Re: Books to get rid of

2009-11-09 Thread David Cantrell
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 09:49:20PM +, Denny wrote: > On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 22:31 +0100, Richard Foley wrote: > > On Sunday 08 November 2009 19:44:15 Peter Corlett wrote: > > > Giving stuff away on Freecycle is way too much work. It's almost as if > > > the people who run it have engineered i

Re: git vs mercurial

2009-11-09 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 09:10:41PM +, Ash Berlin wrote: > > On 9 Nov 2009, at 20:59, Edmund von der Burg wrote: > >> So I'm planning to move away from svk. >> >> Should I go with git or mercurial - I hear good things about both. >> >> Cheers, >> Edmund. > > My understanding is both are excelle

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emergency Social 12-Nov-09 - The Star Tavern SW1X 8HT

2009-11-09 Thread David H. Adler
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 02:19:25PM +, Sue spence wrote: > > David Adler (dha) may also be there. As my travel plans seem to have stabilized, it appears that, barring unforeseen circumstances, I shall be there. :-) dha -- David H. Adler - - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ Pancakes is the better

Re: Effective adveristing

2009-11-09 Thread Edmund von der Burg
2009/11/5 Dave Cross : > No idea how many of the clicks actually signed up for the course though. Link the ad through to a dedicated landing page where you put some offer that the person can take advantage of - like "Mention the word GOOGLEAD when booking to get a free cheesecake with you coffee o

Re: git vs mercurial

2009-11-09 Thread Ash Berlin
On 9 Nov 2009, at 20:59, Edmund von der Burg wrote: So I'm planning to move away from svk. Should I go with git or mercurial - I hear good things about both. Cheers, Edmund. My understanding is both are excellent choices: git has more mind share in perl and other OSS communities, and is

git vs mercurial

2009-11-09 Thread Edmund von der Burg
So I'm planning to move away from svk. Should I go with git or mercurial - I hear good things about both. Cheers, Edmund.

[ANNOUNCE] Emergency Social 12-Nov-09 - The Star Tavern SW1X 8HT

2009-11-09 Thread Sue spence
Why? Gianni Ceccarelli (dakkar) is visiting from Italy. Gianni is one of the founders of perl.it (http://www.perl.it/), helped organise Italian Perl Workshop 2009 and will no doubt be involved with next year's Perl Conference (YAPC::Eu 2010) in Pisa. David Adler (dha) may also be there. Where? Th

[ANNOUNCE] London Perl Workshop: Call for Papers

2009-11-09 Thread Mark Keating
Hi All, Just to remind you all that there is less than 35 hours to submit presentations to the London Perl Workshop, so if you are planning on presenting now is the time to get your abstracts into: http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2009/newtalk If you are in a rush, submit a short abstrac

London.pm Dim Sum Camp Pearl Liang Thursday 1pm

2009-11-09 Thread Léon Brocard
Time to go west again and to Pearl Liang near Paddington station. http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm-announce/2009-June/000152.html London.pm dim sum camp is a social event where we meet up every Thursday at 1pm at a different Chinese restaurant, spend about an hour (and about £10 cash) ea