Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-24 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 3:49 PM, David Cantrell wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:53:57AM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: > >> Yeah, I'm not dinging TfL, and yes, they do provide a reasonable means >> of getting around London with the caveat that you check for line >> closures on every journey (som

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-24 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:53:57AM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: > Yeah, I'm not dinging TfL, and yes, they do provide a reasonable means > of getting around London with the caveat that you check for line > closures on every journey (something that I don't recall methodically > doing 10 years ago).

Re: Bug tracking SaaS

2009-11-24 Thread jesse
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 09:39:58PM +, David Precious wrote: > jesse wrote: > >On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:38:33PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: > >>PS https://rt.cpan.org not having a CA-issued cert is a bit odd given > >>how cheap they are these days. Does Best Practical really need a > >>hel

Re: Bug tracking SaaS

2009-11-24 Thread David Precious
jesse wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:38:33PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: PS https://rt.cpan.org not having a CA-issued cert is a bit odd given how cheap they are these days. Does Best Practical really need a helping hand there? Only if you can knock heads at .org. The issue isn't one of c

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-24 Thread Mike Woods
Jonathan Stowe wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 15:10 +, Roger Burton West wrote: All we have is a 2" deck gun in the yard of a hire shop. On the road between Wells and Glastonbury there is an architectural salvage place with a Bloodhound missile. Years ago there used to be a company called

Re: Bug tracking SaaS

2009-11-24 Thread jesse
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:38:33PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Denny <2...@denny.me> wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 12:08 -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: > >> Any recommendations for online bug tracking tools? > >> ... > >> Or, is bugzilla or whatever that eas

Re: Bug tracking SaaS

2009-11-24 Thread jesse
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:38:17PM +, James Laver wrote: > I don't seem to recall such a positive experience last I tried. In fact ISTR > it uses a bunch of unmaintained cpan modules I couldn't get to compile on > recent perl. ...really. I'd love to know which. Since that's certainly not wh

Re: Bug tracking SaaS

2009-11-24 Thread Pedro Figueiredo
On 24 Nov 2009, at 20:38, James Laver wrote: > Fwiw, I like simple bug tracking, but jira is powerful is budget isn't a > concern or you have 5 or fewer team members ($10/year in that case). Still, > it means running a java appserver. > We use the hosted version, so don't have to run anything.

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-24 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 15:10 +, Roger Burton West wrote: > All we have is a 2" deck gun in the yard of a hire shop. On the road between Wells and Glastonbury there is an architectural salvage place with a Bloodhound missile. -- Rabid Gravy:http://rabidgravy.com/ On Soundcloud: http://s

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-24 Thread David Alban
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Gianni Ceccarelli wrote: > Original poster here :) > > Yes, I realise that the trade-off exists. Actually, for my previous > job, I'd walk every day 3 Km each way. I'm not afraid of walking :) my (san francisco) commute is walking 1.75 miles each way. lost 50 lbs

Re: Bug tracking SaaS

2009-11-24 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Denny <2...@denny.me> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 12:08 -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: >> Any recommendations for online bug tracking tools? >> ... >> Or, is bugzilla or whatever that easy to set up that I should JFDI? > > Bugzilla is sadly a bit of a sprawling mo

Re: Bug tracking SaaS

2009-11-24 Thread James Laver
I don't seem to recall such a positive experience last I tried. In fact ISTR it uses a bunch of unmaintained cpan modules I couldn't get to compile on recent perl. Fwiw, I like simple bug tracking, but jira is powerful is budget isn't a concern or you have 5 or fewer team members ($10/year in that

Re: Bug tracking SaaS

2009-11-24 Thread Pedro Figueiredo
On 24 Nov 2009, at 20:08, Paul Makepeace wrote: > Any recommendations for online bug tracking tools? We've tried I quite like Jira, it integrates with your repos, has a good code review tool, extremely powerful search, dependencies, RSS feeds for everything, API, CI server, the works. I haven

Re: Bug tracking SaaS

2009-11-24 Thread Denny
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 12:08 -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: > Any recommendations for online bug tracking tools? > ... > Or, is bugzilla or whatever that easy to set up that I should JFDI? Bugzilla is sadly a bit of a sprawling monstrosity these days, although not that hard to set up iirc. Is RT not

Bug tracking SaaS

2009-11-24 Thread Paul Makepeace
Any recommendations for online bug tracking tools? We've tried Lighthouse but it's a little too basic: no facility to make issues dependent on others; no way to multiply assign (not sure if any allow this actually); all issues lumped under a single project; etc. We don't just use it for bugs but t

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-24 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Luis Motta Campos wrote: >> From: Paul Makepeace >> Sent: Tue, 24 November, 2009 12:17:27 >> >> Get a bicycle or a scooter* or a motorbike and avoid public transport >> as much as possible. Not that public transport isn't good in London, >> all things considered,

Re: Live Rabid!

2009-11-24 Thread Jonathan Stowe
I know at least three of you made it down there and lovely it was to see you too. If you want to capture the flavour of my set then check out: http://soundcloud.com/rabidgravy/rabid-gravy-live-set-20091119 It's horrible but hey :-) /J\ On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 10:46 +, Jonathan Stowe wrote: >

[ANNOUNCE] Update Five[1]

2009-11-24 Thread Mark Keating
Greeting one and all. In this update: 1. All about food, 2. there will be prizes... 3. and free goodies 4. for 140 of those that register 5. and in the evening... 1. All about food Due to the very generous nature of our sponsors this year's London Perl Workshop will have a wonderful buffet in t

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-24 Thread Joel Bernstein
2009/11/24 Luis Motta Campos : > Gianni, you'll be more afraid of walking when you figure out that London is a > bit colder and damper than Pisa... ;) >From my very limited experience during Italian Perl Workshop 2009, this is really not the case. /joel

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-24 Thread Peter Corlett
On 24 Nov 2009, at 15:09, Mark Keating wrote: Peter Corlett wrote: [...] That's pretty much what Britain's public transport is like outside of London. Nope that's just because you came from Yorkshire which is the third world. I see the War of the Roses is still going strong :) As it so h

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-24 Thread Luis Motta Campos
> From: Gianni Ceccarelli > Sent: Tue, 24 November, 2009 14:37:34 > > Yes, I realise that the trade-off exists. Actually, for my previous > job, I'd walk every day 3 Km each way. I'm not afraid of walking :) Gianni, you'll be more afraid of walking when you figure out that London is a bit colder

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-24 Thread Peter Corlett
On 24 Nov 2009, at 14:54, Mike Woods wrote: Peter Corlett wrote: That's pretty much what Britain's public transport is like outside of London. Mind you outside of greater london it's often purley down to the cost, last time I took a bus from wakefield to leeds it cost £2.50!!* Sucker. It's

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-24 Thread Roger Burton West
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 02:54:22PM +, Mike Woods wrote: > Mind you outside of greater london it's often purley down to the cost, > last time I took a bus from wakefield to leeds it cost ?2.50!!* Much the same here in Darkest Wycombe. Basically if there are two or more people going between m

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-24 Thread Mark Keating
Peter Corlett wrote: On 24 Nov 2009, at 14:29, Luis Motta Campos wrote: [...] Of course, my opinion might be slightly biased by the fact that most of my life I've used public transport in third world countries, where, I can assure you, everybody prefers to have a car and handle the maintenance

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-24 Thread Mike Woods
Peter Corlett wrote: That's pretty much what Britain's public transport is like outside of London. Mind you outside of greater london it's often purley down to the cost, last time I took a bus from wakefield to leeds it cost £2.50!!* * However if you look to your right for most of the trip,

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-24 Thread Peter Corlett
On 24 Nov 2009, at 14:29, Luis Motta Campos wrote: [...] Of course, my opinion might be slightly biased by the fact that most of my life I've used public transport in third world countries, where, I can assure you, everybody prefers to have a car and handle the maintenance burden and the par

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-24 Thread Luis Motta Campos
> From: Paul Makepeace > Sent: Tue, 24 November, 2009 12:17:27 > > Get a bicycle or a scooter* or a motorbike and avoid public transport > as much as possible. Not that public transport isn't good in London, > all things considered, it's just that a motorbike is far, far better. I've been to Lon

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-24 Thread Mike Woods
Richard Huxton wrote: Oh, and don't automatically assume a cab is quicker than either of the above. (*) Bloody hackers are all pedants. But do find a decent cab company and stick with it, some of them are just a little bit worrying! Mike Woods Full of squishy cynic

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-24 Thread Peter Corlett
On 24 Nov 2009, at 12:26, Dermot wrote: [...] Normally I'd agree but apparently according to tfl.gov.uk it will take me 24 minutes from w9 to w2 3RL - for Crispy Duck not Dim Sum - by bus and 28mins to walk. To get a sensible routing, you have to go to "Advanced options" and uncheck "Bus". D

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-24 Thread Gianni Ceccarelli
On 2009-11-24 Richard Huxton wrote: > Ah, walking distance doesn't count as travel. Oh that's another point > for our original poster - you will walk lots in London. If it takes > less than 15 mins to walk somewhere, just do that (unless somewhere is > another tube station on the same line as you*

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-24 Thread Richard Huxton
Dermot wrote: > 2009/11/24 Richard Huxton : >> Mike Woods wrote: >>> If you do go the public transport route most places can be reached >>> within an hour >> Pretty much everywhere in London can be reached in about an hour. The >> flip side of that is that pretty much everywhere in London takes abo

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-24 Thread Smylers
Dominic Thoreau writes: > I've been in Britain for 8 years now, and I know the biggest lie in > the country. > > "How are you? " > "Oh, can't complain" > > The Brit can always complain, but mostly it's about things that don't > really matter. It's when the complaining stops that they're really >

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-24 Thread Dermot
2009/11/24 Richard Huxton : > Mike Woods wrote: >> >> If you do go the public transport route most places can be reached >> within an hour > > Pretty much everywhere in London can be reached in about an hour. The > flip side of that is that pretty much everywhere in London takes about > an hour to

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-24 Thread James Laver
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Richard Huxton wrote: > Mike Woods wrote: >> >> If you do go the public transport route most places can be reached >> within an hour > > Pretty much everywhere in London can be reached in about an hour. The > flip side of that is that pretty much everywhere in Lon

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-24 Thread Dominic Thoreau
2009/11/24 Mike Woods : > > If you do go the public transport route most places can be reached within an > hour, and while people will whinge about works etc (because it's so much > better broken ?) most of the time a quick look at the tube map will provide > an alternate route. I've been in Brita

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-24 Thread Richard Huxton
Mike Woods wrote: > > If you do go the public transport route most places can be reached > within an hour Pretty much everywhere in London can be reached in about an hour. The flip side of that is that pretty much everywhere in London takes about an hour to reach. -- Richard Huxton Archonet

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-24 Thread Mike Woods
Paul Makepeace wrote: Get a bicycle or a scooter* or a motorbike and avoid public transport as much as possible. Not that public transport isn't good in London, all things considered, it's just that a motorbike is far, far better. If you do go the public transport route most places can be reac

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-24 Thread Paul Orrock
Paul Makepeace wrote: On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Gianni Ceccarelli * I hear Vespas are good :-) I want a jet powered hoverboard[0], because it has the power to work on water [1] :-) P. [0] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tUB1f3ICow [1] - I'm assuming most people get this referenc

London.pm Roast Duck Four Seasons Thursday 1pm

2009-11-24 Thread Léon Brocard
It's our first time here, but they do have very tasty roast duck. No dim sum. Did I mention the roast duck? London.pm dim sum 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) eating tasty dim sum (steamed and fried

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-24 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Gianni Ceccarelli > - anything else a foreigner really ought to know? Get a bicycle or a scooter* or a motorbike and avoid public transport as much as possible. Not that public transport isn't good in London, all things considered, it's just that a motorbike is far

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-24 Thread Aaron Trevena
2009/11/19 Dermot : > 2009/11/19 Gianni Ceccarelli : >> Hi all! > >> Some questions I have: >> >> - can anyone recommend some agencies (or other methods) to search for >>  the apartment? Another one to avoid : Felicity J Lord, I wouldn't deal with them again on pain of death. A. -- Aaron J Trev