Photos from London Perl Conference

2014-11-09 Thread Chris Jack
I have uploaded some photos I took at yesterday's London Perl Conference which you can find here: https://plus.google.com/photos/104598318166622233830/albums/6079750947217139 633?authkey=CPfUo7mY4Yz3jgE I understand someone is creating a flickr group to combine the various photographer's shots bu

Re: Dear Dr Who experts...

2014-10-09 Thread Chris Jack
> From: Joel Bernstein wrote: > I think I meant this film: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Who_and_the_Daleks Bernard Cribbins was the heroic lead in the sequel - which, AFAIK, makes him the only major character actor to appear in both the parallel universe of the Cushing movies and the mai

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Workshop

2014-10-07 Thread Chris Jack
Dave Cross wrote > Quoting Mark Keating : > >> London Perl Workshop: Saturday 7th November 09:00-18:30 - University >> of Westminster, Cavendish Campus. > > I suspect that should be Sat 8th November. I would mention in passing that you can subscribe to the official London Perl Mongers calenda

Updating london.pm.org website

2014-07-28 Thread Chris Jack
I'm trying to get the london.pm.org website updated and have hit a problem for which I was hoping someone might like to offer some advice. As I understand it, the html (or equivalent?) repository for the website is stored in github but, because of the age of the website server, releases cannot b

Re: Next Technical Meeting: 24th July @ Conway Hall

2014-06-30 Thread Chris Jack
Tom Hukins wrote > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 02:35:42PM +0100, Chris Jack wrote: >> Is there a website for signing up to this? If I search on google for "London >> Perl Mongers", the likely suspects seem to be things like: >> >> http://london.pm.org &g

RE: Next Technical Meeting: 24th July @ Conway Hall

2014-06-27 Thread Chris Jack
 Sue Spence wrote > London Perl Mongers will hold its next technical meeting in the Brockway > room at Conway Hall on Thursday 24th July, doors opening at 18:30 for a > 19:00 start. > Is there a website for signing up to this? If I search on google for "London Perl Mongers", the likely suspect

Re: Evaluating user-defined conditions

2014-06-11 Thread Chris Jack
Roger Bell_West wrote: >On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:59:57AM +0100, Chris Jack wrote: >>Can I suggest you consider including some rudimentary idea of "cost" >>when you're deciding whether to allow the query to run or not. "Cost" >>could be in t

Re: Evaluating user-defined conditions

2014-06-10 Thread Chris Jack
Can I suggest you consider including some rudimentary idea of "cost" when you're deciding whether to allow the query to run or not. "Cost" could be in terms of anticipated rows returned and/or total anticipated CPU time. This could be a slippery slope as to do it well you'd have to start creating

RE: Dim Sum tomorrow Joy King Lau

2014-05-15 Thread Chris Jack
Sue Spence wrote > It's been a month or so since the last Thursday dim sum, so I would like to > propose meeting up for some dumplings, steamed buns and other tasty treats. > FYI: I'm on the digest form of the list and it turned up in my email at Thursday 12:10pm which is a bit late to decide t

Bouncing accidental sends

2014-03-20 Thread Chris Jack
Jon Antonovics jon.antonov...@gmail.com wrote > Absolutely nothing while quoting a previous digest As someone who has managed to do something similar in the past, I was wondering if it was possible to put a filter into the list software that identified and bounced posts that failed one of the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Damian Conway Speaking at London.pm: Monday, 10th March

2014-03-07 Thread Chris Jack
Damian Conway said: > > Yep. We didn't really have enough lead-time on that one. My fault. I was > only able to commit to it and propose it to FlossUK about a month ago. > That turns out not to be enough time to attract the numbers we needed to > make it viable. I would love to do more perl mong

London Perl Conference 2013 photos

2013-12-02 Thread Chris Jack
If anyone's interested, I have put a few photos up from this year's London Perl Conference. You can find them here: https://plus.google.com/photos/104598318166622233830/albums/5952849024849301 153?authkey=CJDc4M-snaLrIA Email me off list if you appear in a photo and you'd rather it was removed. Yo

Re: Perl publishing and attracting new developers

2013-09-19 Thread Chris Jack
Abigail wrote: > I'd call them niche books. If generic books don't sell, why would niche books? A thought. One way of mitigating the risk of writing a book that might not sell could be to use cloud funding (e.g. kickstarter.com). This would have a number of advantages: - it would make it much c

Re: Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-15 Thread Chris Jack
Joel Bernstein j...@fysh.org wrote > > And if you turned up without your Trema Finance Kit did you have to do it > in your underwear? I wear underwear on all my assignments however... I am cycling off road from London to Paris on behalf of the British Heart Foundation at the end of June. I will

Re: Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-14 Thread Chris Jack
On 14 May 2013 16:20, Ben Vinnerd wrote: > Indeed. My previous contract was 223 miles, each way! (I became Travelodge > guest of the year during that gig!! lol) > I commuted from England to Finland (around 1200 miles each way) on a weekly basis for about a year back in my Trema Finance Kit co

Re: A stranger arrives in town ...

2013-04-10 Thread Chris Jack
On 09/04/2013 09:08, Smylers wrote: > David H. Adler writes: > >> Cellphone Warehouse? > Carphone Warehouse -- they aren't a warehouse, and they don't sell car-phones. Which raised the question in my mind about whether anyone sold carphones at all. And surprisingly (to me at any rate), they stil

Re: More advice about becoming a freelance Perl programer

2013-03-07 Thread Chris Jack
Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk wrote > How long is a piece of string? A piece of string is 3 inches long. Now you might be thinking you've seen a piece of string that was 4 inches long. But that was another piece of string. *Sorry: and it's not even Friday. Chris

RE: Billing a client

2013-02-11 Thread Chris Jack
One other thing. I'm not suggesting lawyering up should necessarily be your first port of call. The longest arrears I have ever had was something like 5 months, but there was a lot of goodwill and trust on my part in that case. I was working for a software house that was running low on cash. Th

Re: Billing a client

2013-02-11 Thread Chris Jack
A few other points on this: you might like to agree some standard for agreeing when a piece of work has actually been done.Without this, it could get messy if the other company decides not to pay. The most common method is probably getting time sheets completed and signed off. Alternatively (a

Re: Updating lots of database fields in a single row

2013-01-23 Thread Chris Jack
> On 3//1//013 0::1,, J?r?me ?t?v? wrote: > > Something critical is missing in your code though: quoting: > > > > Replace $field = '$hash->{$field}' with " $field > > =".$dbh->quote($hash->{$field}) This would assume all fields were strings. To do it properly, you would need to have the metadat

Re: London Perl Conference 2012 photos

2012-11-26 Thread Chris Jack
> From: James Laver james.la...@gmail.com > > https://picasaweb.google.com/104598318166622233830/LondonPerlConference24112012?authuser=0&feat=directlink#5814779230205261074 > > Not entirely flattering. You must have picked a hell of a moment. > From: Pedro Figueiredo m...@pedrofigueiredo.org > >

London Perl Conference 2012 photos

2012-11-25 Thread Chris Jack (MSN)
If anyones's interested, I put a few photos up from the conference at: https://picasaweb.google.com/104598318166622233830/LondonPerlConference24112 012?authuser=0&feat=directlink If anyone wants full size versions, drop me an email, Regards Chris

FLOSS UK & O'Reilly announces - Intermediate & Advanced Perl courses by Dave Cross

2012-11-07 Thread Chris Jack
> From: Ian Norton > > Advanced Perl - 14th & 15th February 2013 > I would be more interested if this were to run at the weekend or, better still, on a series of weekday evenings. Chris

Re: Proprietary Sybase DBI/DBD module

2012-10-31 Thread Chris Jack
From: Joel Bernstein > Chris Jack wrote: > > Sybase will be releasing to CPAN but they're still finishing off > > work/testing etc. > What's the question then? The original question was how to get it into standard distributions. Dave Cross answered this. Wh

Re: Proprietary Sybase DBI/DBD module

2012-10-30 Thread Chris Jack
From: Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk > Well, there's only one standard Perl distribution[1]. And that doesn't > include any DBD modules. It doesn't even include DBI. > > There are a number of distributions that include modules beyond the > standard set. Offhand I can think of ActivePerl[2], Stra

Proprietary Sybase DBI/DBD module

2012-10-29 Thread Chris Jack
I'm just back from speaking at the Las Vegas SAP/Sybase conference (on a somewhat Perl related topic too!). One of the (other) interesting talks was about a new proprietary Sybase ASE DBI/DBD module for Perl (to be called DBD::SybaseASE from memory). They were a little short on specifics, but i

Re: Brainbench perl test

2012-09-05 Thread Chris Jack
One other point I wanted to make on this debate was: No matter how strongly each of us feels about what is or is not a legitimate or worthwhile interview question: part of the benefit of having this discussion is finding out what other people think is important in an interview. Even if we sway

Re: Brainbench perl test?

2012-09-04 Thread Chris Jack
Piers Cawley pdcawley-london.0dd...@bofh.org.uk wrote > On 4 September 2012 14:41, Dominic Humphries wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 14:31 +0100, Matt Freake wrote: > >> For that reason, I would have thought there were other, better, recursion > >> problems out there I could use. > > > > Tower

RE: CRUDdy DBIC question

2012-01-23 Thread Chris Jack
Bob MacCallum uncool...@gmail.com wrote: > Sorry about the Perl question. > > We have a database model where the master copy of the data is file based. > > Is there some DBIx::Class magic which does some kind of nested > update_or_create_or_delete? For example, an object might initially be > wri

Perl xls to xlsx converter

2011-12-09 Thread Chris Jack
Apologies in advance for asking a perl question. Laziness/Impatience: Does anyone have a perl Excel converter they would be prepared to send me? I would like to convert Excel 2002/2003 .xls files to Excel 2007/2010 .xlsx files maintaining all formatting. I know there are non-perl free produc

Re: Should I get my mum a Kindle?

2011-09-21 Thread Chris Jack
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 09:04:29AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > > > Yeah. Especially radio programmes that you missed, so (a) you weren't > > there to hear them live and (b) you didn't think to program your > > stereo deck to record the show to cassette in advance. (Are there > > stereos these

RE: Getting cpan's Oracle DBD to work properly on i386 is proving

2011-08-23 Thread Chris Jack
Paul Branon paulbra...@googlemail.com wrote: > Does anyone know where I can get help getting oracle DBD to work? I'm on > Intel Solaris 10 > and Oracle comes with an AMD64 binary. It runs fine on my system. I can > connect to oracle > with no problems at all. Then I install oracle DBD which insta

Re: LPW 2011 carpooling

2011-08-19 Thread Chris Jack
James Laver london...@jameslaver.com wrote: > For those not actually familiar with the airport situation in London, > Southend and Oxford have prepended 'London' to their names but they're bloody > ages away. And yes, he probably can actually get to Birmingham faster than > anything except city

Re: IMPORTANT(ish): Re: website maintenance gig available

2011-08-04 Thread Chris Jack
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 18:33, Andrew Beattie wrote: > Ok. Who stole all my whitespace? I use hotmail and spend my life changing to Plain text (and back to html when I've finished) to avoid this problem (there was a discussion many moons ago on this list). Basically the html to text converter

Re: Where do we go to get good Perl/Catalyst/DBIC/Moose people in India?

2011-07-15 Thread Chris Jack
Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk wrote > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:55:11AM +, ian.doche...@nomura.com wrote: > [...] > > We don't expect people to have all these skills, but mostly what we have > > seen are people with some of, basic Perl OO, CGI or DBI at best. > > I suspect this is very mu

Re: Slightly offtopic - coordinate conversions

2011-07-13 Thread Chris Jack
Michael Lush mjl...@ebi.ac.uk wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Peter Sergeant wrote: > > I've been playing around with Google Maps recently, and noticed that > > they've started using hashes of some coordinates: > > > > latlng: 52.54296 -0.308166 > > hnear : 0x4877f21032e242f5:0x805cb103d71d5051 > >

Re: Cool/useful short examples of Perl?

2011-06-09 Thread Chris Jack
Christopher Jones c.jo...@ucl.ac.uk wrote > Clearly you weren't brought up in the Midlands.. Or did you mean "use > them knowingly"? You're saying you weren't not brought in the Midlands then?

RE: Cool/useful short examples of Perl?

2011-06-08 Thread Chris Jack
Apologies for including the top half of the digest. Chris

Re: Cool/useful short examples of Perl?

2011-06-08 Thread Chris Jack
> From: london.pm-requ...@london.pm.org > Subject: london.pm Digest, Vol 68, Issue 13 > To: london.pm@london.pm.org > Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 14:00:37 +0100 > > Send london.pm mailing list submissions to > london.pm@london.pm.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > h

Re: Speed v Version

2011-06-01 Thread Chris Jack
On 1 Jun 2011, at 09:46, Dirk Koopman wrote: > I contemplating providing "encouragement" to a customer to upgrade from 5.8.7 > to something more modern. One of the overriding issues is "speed". The > customer is fixated with "speed". > Unfortunately one of the major things the customer's clien

Re: Junior-mid level Perl (Victoria Conlan)

2011-04-27 Thread Chris Jack
On 27 April 2011 11:15, Victoria Conlan wrote: > I still favour getting the hell out of IT and setting up a tea shop, though. > (tea and cakes at my place when I do so!) Victoria(n) sponge cakes?

RE: Christmas quiz 2010

2010-12-21 Thread Chris Jack
Well the quiz obviously went down as well as the proverbial lead balloon, but I thought I should publish some answers anyway. Apologies for the loss of formatting in the perl code - it's formatted when I sent it. Oh and merry xmas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QGCrIY1HME questions based on

Christmas quiz 2010

2010-12-15 Thread Chris Jack
Questions based in part on http://www.onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/modern_perl_a4.pdf 1) What does "Tim Toady" refer to? 2) What does this output? for (qw( Huex Dewex Louid )) { $_++; print; } 3) What year was Perl first released in? 4) If the following was a complete perl program, woul

Spam filters

2010-11-25 Thread Chris Jack
"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 spam filter: why it didn't pick this up. Chris

RE: wireless routers

2010-11-09 Thread Chris Jack
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Dirk Koopman wrote: > My netgear WPN802 seems to have died. Any recommendations for a non-ADSL > wireless router that is reliable and might last a bit longer? Don't need > anything fancy, but I would like something that I don't have to reboot > regularly. I've

Re: XS Constants peculiarity

2010-10-28 Thread Chris Jack
Dirk Koopman d...@tobit.co.uk wrote: > This is not my stuff, this is generated from the original header file(s). > > Prototypes? Functions?? What kind of a solution are you looking for here and what is your real problem? Have you tried the suggestion about surrounding your constants in round b

Re: XS Constants peculiarity

2010-10-28 Thread Chris Jack
Dirk Koopman wrote: > Why would RK + LOCK give a different result to RK | LOCK? Don't know. I don't have your module but if I create FF.pm as: use constant LOCK => 0x10; use constant RK => 0x4; 1; perl -e 'use FF; printf "0x%x\n", $_ for (LOCK, RK, RK | LOCK, RK + LOCK)' And use perl 5.8.

Re: overlapping find and replace

2010-10-19 Thread Chris Jack
On 18 Oct 2010, at 16:11, Michael Lush wrote: > I have a string ABCDEFGH and want to highlight two overlapping hits > BCDE and DEFG in HTML to make ABCDEFGH > > The obvious $string =~ s{(BCDE|DEFG)}{$1}g; does not work as the > modified string doesn't match the second query and I don't get diffe

RE: london.pm Digest, Vol 57, Issue 4

2010-07-09 Thread Chris Jack
Dan Rowles daniel.row...@wcn.co.uk wrote: > A quick google for "one time credit card number" seems to suggest that > PayPal offer one-use-only credit card numbers. No idea if that's > actually true, but might be worth a look Here's a link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/cps/

RE: YAPC Pisa

2010-07-08 Thread Chris Jack
Gordon Banner t...@gordonbanner.me.uk wrote > On the subject of YAPC, has anyone else tried to book at the conference > hotel and been worried at being asked to send credit card details by email? It's a long time since I sent credit card details by email and whilst I think it is obviously

Re: Damian Conway: Understanding Regular Expressions

2010-06-25 Thread Chris Jack
Can I put a quick plug in for the joys of running evening courses. As I contract, every time I consider taking a course, I think of the lost earnings (usually more than the cost of the course). If you have booked a venue during the day, why not book it for the evening as well and attract a w

Re: Stand up comedy

2010-06-11 Thread Chris Jack (MSN)
> 10 downing street Personally I felt Gordon Brown's timing could have been improved.

Solid state drives

2010-04-19 Thread Chris Jack
Because it's been discussed previously on this list, I thought I might draw your attention to the newish generation of SSDs: http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/mainstream/index.htm You can probably find the performance data you want quite easily, but the key reliability data I was inter

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Reminder: London Perl Mongers social on Thursday 1st

2010-03-31 Thread Chris Jack
Kieren Diment dim...@gmail.com said: > On 31/03/2010, at 1:27 PM, Paul Makepeace wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 19:15, Kieren Diment wrote: >>> >>> On 31/03/2010, at 1:02 PM, David Cantrell wrote: >>> > And bowels? There will be almost as many bowels as people. >>> >>> If

Geek gang signs

2010-02-27 Thread Chris Jack
Oh no: http://www.joeydevilla.com/2008/05/29/geek-gang-signs/ Chris _ Got a cool Hotmail story? Tell us now http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/

MIME::Lite

2010-02-01 Thread Chris Jack
A perl question! This is really just out of curiousity as I know the solution. We have a section of code that has been working fine using MIME::Lite that reads as follows: $msg = MIME::Lite->new( From=>SMTP_FROM_ADDRESS, To =>$emai

Re: No more IP for you

2010-01-20 Thread Chris Jack
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:26:32 +0100, Abigail wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 01:54:32PM +, Mike Woods wrote: >> Richard Foley wrote: >>> That's 2012, right? >> >> Well that's the olympics fecked then :p > > > Roll over won't occur before December 2012 (before Christmas). > The London O

Re: Pig and pub! (Emergency social called for)

2010-01-19 Thread Chris Jack
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:17:30 +, LesleyB wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 01:33:50PM +0100, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 05:48:22PM +, Edmund von der Burg wrote: >>> >>> PS - note that there are four heads going. If you ever wanted to do a >>> very British var

RE: london.pm Digest, Vol 51, Issue 14

2010-01-13 Thread Chris Jack
> James Laver wrote: > On topic: Buffy eating a dim sum pie and washing it down with beer. You left out ponies. "A pie eating pony was washing Buffy down with some beer." _ Tell us your gre

RE: Brazilian PM looking for a job in London area

2010-01-11 Thread Chris Jack
I thought it was explicit in Solli's post that he was looking to improve his English and he seems to have taken my reply in that spirit. I don't believe it is either patronising or rude to give correction when it has been asked for but I apologise if anyone has taken offence. Chris

RE: Brazilian PM looking for a job in London area

2010-01-11 Thread Chris Jack
Solli wrote: > My name is Solli (a Brazilian Perl Monger) that is going to London to get my My name is Solli and I'm a Brazilian Perl Monger. I am coming to London to > English improved. As a part of tactics to get fluent English, and has a improve my English. My plan is to become fluent in E

Re: Perl Christmas Quiz 2009 Answers

2009-12-10 Thread Chris Jack
Leon wrote: > Amelia points out that you got her name wrong. She was named by Larry Don't think this gets you off the 1.5 pints you owe me. Chris _ View your other email accounts from your Hotma

Perl Christmas Quiz 2009 Answers

2009-12-09 Thread Chris Jack
I thought I should (again) post some sample answers. The challenge of writing a Xmas quiz is always coming up with short, interesting questions that touch on interesting and potentially controversial answers. I spent the better part of a year coming up with the questions I did, and, to be hones

Re: Perl Christmas Quiz 2009

2009-11-30 Thread Chris Jack
Abigail abig...@abigail.be wrote > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 06:24:12PM +, Chris Jack wrote: > > 7) Write a one line program that takes a non-negative integer as an argument > > and prints the square root when the answer's an integer. > > > > Rest

Perl Christmas Quiz 2009

2009-11-30 Thread Chris Jack
Seeing as last year's quiz was mildly popular, I thought I'd do another one. I've changed the mix of questions based on what people submitted answers to last year - it also arguably a little more educational this time around. Any feedback about the quiz, either private or public is welcome. Apo

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-19 Thread Chris Jack
> From: Gianni Ceccarelli dak...@thenautilus.net wrote: > Also, my "30 minutes" commute seems a bit optimistic: I'll probably > have to raise my expected commute time? When you're doing your maths on all this: remember to factor in the price of the train fare (plus how much you value your time/

RE: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-19 Thread Chris Jack
Gianni Ceccarelli dak...@thenautilus.net wrote: > - can anyone recommend some agencies (or other methods) to search for > the apartment? > - which areas should I be looking around, for a largish (60m?) > apartment for under ?800/month, within a half-hour commute (by > train?) to the centre? Th

Re: Live Rabid!

2009-11-18 Thread Chris Jack
> On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 10:46 +, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > > On Thursday 19th November I will be playing (as Rabid Gravy) the usual > > noise with beats in it at: ... Didn't realise we could post gig info here. I'm performing Beethoven's Pathetique Piano Sonata on Dec 3 at 7pm near monumen

RE: Production databases on SSDs?

2009-11-10 Thread Chris Jack
Ovid publiustemp-londo...@yahoo.com wrote: > > Does anyone here have any experience putting a production database on a > solid-state drive? Our database is heavily used and it sounds to me like we > could get a massive performance boost for minimal cost and no architectural > changes. Are ther

Re: Books to get rid of

2009-11-10 Thread Chris Jack
Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote: > Don't worry, I have enough books and CDs to keep charity shops in > business for years! Perl Cookbook Version 1. I can almost hear the russle of large notes ;-) Chris

Re: Anyone know of a ...

2009-10-23 Thread Chris Jack
Don't take this as legal advise, so without prejudice, and all that... The one time I have had to sue someone for non-payment, what I recall happening is: 1) I sent the person a few letters/invoices requesting payment, getting no response. 2) I got a solicitor to send a letter requesting paym

Re: keyboards/RSI/switching costs

2009-10-21 Thread Chris Jack
James Laver wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Chris Jack wrote: > >It also has the advantage of no numeric keypad - so there's significantly > >less travel between keyboard and mouse. > > That's distinctly not an advantage for those of us who type num

Re: keyboards/RSI/switching costs (was Looking for a secondhand Datahand Pro II)

2009-10-21 Thread Chris Jack
Jacqui wrote: > James Laver wrote: > > On 21 Oct 2009, at 01:24, Paul Makepeace wrote: > >> PS for the real layout nerds, http://colemak.com/ is a better choice > >> than Dvorak if you're going to start from scratch > > http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/ is worth a mention too. I got > > myse

Re: Looking for a secondhand Datahand Pro II

2009-10-20 Thread Chris Jack
David Dorward ...and then we shall tell Buffy and Willow that they are forbidden from > taking their > ponies to deliver beer ... I don't remember seeing an email about this. Can I please get myself added to the distribution list. Thanks Chris

Re: Bubble sort dance

2009-09-19 Thread Chris Jack
Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > So there will be a re-enactment? With costumes? And bubbles? Chris _ Access your other email accounts and manage all your email from one place. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/167688463/direct/01/

Re: More camels

2009-08-19 Thread Chris Jack
> James Laver wrote: > What about making camel pies? I've eaten camel in Holland. It was quite leathery. I wouldn't recommend it. Chris _ Celebrate a decade of Messenger with free winks, emoticons, display pics, and more. ht

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-29 Thread Chris Jack
> Ovid publiustemp-londo...@yahoo.com wrote: > On the off chance that anyone here is interested, I thought it would be fun > to produce a small parody of the "I'm a PC/I'm a Mac" ads. Basically, it > would be a series of video shorts along the lines of "I'm Java/I'm Perl", > "I'm Ruby/I'm Pe

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

2009-07-17 Thread Chris Jack
Just so you know: I just got 4 emails about this (the earliest dated Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:07:38 +0100) in a London PM digest. Obviously not much use as it's now Friday - not that I was going to go anyway. And, yes, I know I could switch to receiving non-digested London PM postings. Just w

Re: Techmeet slides - legacy slides/Ivor Williams

2009-04-23 Thread Chris Jack
> James Laver james.la...@gmail.com wrote: > > On 22 Apr 2009, at 15:04, Chris Jack wrote: > > > > I too noticed some of the links were broken to London Perl Monger > > talks - in particular some of the talks Ivor Williams gave. Some of > >

RE: Techmeet slides - legacy slides/Ivor Williams

2009-04-22 Thread Chris Jack
> James Laver james.la...@gmail.com wrote: > As L?on has just posted to the list, slides from the last techmeet are > now available in PDF format from the london.pm website. > It would be really nice if we could dig up as many past slides as > possible and host them on london.pm.or

Re: Sad News

2009-03-20 Thread Chris Jack
Ian maybedin...@gmail.com wrote: > I am sorry to inform you that Ivor Williams passed away last weekend. > His brother, Richard, has indicated his funeral will be in Manchester, where > his mother lives. Richard is planning to organise a celebration of Ivor's > life, and is open to suggestions

Re: Recession rates

2009-03-10 Thread Chris Jack
On 10/3/09 17:07, Dirk Koopman wrote: > ?300? Don't be daft. A lot of recruiters wouldn't get out of bed for > ~25%, they will be looking for at least %50 (and in the bad old days > 100%). I would not be surprised if the saps are being offered ?200 "in > these difficult times" This

Re: Optimisation

2009-03-03 Thread Chris Jack
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Nigel Peck > wrote: > > > > When the list could be empty, which is faster? > > > > if ( @list ) { foreach ( @list ) { } } > > > > - or just - > > > > foreach ( @list ) { } > > > > Or is it a pointless question? The chances that the formatting up in the fo

RE: [OT] Perl woes

2009-01-28 Thread Chris Jack
>> wrote:>> $ perl -le 'print "yes" if "a" == >> "2"'>> $ perl -le 'print "yes" if "a" == "a"'>> yes>> $ perl -le 'print >> "yes" if "1" == "1"'>> yes>> $ perl -le 'print "yes" if "1" == "0"'>> $ perl >> -le 'print "yes" if "1" == 1'>> yes>> $ Can you give an example where >> perl is doin

Re: My New Job (Was: Social Thurs 8 Jan 2009)

2009-01-05 Thread Chris Jack
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:30 AM, David Dorward wrote: > No, its a, um, er, Django shop. You wouldn't be a coffin-dragging gunslinger by any chance? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060315/ _ Are you a PC?  Upload your PC story an

Sample answers to Christmas Quiz

2008-12-18 Thread Chris Jack
Having written the quiz, and as actual answers seem to have faded to a trickle, I thought I ought to offer some sample answers of my own. Apologies ahead of time for any line break issues - but I have tried my hardest to avoid them! 1) Name as many different reasons Larry Wall has given for ho

Perl Christmas Quiz

2008-12-12 Thread Chris Jack
I was feeling bored so decided to write a Perl Christmas quiz. 1) Name as many different reasons as you can that Larry Wall has given for how Perl came to be named (including where he has given them). Make up a brand new reason of your own. 2) Name all the built in file handles in Perl. 3)

Re: Perl is dead

2008-12-04 Thread Chris Jack
> On 2008-12-03 20:10, "Avleen Vig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think that any harm is done in this particular case (enforcing style). > Does it breed lazy programmers? I don't think so.This is an interesting > question. When I started programming - I used Applesoft Basic on the Apple

Thanks for sponsoring me!

2008-11-19 Thread Chris Jack
Thanks to everyone on this list who supported me on my trek through the Sahara on behalf of mental health charity Sane: and it's still not too late if you were just waiting for proof that I'd actually do it. Just click on: http://www.justgiving.com/chrisjack and follow the instructions...

RE: Learning Regression Function / Neural Networks

2008-10-21 Thread Chris Jack
Alistair MacLeod wrote: > 1. Is a perceptron the best approach? Is your data linearly separable? If not, the algorithm is not guaranteed to converge. _ Catch up on all the latest celebrity gossip http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/1154

Re: Perl's lack of 'in' keyword

2008-10-07 Thread Chris Jack
Mark Blackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrOte > List::Util::first > or > List::MoreUtils::any > for older perls, perhaps. or even grep(/^$job$/, @list) _ Discover Bird's Eye View now with Multimap from Live Search http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/

Re: Pie

2008-09-21 Thread Chris Jack (msn)
Dirk Koopman wrote: > Chris Jack wrote: >> Jacqui Caren wrote: >> >>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/7622561.stm >> >> A nice thought - and a mere 223 miles from EC1 >> >> Chris >> >> I am doing a 9 day trek t

RE: Pie (Jacqui Caren)

2008-09-19 Thread Chris Jack
Jacqui Caren wrote: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/7622561.stm A nice thought - and a mere 223 miles from EC1 Chris I am doing a 9 day trek through the Sahara on behalf of the mental health charity Sane.For more details and to support me, go to: www.justgiving.com/chris

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

2008-09-01 Thread Chris Jack
Greg McCarroll wrote: > I personally reckon he'll get a taker, and I'm not sure either of them > will be fully satisfied, but thats ok. And of course you can always > suggest to Martin you'll do it for more as a counter offer. > What's maybe more interesting is the value/cost people put on fixed