Fw: [dancer-users] Sad news regarding James Aitken (LoonyPandora), Dancer contributor and pluign author

2014-08-13 Thread David Precious
n-s-funeral If you used his code and found it useful, and have a couple of quid to spare, any donations would be very much appreciated. If you cannot, but he or his code made a difference to you, you can still leave a comment there if you'd like. Dave P -- David Precious ("bigpresh&quo

Re: Once a week, every week

2012-01-02 Thread David Precious
'd been considering doing at some point but had never got round to, and any release indicates to potential users that the distribution in question is still maintained, not abandoned, so it might not be a bad thing :) -- David Precious ("bigpresh") http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ www.

Re: Telecommuting

2011-12-13 Thread David Precious
you're free to give it with a real-life nudge instead; I find the former much less disruptive, and as a bonus it works equally well when I'm sitting at home instead of the office. > which instead of trying to solve a problem with Magic Technology is a > blend of technology and pr

Re: Impending arrival

2011-10-04 Thread David Precious
On Tuesday 04 October 2011 10:38:43 Paul Makepeace wrote: > My 3-supplied UK HTC Desire isn't picking up 3G in the US so I'm stuck with > Edge (as, say GPRS would be). Not horrible, but still. By comparison my US > Nexus One picks up 3G on both sides of the Atlantic. I don't know if it'll be the c

Re: Expected Config File Locations

2011-08-30 Thread David Precious
Windows. It wasn't entirely clear to me whether you're looking for suggestions on how to *find* the config file in a sensible location, or how to install a default config file into a suitable location as the module is installed, though - have I got the wrong end of the stick

Re: perlisalive.com?

2011-08-09 Thread David Precious
ht. I'll happily assist with the moderation if you need. I'll also consider submitting content whenever I blog about Perl-related stuff too, if that would be welcomed. -- David Precious ("bigpresh") http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ "Programming is like sex. One mistake and

Re: Dear Git Users

2011-07-21 Thread David Precious
n't lose any history? You may assume that I have no branches and > everything has always been in 'master'. http://help.github.com/split-a-subpath-into-a-new-repo/ should be of help. -- David Precious ("bigpresh") http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ "Programming is like s

Re: Cool/useful short examples of Perl?

2011-05-30 Thread David Precious
On Monday 30 May 2011 16:27:30 Denny wrote: > On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 15:36 +0100, David Precious wrote: > > if (! Email::Valid->address($email_address) ) { > > Something wrong with 'unless'? Depends whether you follow Damian Conway's PBP strictly :) At $w

Re: Cool/useful short examples of Perl?

2011-05-30 Thread David Precious
address properly" example would probably be worthwhile, for instance: use Email::Valid; if (! Email::Valid->address($email_address) ) { print "Sorry, that email address is not valid!"; } Cheers Dave P -- David Precious ("bigpresh") http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ "Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life". (Michael Sinz)

Re: Cool/useful short examples of Perl?

2011-05-30 Thread David Precious
romDatabase->new( -sth => $sth, -borders => 0, # all HTML::Table options are valid ); $table->print; Another good example would be the newish edit_file() / edit_file_lines() from File::Slurp, allowing stupidly-easy in-place editing of files, for instance: edit_file { s

Re: Best practice for unit tests that rely on internet access?

2011-04-30 Thread David Precious
On Friday 29 April 2011 08:33:47 Leon Brocard wrote: > If the module is all about testing a live service then by all means test > it. Unless it takes too long, or costs money, or might change in the > future when you don't have time to update the module... Arguably, if whatever service the module

Re: Reinstalling all modules on another perl

2011-04-28 Thread David Precious
undle file /home/davidp/.cpan/Bundle/Snapshot_2011_04_28_00.pm You can then install that bundle on the other box, and job done. Cheers Dave P -- David Precious ("bigpresh") http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ "Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life". (Michael Sinz)

Re: Security of HTTP based authentication

2011-01-14 Thread David Precious
in the clear for the image requests too, assuming they're requested from the same domain as the rest of the page. Of course, marking the cookie as secure (to be sent only over HTTPS requests) would take care of that, as would requesting images from a different domain as often seen (ebaystatic.com

Re: Recommendation for simple Web Frameworks

2011-01-10 Thread David Precious
t;simple" frameworks, it's a valid thing to take into consideration - something which installs quickly with minimal dependencies might be preferable. I doubt anyone is going to make the decision based solely on that, but it's another criterion. -- David Precious ("bigpresh") http://www.preshweb.co.uk/

Re: Recommendation for simple Web Frameworks

2011-01-06 Thread David Precious
on IRC in #dancer on irc.perl.org if you want to ask questions quickly. Cheers Dave P (bigpresh) -- David Precious http://blog.preshweb.co.uk/www.preshweb.co.uk/twitter www.preshweb.co.uk/linkedinwww.preshweb.co.uk/facebook www.preshweb.co.uk/identicawww.lyricsbadger.co.uk "Pr

Re: Server side chart/graph library?

2011-01-06 Thread David Precious
#x27;ve used GD::Graph in the past, and it's done the trick. Cheers Dave P -- David Precious http://blog.preshweb.co.uk/www.preshweb.co.uk/twitter www.preshweb.co.uk/linkedinwww.preshweb.co.uk/facebook www.preshweb.co.uk/identicawww.lyricsbadger.co.uk "Programming is l

Re: Solid state drives

2010-04-20 Thread David Precious
On Tuesday 20 April 2010 10:36:54 Simon Wilcox wrote: > On 20/4/10 10:07, James Laver wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 09:08:10AM +0100, Richard Huxton wrote: > >> Having said that, there are clearly plenty of applications where > >> power-failure isn't an overriding worry. > > > > Or 'on any mac

Re: TT and UTF8?

2010-01-29 Thread David Precious
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 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark

Re: SHA question

2010-01-16 Thread David Precious
Andy Wardley wrote: On 14/01/2010 17:41, Philip Newton wrote: Yes - you're missing the fact that in order to compute the differences (which it has to if it doesn't want to transfer the whole file), it has to read the entire file over the slow NFS link into your computer's memory in order to comp

Re: Bug tracking SaaS

2009-11-24 Thread David Precious
jesse wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:38:33PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: PS https://rt.cpan.org not having a CA-issued cert is a bit odd given how cheap they are these days. Does Best Practical really need a helping hand there? Only if you can knock heads at .org. The issue isn't one of c

Re: Payment Providers

2009-10-02 Thread David Precious
On Friday 02 October 2009 11:13:35 Ovid wrote: > OK, I give. That's two references to how insecure 3D secure is. Given that > I know nothing about it other than the annoying fact that I've forgotten my > password for it, could someone explain why its broken? Well, there's the fact that, for years

Re: Last Straw. Camel's Back. Etc.

2009-10-01 Thread David Precious
Denny wrote: I have in the past had Virgin Media's '20Mb' cable service at this address - it never managed >2Mb in the evenings, and often dropped below 1Mb. Apparently their contention ratios are rather high. Avoid. It must depend upon location and how many heavy users are nearby, as I have