ORIGINAL AND BEST January social

2014-12-19 Thread David Cantrell
e it for a couple of weeks. And so I bring to you news of great joy! There will be an ORIGINAL AND BEST social on the 15th of January, at the Kings Arms, Roupell St, Waterloo. http://thekingsarmslondon.co.uk/ The nearest tubes are Southwark and Waterloo. -- David Cantrell | top google result

Fwd: [Ukfreebsd] London BSD pub meetup December

2014-12-02 Thread David Cantrell
nice pub/brewery > that has just opened so no one else has found it yet... > > Monday 8 December 1830 > Temple Brewhouse, 46 Essex Street, WC2R 3JF > http://citypubcompanyeast.com/our-pubs/temple-brew-house/ -- David Cantrell | Pope | First Church of the Symmetrical Internet Graecum est; non legitur

Re: in town 28-30 nov - emergency meetup?

2014-11-21 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:54:59PM +, Gareth Harper wrote: > On 21 November 2014 12:28, David Cantrell wrote: > > The wifi in tube stations used to do that hateful and stupid and slow > > and unreliable webby login thing. A coupla months ago they stopped, and > > now m

Re: in town 28-30 nov - emergency meetup?

2014-11-21 Thread David Cantrell
thing. A coupla months ago they stopped, and now my phone just connects and everything works. Yay. -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness engineer: n. one who, regardless of how much effort he puts in to a job, will never satisfy either the suits or the scientists

Re: in town 28-30 nov - emergency meetup?

2014-11-21 Thread David Cantrell
re hanging around in Bethnal Green. > Why don't any of the reviews of these places talk about wifi? Ugh. Because people don't go to pubs to mess about on laptops, and in any case 3G and 4G are ubiquitous and cheap. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig What plaything can you offer me today?

Re: Getting the "latest" related record from a SQL DB

2014-10-13 Thread David Cantrell
out > doing several database queries. I also like to avoid sub-selects as > MySQL has a tendency to optimise them badly (as Gareth said). If you turn the sub-SELECT into a VIEW it seems to optimise them less badly. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist Deck of Cards: $1.29.

Re: Getting the "latest" related record from a SQL DB

2014-10-10 Thread David Cantrell
he same row. I'm sure it must be possible with a HAVING and GROUP BY, but I'm buggered if I can get it to work. -- David Cantrell

Re: Getting the "latest" related record from a SQL DB

2014-10-10 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 04:56:22PM +, Adam Witney wrote: > Could you select all albums, ORDER BY date DESC LIMIT 1 ? I don't think that LIMIT is standard SQL so it won't be supported everywhere. And also I don't think that useful things like DBIx::Class support it. -- Dav

Re: CGI::Application and recent bash security hole

2014-09-26 Thread David Cantrell
$ ls -l /bin/bash /bin/sh -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 625228 Dec 19 2004 /bin/bash lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Aug 16 2007 /bin/sh -> bash On *recent* Debian-ish systems sh isn't bash, but it's foolish to assume that all Debian-ish systems are re

Re: Open/Free BSD users -- help needed to fix Test::PostgreSQL

2014-08-11 Thread David Cantrell
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 11:37:35PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > Why use a "pretend" Unix when > you can use a real one? Because more stuff Just Works. HTH. -- David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing Planckton: n, the smallest possible living thing

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London.pm September Social - Thursday 4th Sep. - De Hems, W1D 5BW

2014-08-08 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 03:40:28PM +0100, J?r?me ?t?v? wrote: > For our September social, we'll be heading at De Hems Ooh, good choice! -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic fdisk format reinstall, doo-dah, doo-dah; fdisk format reinstall, it's the Windows way

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London PM Leadership Change

2014-08-08 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 02:55:15PM +0100, Sue Spence wrote: > Speaking of socials, last night's meeting featured 2 women and 0 Daves. > This is an utter Dave failure and I am disappointed in you all. My absence is, in a round-about way, entirely the fault of the government of Armenia.

Re: Deploying perl code

2014-07-24 Thread David Cantrell
7;s something to consider once I can type 'myappdeploy live' and be confident that it will Just Work. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "topless karaoke murders" Immigration: making Britain great since AD43

Deploying perl code

2014-07-24 Thread David Cantrell
rous rage as our current bunch of incomplete shell scripts do? -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world While researching this email, I was forced to carry out some investigative work which unfortunately involved a bucket of puppies and a belt sander -- after JoeB, in the Monastery

perl, icloud

2014-07-22 Thread David Cantrell
Does anyone have sample code for retrieving calendars, reminders and contacts from iCloud? -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig fdisk format reinstall, doo-dah, doo-dah; fdisk format reinstall, it's the Windows way

Re: Evaluating user-defined conditions

2014-06-10 Thread David Cantrell
r total anticipated CPU time. See CPAN::ParseDistribution::Unix for an example of running user-supplied code in a Safe compartment with a timeout. It may be a bit overkill for your purposes, especially if you've got your own parser/interpreter. And obviously it's no good if you need to s

Re: Regex to match odd numbers

2014-05-28 Thread David Cantrell
u have the /a flag in effect (thanks Unicode!) I'm sure that if the p5p cabal want to spoil peoples' day, they have far more entertaining things they can do than to release perl version 5.2Ù¥. -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness Irregular English: ladies g

Re: Regex to match odd numbers

2014-05-28 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 05:08:16PM +0100, Jasper wrote: > Something like the prime regex would work: > ('1' x $foo) =~ /^(11)*1$/ Ahhh, the Right Sort Of Mad :-) -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world Irregular English: you have anecdotes; they have data; I have proof

Re: Regex to match odd numbers

2014-05-28 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 04:42:40PM +0100, Alex Balhatchet wrote: > Odd numbers end in [13579] so... m{5 [.] \d* [13579]}gmsx ... ? Oh yeah, so embarrassingly obvious. The solution is to *remember that version "numbers" aren't numbers, they're text*. -- David Cantrel

Regex to match odd numbers

2014-05-27 Thread David Cantrell
of matching any odd number from 7 upwards? Obviously it's easy to do in a coupla lines of perl code instead of a regex, so I'm asking more out of curiosity than because I actually need it. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence Today's previously unre

[ANNOUNCE] Social TONIGHT: Trinity Arms, Brixton, SW9 8DR

2014-05-01 Thread David Cantrell
Tonight in accordance with ancient custom some of us are going to the Trinity Arms in Brixton for beer, more beer, perhaps some food, and more beer. People will start turning up from about 6:30 onwards. http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Trinity_Arms,_SW9_8DR -- David Cantrell | semi

Re: Finding the intersection between two regexes

2014-04-25 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 12:37:17PM -0400, Mark Fowler wrote: > David Cantrell wrote: > > I require no such blood sacrifice for my code, but do insist that > > the tests still pass on perl 5.8.8. > That makes sense. So we sadly can't use /a. Although you can use fancy ne

[ANNOUNCE] ORIGINAL AND BEST social, Thu 1 May

2014-04-25 Thread David Cantrell
?Trinity_Arms,_SW9_8DR -- David Cantrell | top google result for "topless karaoke murders" "IMO, the primary historical significance of Unix is that it marks the time in computer history where CPUs became so cheap that it was possible to build an operating system without ad

Re: Finding the intersection between two regexes

2014-04-25 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 07:38:55AM +0200, Abigail wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 12:47:04AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > On 24/04/2014 23:28, Mark Fowler wrote: > >> On Thursday, April 24, 2014, Michael Lush wrote: > >> if ($x =~ /^246[2-9]\d{6}$/ and $x =~

Re: Finding the intersection between two regexes

2014-04-24 Thread David Cantrell
pass on perl 5.8.8. https://github.com/DrHyde/perl-modules-Number-Phone Assuming that you actually care, and aren't just pedanting in the finest custom of this august group, of course :-) -- David Cantrell | top google result for "internet beard fetish club" Nuke a

Re: Finding the intersection between two regexes

2014-04-22 Thread David Cantrell
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 10:14:48PM -0400, Mark Fowler wrote: > On Sunday, April 20, 2014, David Cantrell wrote: > > Can anyone point me at some code on the CPAN that, given two regexes, > > can figure out whether there are any bits of text that will be matched > > by b

Finding the intersection between two regexes

2014-04-20 Thread David Cantrell
t interested in covering all the utterly loopy things that one can do with perl regexes, of course. What I'm really after is a version of this: http://qntm.org/greenery because I'm *far* too lazy to port it myself. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic We dec

Re: Releasing a module with additional dependencies

2014-04-16 Thread David Cantrell
is is my preference, but is that approach considered to be a > Bad Thing? That's what I'd do. It keeps things simple for both you and your users. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig Guns aren't the problem. People who deserve to die are the problem.

Re: XP-Replacement for Parents

2014-03-27 Thread David Cantrell
On 27/03/2014 17:34, Smylers wrote: David Cantrell writes: On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 03:21:02PM +, Smylers wrote: Note my concerns weren't about the OS's user interface, but scanner support and a couple of decades' worth of WordPerfect documents. Assuming that Ubuntu suppo

Re: XP-Replacement for Parents

2014-03-27 Thread David Cantrell
VM. You might even be able to get the scanner working from inside a VM. You then configger stuff so that the VM can only talk over the network to the host machine, and set up some kind of shared directory between the host and the VM. Virtualbox FTW. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justi

You make a lovely teddy bear

2014-03-27 Thread David Cantrell
still in effect later on - it has been insufficiently local()ized. So I'd like to thank you all for being my teddy bear: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/tpop/debugging.html -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive Planckton: n, the smallest possible living thing

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

2014-03-13 Thread David Cantrell
bit ugly and flickery. I'm sure that Damian would love a patch from someone to make it use, eg, Term::Screen :-) -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information The test of the goodness of a thing is its fitness for use. If it fails on this first test, no amount of orn

Re: Hash::Util's lock_keys

2014-02-19 Thread David Cantrell
blessing tied objects does leave the tie() magic intact. -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire All praise the Sun God For He is a Fun God Ra Ra Ra!

Re: EMERGENCY SOCIAL . . .

2013-12-05 Thread David Cantrell
the area to find. Sorry for ignoring you all :-) -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig "IMO, the primary historical significance of Unix is that it marks the time in computer history where CPUs became so cheap that it was possible to build an operating system without adult supervision." -- Russ Holsclaw in a.f.c

Re: I have a bikeshed, colour suggestions appreciated

2013-12-03 Thread David Cantrell
suggestions. It Depends, of course. I think you need to post photos of where it's going to be. -- David Cantrell Professor of Unvironmental Science University of Human Progress

Re: Database Design Advice

2013-11-08 Thread David Cantrell
or whatever to get better resolution, but all that does is make the problem less likely, it doesn't make it go away. You also normally want sort order to be consistent. If you have two records where the sort field is the same, the order they come out is going to be unpredictable. -- David

Re: filesystems for external drivesx

2013-11-04 Thread David Cantrell
gs that were fixed squillions of years ago in *BSD, which limit filesystems to (I think) 1TB. Or maybe 2. Something small anyway. Or NFS, of course, backed with a POSIXy filesystem. -- David Cantrell | Pope | First Church of the Symmetrical Internet PLEASE NOTE: This message was meant to offend

Re: Tourist-y suggestions?

2013-11-04 Thread David Cantrell
ge of Surgeons. Sir John Soane's museum. Horniman museum. The current exhibition of Australian art at the Royal Academy is excellent. SOAS has an exhibition about Zoroastrianism <http://www.theeverlastingflame.com/> which looks interesting. I reckon that lot should be enough to keep you bus

Re: ORMs du jour?

2013-10-21 Thread David Cantrell
you need later. There's even a reasonably smooth and gentle learning curve to get to them. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you're reading it in English, thank Chaucer.

Re: Could use some hotel/travel help

2013-09-26 Thread David Cantrell
like that to actually find a place in > my budget range. Booking.com knows about areas of London, so no postcode necessary, just tell it "Paddington" or "Euston". -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig You can't spell "slaughter" without "laughter"

Re: Perl publishing and attracting new developers

2013-09-19 Thread David Cantrell
n grey, in a light weight typeface, on a white background: http://tinyurl.com/osherove-unit-testing-1e The language is irrelevant. That link, incidentally, is to the first edition, which is a very good book indeed. There's a second edition out next week, which I've not seen. -- David Cantrell

Re: Assigning Classes

2013-09-10 Thread David Cantrell
students buy a place in a queue, then they get to choose, in order, which course to do? Bonus points if you suggest that the bursar pay you commission. -- David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privil

Re: Assigning Classes

2013-09-10 Thread David Cantrell
class exceeds the max capacity and no class has just one > student. See Alvin Roth's Nobel prize in economics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_E._Roth#New_England_Program_for_Kidney_Exchange -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age "IMO, the primary historical signif

Re: September social

2013-08-31 Thread David Cantrell
the reasons I don't go is because "oh, it's the Gunmakers again, which is mildly inconvenient for me". -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Us Germans take our humour very seriously -- German cultural attache talking to the Today Programme, about the German supposed lack of a sense of humour, 29 Aug 2001

Re: Perl 5.16 vs Ruby 2.0 UTF-8 support

2013-08-30 Thread David Cantrell
or UTF-8) > or b) broken a implies b. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Your call is important to me. To see if it's important to you I'm going to make you wait on hold for five minutes. All calls are recorded for blackmail and amusement purposes.

[ANNOUNCE] Joint Croyden.pm / London.pm social, TONIGHT!

2013-08-01 Thread David Cantrell
I can't Brane without either air conditioning or a gigantic heatsink custom fitted to my head. More details and directions here: http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Dog_And_Bull,_CR0_1RG I'll probably be in the garden out the back. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pi

Re: Assigning anonymous hash to a list

2013-08-01 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:44:23PM -0300, Hernan Lopes wrote: > if you dont understood what i meant, i am not going to explain. I normally find that if someone can't get another to understand what they mean, then they don't really understand it themselves. -- David Cantrell |

Re: isolating thread-unsafe modules

2013-07-30 Thread David Cantrell
On 30/07/2013 20:38, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote: On 30 Jul 2013, at 14:54, David Cantrell wrote: Parallel::ForkManager has some (evil, hacky*) support for returning data from a forked child to the parent. And I've used it. Works fine. So have I, to work around an incompatible change in

Re: isolating thread-unsafe modules

2013-07-30 Thread David Cantrell
acky*) support for returning data from a forked child to the parent. * the right sort of evil and hacky though -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire fdisk format reinstall, doo-dah, doo-dah; fdisk format reinstall, it's the Windows way

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

2013-07-23 Thread David Cantrell
dev and maint environments for your programmers. But that's OK, any machine built in the last five years can run multiple virtual machines. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information I remember when computers were frustrating because they did exactly what you tol

[ANNOUNCE] Combined London.pm and Croyden.pm social, 1 AUg 2013

2013-07-15 Thread David Cantrell
social will be held in conjunction with Croyden.pm at the Dog & Bull, Surrey St, CR0 1RG: http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Dog_And_Bull,_CR0_1RG -- David Cantrell | top google result for "internet beard fetish club"

[ANNOUNCE] Reminder: Emergency social TONIGHT

2013-07-15 Thread David Cantrell
A gentle reminder, dear perl mongers, that there is an emergency social TONIGHT upstairs at the Horse & Groom in Belgravia: http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Horse_And_Groom,_SW1X_7BA -- David Cantrell | top google result for "topless karaoke murders" 23.5 degrees

Re: Almost on-topic

2013-07-12 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 06:34:35PM +0100, Dirk Koopman wrote: > On 12/07/13 17:15, David Cantrell wrote: > >On 12/07/2013 10:58, Denny wrote: > >>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAMSrKqpl_c > >I wonder why you can't just anaesthetize it and put it on the scales > &

[ANNOUNCE] Emergency social, Monday 15 Jul

2013-07-12 Thread David Cantrell
matic immunity or summat. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice

Re: Almost on-topic

2013-07-12 Thread David Cantrell
On 12/07/2013 10:58, Denny wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAMSrKqpl_c I wonder why you can't just anaesthetize it and put it on the scales with a forklift. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence The voices said it's a good day to clean my weapons

Re: Living with smart match breakage

2013-07-04 Thread David Cantrell
the convoluted boilerplate mentioned involves putting tests > for perl versions around those, which is indeed convoluted. It's a good thing that the 'experimental' pragma does that for you then. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig I remember when computers were frustrating because they did exactly what you told them to. That seems kinda quaint now. -- JD Baldwin, in the Monastery

Re: New pet keeping rules in the Netherlands

2013-06-20 Thread David Cantrell
On 20/06/2013 22:39, Damian Conway wrote: One of our commonest house spiders is the ominously named "Huntsman". They are nocturnal and their venom is non-lethal to humans. Obviously an import then. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic Graecum est; non legitur

Re: New pet keeping rules in the Netherlands

2013-06-20 Thread David Cantrell
* sheep * camel * cat * dog * rabbit * cow Note that they are all non-native. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive Languages for which ISO-Latin-$n is not necessary, #1 in a series: Latin

Re: Living with smart match breakage

2013-06-15 Thread David Cantrell
memorable and quick to type The complaint wasn't about stuff being hard to remember or type, but about it being convoluted. They're different. -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity -- Hanlon's Raz

Re: Living with smart match breakage

2013-06-14 Thread David Cantrell
on new releases of modules only doesn't it > or is there comprehensive testing of every current release on CPAN when > a new perl is being prepared for release? There are a few people who run all of the CPAN past new perl releases these days, especially perl release candidates. -- David Cant

Re: Living with smart match breakage

2013-06-14 Thread David Cantrell
n the CPAN that will be a drop-in replacement in almost all cases. IIRC Zefram worked some dark magic to let you define custom operators using XS. -- David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing There are many different types of sausages. The best are from the north of England. The wurst are from Germany. -- seen in alt.2eggs...

Re: Living with smart match breakage

2013-06-13 Thread David Cantrell
;t "convoluted boilerplate". -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes in the house. -- Robert A Heinlein

Re: proposing an emergency social meeup July 15th

2013-06-04 Thread David Cantrell
for it. OK. Here, 6:30-ish onwards. I'll book the upstairs room. http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Horse_And_Groom,_SW1X_7BA -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire All principles of gravity are negated by fear -- Cartoon Law IV

Re: [off topic] Any londoners know a good 'puter repair place near the city/bishopsgate or docklands?

2013-05-24 Thread David Cantrell
t can give a good honest appraisal of what's wrong with the laptop > and back up the data for her would be much appreciated > > Somewhere near Spitalfields would probably be especially helpful If it's a Mac then go to the shop on Cheshire St. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrel

Re: npm, PyPi overtake CPAN

2013-05-24 Thread David Cantrell
a tunnel. Or in >data-roaming-multiple-limb-loss land. So having a mirror is useful. 4) you can set up funky distorting mirrors, eg cpXXXan or Pinto and can easily use the public toolchain for private code. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice Human Rights left unatten

Re: Quarantining crap HTML?

2013-05-21 Thread David Cantrell
here any way of quarantining it so it doesn't bugger up the rest of the > page? Embed it using an . -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness You may now start misinterpreting what I just wrote, and attacking that misinterpretation.

Re: Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-15 Thread David Cantrell
ing to have a simple problem, which I know I could solve with twenty or thirty lines of perl in five minutes, and find that because I don't know the tools I get frustrated and give up after half an hour in python. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice More people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.-- W C Fields

Re: Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-15 Thread David Cantrell
e buying it my little networky project has been decidedly on the back burner, due to laziness :-) -- header FROM_DAVID_CANTRELLFrom =~ /david.cantrell/i describe FROM_DAVID_CANTRELLMessage is from David Cantrell scoreFROM_DAVID_CANTRELL15.72 # This figure from experimentation

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

2013-05-08 Thread David Cantrell
rovide links from a description in an exhibition catalogue to a website, and I've seen art galleries make use of them to have a "buy this now" link on the wall next to a work. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist [OS X] appeals to me as a monk, a user, a compiler-of-apps, a

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

2013-05-08 Thread David Cantrell
racking really that > useful? There's a world outside twitter, and URLs that line-wrap can be a pain in the arse depending on what email clients people are using, what MUAs messed around with stuff in the middle, and the phase of the moon. -- David Cantrell Professor of Unvironmental

Re: Number::Fraction

2013-05-07 Thread David Cantrell
in a china shop, but to submit a patch. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "topless karaoke murders" Today's previously unreported paraphilia is tomorrow's Internet sensation

Re: PDF creation?

2013-04-23 Thread David Cantrell
require you to learn how to drive > LaTeX and how to trawl CTAN etc for useful packages. Yes. And if you can't do that, consider just producing PostScript, and then converting with ps2pdf. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "internet beard fetish club" EINE KIRCHE! EIN KREDO! EIN PAPST!

Re: Perl School on Saturday

2013-04-03 Thread David Cantrell
hat it > won't be repeated - just that I don't plan very far into the future. > If I knew there was a demand then I'd definitely consider it. I demand! -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice There's no problem so complex that it can't be solved by killing everyone even remotely associated with it

Re: API wrapper best practices?

2013-03-25 Thread David Cantrell
can give you the best of both worlds, with minimal coding - you just need to write the base class - and if you later find that some of your classes need to be a bit more full-fat, it's easy to implement them while still using classes generated on the fly for everything else. -- David Cantr

Re: Raising Perl awareness on Tiobe + Wikipedia, etc.

2013-03-21 Thread David Cantrell
as DD's new clone arrives. He lands upside down and may or may not have taken some damage to the head. He thinks he's just fine though. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist Fashion label: n: a liferaft for personalities which lack intrinsic buoyancy

Re: Raising Perl awareness on Tiobe + Wikipedia, etc.

2013-03-21 Thread David Cantrell
for a lot longer > than most people realise. Please don't ever mention that abomination again. I just lost a SAN point. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice NANOG makes me want to unplug everything and hide under the bed -- brian d foy

Re: Raising Perl awareness on Tiobe + Wikipedia, etc.

2013-03-20 Thread David Cantrell
mythological snake, the poet, the programming language, the revolver, the film, the comedians, and the aircraft engine. For perl, the only reason that I know about the place is because "ooh look, a place with the same name as a programming language, how funny" and, errm, that's it.

Re: Raising Perl awareness on Tiobe + Wikipedia, etc.

2013-03-20 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 04:58:38PM +0800, AJ Dhaliwal wrote: > Good points. I wonder about node.js. JS was designed to be a scripting > language. Aren't they pushing it too far with node.js? So was perl, but it seems to do OK. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Ch

Re: New perl features?

2013-03-19 Thread David Cantrell
I'd like to talk about cheese. > Then start a new thread under a relevant subject. Netiquette 101. -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Morbi nec turpis lorem. Donec eu erat vitae quam convallis fe

Re: More advice about becoming a freelance Perl programmer

2013-03-07 Thread David Cantrell
ge $foo. With proper employees it's a bit different - you expect them to stay for longer, so can allow time for getting up to speed with the tools. Of course, this doesn't apply if you're the sort of idiot who hires a contractor for months or years on end, making them effectiv

Re: Croyden.pm future meetings

2013-02-19 Thread David Cantrell
ously stuck to Thursdays, it's just that it happened to be convenient this time. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive EINE KIRCHE! EIN KREDO! EIN PAPST!

[ANNOUNCE] Reminder: Croyden.pm, this Thursday, 14 Feb

2013-02-11 Thread David Cantrell
An gentle reminder, gentle folks, that Croyden.pm will be meeting at the Dog & Bull, Surrey St, Croydon, CR0 1RG, on Thursday 14 Feb. -- David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing There is no one true indentation style, But if there were K&R would be Its Prophets. Peace be upon Their Holy Beards.

Re: Perl School 4: Database Programming with Perl and DBIx::Class

2013-02-06 Thread David Cantrell
would be useful. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig What a lovely day! Now watch me spoil it for you.

[OT] blessed sub-refs in the symbol table

2013-01-31 Thread David Cantrell
references to it have gone away. Is this a bug? -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness comparative and superlative explained: worse, worser, worsest, worsted, wasted

Re: Assign method call to hash value?

2013-01-30 Thread David Cantrell
on > whatever it precedes? The only case I imagine it would break would be > a hypothetical {%original, key=> @odd_list }, but I don't know why > anyone would do that. Perhaps it would be nice if it had been like that right from the start, but ... http://grep.cpan.me/?q=%

Re: Updating lots of database fields in a single row

2013-01-24 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 04:49:17PM +0100, Abigail wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 03:38:08PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > Tied variables ;-) > Overloaded constants, and not even your place holders are safe. Stupid language. Let's all use C instead. -- David Cantrel

Royal Society public lecture

2013-01-23 Thread David Cantrell
This lecture <http://royalsociety.org/events/2013/logic-computer-science/> looks like it might interest some of you. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig NANOG makes me want to unplug everything and hide under the bed -- brian d foy

Re: PHP "community"

2013-01-17 Thread David Cantrell
, harmful, and irritating to others in human languages as in programming languages. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla.

[ANNOUNCE] Croyden.pm social, 14 Feb

2013-01-09 Thread David Cantrell
Croyden.pm will be meeting at the Dog & Bull, Surrey St, CR0 1RG, on the 14th of February. All of you - even those from the wrong side of the river - are welcome. -- header FROM_DAVID_CANTRELLFrom =~ /david.cantrell/i describe FROM_DAVID_CANTRELLMessage is from David Cantrell s

Re: cpan you have to see

2012-12-14 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 09:45:25PM +, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote: > Would hurling a PBP test at the whole of CPAN to get a metric be of any > benefit? It would certainly be interesting. -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat NANOG makes me want to unplug everythi

Re: cpan you have to see

2012-12-14 Thread David Cantrell
... $ true;echo $? 0 $ true && echo "it was true" it was true which is bloody irritating. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist PLEASE NOTE: This message was meant to offend everyone equally, regardless of race, creed, sexual orientation, politics, choice of beer, operating

Re: Testsuites and External Dependancies?

2012-12-06 Thread David Cantrell
requisites such as libraries, it's not really for installing commercial closed-source software. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information Eye have a spelling chequer / It came with my pea sea It planely marques four my revue / Miss Steaks eye kin knot sea. Eye strike a

Re: Testsuites and External Dependancies?

2012-12-06 Thread David Cantrell
it die with "OS unsupported". This will result in a 'NA' report. See http://wiki.cpantesters.org/wiki/CPANAuthorNotes, "How can I indicate that my distribution only works on a particular operating system?" -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist engineer: n. one

Re: Perl outreach

2012-11-27 Thread David Cantrell
little free time and plenty of stuff to already fill it with. -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread David Cantrell
This was > quietly revolutionary. > > How many webhosts do we think would ship several perls for several different > database engines? About as many as give you a choice of database engines. Approximately none. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david There's no

Presentation tools

2012-10-31 Thread David Cantrell
when I bash on a bluetooth thing. And to be able to spit out an AVI to Dropbox showing slides, where I was pointing, and with the soundtrack. Does anything remotely like this exist? Must work on an iPad. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world comparative and superlative

[ANNOUNCE] Reminder: london.pm social tomorrow, 2012-11-01

2012-10-31 Thread David Cantrell
Dark Star brewery's many fine beverages. If you're planning on meeting us half way, then please phone me (+44 7979 866975) when you get to Brighton to find out where we are. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice In this episode, R2 and Luke weld the doors shut on their X-Win

Re: I love git

2012-10-28 Thread David Cantrell
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 12:13:27PM +, Leo Lapworth wrote: > On 28 October 2012 12:06, David Cantrell wrote: > > Now, having deleted the branch on one machine, and pushed the delete to > > github, how do I make it disappear everywhere else that I've got a copy > &g

Re: I love git

2012-10-28 Thread David Cantrell
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 11:32:08PM +, David Flynn wrote: > * David Cantrell (da...@cantrell.org.uk) wrote: > >Now, my question - can I delete the branch, while still leaving the tag > >in place? > Yes, branches (as are tags) are just pointers to commits. As long as > a co

I love git

2012-10-27 Thread David Cantrell
master. Doing all of that in CVS doesn't bear thinking about, and doing it in svn, while possible, would have required at least a little bit of thought, and I'm not good at thinking this late in the day. Now, my question - can I delete the branch, while still leaving the tag in place?

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