Re: hackday report

2014-09-21 Thread Bob Walker
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014, Bob Walker wrote: Found a bug in URI::Find::Delimited casued by a new release of URI::Find - https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=99003 Imported the 2 releases of URI::Find::Delimited on CPAN into a git repo and put in on github so I can then patch it to address

hackday report

2014-09-21 Thread Bob Walker
Imported the 2 releases of URI::Find::Delimited on CPAN into a git repo and put in on github so I can then patch it to address the above bug. - https://github.com/OpenGuides/URI-Find-Delimited then drank a lot of beer. -- bob walker everything should be purple and bendy http

Re: London PM Hack Day Tomorrow - Perl 5 suggestions

2014-09-20 Thread Bob Walker
://github.com/OpenGuides/OpenGuides/issues I'm certainly intending to get a release out today due to https://github.com/OpenGuides/OpenGuides/pull/78 -- bob walker everything should be purple and bendy http://randomness.org.uk @rjw1

Re: Westfield (W12) Lunch - SPAM

2014-07-17 Thread Bob Walker
ou are, on one of the days. And apologies for the spam, everyone else. Kind regards, schmooster -- bob walker everything should be purple and bendy http://randomness.org.uk

Re: London.pm approved drinking venues?

2014-03-04 Thread Bob Walker
mness.org.uk/scripts/pubsearch.cgi?locale=&postal_district=&tube_distance=1000&tube=Lancaster+Gate+Station&realale=1&food=1&gbg=1&Search=Search may help you. all 3 pubs in that result are worth going to. -kevin -- bob walker everything should be purple and bendy http://randomness.org.uk

Re: I have a bikeshed, colour suggestions appreciated

2013-12-03 Thread Bob Walker
my preference is stated in my sig. -- bob walker everything should be purple and bendy http://randomness.org.uk

Re: Could use some hotel/travel help

2013-09-26 Thread Bob Walker
dness. -- bob walker everything should be purple and bendy http://randomness.org.uk

Re: PDF creation?

2013-04-22 Thread Bob Walker
then throw the text at a generic indexing package. I keep meaning to do something with Plucene. Lucy is possibly a better choice if you dont want to just use Elasticsearch. Since Lucy is actively developed unlike Plucene. https://metacpan.org/release/Lucy -- bob walker everything should be

Re: French invasion

2013-02-20 Thread Bob Walker
rl pick it at random for you. http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?action=random;category=good%20beer%20guide id say the gunmakers since its not that far from covent garden. the holborn whippet is quite good as well and may be bearable on a monday night. -- bob walker everything should be p

Re: Outreach II

2012-11-29 Thread Bob Walker
On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Tomas Doran wrote: I hit london devops tonight, where was everyone? (They have free beer)… in the second row drinking free beer :) racking up the uniques on untappd. -- bob walker everything should be purple and bendy http://randomness.org.uk

Re: Perl outreach

2012-11-27 Thread Bob Walker
m npm if a module was already installed. -- bob walker everything should be purple and bendy http://randomness.org.uk

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-24 Thread Bob Walker
output JUnit so easily is a big win. -- bob walker everything should be purple and bendy http://randomness.org.uk

Re: [OT] benchmarking "typical" programs

2012-09-21 Thread Bob Walker
wanted to be as lazy as possible and write a search engine (as described above) using as much of CPAN as possible, which modules are recommended? :-) the Plucene test suite maybe the answer. I know it cetainly does the indexing bit. -- bob walker everything should be purple and bendy http://randomness.org.uk

Re: Programming Heresy

2012-03-30 Thread Bob Walker
g yet though. the freezers full of pig make turning it into a server room quite hard as well. -- bob walker everything should be purple and bendy http://randomness.org.uk

Re: Gatwick

2011-07-25 Thread Bob Walker
nable, and will add a margin of error to allow for unreasonableness, but it'd be handy to have some idea of the base time.) Thanks -- and looking forward to seeing many of you in Riga. Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2 -- bob walker everything should be purple and bendy http://randomness.org.uk

Re: Gatwick

2011-07-25 Thread Bob Walker
rward to seeing many of you in Riga. Smylers -- bob walker everything should be purple and bendy http://randomness.org.uk

Re: Emergency social meeting 25th June 2011 Bridge House

2011-06-23 Thread Bob Walker
rs fields park this weekend which is opposite the pub. http://www.riojatapasfantasticas.co.uk if you need another reason to brave south london Cheers, Leon -- bob walker everything should be purple and bendy http://randomness.org.uk

Re: Someone needs to take jwz aside...

2011-06-08 Thread Bob Walker
slimgems.github.com/ of course it may fail on your definition of comprehensive :) Lets put it this way. Im happy to be back sysadmining a perl stack instead of a ruby stack :) -- bob walker everything should be purple and bendy http://randomness.org.uk

Re: Emergency social Thursday 2010-05-20, The Britannia, Borough SE1

2010-05-19 Thread Bob Walker
ad an impressive selection of whiskies. This clearly calls for an emergency, so we booked a table for Thursday. I think we once had an Orthodox social there. we scouted it out for an Orhtodox social. Then went to the bridge house instead for the social. -- bob walker buses should be purple and bendy

Re: Cheap places in central London?

2010-05-04 Thread Bob Walker
Inns are better. Personally i stil wont use travelodge wince they put me in a smoking room even though i had booked non smoking one. -- bob walker buses should be purple and bendy

Re: Solid state drives

2010-04-20 Thread Bob Walker
power than one feed could provide. So one trips because of a random reason. the next trips becuaee you drawing too much power now. -- bob walker buses should be purple and bendy

Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?

2010-04-14 Thread Bob Walker
ximately 1 year. hmm pie. http://isitpie.com/ -- bob walker buses should be purple and bendy

Re: [Fwd: Betonmarkets CTO position]

2010-02-11 Thread Bob Walker
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Tom Hukins wrote: Has anyone made a self referential TV show yet where they follow a group of people trying to make a TV show? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_Wallpaper -- bob walker buses should be purple and bendy

Re: Looking for a secondhand Datahand Pro II

2009-10-20 Thread Bob Walker
O they're trying to avoid addressing a more fundamental limitation of standard keyboards which I'd like to completely sidestep. Im still waiting for my direct neural jack. -- bob walker buses should be purple and bendy

Re: Credit Cards

2009-10-13 Thread Bob Walker
ot of it imposed on them by their banks and/or payment service providers by being told they will be responsible for fraud if they dont do it. Which is fine for a 5 pound item but less so for a 2000 pound one. You can even outsource your fraud screening. http://www.the3rdman.co.uk/ -- bob wal

Re: He'brew

2009-10-03 Thread Bob Walker
olate and nutty goodness. http://www.shmaltz.com/HEBREW/ Ive just read that the sloaney poney has it in bottles. http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?White_Horse,_SW6_4UL -- bob walker buses should be purple and bendy

Re: Payment Providers

2009-10-02 Thread Bob Walker
On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, James Laver wrote: Banks usually don't care, but they will give liability to the retailer in case of fraud on non-3ds transactions. Like I said forcing them. -- bob walker buses should be purple and bendy

Re: Payment Providers

2009-10-02 Thread Bob Walker
On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, James Laver wrote: 6%? I know of sites with much larger dropouts than that. And one day some of them will finally realise it's stupid and stop taking 3dsecure at all. In my experience sites are forced to by their bank. -- bob walker buses should be purple and bendy

Re: Payment Providers

2009-10-01 Thread Bob Walker
that hard. there are two i wouldnt recommend but they are stories best kept for the pub. -- bob walker buses should be purple and bendy

Re: Beer was Re: Anyone drinking at the moment?

2009-09-30 Thread Bob Walker
. Normally as part of a try 4 beers as thirds pay for a pint offer. http://www.emberinns.co.uk/offer/enjoyallyourfavouritecaskales/ -- bob walker buses should be purple and bendy

Re: Anyone hiring at the moment?

2009-09-23 Thread Bob Walker
would only be a randomness guide if i was allowed to leave london. -- bob walker buses should be purple and bendy

Re: Bubble sort dance

2009-09-20 Thread Bob Walker
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: I think we could choreograph a suite of sort dances. I fear the twisted mess of corpses the heap sort could turn into though. survival of the fattest? ;) -- bob walker buses should be purple and bendy

Re: Does Perl has a code hider

2009-09-18 Thread Bob Walker
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Nicholas Clark wrote: If people would really like an automatic thrice-weekly FAQ fettling list, then people are welcome to set one up and advertise its existence to this list. not web2.0 enough. faqfettlr.com dont forget the pastel rounded corners. -- bob walker

Re: More camels

2009-08-18 Thread Bob Walker
ne of these: http://www.hamleys.com/Camel_14_Inch_+_Hamleys_Toys/507749,default,pd.html Surely everyone needs a Moose these days. http://www.hamleys.com/Mugsy_Moose_9_Inch_+_Hamleys_Toys/930313,default,pd.html -- bob walker buses should be purple and bendy

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Reminder: London.pm social meet, Thursday evening

2009-08-03 Thread Bob Walker
because so many people are in Lisbon for YAPC::Europe so we're not expecting a huge turn-out. Early birds please grab a couple of tables outside if it's a nice day! This is heresy! The one true meeting is in Lisbon. of course anyone with any taste will be at the gbbf anyway.

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-30 Thread Bob Walker
be at YAPC:EU next week. perl.en: Hi, my name is perl perl.fr: Salut, mon nom est perl perl.de: Hi, mein Name ist perl perl.pt: Oi, meu nome é perl and so on until youve exhausted the possibilites all: there is more than one way to do it! -- Bob Walker http://london.randomness.org.uk -

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-30 Thread Bob Walker
s try this perl5.8: hi my name is perl5.8 perl5.8: still to long! perl5.8: hi im perl5.8 perl5.10: dude, just say hi can you see what i did there :) -- Bob Walker http://london.randomness.org.uk - http://tech.randomness.org.uk http://londonstairs.co.uk - http://www.westcountrystairs.

Re: Fwd: June Social, Gunmakers EC1R, Clerkenwell. Thurs 4th June.

2009-06-04 Thread Bob Walker
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Nicholas Clark wrote: PS Everyone knows that the only true drink is Cidah! So you're all wrong. :-) Cidah! is bad and worng as is GIN also, joss whedon is not the saviour of television, terry pratchett isnt actualy that funny, perl is dead! -- Bob Walker

Re: [OT] New Buffy movie

2009-05-28 Thread Bob Walker
said Elsewhere - remain calm and repeat 'Joss Whedon is not the saviour of television/film/whatever'. excellent! the brainwashing is starting to take. i actually quite liked the original film. then again anything with rutger hauer in rocks my boat. (salute of the jugger maybe the be

Re: Optimisation

2009-03-03 Thread Bob Walker
oss Whedon is not the saviour of television" -- Bob Walker http://london.randomness.org.uk - http://tech.randomness.org.uk http://londonstairs.co.uk - http://londonjoinery.com Stairs and doors are obstacles to overcome on the way to ale and food

Re: *simple* blogging (addon) software

2009-02-25 Thread Bob Walker
then. ive moved onto chronicle from those two. http://www.steve.org.uk/Software/chronicle/ i was even a good user and provided a patch instead of whining. -- Bob Walker http://london.randomness.org.uk - http://tech.randomness.org.uk http://londonstairs.co.uk - http://londonjoinery.com Stair

Re: London.pm Dim sum Thursday 11am: Din Tai Fung

2009-02-12 Thread Bob Walker
ugod, Jake and I were there. It was very tasty indeed ;-) its not 11AM GMT yet. -- Bob Walker http://london.randomness.org.uk - http://tech.randomness.org.uk http://londonstairs.co.uk - http://londonjoinery.com Stairs and doors are obstacles to overcome on the way to ale and food

Re: Distributed LONDON Lunch - City Pie

2009-02-09 Thread Bob Walker
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, James Laver wrote: Pie is for all, regardless of newbie status. We demand pie justice* as long as it is true pie and not heretical pie. http://isitpie.com -- Bob Walker http://london.randomness.org.uk - http://tech.randomness.org.uk http://londonstairs.co.uk

Re: ANNOUNCE: Dim Sum Thursday 1pm Chiswick

2009-01-07 Thread Bob Walker
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, the hatter wrote: On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Bob Walker wrote: given that i seem to still be sitting in a colo my appearance at dim sum is becoming even less likely by the minute. Time in lieu == dim sum, surely ? it was more if i had to go back tommorrow because stuff didnt

Re: ANNOUNCE: Dim Sum Thursday 1pm Chiswick

2009-01-07 Thread Bob Walker
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, the hatter wrote: On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Bob Walker wrote: I pick Oriental Brasserie in Chiswick http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Oriental_Brasserie,_W4_2HD Sounds good to me, see you there. given that i seem to still be sitting in a colo my appearance at dim sum

Re: ANNOUNCE: Dim Sum Thursday 1pm Chiswick

2009-01-07 Thread Bob Walker
n feet pie! and most dim sum are almost pie like. -- Bob Walker http://london.randomness.org.uk - http://tech.randomness.org.uk http://rwc.randomness.org.uk- http://londonjoinery.com for great beery justice!- meh! bah! indeeed!

Re: LPW videos

2009-01-07 Thread Bob Walker
es or some bullshit like that. -- Bob Walker http://london.randomness.org.uk - http://tech.randomness.org.uk http://rwc.randomness.org.uk- http://londonjoinery.com for great beery justice!- meh! bah! indeeed!

ANNOUNCE: Dim Sum Thursday 1pm Chiswick

2009-01-07 Thread Bob Walker
pick their own destinations. a distrbuted dim sum if you like. that is all. -- Bob Walker http://london.randomness.org.uk - http://tech.randomness.org.uk http://rwc.randomness.org.uk- http://londonjoinery.com for great beery justice!- meh! bah! indeeed!

Re: Emergency (or regular?) social?

2008-12-18 Thread Bob Walker
http://london.randomness.org.uk in particular. http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Category_Good_Beer_Guide http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Category_Restaurants -- Bob Walker http://london.randomness.org.uk - http://tech.randomness.org.uk http://rwc.randomness.org.uk- http://londonjoiner

Re: London.pm Dim sum Thursday 1pm: Bamboo Basket

2008-12-03 Thread Bob Walker
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Léon Brocard wrote: 2008/12/1 Léon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: This is today! Who's coming? i should be Its just close enough that its only a 2 hour lunch instead of 3 :) -- Bob Walker http://london.randomness.org.uk - http://tech.randomness.

Re: Perl is dead

2008-12-03 Thread Bob Walker
lots more startups going bust.($work are looking for at least 2 more currently(we even have paying customers(not that this is the place for job ads))) -- Bob Walker http://london.randomness.org.uk - http://tech.randomness.org.uk http://rwc.randomness.org.uk- http://londonjoinery.com for

Re: [OT] Perl 5.8.9 RC1 is out

2008-11-13 Thread Bob Walker
cgi-bin/perlbrowse/p/34826 -- Bob Walker http://london.randomness.org.uk - http://tech.randomness.org.uk http://rwc.randomness.org.uk- http://londonjoinery.com for great beery justice!- meh! bah! indeeed!

Re: London.pm Dim sum Thursday 1pm: New World

2008-10-30 Thread Bob Walker
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Let the games begin... isnt that 4 years away? -- Bob Walker http://london.randomness.org.uk - http://tech.randomness.org.uk http://rwc.randomness.org.uk- http://londonjoinery.com for great beery justice!- meh! bah! indeeed!

openguides hackfest 18th-19th October

2008-10-10 Thread Bob Walker
hello! this is a gentle reminder that next weekend is the openguides hackfest in oxford. http://dev.openguides.org/wiki/OxfordHackfest2008 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1022567 kake and i should be in attendance both days. -- Bob Walker http://london.randomness.org.uk - http

Re: London.pm Dim sum Thursday 1pm: Oriental Brasserie

2008-09-25 Thread Bob Walker
today, who is coming? Since it is only 5 minutes from work for once it would be churlish to not turn up. I may even drag a cow-orker along. (tasty fresh blood) Léon, London.pm Dim Sum Mandarin -- Bob Walker http://london.randomness.org.uk - http://tech.randomness.org.u

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Croyden.pm social: change of venue

2008-09-12 Thread Bob Walker
he landlady for lulling lots of camra members into thinking its a good pub. -- Bob Walker http://london.randomness.org.uk - http://tech.randomness.org.uk http://rwc.randomness.org.uk- http://londonjoinery.com for great beery justice!- meh! bah! indeeed!

Re: [job advert] looking for a perl person to write a web control panel

2008-08-31 Thread Bob Walker
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008, Peter Corlett wrote: Do you want a pony on a stick with that? surely a metal pole would be more useful for spit roasting the pony. -- Bob Walker http://london.randomness.org.uk - http://tech.randomness.org.uk http://rwc.randomness.org.uk- http://londonjoinery.com

Re: Surrey.pm (was: back to the 80's)

2003-09-16 Thread Bob Walker
ou could go to the red lion in godalming. > > (Though I am definitely agreed in principle on a surrey.pm meet) > > > Richard > > -- Bob Walker http://www.randomness.org.uk/ 3 s.f that is the accuracy of the number of the beast

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Happy 5th Birthday London.pm - Social Thurs 7th August

2003-07-29 Thread Bob Walker
m, more I've forgotten. > we get everywhere. its a plot i tell you :) -- Bob Walker http://www.randomness.org.uk/ Alan Moore knows the score

Re: The joys of web development

2003-04-02 Thread Bob Walker
visible then the tabs disappear > > Class act -- I won't be back there again. So in their logs everything > except IE "doesn't exist" :-( netscape 4.7 works just. > > [*] insert non-IE browser of choice > -- Bob Walker http://www.randomness.org.uk/ To what accuracy do we know the number of the beast?

Re: RegEx for UK Postal Codes

2003-04-01 Thread Bob Walker
> > (Is she still called that? My father sometimes uses the name, but he > came to Germany over 30 years ago and his "current slang" is usually > rather dated.) It is how Private Eye refer to her still, if that is any indication. Then again Private Eye will keep jo

Re: CPANPLUS and long pathnames

2003-03-22 Thread Bob Walker
the kludge > that provides Unix-like filesystem semantics on HFS+ ive seen it with tar on openbsd. its when as it suggests the filename is too long in its eyes. I had got it becuase i was untaring soemthgin with quite deep fiel structure then a silly default word document name. > > -- B

Re: Anyone have a spare Sun Keyboard ?

2003-03-10 Thread Bob Walker
is over a data set of at most > four points) has gone wrong. I just prefer not to chance it. this is not the consoles fault or indeeed the solaris installers fault. this is user error. Yes i have messed up several solaris installs over console but only cause i made the wrong choices. (admitte

Re: spamassassin

2003-02-28 Thread Bob Walker
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Robin Szemeti wrote: > On Friday 28 February 2003 22:34, Bob Walker wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, David Cantrell wrote: > > > I'd forgotten about running stuff out of inittab though - I don't often > > > go delving in there. It's

Re: spamassassin

2003-02-28 Thread Bob Walker
lving in there. It's a bit of a nasty hack though. > > you could always do it with DJB's deamontools. which checks to make sure things are runnign and if not starts them. -- Bob Walker http://www.randomness.org.uk/ Help! Mutated Tigers from the Antartic are invading Outer Mongolia. Send the Mashed Bunnies of Perpignan to defeat them.

Re: alternative work

2003-02-27 Thread Bob Walker
n the south-east or so I'm led to believe. although coming from a long line of builders ( I even have the crack to prove it) I'm certainly happier in the IT industry. building is to much like manual labour, unless you are a sparky. -- Bob Walker http://www.randomness.org.uk/ Help! Mutated

Re: [PUB] Fitzroy Tavern, Fitzrovia

2003-01-28 Thread Bob Walker
ee to contact me if you > have any questions." > the rumour is that the film will be 12 monkeys. also the main reason to coem of course is to drink cheap beer. but i could be biased. :) The rumour is also that picocon will have Peter F Hamiliton next year. -- Bob Walker http://www.ra

Re: ADSL Help

2002-11-06 Thread Bob Walker
e 2 voice calls. > > sorry for the random questions, I've got a bit of a cold today and my head > feels a bit like cotton wool. > and dont forget to get your microfilter. > /Robert > > > -- Bob Walker http://www.randomness.org.uk/ Help! Mutated Tigers from the An

Re: Monday Night Pint

2002-11-04 Thread Bob Walker
any many other fine beers. > Having done a brief scoutign mission on thursday i can report that the brewery does not currenlty have any stock of thier winter ale. and certainly the pub didnt. along with the cinnamon and apple ale. i can however say that the lemon and ginger ale was most refres

Re: Reuse; was: applying patterns

2002-10-10 Thread Bob Walker
s can be solved by walking near large magnets a lot. -- Bob Walker randomness is my speciality! http://www.randomness.org.uk/ You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles. -Miracle Max