Re: Interactive graphics

2014-11-17 Thread Ben Evans
D3 (Javascript) or Incanter (Clojure) are typically my choices these days. Thanks, Ben On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Sue Spence wrote: > From: Roger Bell_West > To: london.pm-annou...@london.pm.org > Cc: > Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 09:03:08 + > Subject: Interactive graphics > What are the

Re: Dear Dr Who experts...

2014-10-08 Thread Ben Evans
Now there's a T-shirt waiting to happen. On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:03 PM, Dominic Humphries wrote: > Real daleks don't climb stairs, they level the building :) > > > > On 8 October 2014 19:55:34 Gareth Harper wrote: > >> It's not just the more recent episodes (depending on your definition of >> "

Re: Finding the intersection between two regexes

2014-04-22 Thread Ben Evans
This piece of anecdotal evidence is now a good ~8 years out of date, but I found that there were some surprising performance regressions for a complex, combined regex versus versus multiple runs with simple ones. As ever the moral of the story is, if performance matters, always measure, and get a

Re: tablets for parents

2014-03-02 Thread Ben Evans
It would mean putting in fixed infrastructure, but modern smart TVs are capable of doing Skype. My parents have a Panasonic Smart Viera connected to a standard BT broadband line. It does Skype perfectly fine - in fact provides a much better video conferencing experience than basically anything els

Re: URL shorteners (was: Re: ISNIC DNS)

2013-05-08 Thread Ben Evans
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Sam Kington wrote: > > Getting off-topic here, but what use are URL shorteners now that Twitter > converts all links to be t.co/blah ? They don't save you any space in > tweets, and they obfuscate the URL you're linking to. Is link-tracking > really that useful?

Re: jQuery

2013-03-21 Thread Ben Evans
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Smylers wrote: > Mallory van Achterberg writes: > >> Ah, jQuery, something I try to avoid except when I can't. >> http://www.doxdesk.com/updates/2009.html#u20091116-jquery > > Thanks for that. Is there any decent combined documentation for > JavaScript + jQuery, p

Re: Wanted: Speakers for London.pm Technical Meeting

2012-10-17 Thread Ben Evans
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:05 PM, David Cantrell wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 05:23:04PM +0100, Ben Evans wrote: > >> I've been discussing a talk with Leon, tentatively entitled "Through >> The Looking Glass" - basically an account of what I found in the yea

Re: Wanted: Speakers for London.pm Technical Meeting

2012-10-16 Thread Ben Evans
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Dominic Thoreau wrote: > On 16 October 2012 17:06, Pedro Figueiredo wrote: >> and another one I've been mulling and considering writing to submit to LPW, >> but I'm afraid it wouldn't warrant me many friends in the L.pm community, >> it's titled "The problem wit

Re: Wanted: Speakers for London.pm Technical Meeting

2012-10-16 Thread Ben Evans
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Dave Cross wrote: > Quoting Pedro Figueiredo : > >> and another one I've been mulling and considering writing to submit to >> LPW, but I'm afraid it wouldn't warrant me many friends in the L.pm >> community, it's titled "The problem with Perl" and is basically me r

Re: He'brew

2009-10-04 Thread Ben Evans
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 chocolate and nutty goodness. Utobeer at t

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

2009-07-18 Thread Ben Evans
Andrew Black wrote: Léon Brocard wrote: 2009/7/17 James Laver : 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 mee

Re: Java wonks?

2009-07-02 Thread Ben Evans
Nicholas Clark wrote: On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 12:33:26AM +0100, Ben Evans wrote: If you're prepared to deal with recruitment agents, then you talk to me, ^ and I provide you with a list of agents who can: a) Follow s

Re: Java wonks?

2009-06-30 Thread Ben Evans
Dave Hodgkinson wrote: I'm tendering for a project which will require a Java bod for 3 months starting in August. Skills to include spring and maven. Where best to find such a person? Depends. If you're prepared to deal with recruitment agents, then you talk to me, and I provide you with a l

Re: Big Geek Day Out: Bletchley Park 18th July

2009-06-15 Thread Ben Evans
Joel Bernstein wrote: On 15 Jun 2009, at 10:21, Dave Cross wrote: On 15/06/2009 10:14, Joel Bernstein wrote: [ Trip to Bletchley Park ] What's there? What will you do? You're kidding, right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park I knew about the history but not that there was a m

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

2009-06-11 Thread Ben Evans
I just wanted to say thank you to Leon and Billy for organising last night's tech meeting. It was really good to hear such a diverse range of talks, and it's kick-started some very useful discussions for my own project. It was also great to meet some new people from different languages (and ca

Re: Encode::Mangled?

2009-05-29 Thread Ben Evans
Richard Huxton wrote: I'm dealing with data from a web-page that claims to be ISO-8859-1 but actually has some Win-1252 embedded in it. I can convert it to UTF-8 and all seems well, however the characters need mapping. It's straightforward enough to handle the dozen or so chars I know about bu

Re: Perl on JVM Slides

2009-04-19 Thread Ben Evans
Andy Armstrong wrote: On 17 Apr 2009, at 19:47, Ben Evans wrote: Ovid wrote: Last night's tech talks had a very interesting talk about Perl on the JVM Are those slides available anywhere? I don't know if Leon's put them up anywhere yet. If not, mail me offlist and I

Re: Perl on JVM Slides

2009-04-17 Thread Ben Evans
Ovid wrote: Last night's tech talks had a very interesting talk about Perl on the JVM Are those slides available anywhere? I don't know if Leon's put them up anywhere yet. If not, mail me offlist and I'll send you a copy. While I'm here - if anyone (whether an attendee at last night's tec

Re: [OT] finding memory hungry bits of my code

2009-04-09 Thread Ben Evans
Edmund von der Burg wrote: 2009/4/9 Andy Armstrong : That sounds as if it could just be Perl getting up to cruising (memory) altitude. Perl isn't especially keen on giving memory back to the OS once it's used it; instead it keeps it hanging around and uses it to satisfy future allocations.

Re: Schema into diagrams

2009-03-27 Thread Ben Evans
Paul Makepeace wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Dave Cross wrote: Paul Makepeace wrote: 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 mysqldu

Re: (Planned) Emergency Social - Friday 20th March, 6pm, Wenlock Arms

2009-03-13 Thread Ben Evans
Ben Evans wrote: James Laver wrote: [3] And if you're planning to come, please mail me offlist, I've no idea how many people are going to turn up. I'm planning to come along. Ben Apologies - I'm trying out a new mailer - but it doesn't seem to be behaving itself

Re: (Planned) Emergency Social - Friday 20th March, 6pm, Wenlock Arms

2009-03-13 Thread Ben Evans
James Laver wrote: [3] And if you're planning to come, please mail me offlist, I've no idea how many people are going to turn up. I'm planning to come along. Ben