Re: New Year's Resolution - Learn Modern Perl

2014-12-24 Thread 'lesleyb'
Message: 1 Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 14:42:45 +0100 From: Mallory van Achterberg stommep...@stommepoes.nl Subject: Re: New Year's Resolution - Learn Modern Perl To: London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers london.pm@london.pm.org Message-ID: 20141223134245.ga24...@jkva-vps.colo.transip.net Content-Type:

Re: New pet keeping rules in the Netherlands (part of Re: london.pm Digest, Vol 92, Issue 13)

2013-06-20 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 10:15:05PM +0100, Dominic wrote: Message: 9 Subject: Re: New pet keeping rules in the Netherlands To: London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers london.pm@london.pm.org Message-ID: 1371674233.15265.0.camel@laptop Excellent! Sensible policies for a happier Britain! Except this is

Re: Can I get some advice on best way to start Perl Programming

2012-09-02 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:09:47PM +0100, Denny wrote: Hi Rick, On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 11:16 +, Rick Deller wrote: I have brought a couple of books on the subject which I'm reading through I'm very keen to learn more and how to do it Can anyone suggest more books or another way

Re: Which sucks least? Sky, Talktalk to BT broadband?

2012-08-31 Thread lesleyb
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 07:15:21AM +0100, Andrew Beattie wrote: i am moving out of the london.pm area, into a broadband wasteland in PA17 5DA, where the nearest exchange is here: http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/WSWEM What, in the option of London.pm would be my least lame

Re: Who made the law?

2012-08-31 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 12:55:44PM +0100, Pedro Figueiredo wrote: On 31 Aug 2012, at 11:54, Mark Fowler wrote: Q. Do people really need to be told this? The vast majority of people don't. However, the two groups of people that do are: a) People who are worried that they might

Re: look what i made!

2011-11-29 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 09:30:21AM +, alex knowles wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:40 AM, lesleyb lesl...@herlug.org.uk wrote: snip Very pretty :) ... and a shameless plug for XP ? ;) Lesley ha! vat iz ziz eggs pee? I'm probably doing perlmonks wrong to be a proper XP

Re: look what i made!

2011-11-28 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 04:15:23PM +, alex knowles wrote: Sorry to spam - I've made another obfuscation. It's been a long time. I'm quite pleased with it. http://www.alixandalex.com/rose.png $_='my($w,$h,$x,$y,$z,$b,$v,$q,@s,@u,@a,@d)=(200,350,1,0,1,32000,chr(39),65521,

Re: Perl Skills Test

2011-09-29 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 05:40:25PM +1000, Kieren Diment wrote: On 29/09/2011, at 5:32 PM, Simon Cozens wrote: On 29/09/2011 01:30, Paul Tweedy wrote: != true I'm afraid. They just have the temerity to not live in (and are unable to move to) the south east or near a major city. If you

Re: Perl Skills Test

2011-09-28 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 05:30:09PM +0100, Paul Tweedy wrote: On 28 September 2011 17:05, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 04:07:50PM +0100, Paul Tweedy wrote: I know three people (all good engineers) who lost their jobs this year and are struggling to

Perl in shared hosting environments

2011-09-21 Thread 'lesleyb'
Hi I came across this script on the MT forums my $b__dir = (-d '/home4/myhome/perl'? \ '/home8/myhome/perl': ( getpwuid($) )[7].'/perl'); unshift @INC,$b__dir.'5/lib/perl5', $b__dir.'5/lib/perl5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi', map { $b__dir . $_ } @INC; from

Re: Perl e-commerce?

2011-09-19 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 04:18:50PM +0200, Mallory van Achterberg wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 03:54:38PM +0200, Richard Foley wrote: I think you've hit the nail on the head, Mallory, where are the Wordpresses, the Drupals, the Joomlas?... indeed. It's easy to sneer at just some web

Re: Cool/useful short examples of Perl?

2011-05-30 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:40:57AM +0100, Leo Lapworth wrote: Hi, I'm working on http://learn.perl.org/ and I'd like to have a few rotating example of what can be done with Perl on the home page. The first two I've thought of are below, does anyone have others? They don't have to use

Re: Cool/useful short examples of Perl?

2011-05-30 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 03:36:54PM +0100, David Precious wrote: On Monday 30 May 2011 14:27:25 'lesleyb' wrote: I am a little fearful people will substitute variables on the RHS in a CGI script without untainting first and then complain when the problems show up. Whilst I agree helping

Re: Cool/useful short examples of Perl?

2011-05-30 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 04:40:26PM -0500, Avleen Vig wrote: On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Jason Clifford ja...@ukfsn.org wrote: On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 16:27 +0100, Denny wrote:     if (! Email::Valid-address($email_address) ) { Something wrong with 'unless'? No but lots of people

Re: Cool/useful short examples of Perl?

2011-05-30 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 07:46:08PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: NC == Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org writes: NC You've stated that you *don't* expect newbies to know how to read NC that line. Leo is currently looking for things that newbies could NC be expected to read. then you will

[OT] Re: wireless routers

2010-11-09 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:34:43PM +, Chris Jack wrote: On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Dirk Koopman d...@tobit.co.uk wrote: My netgear WPN802 seems to have died. Any recommendations for a non-ADSL wireless router that is reliable and might last a bit longer? Don't need anything

Re: London.pm leader election

2010-09-28 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 05:28:12PM +0100, Léon Brocard wrote: On 24 September 2010 10:43, Léon Brocard a...@astray.com wrote: 4th October: Send nominations to a...@astray.com and d...@dave.org.uk before this date Could I gently remind people to get their nominations in? You may, of

Re: Good Unix pranks for kids?

2010-09-28 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 08:12:38PM +0200, Stefan Scheytt wrote: Hello fellow monglers, Due to parental responsibility, we occasional use x11vnc to have a look at what episode of Hanna Montana our 9-year-old is watching on Youtube today. (Obviously, we ssh into her machine and sudo to run

Re: Looking for work...

2010-09-09 Thread 'lesleyb '
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 11:21:27PM +0530, abhishek jain wrote: Beside the obvious jobs.perl.org - you might have a look at LinkedIn Perl Jobs group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=gid=1332857 - there seem to be some UK openings quite regularly. this linked in group looks

Re: Van Gogh at the RA

2010-02-14 Thread 'LesleyB '
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 11:35:48AM +, David Cantrell wrote: Dermot wrote: On 12 February 2010 21:31, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: There's a Van Gogh exhibition on at the Royal Academy... Finishes on the 18th of April. And it's practically sold out (on-line at least).

Re: Pig and pub! (Emergency social called for)

2010-01-18 Thread 'LesleyB '
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 01:33:50PM +0100, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 05:48:22PM +, Edmund von der Burg wrote: PS - note that there are four heads going. If you ever wanted to do a very British variant of the horse's head in The Godfather this would be an

Re: The bar receipt for Saturday night...

2009-12-07 Thread 'LesleyB '
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 02:16:26PM +, Martin A. Brooks wrote: Pictured here, this was just the sponsored part. http://twitpic.com/sizue If there's interest, I'm happy to munge this into an electronic format suitable for analysis. We can find out what percentage of LPW enjoys

Re: He'brew

2009-09-30 Thread lesleyb
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 01:31:32AM -0700, Ovid wrote: Since we're on topic, discussing beer, does anyone know where in London I can acquire He'brew, the Chosen Beer? I bought some back in the states, only to discover that I really, really like this stuff. It's a darker beer with hints of

Re: Anyone hiring at the moment?

2009-09-25 Thread lesleyb
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:28:12AM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote: On 25 Sep 2009, at 01:27, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: [...] Oh god, don't. I shall be touring with a band in early November and whilst the first two dates are civilised: London and Oxford, but from then on we're in arse-ends like

Re: Anyone hiring at the moment?

2009-09-24 Thread lesleyb
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:54:17PM +0100, James Laver wrote: On 24 Sep 2009, at 12:37, Ovid wrote: He has an accent so thick (I'm told it's even thicker than other scunts) Contrary to popular belief, there is no scunthorpe accent. I'm *loving* the word 'scunts' though. Head a few miles

Re: More camels

2009-08-19 Thread lesleyb
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:42:26PM +0100, Bob Walker wrote: On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Peter Corlett wrote: On 18 Aug 2009, at 21:21, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 05:56:16PM +0100, Léon Brocard wrote: him). Peter brought a huge camel to the emergency social on Friday. Is there a