What are other peoples views on it.
The T&Cs don't come off any more scary
2009/9/17 Oliver Gorwits :
> I'm not very familiar with Skype at all, but my understanding was
> that it is peer to peer in essence, if firewalls permit. If the
> firewalls don't permit, then so-called "supernodes" are used to
> relay calls, which are simply clients with more permissive firewall
>
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