[ANNOUNCE] DevopsDays London 2013 - 15th and 16th March 2013

2013-01-11 Thread Dean Wilson
Hello All, On behalf of the organisers, I'm pleased to announce that the first Devopsdays London is open for registration - http://devopsdays.org/events/2013-london/ And there is currently an early bird ticket offer so book early ;) Hope to see some of you there! Dean -- Dean Wilson http

Re: London.pm leader election

2010-09-24 Thread Dean Wilson
an excellent job of getting more talks. It's very handy to have a single person who knows who's already declined and who's ready for another round of wheedling. And that's before you consider dealing with venues. Dean -- Dean Wilsonhttp://www.unixdaemon.net @unixdaemon Profanity is the one

Re: Hacker News London Meetup

2010-06-17 Thread Dean Wilson
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 01:16:19PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: On 17/06/2010 12:48, David Cantrell wrote: What's Hacker News? but everyone is Paul Graham. Dave has had that dream. We heard the scream from zone 4... Dean -- Dean Wilson http://www.unixdaemon.net Profanity

GLLUG Event: Linux Supercomputing (2010/05/13)

2010-05-13 Thread Dean Wilson
Tonight GLLUG / UKUUG are hosting a free talk on Linux supercomputing by Dr. Eng Lim Goh, the CTO of SGI. http://www.gllug.org.uk/index.php?/archives/49-13th-May-Joint-GLLUG-UKUUG-talk.html You are of course all welcome, Dean -- Dean Wilson http://www.unixdaemon.net Profanity

REVIEW: Server load Balancing

2003-09-18 Thread Dean Wilson
Hopefully the formats correct first time on this one. Has anyone read any of the other load balancing books on the market? Dean -- Dean Wilson http://www.unixdaemon.net Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon?xml version=1.0? page title=Server Load

Re: Limiting process startup

2003-09-05 Thread Dean Wilson
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Dean Is it just me Yes :) The text is black on #9797FF. If you can't read text with that contrast, maybe you oughta check the gamma on your screen. :) Just tried it on a laptop and i could read it. I've got the brightness cranked up so it might be time for a new

CPAN Autobundle

2003-08-25 Thread Dean Wilson
If i use 'autobundle' while in the CPAN shell to create a snapshot and then i try to install all the modules in the bundle (with something like perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::Snapshot_2003_08_25_01') what should the behaviour of the modules be in regards to versions? Should it install the

Re: [REVIEW] Linux Server Hacks

2003-08-14 Thread Dean Wilson
Nicholas Clark wrote: with less than a couple of years hands on Linux experience and excellent read for anyone with them. Top notch. How much (if any) of it Linux specific? ie would most of it apply equally well to any free Unix system, such as one of the *BSDs, or even commercial Unix with

Magazines

2003-07-02 Thread Dean Wilson
I've been clearing out my bookmarks and found one for the Perl Review, (http://www.theperlreview.com/), after a quick mosey around the site it looks like its stopped being published. Does any one know the story behind it? It seems a shame to lose first perlmonth and now The Perl Review[0] The TPJ

Re: [ot] Mounting Unix Drives in Windows

2003-07-01 Thread Dean Wilson
Dave Cross wrote: A bit of general advice needed please people. An anonymous client of mine has identified a need to access Unix filesystems from Windows PCs. 3/ Are there any other solutions we can look at - like, perhaps, an NFS client for Windows? Microsoft themselves do

[REVIEW] Test Driven Development by Example

2003-01-20 Thread Dean Wilson
Test Driven Development by Example Author: Kent Beck ISBN: 0321146530 Publisher: Addison Wesley Reviewed by: Dean Wilson Testing is one of the most overlooked phases of the development cycle. From the worst case scenario of not being done to the more common case of all the testing being done

Re: mine data fast (was Re: [JOB] I Need One)

2002-11-09 Thread Dean Wilson
- Original Message - From: Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] when typos appeared in job adverts, so that they now read CBOL programmer, lo and behold, CVs with plenty of CBOL expertise were forthcoming. So, people are telling lies to try to get jobs. And these people are not people

Re: Perl book for review

2002-11-01 Thread Dean Wilson
- Original Message - From: Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] In what way is .NET standards-unfriendly? The way the components underpinning most of .NET Microsoft were submitted to ECMA and then subsequently ratified, like, nearly a year ago? Oh, wait, that makes it a standard, doesn't

Re: Webmail

2002-10-30 Thread Dean Wilson
- Original Message - From: Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] does anyone have any recommendations for webmail that won't degenerate into a templating argument? I'm going to ignore the PHP bashing and templating discussions and add that Horde and SquirrelMail are both recommened on the

Re: Books on london.pm.org (was Re: applying patterns)

2002-10-11 Thread Dean Wilson
- Original Message - From: Simon Batistoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] It could be a long, dark, slippery slope, but I think that it's possible to distinguish between involved perl mongers such as Dave, and freebie-seeking hangers on, who don't even come to a meeting. There *is* a problem of

Perl magazines

2002-10-07 Thread Dean Wilson
I've just seen the 'call to arms' on Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/articles/02/10/07/1443229.shtml?tid=145) about the Perl journal missing its required number of subscribers by over two thirds and i thought i'd ask about other peoples views on The Perl Review and TPJ. My view is that if a

Re: Linux Expo

2002-09-30 Thread Dean Wilson
- Original Message - From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Dean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: will you have freebies? freebies good, etc. GLLUG and Lonix freebie wise is a bit odd. Any of the distro companies that can't make it down give us CD's to hand out and use for install demos.

Re: [cam.pm] CPMBOPPC - Summary

2002-06-02 Thread Dean Wilson
Paul Mison wrote: MBM's commentary on his beer/perl challenge. There's also a summary on the web at http://cam.pm.org/cpmboppc-summary.shtml if you like the pretty colours. Who needs Perl certification or P5EE when you have animated beer glasses. I'm not sure if i'm being sarcastic or not on

LCN Dec

2001-12-04 Thread Dean Wilson
Welcome to the London Community News. Details are for the month of December 2001. Due to this being the month of December some of the groups are still looking around and planning venues so keep and eye on the home pages if a group is mentioned with no meeting date. The User Groups:

REVIEW Securing Windows NT/2000 Servers for the Internet

2001-11-30 Thread Dean Wilson
Slightly off topic for a Perl list but its an ORA book and a good one at that. --Review Securing Windows NT/2000 Servers for the Internet. I must admit that I was dubious about buying this book when I saw it on the shelf, I was expecting to open it up and see in huge

Tech Meeting Aftermath

2001-09-21 Thread Dean Wilson
Thanks to the speakers last night, a good mix of subjects and they were all enjoyable. Nice to see the speakers weren't thrown by the boundless audience participation, esp Wax::On Wax::Off which seemed to go really well despite all the technical problems the speakers had to worry about. Also can