Re: from across the pond...

2014-06-04 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 30 May 2014 10:33, Andrew Solomon wrote: > Jeffrey Thalhammer's San Francisco PM talk on Pinto - something like git > for CPAN repos: > > https://archive.org/download/jeffthalhammerivegot99problemsbutcpanaintone/thaljef.mp4 > > https://archive.org/download/jeffthalhammerivegot99problemsbutcpana

Re: PDF to CSV?

2013-12-12 Thread Aaron Trevena
Hi David, http://search.cpan.org/~audreyt/Template-Extract-0.41/lib/Template/Extract.pm could work better for extracting formatted text like this maybe A

I have a bikeshed, colour suggestions appreciated

2013-12-03 Thread Aaron Trevena
So.. some of you might know I quite like bikes.. I now have a proper bikeshed (or at least I will once I've built and attached the doors tonight) - and I was hoping you nice people could give me some helpful suggestions. Thanks in advance, A. -- Aaron J Trevena, BSc Hons http://www.aarontrevena

Re: London Perl Conference 2013 photos

2013-12-03 Thread Aaron Trevena
I've also got some pics up at https://plus.google.com/photos/102381504977265553584/albums/5952417348817549217 (including some from the trip to and from LPW) - not as good as Chris's - again, mail me off list if you want your face (even more) pixelated/blurred for privacy :) A

Re: Perl publishing and attracting new developers

2013-09-19 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 18 September 2013 17:01, Paul LeoNerd wrote: > On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 16:45:10 +0100 > Peter Corlett wrote: > >> If you don't agree, do feel free to give the titles of a few >> hypothetical Perl books that you would be prepared to pay £30 for. > > Asynchronous Perl - > Achieving large-scale

Re: [off topic] Any londoners know a good 'puter repair place near the city/bishopsgate or docklands?

2013-05-24 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 24 May 2013 15:03, David Cantrell wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 01:57:09PM +0100, Aaron Trevena wrote: >> My sister in law (trained dancer and personal trainer with almost 0 IT >> expertise ) has a laptop that won't boot and no backups of her >> important i

[off topic] Any londoners know a good 'puter repair place near the city/bishopsgate or docklands?

2013-05-24 Thread Aaron Trevena
Hi L.pmers, My sister in law (trained dancer and personal trainer with almost 0 IT expertise ) has a laptop that won't boot and no backups of her important info on the hard disk - any recommendations of somewhere that can give a good honest appraisal of what's wrong with the laptop and back up the

Re: npm, PyPi overtake CPAN

2013-05-23 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 24 May 2013 05:43, Aaron Trevena wrote: > On 24 May 2013 01:31, Paul Makepeace wrote: >> http://modulecounts.com/ >> >> ... with Rubygems screaming ahead since overtaking CPAN a couple of years >> ago. And the hugeness of Maven Central. >> > I had a de

Re: npm, PyPi overtake CPAN

2013-05-23 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 24 May 2013 01:31, Paul Makepeace wrote: > http://modulecounts.com/ > > ... with Rubygems screaming ahead since overtaking CPAN a couple of years > ago. And the hugeness of Maven Central. > > I'm sure there's plenty of caveats etc but the gradients is probably what's > most interesting here; CP

Re: Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-16 Thread Aaron Trevena
Hi Duncan, On 15 May 2013 22:37, Duncan Garland wrote: > I didn't mention the company because I was (and still am) using my personal > email and it didn't seem appropriate. Anyway, the company is Motortrak > (www.motortrak.com). I visited the site, the jobs page renders really badly in my old br

Re: Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-15 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 15 May 2013 18:28, Uri Guttman wrote: > the real problem is getting shops to PAY for any sort of training. i was > producing damian classes successfully for 3 or so years. then the economy > bottomed out (this was before the great recession) and training budgets > dried up. they still haven't c

Re: Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-14 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 14 May 2013 09:23, Graham Feegan wrote: > The candidate market is very tough. Over the last 3-6 months there hasn't > been many > new candidates making themselves available or open to new opportunities, > therefore > I can probably understand why your agent might be struggling. Your agent >

Re: Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-14 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 14 May 2013 15:20, Ben Vinnerd wrote: > On 14 May 2013 15:02, Dominic Humphries wrote: > >> 50 miles? Luxury! I have to do sixty! :) >> > Indeed. My previous contract was 223 miles, each way! (I became Travelodge > guest of the year during that gig!! lol) 223? Pah! my last contracting gig wa

Re: Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-14 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 14 May 2013 14:10, Dave Cross wrote: > Quoting Aaron Trevena : > >> or you could get a trainer onsite. > > That sounds like a *fabulous* idea :-) Other perl trainers are available ;) A -- Aaron J Trevena, BSc Hons http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk LAMP System Integratio

Re: Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-14 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 13 May 2013 23:18, Lyle wrote: > Have you considered training graduates? I hear there are a lot of them out > of work. I see a lot of Perl jobs wanting and expecting nothing less than > very experienced Perl programmers. If there aren't enough companies willing > to give fresh programmers the e

Re: Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-14 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 13 May 2013 22:22, Duncan Garland wrote: > We're advertising for a Perl programmer again, and once again we are > struggling. It's a shame because we've got quite a lot of development work > in the offing, mostly using Catalyst, DBIx::Class, Moose and the like. That's a good start but not much

Re: PDF creation?

2013-04-22 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 22 April 2013 11:51, Jérôme Étévé wrote: > If you want full support for unicode strings and a good control of layout, > I found that the simpliest solution is to use xelatex. > > I didn't find PDF::API2 fits in a multilingual environment. What problem did you have on this score then? I've bee

Re: PDF creation?

2013-04-22 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 21 April 2013 20:06, Leo Lapworth wrote: > On 21 April 2013 12:51, Roger Bell_West wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 07:43:11AM -0400, Mark Fowler wrote: >> >I know I'm going to want to create the document from scratch, not fill in >> a >> >template, and I'm probably going to want multi-line

Re: cpan you have to see

2012-12-13 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 12 December 2012 21:45, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote: > Do we still have automated kwalitee on CPAN? There is CPANTS (http://cpants.charsbar.org/index.html) which checks Kwalitee > Would hurling a PBP test at the whole of CPAN to get a metric be of any > benefit? As already mentioned Perl Critic

Re: Agents part CCXXXIV

2012-12-03 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 3 December 2012 12:05, James Laver wrote: > On 3 Dec 2012, at 06:38, Uri Guttman wrote: > >> one reason i ask my candidates where else they are being submitted is to >> avoid those duplications. > > Bullshit. You ask because you want to try and muscle in on those positions. > If you really a

Re: Perl outreach

2012-11-27 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 27 November 2012 07:00, Abigail wrote: >> Or to put it yet another way: cross learning a different language in the >> same class as perl (wide field) is clearly trivial for a competent perl >> programmer (for some value of trivial that implies an initial discount on >> productivity or billa

Re: Available...

2012-10-02 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 2 October 2012 12:06, Denny <2...@denny.me> wrote: > On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 10:59 +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: >> I'd assumed -discuss was for talking about the jobs posted on jobs >> and attempting to unpick who the company was. > > Short memory. Citing your own response is cheating, maybe he

Re: Current State of Auntie Beeb

2012-09-26 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 25 September 2012 22:40, Simon Wistow wrote: > Out of interest which bits of the Beeb are still Perl? Are l.pm-ers > still there? And where does http://news.bbc.co.uk fit into everything > these days? We've poached a couple of people from the beeb here, they still have a LOT of perl developers

Re: [OT] Are there any Contracts roles open at the moment

2012-05-03 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 3 May 2012 14:48, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > Dragging this back on topic, are either of these jobs contract? I believe at least a couple of the London ones will be, yes. They should be on jobs.perl and the london jobs list soonish A. -- Aaron J Trevena, BSc Hons http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk

Re: [OT] Are there any Contracts roles open at the moment

2012-05-03 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 3 May 2012 12:31, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 12:00:27PM +0100, Dominic Thoreau wrote: >> On 2 May 2012 21:19, Aaron Trevena wrote: >> > >> > Speaking of which - both my employer and Dominic's are recruiting perl >> > peo

Re: [OT] Are there any Contracts roles open at the moment

2012-05-02 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 1 May 2012 11:44, Dominic Thoreau wrote: > On 1 May 2012 11:28, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: >> >> I have heard agents complaining that they interview contractors then make >> permie offers, but this is hearsay. > > My current gig, I was told by the recruiter that of three identical > positions, two

Re: Programming Heresy

2012-04-04 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 1 April 2012 11:24, Piers Cawley wrote: > On 1 April 2012 01:14, Travis Basevi wrote: > >> >> On 31/03/2012 11:44, Aaron Trevena wrote: >> >>> Ummm this is london.pm.  People in London don't have sheds. >>>> >>> >>> I have a

Re: Programming Heresy

2012-03-31 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 30 March 2012 15:08, Steve Mynott wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:23:02AM +0100, Dirk Koopman typed: > >> On 30/03/12 10:24, Steve Mynott wrote: >> >Has anyone tried programming outside? >> > >> >E-ink (like on the Kindle) works well in sunlight and I wondered if >> >any such device would b

Re: Emacs as a perl IDE

2012-01-26 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 25 January 2012 22:17, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > Pulled together some links and thoughts, and actually learned stuff: > > http://www.davehodgkinson.com/blog/2012/01/using-emacs-as-an-ide/ I had a look at the .emacs I posted on g+ for hints on how I'm using it.. https://plus.google.com/u/0/102

Re: OT: Agile PM courses?

2012-01-11 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 10 January 2012 12:37, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > This whole Scrum thing smells of "life coach". There are a lot of charlatans about, but I'm pretty happy with how we're doing it here - our "scrum master" has plenty of real world experience both in development and agile project management and ap

Re: Testing databases with DBIx::Class

2012-01-11 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 10 January 2012 17:07, David Cantrell wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 04:01:23PM +, the hatter wrote: >> On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Leo Lapworth wrote: >> >A full dump of live is imported to dev every sunday, when we're running on >> >a dev server >> Except that if this includes personal data, a

Re: OT: Agile PM courses?

2012-01-10 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 9 January 2012 23:38, Peter Edwards wrote: > I interviewed three PMs last week. One of them claimed to be a qualified > PRINCE2 practitioner but couldn't answer what parts of PRINCE are used to > manage risk. When pressed, he claimed that he had done it 5 years ago and > "maybe it was added sin

Re: Testing databases with DBIx::Class

2012-01-10 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 10 January 2012 09:56, Ian Knopke wrote: > Hi, > > I need to test some DBIx::Class code where the database may not be > available. I can set up something to generate a small, temporary > SQlite db, but I was wondering what approaches others are currently > using for this. DBD::Mock seems ok but

Re: OT: Agile PM courses?

2011-12-27 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 27 December 2011 21:29, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > Oddly, google was my first stop. Was looking for actual experiences. I'll ask the scrum-master at work when we return, but iirc he didn't rate any of them much and places a lot more weight on experience. You should have come down to Agile On Th

Re: lovefilm - spamming f-tards or decent employer?

2011-12-22 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 22 December 2011 09:17, Jacqui Caren wrote: > Anyone else getting large volumes of UBE from lovefilm with the excuse > that it comes from a thirdy party so please dont blame us for the large > volume of abusive and desperate crap. Sounds like a rogue third party - have prodded anyone at Lovefi

Re: [Commercial]Looking for Perl Telecommuting work - How to approach

2011-12-17 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 16 December 2011 18:21, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > Paging Aaron... Sorry - we're full at HeadForwards - managed to find all 10 developers we had budget for ;) I've telecommuted for most of the last 5 or 6 years but it's pretty rare at the moment (wierdly as now we have all the broadband availab

Re: Telecommuting

2011-12-12 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 10 December 2011 23:06, ian dochert wrote: >> If you don't have everyone remote then these comments happen... at the >> physical water cooler, if everyone is remote then you can create your >> virtual water cooler (IRC or what ever). >> > Interestingly the converse of this can be useful too. >

Re: Beware: NET-A-PORTER

2011-12-09 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 9 December 2011 08:10, Rudolf Lippan wrote: >> Your recruitment agent could well be telling porky pies NaP, are a > > Perhaps, but she seemed pretty willing to back it up... Hmm.. When at LOVEFiLM we had lots of recruiters telling fibs - we had an exclusive partnership with BlueGlue, and it wa

Re: Beware: NET-A-PORTER

2011-12-08 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 9 December 2011 06:54, Rudolf Lippan wrote: > > On Thursday, December 08, 2011 at 11:23:35 PM, Kieren Diment wrote: >> I suspect this is a symptom of the GFC rather than anything more sinister. >> I'm sorry you and your not-to-be colleagues appear to be friendly fire in >> this circumstance.

Re: Perl Skills Test

2011-09-29 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 29 September 2011 10:48, Victoria Conlan wrote: > >> not in london, but very nice location ;) > > Not that I don't think everywhere is nicer than London, but ... could you be > more specific? Sunny Cornwall : http://www.headforwards.com/perl-jobs.html A couple of us just went for a nice run t

Re: Perl Skills Test

2011-09-29 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 28 September 2011 13:54, David Cantrell wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 01:27:41PM +0100, Victoria Conlan wrote: >> >Auntie is ALWAYS looking for perl people.  ALWAYS. >> Really?  I've been shunted into a non-programming job for the last year >> precisely because they aren't. > > We are. > > W

Re: Perl Skills Test

2011-09-26 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 26 September 2011 09:18, Peter Edwards wrote: > More recently I did a good test which was basically a pair programming > exercise where you are given a spec, some partial code, and a unit test you > could run but not inspect. > Then using your editor of choice go and make the code pass the test

Re: Perl e-commerce?

2011-09-21 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 21 September 2011 00:52, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > I looked at Handel a few years ago; does anyone have any current > experience with it? I had a look at it about 16 months ago and neither it nor mango (which is a fork of it) have been updated or can be "dropped in" as e-commerce applic

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Croyden.pm

2011-08-05 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 19 July 2011 16:39, Dirk Koopman wrote: > On 19/07/11 16:22, Chisel wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 5:02 PM, David >> Cantrellwrote: >> >>> There will be a Gathering of Croyden.pm at the Royal Standard in Croydon >>> on Wednesday the 20th of July. >>> >> >> I have to ask ... "Croyd*e*n.pm"

Re: CFT?

2011-07-29 Thread Aaron Trevena
> No, this is less :) We're trying to bootstrap something cool and have already > spent a bunch of money getting where we are. We are > < close to money and > it'll > be paid when we get it. freelancers.net is <--- *that* way ;) -- Aaron J Trevena, BSc Hons http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk LAMP

Re: Part-time Perl Developer Position based Reading, UK

2011-05-23 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 23 May 2011 10:03, Denny <2...@denny.me> wrote: > Also; salary ranges are really very useful to everyone involved in the > recruitment process.  Not specifying even a vague/wide one is incredibly > frustrating and occasionally off-putting to potential applicants.  If > your company is generous (

Re: Jobs in London

2011-04-21 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 23 March 2011 12:43, David Cantrell wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:32:11PM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: >> On 23 Mar 2011, at 11:16, David Cantrell wrote: >> > IME it's the norm for large employers.  Even at smaller employers my >> > experience is that that's generally what it says in the

Re: Spam filters

2010-11-29 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 25 November 2010 14:10, Chris Jack wrote: > > "Mr.G" mrg9...@gmail.com wrote: >> whole lot of spam which I've deleted > > Just out of curiousity - this list has been very good at not propagating > spam. I was therefore wondering why certain things manage to sneak past and, > if we have > a sp

Re: Running your own mini-cpan or other repos

2010-08-29 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 29 August 2010 22:00, Aaron Trevena wrote: > I'm working on a "smart mirror" catalyst web application and was > wondering how many people use their own repos, mirrors and mini-cpans > to get an idea of usage etc and if people would pay for somebody else > to prov

Running your own mini-cpan or other repos

2010-08-29 Thread Aaron Trevena
Hi GLLUGers I'm working on a "smart mirror" catalyst web application and was wondering how many people use their own repos, mirrors and mini-cpans to get an idea of usage etc and if people would pay for somebody else to provide something like that for them? .. yes it'll be all or mostly open sour

Re: learning / training in java perl programmer?

2010-07-31 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 31 July 2010 19:05, Philip Newton wrote: > On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Aaron Trevena > wrote: >> can anybody recommend some good online/offline java introductions? >> >> I'm rather hoping I can get a scjp in my spare time over a couple of >> weeks o

learning / training in java perl programmer?

2010-07-31 Thread Aaron Trevena
hi all, can anybody recommend some good online/offline java introductions? I'm rather hoping I can get a scjp in my spare time over a couple of weeks on my own and then make a start on a proper trainging course after that. A -- Aaron J Trevena, BSc Hons http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk LAMP Syste

Re: a good tool for planning projects/resources/holidays at high level rather than per task?

2010-06-17 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 17 June 2010 11:22, Gareth Kirwan wrote: > Fogbugz has holidays built into it's "evidence based scheduling", which > you can enter for users or sites, as well as working schedules, > velocity, etc. Cool - I didn't see/notice that when we tried it out, as an issue/bug tracker I was totally unde

Re: a good tool for planning projects/resources/holidays at high level rather than per task?

2010-06-17 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 17 June 2010 11:00, Simon Wilcox wrote: > On 17/06/2010 09:19, Aaron Trevena wrote: >> >> Anybody know a good tool for planning projects/resources/holidays at >> high level rather than per task? >> >> we're using basecamp for tasks, and as Rallydev or any

Re: a good tool for planning projects/resources/holidays at high level rather than per task?

2010-06-17 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 17 June 2010 10:05, Bob MacCallum wrote: > You could roll your own in Semantic Mediawiki...? > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Aaron Trevena > wrote: >> Help? >> >> Anybody know a good tool for planning projects/resources/holidays at >> high level rat

a good tool for planning projects/resources/holidays at high level rather than per task?

2010-06-17 Thread Aaron Trevena
Help? Anybody know a good tool for planning projects/resources/holidays at high level rather than per task? we're using basecamp for tasks, and as Rallydev or any other basecamp rival is politically unviable, is there something that just/primarily focusses on roadmap / calendar level ? Cheers,

Re: baby friendly places in/around Farringdon / Holborn

2010-06-09 Thread Aaron Trevena
Thanks, Steff & Caroline, After a very long day yesterday (got up 5am, got home midnight, up again to feed baby at 2am, 5am.. uuurgh), it looks like we'll be staying near GOSH for a week with a 3.75 yr old and a 1 yr old in november then again, in the summer. > If the weather is good, go to Coram

baby friendly places in/around Farringdon / Holborn

2010-06-07 Thread Aaron Trevena
Hi L.pmers, My wife, youngest child and myself will be in your fine city tomorrow from about 1000-1700 ish for an appointment at a certain well known childrens hospital (blood disorders and surgery aren't a good combination), and was wondering if anybody had any suggestions where we can grab food,

Re: Perl on the BBC

2010-03-27 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 25 March 2010 17:22, Smylers wrote: > My quest to get Perl mentioned in a BBC TV programme succeeded -- this > was on BBC4 on Monday: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rm4j1 > > The bit with Perl is from 21:05 (or start at 17:30 for an explanation). > It's repeated tonight at 19:30 for anybody

Re: [Fwd: Betonmarkets CTO position]

2010-02-12 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 12 February 2010 00:23, Simon Wistow wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:13:39PM +, Tom Hukins said: >> Has anyone made a self referential TV show yet where they follow a >> group of people trying to make a TV show? > > Sports Night ('98-'00) and Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip ('06-'07) both

Re: Fun Friday afternoon topic: domain name disputes

2010-02-09 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 5 February 2010 15:19, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > If it would be a co.uk domain, she could probably go to a UK court.  Since > this is a .com domain, I think any UK judge will quickly dismiss on the > grounds that it is an American domain, > so that she should go to court in the U.S. of A.

Re: london.pm xmas xword solution and winner

2010-01-04 Thread Aaron Trevena
2010/1/4 Smylers : > Aaron Trevena writes: > >> We have a winner for the cryptic crossword!  Congratulation to >> Smylers, who managed to get a 100% correct solution : > > Wow, thanks!  Though actually I didn't provide an answer for 2d, so > possibly I only drew w

Re: london.pm xmas xword solution and winner

2010-01-04 Thread Aaron Trevena
2010/1/4 Hakim Cassimally : > 2010/1/4 Smylers : >> Aaron Trevena writes: >> Which is definitely the _letters_ of "Santa Claus", but not exactly in >> the right order ... who did your proof-reading?! > > I attempted... and pointed the slight disordering out (i

Re: london.pm xmas xword solution and winner

2010-01-04 Thread Aaron Trevena
2010/1/4 Aaron Trevena : > We have a winner for the cryptic crossword! > > Congratulation to Smylers, who managed to get a 100% correct solution : > >  3a  better not pout >  4a  winter >  8a  naughty >  9a  snowman >  12a  Boxing Day >  14a  not even a mouse >  1

london.pm xmas xword solution and winner

2010-01-04 Thread Aaron Trevena
We have a winner for the cryptic crossword! Congratulation to Smylers, who managed to get a 100% correct solution : 3a better not pout 4a winter 8a naughty 9a snowman 12a Boxing Day 14a not even a mouse 15a Jingle Bells 17a checking it twice 1d Be good for goodness' sake

Re: london.pm xmas xword

2010-01-02 Thread Aaron Trevena
Actually I never got python. It is as opaque to me as mud. Language differences in mostly subjective shocker. On 1/1/10, Avleen Vig wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Aaron Trevena > wrote: >> Python is cryptic enough. > > If by that you mean "we're used to d

Re: london.pm xmas xword

2010-01-01 Thread Aaron Trevena
Still a couple more days more to do the crossword. I will post the answers monday. You dont have to finish it to win. Happy new year. On 12/31/09, Aaron Trevena wrote: > As requested some examples and how they work. 1) > alt.binaries.northpole.help 3 letters. Elf. Play on usenet,

Re: london.pm xmas xword

2009-12-31 Thread Aaron Trevena
. Sorry my phone has made it a bit hard to read. On 12/31/09, Aaron Trevena wrote: > Ok. Some worked examples to follow this evening > > On 12/31/09, Aaron Trevena wrote: >> Ok. Will try and post some worked examples this evening. Thought a >> couple up. Hopefully enough to

Re: london.pm xmas xword

2009-12-31 Thread Aaron Trevena
Ok. Some worked examples to follow this evening On 12/31/09, Aaron Trevena wrote: > Ok. Will try and post some worked examples this evening. Thought a > couple up. Hopefully enough to show how (little) my mind works. > > On 12/31/09, Richard Foley wrote: >> Hi Aaron, >>

Re: london.pm xmas xword

2009-12-31 Thread Aaron Trevena
You only need to know what it stands for. As I keep on saying its not very clever. Mostly bad puns and silly geeky word play On 12/31/09, James Laver wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Aaron Trevena > wrote: >> Still no answers in my inbox. Most complete will win if nobody

Re: london.pm xmas xword

2009-12-31 Thread Aaron Trevena
Python is cryptic enough. On 12/31/09, Avleen Vig wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Aaron Trevena > wrote: >> Still no answers in my inbox. Most complete will win if nobody >> completes it. Maybe I should have posted to a java or python group - >> they would

Re: london.pm xmas xword

2009-12-30 Thread Aaron Trevena
Still no answers in my inbox. Most complete will win if nobody completes it. Maybe I should have posted to a java or python group - they would have finished it by now. On 12/24/09, Aaron Trevena wrote: > 2009/12/23 Smylers : >> Aaron Trevena writes: >> >>> 90 downloads o

Re: london.pm xmas xword

2009-12-24 Thread Aaron Trevena
2009/12/23 Smylers : > Aaron Trevena writes: > >> 90 downloads of the PDF and Nobody has sent me the correct answers >> yet.. only a few days to go.. to boxing day.  Shall I extend it to new >> year ? > > Yes, please!  I had a quick look (and got a few answers) when

Re: london.pm xmas xword

2009-12-23 Thread Aaron Trevena
2009/12/18 Aaron Trevena : > 2009/12/17 Aaron Trevena : >> As promised.. I've put together a crossword. >> >> Download the PDF, print and ponder over the holiday : >> http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk/news.html > > To make it interesting, as well as the glory of b

Re: london.pm xmas xword

2009-12-21 Thread Aaron Trevena
2009/12/19 Victoria Conlan (vi...@comps.org) : > >> I've checked the clues/answers, hopefully I've fixed any mistakes.. if >> anybody spots any let me know and I'll fix and republish. > > It may not be relevant as I've just skimmed it and my brain is fuddled > from an extended Christmas-present-wra

Re: london.pm xmas xword

2009-12-18 Thread Aaron Trevena
2009/12/18 Aaron Trevena : > 2009/12/18 Piers Cawley : >> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Aaron Trevena >> wrote: >>> 2009/12/17 Aaron Trevena : >>>> As promised.. I've put together a crossword. >>>> >>>> Download the PDF, print

Re: london.pm xmas xword

2009-12-18 Thread Aaron Trevena
2009/12/18 Piers Cawley : > On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Aaron Trevena > wrote: >> 2009/12/17 Aaron Trevena : >>> As promised.. I've put together a crossword. >>> >>> Download the PDF, print and ponder over the holiday : >>> htt

Re: london.pm xmas xword

2009-12-18 Thread Aaron Trevena
2009/12/17 Aaron Trevena : > As promised.. I've put together a crossword. > > Download the PDF, print and ponder over the holiday : > http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk/news.html To make it interesting, as well as the glory of bing proclaimed winner on the website and this list the w

london.pm xmas xword

2009-12-17 Thread Aaron Trevena
As promised.. I've put together a crossword. Download the PDF, print and ponder over the holiday : http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk/news.html I've checked the clues/answers, hopefully I've fixed any mistakes.. if anybody spots any let me know and I'll fix and republish. If everybody is still stuck

Re: Mini-LPM Crossword Warmup (Re: help - looking for a crossword compiler (human or computer))

2009-12-14 Thread Aaron Trevena
2009/12/14 Andy Wardley : > On 12/12/2009 20:24, Aaron Trevena wrote: >> >> for my xmas london.pm crossword.. also anybody to proof read and check >> it would be appreciated. > > I saw your message yesterday afternoon and my brane starting ticking. > Then this mo

Re: help - looking for a crossword compiler (human or computer)

2009-12-13 Thread Aaron Trevena
2009/12/13 Aaron Trevena : >> On 12/12/2009 20:24, Aaron Trevena wrote: >>> >>> for my xmas london.pm crossword.. also anybody to proof read and check >>> it would be appreciated. >> >> I'd be happy to take a look. > > Cool - I have

Re: help - looking for a crossword compiler (human or computer)

2009-12-13 Thread Aaron Trevena
> On 12/12/2009 20:24, Aaron Trevena wrote: >> >> for my xmas london.pm crossword.. also anybody to proof read and check >> it would be appreciated. > > I'd be happy to take a look. Cool - I have 3 volunteers to review - thanks all - still no joy with crossword cre

help - looking for a crossword compiler (human or computer)

2009-12-12 Thread Aaron Trevena
for my xmas london.pm crossword.. also anybody to proof read and check it would be appreciated. Cheers, A. -- Aaron J Trevena, BSc Hons http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk LAMP System Integration, Development and Consulting

Re: Re[2]: Sleeping Arrangements

2009-12-07 Thread Aaron Trevena
2009/12/7 Christopher Taranto : > On Mon, December 7, 2009 4:35 am, Ovid wrote: >> A friend writes: >> >> We will be in London between January 1st & 5th around a month >> from now. We were wondering if you had recommendations of reasonably priced >> accommodations within London proper or within an

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-27 Thread Aaron Trevena
2009/11/24 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. > >

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

Re: Anyone hiring at the moment?

2009-09-22 Thread Aaron Trevena
2009/9/22 Ovid : > --- On Tue, 22/9/09, Richard Foley wrote: > >> From: Richard Foley >> >> What, relocate to Amsterdam, whatever for? > > I'd be seriously tempted to move back there were it not for me seeking > British citizenship (something the damned Labour party seems bound and > determined

Re: Anyone hiring at the moment?

2009-09-21 Thread Aaron Trevena
2009/9/21 Raphael Mankin : > Well, I've been bumming about contracting for over 30 years, and the > market seems to be picking up a bit. There are more jobs about and rates > are also up. Yup.. it is looking that way - I was getting seriously worried that I may have to get a job or contract where

Re: Skype

2009-09-17 Thread Aaron Trevena
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

Re: Schema into diagrams

2009-03-28 Thread Aaron Trevena
2009/3/28 Dave Hodgkinson : > I want something like Visio Enterprise that not only diagrams but also > rummages in the database to do schema discovery. > > One mark agains SQL::Translator, unless anyone has a fix, it shows the > tables alphabetically, which can make the arrow nest a bit messy. Bein

Re: Schema into diagrams

2009-03-27 Thread Aaron Trevena
2009/3/27 Paul Makepeace : > Do people have a favorite MySQL schema -> (ER)diagram tool? Basically a > quick way of visualising a database. Ideally one that sucks out the schema > from the db itself, altho' I guess a mysqldump-driven one would be fine too. I believe that both autodia[1] and sql::t

Re: Recession rates

2009-03-10 Thread Aaron Trevena
2009/3/10 Paul Makepeace : > Has anyone found the recession/depression affecting contracting rates? A bit, yes, although *touch wood* there does seem to be a slight increase in the availability of telework and part onsite jobs and contracts - whether this is a case of businesses finally catching u

Re: about your meetings

2009-01-28 Thread Aaron Trevena
2009/1/28 Léon Brocard : > 2009/1/27 Frank Gutierrez : >> Can you stream them or post a video online? > > Slides will be made available afterwards. Speaking of videos - does anybody have an ETA for the LPW videos being available. The nice people behind yapc.tv made it pretty easy for me to upload

Re: Have at it

2009-01-27 Thread Aaron Trevena
2009/1/27 Piers Cawley : > MOP is modern? The Art of The MetaObject Protocol was published in > 1991. This is obviously some new usage of the word 'modern' with which > I was hitherto unfamiliar. > > It's modern in perl terms, obviously, but it's not exactly new. It's > just been ignored by almost

Re: Have at it

2009-01-26 Thread Aaron Trevena
2009/1/26 Denny : > Personally, I assumed he was referring to the strong 'use Moose' push > which EPO seems to be on - would it be safe to say that Moose is a > modern approach to OO? I've not used it personally, and am looking > forward to the tech meet around the subject. I think MOP (meta obje

Re: LPW videos

2009-01-07 Thread Aaron Trevena
2009/1/7 Andrew Shitov : >> I thought I'd start the ball rolling by uploading to yapc.tv (2 talks, > > The first one is available online: http://yapc.tv/2008/lpw/. Updated LPW wiki with the link A. -- http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk LAMP System Integration, Development and Hosting

Re: LPW videos

2009-01-07 Thread Aaron Trevena
2009/1/7 James Laver : > Youtube is great for getting people interested in watching it, but if > you aren't just after attracting more people then perhaps somewhere > with higher quality video? yapc.tv provides high quality video, uploading to youtube and facebook is get a wider audience. I haven

Re: LPW videos

2009-01-07 Thread Aaron Trevena
2009/1/6 Mark Keating : > Hopefully this month - though I am not sure where, I will most likely leave > that decision to Leon :) Though some of them will be on the SC site (MST > talks etc.) Cool. I thought I'd start the ball rolling by uploading to yapc.tv (2 talks, uploaded but not processed an

Re: LPW videos

2009-01-06 Thread Aaron Trevena
2009/1/6 David Cantrell : > On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 06:41:26PM +0000, Aaron Trevena wrote: > >> I'm planning to upload my videos to yapc.tv this evening - that would >> be a good place. > > Can they be trivially downloaded from there in a sane (ie not Flash, not > M

Re: LPW videos

2009-01-06 Thread Aaron Trevena
2009/1/6 Mark Keating : >> Anybody know when the LPW videos will be available online ? > > Hopefully this month - though I am not sure where, I will most likely leave > that decision to Leon :) Though some of them will be on the SC site (MST > talks etc.) I'm planning to upload my videos to yapc.t

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