Re: Preannouncement: Upcoming Perl Hackday

2014-07-11 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Sue Spence wrote: > > Date: 20 September 2014 > A Saturday if that wasn't obvious.

Re: YAPC::NA 2014 talk streams

2014-06-24 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Which talks in particular? On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Sue Spence wrote: > For those who might not know, YAPC::NA 2014 in Orlando had its first day > yesterday, and they are live streaming all of the talks via YouTube. All of > the talks are here: > > https://www.youtube.com/user/yapcna >

Fuller list

2014-05-24 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Cooking and politics/psych too: http://www.davehodgkinson.com/deliciouslibrary/index.html

Books

2014-05-24 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
I have the following to get rid of: O'Reilly Perl testing Conway OO Perl Practical Mod Perl Beck XP explained Beck Planning XP A signed Melissa Cole "Let me tell you about beer". Collect from Camden or I might be able to drop somewhere central.

CL is in town!

2014-05-14 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
This calls for an emergency. I propose the Crown and Anchor on Drummond street, 1800 onwards on Friday 16th May. They do decent beer, food and nibbles as well as Drummond Street being an excellent venue for assorted not-the-usual Indian foods. Sad I can't be there.

Re: XP-Replacement for Parents

2014-03-27 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Bite the bullet and get a Mac. On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:37 PM, James Laver wrote: > On 27 Mar 2014, at 12:07, Alex Balhatchet wrote: > > > On another topic if you want something that looks like Windows XP but > > acts like Ubuntu I've read good things about Lubuntu[2]. > > In this vein, man

Pre-Damian?

2014-03-10 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Anyone up for a quick warmup tincture in a while? --- nomr.co.uk - food for food lovers Sent from my iPhone

Re: Web scraping frameworks?

2014-03-07 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
HTTP::Async dropped in nicely. Remote end appears to be throttling somehow, but I doubt most will. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > I'll give a talk! > > Apropos previous discussions, I'll also try HTTP::Async instead of my > usual route 1. I thi

Re: Web scraping frameworks?

2014-03-07 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
please could you write a blog post? > > It would be a better way of sharing what you are doing (and you'd share > with more people), then we'd also get a summary rather than blow by blow > updates. > > Thanks > > Leo > > > > On 7 March 2014 12:58, Dave H

Re: Web scraping frameworks?

2014-03-07 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Web::Scraper::LibXML is about 5x faster. I'll take that. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > 85% of the time is in XML::XPathEngine > > > On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > >> He's not touched the repo for a couple

Re: Web scraping frameworks?

2014-03-07 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
85% of the time is in XML::XPathEngine On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > He's not touched the repo for a couple of years and even then just for > cosmetic things. I don't hold out much hope there. > > I get the feeling I'm missing an XS som

Re: Web scraping frameworks?

2014-03-07 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
wa =) > > > On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Dave Hodgkinson > wrote: > > > OK, so I've worked out the DSL and am successfully scraping a page. > > > > It's taking a second to parse each page. Seems a bit much. > > > > Installing HTML::TreeB

Re: Web scraping frameworks?

2014-03-07 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
OK, so I've worked out the DSL and am successfully scraping a page. It's taking a second to parse each page. Seems a bit much. Installing HTML::TreeBuilder::LibXML seemed like a good idea but didn't make any difference. Any ideas on switches I can flip to make things faster? On Tue, Mar 4, 201

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London.pm Dim Sum, Wednesday 3rd March, Docklands

2014-03-06 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Next week then! I'll do Pho today. --- nomr.co.uk - food for food lovers Sent from my iPhone > On 5 Mar 2014, at 18:07, Peter Corlett wrote: > >> On 4 Mar 2014, at 21:48, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: >> [...] >> Anyone want to do the West End on Thursday? My current

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London.pm Dim Sum, Wednesday 3rd March, Docklands

2014-03-05 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Ah, I'd booked lunch with a JavaScript guy. Could drag him along. Like I say, Joy King Lau. On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Peter Corlett wrote: > On 4 Mar 2014, at 21:48, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > [...] > > Anyone want to do the West End on Thursday? My current fave > >

Re: Web scraping frameworks?

2014-03-05 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
ach worker defeats the speed gain of parallelism in first > place. > > > On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Dave Hodgkinson > wrote: > > > I've tended to use Parallel::Process where remote sites have been able to > > keep up and haven't been throttled, otherwise just l

Re: Web scraping frameworks?

2014-03-05 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
I've tended to use Parallel::Process where remote sites have been able to keep up and haven't been throttled, otherwise just let it run. On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 11:49 PM, Kieren Diment wrote: > Gearman's fine until you need a reliable queue. It's certainly less of a > pain to set up than rabbit

Re: Web scraping frameworks?

2014-03-04 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
I don't like the "feel" of sri's stuff. And the Mojo ecosystem is alien to me. More comfortable with the Asians. I'll play tomorrow. --- nomr.co.uk - food for food lovers Sent from my iPhone > On 4 Mar 2014, at 22:55, Pierre M wrote: > > I love using > Web::Scraper > It's so simple and

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London.pm Dim Sum, Wednesday 3rd March, Docklands

2014-03-04 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 3 Mar 2014, at 21:45, Tom Hukins wrote: > Hi all, > > London Perl Mongers will meet for lunchtime Dim Sum this Wednesday at > the Lotus Floating Chinese Restaurant: > http://www.lotusfloating.co.uk/ I was wandering along Shaftesbury avenue a couple of days ago and had a yearning. Anyone wa

Re: tablets for parents

2014-03-02 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
I've skyped up a mountain in Taiwan but there may have been wifi, knowing them... --- nomr.co.uk - food for food lovers Sent from my iPhone > On 2 Mar 2014, at 22:07, Jesse Vincent wrote: > > > > >> On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 09:37:01PM +, Martin A. Brooks wrote: >> Hi >> >>> From: "Nicho

Re: Main general Perl mailing list

2014-02-12 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
...or the IRC channels for the thing you're having problems with. On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > Mailing lists kind of suck for most question/answer sequences; what > they are good at is discussion (witness this thread). > > For general perl questions, > http:

Re: PDF to CSV?

2013-12-12 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
https://www.pdftoexcel.org/ seems to have done a halfway passable job. On 12 Dec 2013, at 10:47, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > I'm about to hit CPAN, but any wisdom from you lovely people > would be nice! > > I've got bank statements in PDF from Barclays. Would it be e

PDF to CSV?

2013-12-12 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
I'm about to hit CPAN, but any wisdom from you lovely people would be nice! I've got bank statements in PDF from Barclays. Would it be easy to produce a CSV of the statement parts from them? What's the go-to PDF module?

Re: One More (Possibly Unusual) Info Request

2013-11-06 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Russian tea rooms in Primrose Hill is closed, sadly. Sent from my iPhone > On 6 Nov 2013, at 08:47, "Randy J. Ray" wrote: > > First off, thanks to everyone who helped out with sight-seeing suggestions. > This visit to London has been much more enlightening (and exhausting) than my > previous

Re: Tourist-y suggestions?

2013-11-01 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
This needs an update and I now disagree with some of the comments and there are three great musems to be added: http://www.davehodgkinson.com/blog/2009/08/emergency-london-tourist-stuff-updated/ I wrote it on the tube on the way to pick up my soon-to-be wife :) The extra museums are the Geffrye

Re: ORMs du jour?

2013-10-21 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Does SQL::Abstract get you halfway? Avoid Tangram. On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Dirk Koopman wrote: > On 21/10/13 15:33, Abigail wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 02:37:52PM +0100, Dirk Koopman wrote: >> >>> Any recommendations for an ORM? I am looking for something simple rather >>> tha

Re: Multi argument open and STDERR

2013-10-03 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Capture::Tiny just did the job for me today. Screw line noise. Sent from my iPhone > On 3 Oct 2013, at 21:26, Paul Weaver wrote: > > I have a program that needs to run an external program (ffmpeg) > > I do this by running > > my $cmd = "$FFMPEG -i '$file' 2>&1|" > open(CMD, $cmd); while () {

Re: Could use some hotel/travel help

2013-09-26 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Given that you're only going to/from the station a couple of times, I wouldn't worry about it. Euston is well connected and there's always magic black chariots. Pick where you want to stay and enjoy that. Also, Camden is a great place but is a bit short of hotels, except the Holiday Inn. Go centra

Re: Assigning Classes

2013-09-10 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Are there classes that are "close" to each other in a content sense that would make a good fallback? On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Dave Cross wrote: > Quoting Pierre M : > > Arg, too late. >> >> Each student goes to 2 classes then? That would mean that you can assign >> to >> "infinite size

Re: Assigning Classes

2013-09-09 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Prolog. Facts and rules then go solve. On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Dave Cross wrote: > > I have offered to help a friend[1] solve what sounds like an interesting > problem. > > She has a list of courses that are offered. Some of these courses have a > maximum class size and others are eff

Re: Theory In Town

2013-08-05 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
If you have all day, the museums in Kensington are good and free and have paid engaging cinema. Attenborough penguins in the natural history soon I believe... Sent from my iPhone On 5 Aug 2013, at 18:08, "David E. Wheeler" wrote: > On Aug 5, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Piers Cawley wrote: > >> I shall

Re: isolating thread-unsafe modules

2013-07-28 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Threads? Now you have two problems. Why not processes? Sent from my iPhone On 28 Jul 2013, at 20:07, Bob MacCallum wrote: > Sorry for the Perl question, but I'm a bit out of my depth... > > I have a Dancer app providing a web service, and I have another script > using the same Dancer config fi

Re: Which modules do you "allow" yourself to use for production?

2013-07-22 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Don't use system Perl. Brew your own and make it part of the app. Sent from my iPhone On 22 Jul 2013, at 23:04, Pierre M wrote: > Thank you, all. That's very good advice. > > Yup, the main thing is to make money before it runs out. Abigail, your > comments to Ovid's blog post (about testing) w

Re: new Perl project / startup - Need advice

2013-07-22 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
More than happy to talk IRL. I'm in Hoxditch or Camden. On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Dinis Rebolo wrote: > Hi Peirre, have you read the blogs Ovid has about startups? > > http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/07/perl-startups-lacuna-expanse.html > http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/07/pe

Re: new Perl project / startup - Need advice

2013-07-22 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Or at the tech meet :) On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > More than happy to talk IRL. I'm in Hoxditch or Camden. > > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Dinis Rebolo wrote: > >> Hi Peirre, have you read the blogs Ovid has about startups? >>

Re: Tangram?

2013-07-16 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 15 Jul 2013, at 17:06, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > Is anyone still using this? Seems the last "unauthorised" release > was 2007 and CPAN testers is not looking good. > > Which leads on to the next question - has anyone migrated a Tangram schema to one that would mak

Tangram?

2013-07-15 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Is anyone still using this? Seems the last "unauthorised" release was 2007 and CPAN testers is not looking good.

Re: OT: Cheapo vps hosting

2013-06-21 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
I have an entry level web fusion one. It's decent considering. Sent from my iPhone On 21 Jun 2013, at 13:54, Ben Tisdall wrote: > I'm moving to Germany and would like to maintain a UK IP address while > there, primarily to run a web proxy. I'd like to spend no more than 10 > GBP/mo; I don't car

Re: Living with smart match breakage

2013-06-14 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
A lot of? Are people really using this in production code now? Sent from my iPhone On 14 Jun 2013, at 09:32, jason wrote: > On 2013-06-14 09:11, Smylers wrote: >> There isn't such a list -- its "experimental" nature means anything >> might change. P5P doesn't have consensus, and no decision has

Quarantining crap HTML?

2013-05-21 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
In keeping with the spirit of the list, this isn't directly a perl question but it might be part of the solution. I'm picking up HTML from another site, and that HTML is pretty crappy. Is there any way of quarantining it so it doesn't bugger up the rest of the page?

Re: Random Perl Content

2013-05-18 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Individual random number daemons? Sent from my iPhone On 18 May 2013, at 21:53, "Randy J. Ray" wrote: > (It's a pun, see, because I'm going to be asking about random number > generators... get it? Get it...?) > > (Short, TL;DR summary: I'm looking for a pRNG that can have multiple > instance

Re: Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-13 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
1. Who are "you"? 2. Agents. There's your first problem. 3. Are you doing anything interesting? 4. Your CTO Perl is only a programming language. There's ruby, python and *spit* PHP. People learn them too. One of the companies around here doing very cool things hire programmers and then pervert

Re: Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-13 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Talk to Barbie :) Sent from my iPhone On 13 May 2013, at 23:27, Kieren Diment wrote: > The management challenges for telecommute jobs are different to those for on > site. But it does increase the pool of potential candidates a lot. Does > anyone have any useful experience about managing m

WWW::Lovefilm::API?

2013-05-08 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Anyone still using this? Assuming you have credentials from before they shut it off.

Re: Best Practices for passing option hashes into XS

2013-04-28 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Look at anything by Zefram... Sent from my iPhone On 28 Apr 2013, at 01:55, Simon Wistow wrote: > I have a method > >sub foo { >my ($arg1, %opts) = @_; > >} > > which I want to translate to XS - what's the best practices for this? > Both my C and my XS are incredibly rusty.

Handling an API with a throttle?

2013-04-13 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Any nice tricks for this? Calling this from a web app, although I don't have to. I'm assuming the "right" answer is some form queue with a daemon plucking requests off. Any other useful suggestions?

Re: A stranger arrives in town ...

2013-04-08 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Sent from my iPhone On 8 Apr 2013, at 22:37, "David H. Adler" wrote: > On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 09:12:58PM +0100, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote: >> >> On 5 Apr 2013, at 19:01, James E Keenan wrote: >>> >>> I just want to confirm that I'll be arriving in London tomorrow (Sat Apr 6) >>> and be looki

Angelhack?

2013-04-04 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Anyone from here going to spend a weekend putting together a demo? http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5772336213/

API wrapper best practices?

2013-03-23 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
So I'm writing an interface to an API. It's a simple info request one. What top tips do we have for writing one that doesn't suck? I'd just go for a new that takes the auth info, methods to go fetch the information and being lazy, just let the data be accessible through the selfish hash. I'm not

perlcritic and Moose/Catalyst

2013-03-05 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
So Denny and I are sat here attempting to haul a large codebase in to a recent decade. We've started to pay attention to bits of perlcritic which has been helpful in highlighting regions of obfuscated or just plain bad code. BUT! It appears to get really confused by Catalyst and Moose syntactica

Re: Dim sum TODAY 12:30 at Pearl Liang

2013-01-28 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Anyone else marooned in Stockley Park? On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Leon Brocard wrote: > Yet again it's time for dim sum! This time Simon Wistow, our long-lost > ex-leader who is on this side of the pond for a change, wants dim sum so > we shall oblige. Come join us! > > Pearl Liang > 8 She

Offtopic(ish) ops question

2013-01-19 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
New VM, installing CPAN deps (cpanm obvs). I know all the apps are going to be the same level of stuff as they'll all be latest Cat/DBIC and so on, and for laziness reasons, that's how it is on my dev VM. It's perl 5.10.1 and I don't knowingly do anything post BBC 5.8.8. Just install CPANM modu

Re: [ANNOUNCE] REMINDER: London Perl M[ou]ngers December Social - 2012-12-06 - The Sutton Arms, Barbican, EC1M 6EB

2012-12-06 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Also, nice pub. Sent from my iPhone On 6 Dec 2012, at 14:50, ilm...@ilmari.org (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker) wrote: > This is tonight! See you there! > > ilm...@ilmari.org (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker) writes: > >> Hi all, >> >> The December London.pm Social will be next Thursday, December 6th, at

Agents part CCXXXIV

2012-12-02 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
If an agent sends your resume somewhere without telling you, is there any kind of redress?

Re: Outreach II

2012-11-29 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Not been on my radar. I attended Angelhack recently which was good. Very front-endy and sleep-deprived. Sent from my iPhone On 30 Nov 2012, at 00:13, pierre masci wrote: > Code Dojo Meetups? > > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:12 PM, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote: > >> >> OK, so great bikeshedding t

Perl outreach

2012-11-26 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
What with having Copious Free Time recently, I've been attending a fair few start-up and online tech meetups. They all have one thing in common: people turn their noses up at perl. Last week at Hacker News Network, among a turnout of 500 people, I saw one other known perlmonger. At AngelHack a fe

Thoughts on Angelhack this weekend

2012-11-11 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
With a tangential reference to perl: http://www.davehodgkinson.com/blog/2012/11/angelhack-hackathon-fall-2012/

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Social, 1 Nov 2012, Evening Star, BN1 3PB

2012-10-05 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 5 Oct 2012, at 13:05, David Cantrell wrote: > > > There are many trains between London and Brighton, with journeys taking > about an hour from Victoria or London Bridge. The last northbound train > leaves at 11:30-ish, so there's plenty of time for working your way > through all the delicio

Re: Available...

2012-10-02 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 1 Oct 2012, at 19:50, Tom Hukins wrote: > > jobs-discuss deals with conversation amongst group members - various > people have posted "looking for work" announcements there before. I'd assumed -discuss was for talking about the jobs posted on jobs and attempting to unpick who the company w

Who made the law?

2012-08-30 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Where is the usage policy of #london.pm IRC channel. At least two people got kicked today, one for what has been traditional banter for the last ten years, and another for questioning that kick. Without agreed guidelines this is arbitrary. Is this what we do these days?

Re: Brainbench perl test?

2012-08-29 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 28 Aug 2012, at 14:09, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > Anyone done this lately? Still as useful as it used to be? In the event, I ended up doing 5 test: perl, c++ (ack! thpffft!), verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning and programming "concepts". Need nap now.

Re: Brainbench perl test?

2012-08-29 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 28 Aug 2012, at 14:09, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > Anyone done this lately? Still as useful as it used to be? Thanks for all the comments. In response: 1. Yes, I think it's an idiot filter 2. Joel, you're wrong. How do people who don't know perl, get the beginnin

Brainbench perl test?

2012-08-28 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Anyone done this lately? Still as useful as it used to be?

How to retrieve a row, biased by populatity?

2012-08-21 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Possibly a perl question. SQL would do... Given a set of data, say bands, with each having a ranking, either a review metric or a sales ranking, how would you retrieve a random row, but biased towards the higher ranking?

Re: Dotcloud?

2012-08-09 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 8 Aug 2012, at 22:36, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > Anyone use it? I can't get my CGI::Application::PSGI app to run > or the example Dancer app. Had a bug report open for 3 days with > no response yet. > > Progress...

Re: Dotcloud?

2012-08-08 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
tes in dotCloud. I really like their services. > > > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > >> Anyone use it? I can't get my CGI::Application::PSGI app to run >> or the example Dancer app. Had a bug report open for 3 days with >> no response yet. >> >> >> > > > -- > Felipe da Veiga Leprevost

Dotcloud?

2012-08-08 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Anyone use it? I can't get my CGI::Application::PSGI app to run or the example Dancer app. Had a bug report open for 3 days with no response yet.

Re: Availability?

2012-07-31 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 30 Jul 2012, at 19:16, drf...@pobox.com wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:58:39 +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: >> Is there an etiquette for advertising one's availability for slavery here? > > TagMan is hiring and I could use the recruitment bonus :) They're keep

Re: Availability?

2012-07-30 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 30 Jul 2012, at 11:42, Denny <2...@denny.me> wrote: > On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 10:58 +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: >> Is there an etiquette for advertising one's availability for slavery here? > > Post an 'available' ad to jobs-discuss? > > Or post a m

Availability?

2012-07-30 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Is there an etiquette for advertising one's availability for slavery here?

Re: Dim Sum?

2012-07-11 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
So dim sum in W1 is looking unlikely... On 11 Jul 2012, at 17:35, Piers Cawley wrote: > On 11 July 2012 15:51, Peter Sergeant wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: >> >>> >>> Does anyone have a craving for Dim Sum in the West En

Dim Sum?

2012-07-11 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Does anyone have a craving for Dim Sum in the West End tomorrow? A 100% Venda turn out again would count as a fail... :)

Re: Best practices for API wrapper development?

2012-05-08 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
> that counts as "on the shoulders of giants" too :-) > > The style is very Do It All Yourself but it's simple enough to > maintain given small/incremental changes in the API. > > - Alex > > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: >> >

Re: Best practices for API wrapper development?

2012-05-08 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
unce I think > that counts as "on the shoulders of giants" too :-) > > The style is very Do It All Yourself but it's simple enough to > maintain given small/incremental changes in the API. > > - Alex > > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:

Re: Best practices for API wrapper development?

2012-05-08 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 8 May 2012, at 21:22, Tom Hukins wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 04:52:14PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: >> I hated the Amazon one, it was overkill. Probabl my usual approach of >> flinging hashes around is suboptimal. Schwern's position on the shoulders >> of

Best practices for API wrapper development?

2012-05-08 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
I hated the Amazon one, it was overkill. Probabl my usual approach of flinging hashes around is suboptimal. Schwern's position on the shoulders of giants by using DBIC for a relatively simple interface might be too heavy. Examples you like?

Re: [OT] Are there any Contracts roles open at the moment

2012-05-03 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 3 May 2012, at 13:19, Dominic Thoreau wrote: > On 3 May 2012 12:31, Nicholas Clark wrote: >> >> Has your glorious employer actually mailed the job spec to the jobs list? > > No. They engaged some recruiters, who in turn don't seem to be enough > into the community to know about such things.

Re: [OT] Are there any Contracts roles open at the moment

2012-05-02 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 2 May 2012, at 09:53, David Cantrell wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 02:06:09PM +0530, abhishek jain wrote: > >> this link http://london.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/jobs-discuss dont saw >> archives to me, is it a valid mailing list! i am already a member of jobs >> one though. > > It's deliber

Re: Professional Indemnity

2012-05-01 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 1 May 2012, at 20:52, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:43, Sue Spence wrote: >> On 1 May 2012 20:09, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: >>> >>> The renewal notice I just got made my eyes water. Two things: >>> >>> 1. When you're not

Professional Indemnity

2012-05-01 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
The renewal notice I just got made my eyes water. Two things: 1. When you're not working for the BBC, what levels do you set it at? 2. Are Caunce O'Hara still the go to people for this? Thanks!

Re: [OT] Are there any Contracts roles open at the moment

2012-05-01 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 1 May 2012, at 10:32, Mark Fowler wrote: > > On Tuesday, 1 May 2012 at 10:20, abhishek jain wrote: >> Are there any contract roles in UK in your knowledge? ... please suggest me >> a way to get one :) > > > > > We have our own jobs mailing lists that you might want to check out: > > htt

Re: Regex help

2012-04-21 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 21 Apr 2012, at 19:13, Torsten Knorr wrote: > ($label, $opcode) = m/^\s* >(?::(\w+)\s+)? # label >([A-Za-z]+)\s+ # opcode >(?:([^,\s]+)(?{push(@operands, $^N)}),?\s*)* # operands >$/x; ~~~NO CARRIER Your modem cable is loose.

Re: Regex help

2012-04-20 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Or use a proper parser? On 20 Apr 2012, at 16:41, Andy Armstrong wrote: > On 20 Apr 2012, at 16:29, Simon Wistow wrote: >> ^ >> (?::(\w+) \s+)? # optional label >> ([A-Za-z]+)\s+ # opcode >> ([^,\s]+) (?:, \s+ # operand >> ([^,\s]+))*\s* # optional second opcode > >

BBC jobs

2012-04-14 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
In case anyone missed this: http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=2859626 Good team, I'm sitting with them now, a few names you might recognise are there and several more have passed through. Data munging at its finest.

Re: Schwern in London: emergency social

2012-03-23 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 23 Mar 2012, at 09:57, Tomas Doran wrote: > > On 23 Mar 2012, at 09:49, Gianni Ceccarelli wrote: > >> Schwern is in London. This calls for beer, >> >> I asked him on Twitter if he preferred Sunday or Tuesday (which are the days >> I'm easily free-able), and he said "both". >> >> Someone p

Re: Mason

2012-02-29 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 29 Feb 2012, at 17:11, Leo Lapworth wrote: > On 29 February 2012 16:10, Dave Cross wrote: >> Quoting 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

Re: Dim Sum tomorrow?

2012-02-16 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Sent from my iPhone On 15 Feb 2012, at 21:48, Peter Corlett wrote: > On 15 Feb 2012, at 15:10, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: >> Anyone round the West End fancy parcels of tasty goodness and Lo Bak Gao >> tomorrow? >> >> New World? 1pm? > > I'm up for that

Re: Dim Sum tomorrow?

2012-02-15 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Sent from my iPhone On 15 Feb 2012, at 21:48, Peter Corlett wrote: > On 15 Feb 2012, at 15:10, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: >> Anyone round the West End fancy parcels of tasty goodness and Lo Bak Gao >> tomorrow? >> >> New World? 1pm? > > I'm up for that

Dim Sum tomorrow?

2012-02-15 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Anyone round the West End fancy parcels of tasty goodness and Lo Bak Gao tomorrow? New World? 1pm?

Re: 5 minimums for any perl script?

2012-02-03 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 3 Feb 2012, at 11:25, Smylers wrote: > David Cantrell writes: > >> On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 02:57:35PM +, Smylers wrote: >> >>> 1 Make lots of small commits, one for each separable bug, feature, >>>refactoring, or whatever, and clearly described as much: make a >>>commit whenever

Re: Where to buy Cassocks?

2012-01-31 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 31 Jan 2012, at 13:03, David Cantrell wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 08:05:53AM +, Andrew Beattie wrote: >> On 31 Jan 2012, at 05:44, Greg McCarroll wrote: >>> We'd also not have a language that attracts people who like to fly giant >>> kites (Andy W. and a few others) and buy priests c

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl M[ou]ngers October Social - 2012-02-02 - Somers Town Coffee House, Euston, NW1 1HS

2012-01-30 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 30 Jan 2012, at 14:08, Paul Makepeace wrote: >> [ANNOUNCE] London Perl M[ou]ngers October Social - 2012-02-02 - Somers Town >> Coffee House, Euston, NW1 1HS > > Gives a new interpretation to Template::Manual, heh :) > > That night's also my leaving dinner so if anyone fancies popping along

Re: Emacs as a perl IDE

2012-01-27 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
The collated comments in the second part here: http://www.davehodgkinson.com/blog/2012/01/emacs-as-a-perl-ide-ii/ Deffo some things I'll include in my armoury now...

Re: Emacs as a perl IDE

2012-01-26 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 26 Jan 2012, at 14:06, Aaron Crane wrote: > Steve Mynott wrote: >> But I still miss vim's . since C-x-( (or whatever the hell it is) is a PITA > > Me too. But there's this: > > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/dot-mode.el > > It's subtly different from "." in vi, in that vi "." repeats the

Emacs as a perl IDE

2012-01-25 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Pulled together some links and thoughts, and actually learned stuff: http://www.davehodgkinson.com/blog/2012/01/using-emacs-as-an-ide/ Any other comments? Piers? Dave suggested Padre, comments on features and stuff welcome. Ta,

Re: Laptop Recommendation

2012-01-24 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 24 Jan 2012, at 10:51, Kieren Diment wrote: > On 24/01/2012, at 9:34 PM, David Cantrell wrote: > >> Just get a Mac. > > I tend to agree. Although I have not 'upgraded' to lion, as given that I'm > running a glorified xterm[1], microsoft office[2] and web browser[3] > launcher, I don't rea

Re: OT: Agile PM courses?

2012-01-10 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 10 Jan 2012, at 12:23, Peter Sergeant wrote: > Agile training seems to be one of those things where the individual > teaching it is far, far, far more important than almost any other factor. > I've found almost all the Agile trainers I've met to lack anything > approaching experience in develo

Re: OT: Agile PM courses?

2011-12-28 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
=training/scrummaster-certification Although I'm not sure what "Food and refreshments are typically provided." Round there it would be Dosa. On 28 Dec 2011, at 10:46, Adeola Awoyemi wrote: > > On 27 Dec 2011, at 18:38, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > >> >> Any recs for Ag

Re: OT: Agile PM courses?

2011-12-27 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 27 Dec 2011, at 22:03, Aaron Trevena wrote: > On 27 December 2011 21:29, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: >> Oddly, google was my first stop. Was looking for actual experiences. > > I'll ask the scrum-master at work when we return, but iirc he didn't > rate any of the

Re: OT: Agile PM courses?

2011-12-27 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
t; > -Peter > > On 27 December 2011 18:38, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > >> >> Any recs for Agile PM courses that can rubber stamp what I've been >> doing for the last 2-3 years? >> >> >>

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