Using smart phones ...

2011-08-04 Thread Andrew Black
On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 05:02:35PM +, shantanu.bhado...@gmail.com wrote: sorry but why is use of mobile phones for mailing frowned on? if you are picky, just get a android tablet, root it, install a terminal emulator, and compile a command line email client. that should be good to keep a

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Croyden.pm

2011-07-20 Thread Andrew Black
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 05:11:50PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 16:59, ian.doche...@nomura.com wrote: [Ian replied.] Perhaps it should be Croyd[oe]n.pm ? Not sure how to get it or whether it would render but a SCHWA would be represent the canonical pronunciation of

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

2011-05-28 Thread Andrew Black
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 01:47:00PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: You can turn down the promotion to management. I did a few days ago. But in some organisations the alternative is promotion to gardening leave :-(

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

2011-05-26 Thread Andrew Black
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:44:21AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: Second, you're engaging in puerile banter. It can be avoided without being rude. Whilst a lot of workplace converstaions might fit one of the words puerile banter, I do find there are convetsations that are more useful face to

Re: Webcasting the tech meets?

2011-03-11 Thread Andrew Black
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 09:01:38AM +, Leo Lapworth wrote: I'm not sure what the advantage of a live webcast is over someone uploading it the next day? It would also be better to have it available for posterity rather than just live (I'm sure both could be done). I agree with Leo. If I

Re: Security of HTTP based authentication

2011-01-13 Thread Andrew Black
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 01:32:28PM +, Leo Lapworth wrote: You wrote that you don't send images via HTTP on a HTTPS page - what are the reasons for that? Some browsers pop-up alerts if you have mixed HTTP/HTTPS on a page I have often wondered about that - what is the risk in mixing

Subject line

2010-10-29 Thread Andrew Black
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 04:41:34PM +0100, Ashley Hindmarsh wrote: Sorry I'm talking cack - it was Imager. You are also talking cack by not setting a sensible subject line Re: london.pm Digest, Vol 60, Issue 19 doesnt tell me much, whereas this would be let me see how it relates to other

[OT] Testing a web application

2010-04-08 Thread Andrew Black
A colleague has asked me for pointers to how to test a web application. I haven given much thought to hwat is involved but pointers to appropriate harnesses would be useful. It is written in JSP/ Java using a homebrew framework (don't ask). It has some Javascript but I would regard it as dynamic

Re: london.pm xmas xword

2010-01-03 Thread Andrew Black
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 03:22:32PM +, Hakim Cassimally wrote: Araucaria though is still going strong... he must be coming up to 90 years old, but he's still probably the best of the Graun compilers. Born 1921 so your assertion is correct. Agree with the general consensus that you need ot

Re: London.pm Roast Duck Gold Mine Thursday 1pm

2009-12-15 Thread Andrew Black
Chisel wrote: Duck Thursdays ... like Dim Sum Thursdays except we eat duck, not dim sum. If it walks like a Duck and swims like a duck. it isn't a dim sum.

Re: The bar receipt for Saturday night...

2009-12-08 Thread Andrew Black
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 07:06:41PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: I'm guessing not. I'll wait for the sparc of realisation to dawn, but I'm not sure whether I should have an atom of hope for that; might be language differences. people are getting a bit pentiumed up

Re: Twitter modules

2009-11-11 Thread Andrew Black
Thanks fo the help everyone. I agree Net::Twitter is easy to get started with. Andrew

Twitter modules

2009-11-10 Thread Andrew Black
I would like to be able to make twitter updates from either Perl program or from shell. CPAN has a very large number of modules with Twitter in their subject. From a cursorly glance Net::Twitter::Lite or Net::Twitter look plausabl. Does anyone have an experience that would suggest I look

Re: stackoverflow !perl conference

2009-10-17 Thread Andrew Black
David Cantrell wrote: I already read 165 RSS feeds, many of which are programming related. I don't have the time to keep up with all of them. Adding more won't help. It especially won't help if I don't know which feeds to add. And doubly so if the vast majority of their content is a waste of

Re: Last Straw. Camel's Back. Etc.

2009-10-01 Thread Andrew Black
On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 07:19:00AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: Having spent 45 minutes failing to get through to Demon's tech support people last night I've finally come to the realisation that they aren't still the company that I signed up with fifteen years ago and that I should probably

Re: Charity Hack '09

2009-09-17 Thread Andrew Black
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:14:52AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: I'm not going to be able to go, but it would be good to have some Perl hackers involved. I would be moderately interested but am a bit busy. Is anyone else going - wd feel more confortable if people I knew were there. I could prob

Skype

2009-09-17 Thread Andrew Black
I am having a debate about Skype at $work. I have a gut feeling that I don't like it. Tried to read the TC and got very confused. Wool eyes over pulling comes to mind. What are other peoples views on it. Andrew

Mailing lists - was Re: London.pm Beer Festival, Edgar Wallace, TOMORROW, Thursday 2009-07-16

2009-07-18 Thread Andrew Black
Léon Brocard wrote: 2009/7/17 James Laver james.la...@gmail.com: Our glorious leader prefers only to announce socials and techmeets, hence why I posted it to this list only. I think there is scope for a london.pm social list Not moderated and where you can post emergency socials, informal

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Technical meeting: An evening of dynamic languages

2009-05-16 Thread Andrew Black
Is it possible to register for this event without creating an account at https://wam.bcs.org/

Re: Hack Day 2009

2009-05-06 Thread Andrew Black
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 12:53:19PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: I won't be, because this is the first I've heard of it. Where are these things publicised? I have seen it on a couple of geek related ICS feeds derived from http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2142631/

Re: London.pm on Upcoming

2008-10-08 Thread Andrew Black
Dave Cross wrote: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/12343/ Which says Other Events Like This Wed, Oct 8London Python meetup Discuss

Re: 24x7 on-call rates and rotas.

2008-10-01 Thread Andrew Black
Nicholas Clark wrote: I remember observing that boo.com got part of this wrong (in my opinion) - for weekends they had a different primary and backup for each of Friday night, Saturday and Sunday. This meant that at least 1 part of every weekend was on call, which generally buggered things. So