Mason

2012-02-27 Thread Christopher Jones
I'm looking for a decent book to help get me up to speed with Mason but could only find Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason on Amazon - a paper edition from 2002 and a more recent 2010 edition on Kindle only. I'm a bit old fashioned and prefer to have a paper copy that I can scrawl all over

Re: Beware: NET-A-PORTER

2011-12-09 Thread Christopher Jones
On 9 Dec 2011, at 13:10, James Laver wrote: On 9 Dec 2011, at 12:51, Jones, Christopher c.jo...@ucl.ac.uk wrote: And anyway if NAP don't like this being made public, they should get their shit together and call the disgruntled parties to explain themselves. Alternatively, they equally

Re: Buffy tapes

2011-06-22 Thread Christopher Jones
On 22 Jun 2011, at 17:02, Raphael Mankin wrote: I have a collection of about 40 Buffy video tapes to dispose of. If any one would like them please contact me offlist. Collect from NW4 (Hendon). What's a 'video tape'? Chris

Re: Cool/useful short examples of Perl?

2011-05-31 Thread Christopher Jones
On 31 May 2011, at 15:18, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 15:02, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 04:27:30PM +0100, Denny wrote: On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 15:36 +0100, David Precious wrote: if (! Email::Valid-address($email_address) ) { Something

Re: iPhone Barcode Readers

2011-03-01 Thread Christopher Jones
On 1 Mar 2011, at 11:11, David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 11:05:41AM +, Christopher Jones wrote: I'm fascinated to know how you could use an iPhone to scan a barcode - can someone explain? It has a camera. Of course it has Now I feel more dumb than usual.

Re: Server side chart/graph library?

2011-01-06 Thread Christopher Jones
On 6 Jan 2011, at 12:02, Roger Burton West wrote: On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 11:54:39AM +, J??r??me Et??v?? wrote: I've got experience with gd but I remember struggling with unicode and antialiasing and there's been no new version since 2007. I'm wondering if anything more modern is

PerlMagick

2010-10-28 Thread Christopher Jones
I've tried installing PerlMagick on a MacBook (v10.6.4), but the make dies. I've posted a message on the ImageMagick forum, but alas no response. A lot of Googling only turns up the usual problems of not having installed ImageMagick properly in the first place, but that doesn't seem

Re: PerlMagick

2010-10-28 Thread Christopher Jones
On 28 Oct 2010, at 12:54, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: On 28 Oct 2010, at 12:03, Christopher Jones wrote: I've tried installing PerlMagick on a MacBook (v10.6.4), but the make dies. I've posted a message on the ImageMagick forum, but alas no response. A lot of Googling only turns up

Re: PerlMagick

2010-10-28 Thread Christopher Jones
On 28 Oct 2010, at 13:42, David Cantrell wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 01:10:50PM +0100, Andy Armstrong wrote: On 28 Oct 2010, at 12:03, Christopher Jones wrote: Has anyone on London.pm had success installing PerlMagick on a Mac? Yeah - it's painful. I usually resort to installing

Re: PerlMagick

2010-10-28 Thread Christopher Jones
On 28 Oct 2010, at 14:59, Andy Armstrong wrote: On 28 Oct 2010, at 13:42, David Cantrell wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 01:10:50PM +0100, Andy Armstrong wrote: On 28 Oct 2010, at 12:03, Christopher Jones wrote: Has anyone on London.pm had success installing PerlMagick on a Mac? Yeah - it's

Re: PerlMagick

2010-10-28 Thread Christopher Jones
On 28 Oct 2010, at 15:36, Andy Armstrong wrote: On 28 Oct 2010, at 15:23, Christopher Jones wrote: No - installing it from source installs PerlMagick too :) Not on my Mac it didn't. Well - going out on a limb here - perhaps you installed it differently from how I did? :) $ cat

Re: Stand up comedy

2010-06-11 Thread Christopher Jones
On 11 Jun 2010, at 15:25, Nicholas Clark wrote: During the beer track at the German Perl Workshop, I was asked what's a good place to go to in London for an evening of stand up comedy? and I had no clue. I said I hoped that someone on the list would. Will I be disappointed? Jongleurs in

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 12th April 2010

2010-03-27 Thread Christopher Jones
On 27 Mar 2010, at 18:16, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote: On 03/27/2010 09:10 AM, Luis Motta Campos wrote: Dave Cross wrote: On 03/27/2010 08:13 AM, Uri Guttman wrote: and paul and i share the same birthday. not sure what that means. I expect you'll find it's a coincidence :-) As a

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 12th April 2010

2010-03-24 Thread Christopher Jones
On 24 Mar 2010, at 21:36, Damian Conway wrote: In this particular case, because James and Paul asked most politely, and because I certainly don't want James to feel eviserated, and because so many individuals from London.pm have been so very generous in supporting me over so many years,

Re: Nice traffic RSS feed

2010-03-05 Thread Christopher Jones
On 5 Mar 2010, at 10:38, Jason Clifford wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 10:15 +, Michael Lush wrote: I've been writing a little traffic warning script for my nslu2 (nothing special it plays traffic jam noises if there is a problem on the road to work:-) Anyway I started out scraping the

object oriented databases

2009-08-28 Thread Christopher Jones
A while ago someone posted a link about the Objectivity object- oriented database - does whoever sent that (or anyone else) have any experience (good or bad) of Objectivity they could share with me? Chris.

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-26 Thread Christopher Jones
On 26 Aug 2009, at 09:39, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:05:49AM +0100, Andrew Smith wrote: Don't assume that anyone in particular isn't subscribed to this list already. Last I knew there were about 600 subscribers, in zones 1 to Inf. (Although probably no longer anyone

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-30 Thread Christopher Jones
On 30 Jul 2009, at 14:34, Joel Bernstein wrote: On 30 Jul 2009, at 14:23, Peter Corlett wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 01:59:47PM +0100, Denny wrote: [...] Sign: YOU CAN EARN $$$ WITH PERL!! JAPH: *places sticker reading 'WRITE' over 'EARN'* JAPH: *writes underneath* ...and it will compile

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-29 Thread Christopher Jones
On 29 Jul 2009, at 15:32, Ovid wrote: Would anyone be interested in working with me on this project, or perhaps make it a Sponsored by London.pm thing? I already have ideas for small sample scripts for a number of languages (one has a Java programmer in a straight jacket bragging about

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

2009-06-15 Thread Christopher Jones
On 15 Jun 2009, at 12:50, A Smith wrote: For any steam train enthusiasts, the Nene Valley railway is nearby. -- Andrew in Edinburgh Maybe if you live in Edinburgh it might *seem* nearby.. but its actually about 60 miles and 90 minutes from Bletchley. But well worth another Big Geek

Re: Today's MySQL Suckage

2009-01-23 Thread Christopher Jones
On 23 Jan 2009, at 10:04, Leo Lapworth wrote: 2009/1/23 Andy Wardley a...@wardley.org I have a file which defines a MySQL database schema. It looks a bit like this: /* This table defines users of the system who are Buffy fans. */ CREATE TABLE buffy_fans ( ..etc... ); I feed it

Re: DBI, BLOBS, MySQL

2009-01-09 Thread Christopher Jones
On 8 Jan 2009, at 23:20, Paul Makepeace wrote: Below is ad-hoc commentary... I did say the code was something similar to this - the code snippets weren't copied verbatim, since that would have been overkill for the question I was asking. So for instance, there were variables in the

Re: DBI, BLOBS, MySQL

2009-01-09 Thread Christopher Jones
On 8 Jan 2009, at 23:11, Peter Corlett wrote: On 8 Jan 2009, at 23:02, Christopher Jones wrote: I'm having issues inserting files into a BLOB field in MySQL, using something similar to this; [...] The problem is that files bigger than 64K are being truncated on their insert

Re: Introduction to Perl for non-programming Mac folk

2008-12-23 Thread Christopher Jones
On 23 Dec 2008, at 12:25, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 01:32:20PM +, Andy Wardley wrote: [...] * Knowing where to look for documentation and how to read it. Anything I've missed? A big lump of

Re: Introduction to Perl for non-programming Mac folk

2008-12-23 Thread Christopher Jones
On 23 Dec 2008, at 13:36, Ovid wrote: - Original Message Besides, getting the response RTFM! is a total turn-off, even for a seasoned pro. And more to the point, RTFM is just plain rude. As has been pointed out by wiser people than me (that would be most, I expect), all you

Re: London.pm Dim sum Thursday 1pm: HK Diner

2008-12-17 Thread Christopher Jones
On 16 Dec 2008, at 07:59, Léon Brocard wrote: We've been out a bit west recently, so it's time to head back into Chinatown and try a restaurant I've been meaning to visit. Well, it is a special occasion after all Could Dim sum be turned into a 21st Birthday Party? Chris.

Re: London.pm Dim sum Thursday 1pm: HK Diner

2008-12-17 Thread Christopher Jones
On 17 Dec 2008, at 22:31, the hatter wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Christopher Jones wrote: Well, it is a special occasion after all Could Dim sum be turned into a 21st Birthday Party? Depends - are you bringing cake and jelly+ice cream ? Otherwise it's not a real birthday party

Re: testing

2008-11-04 Thread Christopher Jones
On 3 Nov 2008, at 14:31, Andy Armstrong wrote: Your main problem is that the @ISA assignment in my_test_mod isn't executed until after you attempt to instantiate my_test_mod. Thanks for pointing that out! Chris Gynaecological Cancer Research Laboratories, UCL EGA Institute for Women's

testing

2008-11-03 Thread Christopher Jones
Should you be able to create and call methods from a package in a test script? i.e Should something like this work? (i.e.i.e. it doesn't seem to for me right now). #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Test::More tests = 2; BEGIN { use_ok('My::Module');# contains a package called

Re: testing

2008-11-03 Thread Christopher Jones
On 3 Nov 2008, at 13:57, Jonathan Stowe wrote: 2008/11/3 Christopher Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Should you be able to create and call methods from a package in a test script? i.e Should something like this work? (i.e.i.e. it doesn't seem to for me right now). #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict