On 20 September 2013 14:50, Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk wrote:
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 09:34:01AM +1000, Kieren Diment wrote:
On 20/09/2013, at 9:21, Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk wrote:
If you are so passionate about seeing new niche Perl books written as you
are making out, you had
On 19 September 2013 11:51, Abigail abig...@abigail.be wrote:
I'd call them niche books. If generic books don't sell, why would
niche books?
Actually - I wouldn't be surprised if a niche Perl book did sell
better than a generic Perl book.
Perl isn't the most popular kid on the block ATM. So
On 19 September 2013 20:16, Avleen Vig avl...@gmail.com wrote:
[snip]
Well hold on just a minute there. One of the primary reasons Perl got to be
hugely popular is exactly because books like Programming Perl and Learning
Perl spoonfed the answers to new users.
[snip]
I don't remember it that
On 21 March 2013 17:48, Will Crawford billcrawford1...@gmail.com wrote:
GM: There is another loud bang and some crunching sounds, as DD's new
clone arrives. He lands upside down and may or may not have taken some
damage to the head. He thinks he's just fine though.
Is this first or second
On 11 February 2013 07:56, Alex Brelsfoard alex.brelsfo...@gmail.com wrote:
Here's a slightly off-topic question for you all.
Oh - I'd say that's bang on topic for this list ;-)
I'm planning on doing some consulting work and was wondering what I should
expect as the norm for delay between
Hey Dermot,
On 23/01/13 09:27, Dermot wrote:
Hi,
I'm pretty sure I've seen this discussed on the list before but I can't
(easily) find it in the archive. I was looking for a Project management
course or company. There are a lot of companies in London doing training
but I am a little sceptical
/lurk
Annoyingly I'm not going to be able to go to LPW tomorrow now (post-op
dog needs looking after rather more than was anticipated) but one
thing that's not been mentioned is the evolution of the Perl testing
framework.
Test.pm pre-dates Beck's seminal SUnit, and Perl folk caught the
testing
On 1 Sep 2012, at 08:01, Peter Sergeant p...@clueball.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote:
also the o'reilly school of technology has 4 levels of perl courses
written by *peter scott*
Interesting! He's the author of what I consider to be
On 31 Aug 2012, at 19:10, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
You're worried about the opinions of those who assume that because a
person looks like or has a similar background to another person they
must therefore behave the same as that other person?
This is like saying that
On 1 Sep 2012, at 20:22, Jones, Chris c.jo...@ucl.ac.uk wrote:
Its an old article - but interesting. But one bit I really don't like is
Lincoln's comment;
Because Perl is quick and dirty…..
That's just silly.
But Perl can be quick and dirty... it's just not *all* it can be :)
Adrian
On 31 Aug 2012, at 10:31, Roger Burton West ro...@firedrake.org wrote:
My feeling is that this is far too long and offputting. If they have to
specify all this in nitpicking detail, it's because they've got people
who are trying to game the system and they don't have the guts to throw
them
On 12 Dec 2011, at 11:49, Peter Corlett wrote:
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 08:46:57PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
[...]
Of course, if your people are made of pure Awesomium then you might be OK
with taking that performance hit because you're still coming out ahead
despite your people being in
On 11 Dec 2011, at 20:46, David Cantrell wrote:
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 05:23:40PM +, Adrian Howard wrote:
On 9 Dec 2011, at 13:16, David Cantrell wrote:
This idea that with the right magic pixie dust teleworking can be made
to work regardless of the company, the colleagues
On 9 Dec 2011, at 19:09, Zbigniew Łukasiak wrote:
Recently I was surprised by the following (from a talk by Greg Wilson):
Physical distance doesn’t affect post-release fault rates but Distance
in the organisational chart does.
Nagappan et all (2007) and Bird et al (2009)
Based on all
On 9 Dec 2011, at 07:49, Richard Foley wrote:
UK programmers are half the cost of US programmer? Wow, and I thought all the
IT jobs were moving to India!
Cost of the developers is not the sole cost in building a team in another
country ;-)
Adrian
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http://quietstars.com
On 9 Dec 2011, at 13:16, David Cantrell wrote:
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 01:57:56PM +0100, Richard Foley wrote:
Seriously, if some of these managers could get their heads around leveraging
the power of telecommuting project teams, they'd not have to worry too much
about the respective costs
On Thursday, Sep 25, 2003, at 12:40 Europe/London, Andy Ford wrote:
Do you use a lot of r's in your Perl code.
my $eeer;
my $arrr;
Talk Like A Pirate Day is over now y'know :-)
my $tractor;
my $combineharvester;
my $ooarr;
;0)
Does that mean that London.pm coders are full
my $gor_blimey ;
my
On Wednesday, Sep 24, 2003, at 16:16 Europe/London, Andy Ford wrote:
I have thought of starting a Southampton.pm group and thought more of
the basic infrastructure required to support it...
[snip]
Good god! Don't tell me there are Perl developers near Dorset! (well,
nearer than London anyway)
On Tuesday, Sep 16, 2003, at 13:09 Europe/London, Steve Purkis wrote:
[snip]
If you have a preference here, let me know.
[snip]
I quite like chaining myself - but then I like Smalltalk too :-)
Adrian
On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 01:32 pm, Peter Sergeant wrote:
To be honest, there's not that much difference. You run the script
and
run the results though Test::Harness which works out if they passed or
not. Or you run each test manually and look at the output.
This may be different now,
On Friday, August 22, 2003, at 11:28 am, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
Toby Corkindale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 06:03:13PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 09:51:13AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
(And people who use MySQL wonder what the value of
On Sunday, August 17, 2003, at 07:04 pm, Nigel Rantor wrote:
As an addendum to the original question, consider that there are three
or four different sub-sets of functionality that you would like to
provide the Base module.
If these sub-sets are completely seperable then how do you implement
On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 05:50 am, Struan Donald wrote:
[snip]
More specifically is there some way I can ask for the information
and if I don't get a response in x seconds assume either defaults or
SKIP the test?
[snip]
You /could/ do something like this to get your config in the
Hiya,
On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 12:27 pm, Shevek wrote:
[snip]
The tradeoff for moving things to compile time is coder speed. The
extra
syntax, typing and complexity of source code structures makes it take
longer to write code. As we all know, machine time is MUCH cheaper than
programmer
Cute!
Adrian
On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 10:42 pm, Leon Brocard wrote:
I've always wondered what modules people have installed from CPAN, but
CPAN has too many mirrors. Versions are interesting too. Here is a
beta version of cpanstats: http://www.astray.com/cpanstats/
Leon
--
Leon
On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 02:39 pm, Roger Burton West wrote:
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:26:22PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote:
What are the options for HTML to PDF conversion, preferably batchable?
http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc
It's in Debian package htmldoc, too, and therefore
On Wednesday, October 30, 2002, at 04:14 pm, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Andy == Andy Wardley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Andy I started writing it because, like you, I hate writing XML. Too
much
Andy verbosity and itty-bitty-get-everything-in-exactly-the-right-place
Andy nonsense. So I
On Saturday, October 12, 2002, at 02:27 pm, Nicholas Clark wrote:
[snip]
Can anyone think of a reliable, non-source filter way of attaching such a
destructor method onto the scope of your caller?
[snip]
Taking a look at the source for Hook::Scope might give some pointers.
(You didn't say
On Sunday, October 6, 2002, at 07:06 pm, Kate L Pugh wrote:
[snip]
I wanted a test that's like use_ok, but which fails if any warnings (such
as that below in [0]) come up during the 'use'. But I only wanted it
to fail once, however many warnings I got, and I wanted it to pass (as
opposed
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