Re: Dear Dr Who experts...

2014-10-08 Thread David Dorward
the quality is dodgy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1J3InFpGtQ -- David Dorward http://dorward.co.uk/

Re: :Application and recent bash security hole

2014-09-25 Thread David Dorward
it if it is. I found [Everything you need to know about the Shellshock Bash bug][1] to be interesting reading. [1]: http://www.troyhunt.com/2014/09/everything-you-need-to-know-about.html -- David Dorward http://dorward.co.uk/

Re: smutty british expression?

2014-02-13 Thread David Dorward
?! Doctor: Remember Ace, we are in the future. It would be nice to get three drinks for a fiver today. :) -- David Dorward http://dorward.co.uk/

Re: PDF to CSV?

2013-12-12 Thread David Dorward
that the data you want can be extracted from them by finding the appropriate bit of text in the file and using the code around it as a match in Template::Extract. -- David Dorward http://dorward.co.uk/

Re: Quarantining crap HTML?

2013-05-22 Thread David Dorward
acceptable or not and then spitting out something valid and non-evil though.) -- David Dorward http://dorward.co.uk/

Re: Any known islandic Perl Mongers?

2013-04-05 Thread David Dorward
On 5 Apr 2013, at 14:49, Roland Schmitz sc...@web.de wrote: Britain is an island after all. Is it still one, after building the tunnel? ;-} Yes, we're an island on a drip.

Re: Perl School on Saturday

2013-04-04 Thread David Dorward
On 4 Apr 2013, at 08:09, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote: [1] What ever that means. Seems to be an anagram of wine-bar but doesn't sound half as much fun. Please run the next Perl School in a wine bar. :) -- David Dorward http://dorward.co.uk

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

2013-03-21 Thread David Dorward
On 21 Mar 2013, at 14:17, Greg McCarroll g...@mccarroll.org.uk wrote: On 21 Mar 2013, at 12:00, David Cantrell wrote: On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:18:50AM +, Dave Mitchell wrote: I was using Server-Side JavaScript Please don't ever mention that abomination again. I just lost a SAN point.

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

2013-03-21 Thread David Dorward
On 21 Mar 2013, at 15:04, Greg McCarroll g...@mccarroll.org.uk wrote: GM: You take unknown points of SAN damage. DD: You can't do that. Oi! I've been very good at avoiding being a rules lawyer over the last few years!

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

2013-03-21 Thread David Dorward
On 21 Mar 2013, at 17:28, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: GM: There is another loud bang and some crunching sounds, 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. Uh oh. We appear to have

Paranoia (was Re: Raising Perl awareness on Tiobe + Wikipedia, etc.)

2013-03-21 Thread David Dorward
/index.php?title=Alpha_Complex -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Obscure Skype geekness (was: Laptop Recommendation)

2012-01-24 Thread David Dorward
On 24 Jan 2012, at 16:07, Andy Armstrong wrote: See also: Skype chat's use of IRC commands. I do love s/foo/bar/ being treated as a regex to run over the previous message. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: Laptop Recommendation

2012-01-23 Thread David Dorward
the parentage of other laptops you use that lack this feature, swiping your fingers around hopelessly for an instant before pitying the poor excuse for an input device and hunting for some scroll bars or cursor keys. I ended up buying a big bluetooth one. Multitouch is fantastic. -- David Dorward

Re: Ruby?

2011-11-16 Thread David Dorward
On 16 Nov 2011, at 11:50, Nicholas Clark wrote: Or are they all in Salford already? Doublepluswest London. I'm in Salford … but not getting to do much Perl. People have been giving me beer money[1] to write JavaScript for more than a few years. [1] on-topic! -- David Dorward http

Re: Ruby?

2011-11-16 Thread David Dorward
On 16 Nov 2011, at 14:09, Mike Whitaker wrote: He's not the only one who's moved on :D Yes, but we are shunning you for the Open Source Is Evil incident. :D -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LPW Tripods and extensions

2011-11-10 Thread David Dorward
in after all. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: Perl Skills Test

2011-09-27 Thread David Dorward
about a BBC job this morning. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: Should I get my mum a Kindle?

2011-09-21 Thread David Dorward
which does that job. (And then I have a user script to dump radio programs to mp3 with an RSS feed which I subscribe to so I can listen on the train). … not such a simple UI that I'd be happy setting one up and letting one of my parents loose on it though. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: Flash authoring tools

2011-06-30 Thread David Dorward
. You'll have to do all your drawing and animation programatically though. You might also like to consider ignoring Flash and doing the animation in SVG/VML using Raphaël[2] (again, programatically). [1] http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Flex+SDK [2] http://raphaeljs.com/ -- David

Re: Flash authoring tools

2011-06-30 Thread David Dorward
On 30 Jun 2011, at 12:46, David Cantrell wrote: You might also like to consider ignoring Flash and doing the animation in SVG/VML using Raphaël[2] (again, programatically). Flash works everywhere that matters. SVG doesn't. Hence /VML. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: Flash authoring tools

2011-06-30 Thread David Dorward
On 30 Jun 2011, at 14:03, David Cantrell wrote: On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 01:43:50PM +0100, David Dorward wrote: On 30 Jun 2011, at 12:46, David Cantrell wrote: You might also like to consider ignoring Flash and doing the animation in SVG/VML using Raphaël[2] (again, programatically). Flash

Re: LPW - Laptop loan?

2010-12-01 Thread David Dorward
what[1]?! I'm spending five minutes giving a light hearted talk about testing. Mike Whitaker is down to talk about Perl and Unicode - in search of the Holy Grail‎ [1] Engaging panic mode. Checking schedule. Has mdk decided to punish me for cheekiness? Phew, apparently not. -- David Dorward

Re: LPW - Laptop loan?

2010-12-01 Thread David Dorward
work on the same floor of the same building and both like tea? :) -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?

2010-04-14 Thread David Dorward
also didn't get hired, but the impression I got was that they wanted people who were as good DBAs as they were Perl programmers. (My SQL wasn't up to scratch). The location is also a bit out of the way (over in Acton IIRC). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: [EMERGENCY] 2nd March for birthday

2010-02-23 Thread David Dorward
On 23 Feb 2010, at 11:27, Andrew Smith wrote: There is no reason you couldn't have monthly birthday celebrations. A year period has for some reason become the norm. Let us have daily celebrations of Leon's birthday — with beer. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: On-topic: HTML/JS help please

2010-02-12 Thread David Dorward
-switch, etc) access. No forgiveness for people with motor skill related problems (e.g. arthritis) who wobble the cursor off the end or sides of the menu as they try to aim. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: TT and UTF8?

2010-01-29 Thread David Dorward
On 29 Jan 2010, at 15:25, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: On 29 Jan 2010, at 14:48, Ash Berlin wrote: 2) stick a BOM in the .tt file BOM? Byte Order Mark. It signals the signal the endianness of the data. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: Sending $US to the US

2009-10-06 Thread David Dorward
them. Or find a mate with one if this is a one-off. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

Re: Bubble sort dance

2009-09-19 Thread David Dorward
cameras in every pocket. Leastways, I _hope_ it was. Then we need a recreation. There is usually a nice open space at the front of the main hall that has video cameras trained on it at LPW… -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk

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

2009-07-08 Thread David Dorward
Léon Brocard wrote: This is in two weeks. I'll be taking the 09:24 London Midland train from Euston to Bletchley. I've convinced my neighbour that going is a good idea, so I'll be getting a lift with him. See you there. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/

Big Geek Day Out: Bletchley Park 18th July

2009-06-15 Thread David Dorward
(independently) organising a Big Geek Day Out ... to Bletchley Park ... on the 18th of July. This is excellent, as I get to do less work in making this happen. Details and sign up are available at http://biggeekdayout.com/ Come along, I'm told that it is excellent. -- David Dorward http

Re: Gallifrey.pm tshirt

2009-05-18 Thread David Dorward
quote who=Léon Brocard I think the time has come for a new London.pm tshirt, this time for Gallifrey.pm: http://astray.spreadshirt.net/en/GB/Shop/Article/Index/article/Gallifreypm-9530899 Anyone like to lay odds on Rassilon and Omega's respective choices of text editor?

Re: Hack Day 2009

2009-05-06 Thread David Dorward
Dave Cross wrote: Will there be any Perl hackers there? And what are you planning to hack on? I'll be there, but my plans are mostly revolving around JavaScript at present. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/

Re: Hack Day 2009

2009-05-06 Thread David Dorward
. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/

Re: Birthday celebration

2009-02-17 Thread David Dorward
the lurgy that are plaguing me right now. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/

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

2009-01-06 Thread David Dorward
Avleen Vig wrote: What a strange coincedence. I start at a Django shop on Monday, also! Yours isn't up around Soho is it? No; Notting Hill Gate. If it was around Soho I would be walking instead of Tubing :) -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/

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

2009-01-05 Thread David Dorward
Nicholas Clark wrote: So we will all have to ask you what it's like... Is it a company on this list? http://london.pm.org/advocacy/ No, its a, um, er, Django shop. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/

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

2009-01-05 Thread David Dorward
Sue Spence wrote: I'm just kidding of course. Congrats. Thanks Work is good, and so are new experiences I'm going to experience the Circle Line at rush hour for the first time. Is that good? -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/

Re: Social Thurs 8 Jan 2009

2009-01-05 Thread David Dorward
://flickr.com/photos/dorward/2425869445/ -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/

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

2009-01-05 Thread David Dorward
service, which limits you to a Brompton rather than a real (motor|push)bike. South Eastern. It's the London Bridge - Waterloo East - Charing Cross route. -- David Dorward

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

2009-01-05 Thread David Dorward
.) The alternatives would be, IIRC, to take the N. Line to TCR then change to the central line, or to take the Jubilee from Waterloo and get to the central line from there. (Target: Notting Hill Gate). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/

Re: Social Thurs 8 Jan 2009

2009-01-05 Thread David Dorward
David Dorward wrote: Hmm, I think that is on the way home from the job I start on Monday. Nice choice :) No! My brain is not functioning! The 8th is before next Monday! !! -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/

Old memes (was Re: Social Thurs 8 Jan 2009)

2009-01-05 Thread David Dorward
Billy Abbott wrote: (I like cake http://flickr.com/photos/cowfish/185568346/) The cake is a lie. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/

Re: london.pm.org web site - facelifted

2008-12-11 Thread David Dorward
Andy Wardley wrote: Andy Wardley wrote: I can help there. How about this? http://wardley.org/london.pm.org/ Pretty :) Although: lia href=# onclick=$('#page').toggleClass('wide'); return false Go span class=go_smallSmall/spanspan class=go_largeLarge/span/a/li Can

Re: Perl is dead

2008-12-04 Thread David Dorward
, don't, you might get crushed as I cry out for beer). -- David Dorward

Re: Pub for tomorrow?

2008-11-28 Thread David Dorward
Tomas Doran wrote: * Has 3/4 nice real ales Is this like Russian Roulette? Someone gets unlucky and has to drink the pint of mud? -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/

Re: London.pm on Upcoming

2008-10-08 Thread David Dorward
Andrew Black wrote: Other Events Like This Wed, Oct 8 London Python meetup Discuss Beer. P-languages. Beer. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/

Re: A night at the opera

2008-09-26 Thread David Dorward
David Cantrell wrote: http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/theatre/annualtheatreseason/burialatthebes/ Who's up for it? I'm in -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/

Re: London.pm on Upcoming

2008-09-26 Thread David Dorward
Dave Cross wrote: Although the wisdom of this may be questionable - I recognize at least one name as being for a recruiter. Ew. Dangerous :) For the person who aimed the recruiter at London.pm, or for the recruiter themselves? -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/

Sat 18th Oct

2008-09-18 Thread David Dorward
David Cantrell wrote: Who's coming with me to the York beer festival on Sat 18 Oct? OK. That makes 4 things I want to do on that day. What is with that date? -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/

Re: Beer experiment

2008-09-14 Thread David Dorward
.) I would ... except that I have a cold, am on anti-cold drugs that don't mix with beer, am out of London (since it isn't during the working week), and have guests. Otherwise, I'd be there like a shot. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/