New Relic

2013-12-19 Thread Duncan Garland
Hi, About 9 months ago we asked New Relic about Perl bindings for their web-monitoring software and we're told that there weren't any. A couple of weeks ago New Relic contacted me and said that they now have an SDK in beta which is aimed at allowing dynamic languages which do not already ha

Fosdem 2013

2013-08-14 Thread Duncan Garland
Is there going to be a Perl stall or a dev room at the next Fosdem? Duncan

RE: Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-17 Thread Duncan Garland
Do you want to come out to Thames Ditton? It's a bit of a hike, but if you're interested I'll see what I can do. -Original Message- From: london.pm-boun...@london.pm.org [mailto:london.pm-boun...@london.pm.org] On Behalf Of James Laver Sent: 15 May 2013 23:20 To: London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers

RE: Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-17 Thread Duncan Garland
lege leavers... they're all wondering what they're going to be doing come June/July. As for wfh, I've done it for about 10 years now. One previous employer operated solely on this basis. Staff turnover was minimal. It occasionally didn't work out due to distractions/it not

RE: Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-15 Thread Duncan Garland
lege leavers... they're all wondering what they're going to be doing come June/July. As for wfh, I've done it for about 10 years now. One previous employer operated solely on this basis. Staff turnover was minimal. It occasionally didn't work out due to distractions/it not

Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-13 Thread Duncan Garland
Hi, We're advertising for a Perl programmer again, and once again we are struggling. It's a shame because we've got quite a lot of development work in the offing, mostly using Catalyst, DBIx::Class, Moose and the like. I spoke to the agent today and asked why so few people are coming forwar

Southampton PM

2013-03-02 Thread Duncan Garland
Hi, Southampton PM (http://southampton.pm.org/) meet at the Platform Tavern (http://www.platformtavern.com/) at 8pm on the first Wednesday of every month. That means Wednesday is a meet night. It's about a year since the group was revived. There have normally been between six and ten of us.

RE: We get a dev-room at Fosdem after all. Emergency Call for Papers!

2013-01-27 Thread Duncan Garland
m.org] On Behalf Of Wendy G.A. van Dijk Sent: 26 January 2013 18:27 To: London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers Subject: RE: We get a dev-room at Fosdem after all. Emergency Call for Papers! Hai Duncan, At 06:44 PM 1/26/2013, Duncan Garland wrote: >TPF posted a couple of days ago that it has £100,000 (or do

RE: We get a dev-room at Fosdem after all. Emergency Call for Papers!

2013-01-26 Thread Duncan Garland
t TPF, YEF, EPO and SPPN have not enough people to organise or coordinate workshops or conferences themselves. This is not meant patronising. This is also a statement for many other people who have said the same as you did, I have heard and read ithis question before. Kind regards, Wendy van dijk

RE: We get a dev-room at Fosdem after all. Emergency Call for Papers!

2013-01-26 Thread Duncan Garland
hes Leo On 26 January 2013 14:05, Duncan Garland wrote: > Hi Leo, > > I ran a workshop at this year's LPW. > > I got the company I work for to sponsor LPW. > > All the sponsorship money went to LPW, I paid my own expenses. > > I'll know next week whether

RE: We get a dev-room at Fosdem after all. Emergency Call for Papers!

2013-01-26 Thread Duncan Garland
ngers Subject: Re: We get a dev-room at Fosdem after all. Emergency Call for Papers! Hi Duncan, Please contact the TPF and let them know how many hours a week you are able to commit to helping co-ordinate this sort of thing. Leo On 26 Jan 2013, at 11:25, Duncan Garland wrote: > Hi, > &

RE: We get a dev-room at Fosdem after all. Emergency Call for Papers!

2013-01-26 Thread Duncan Garland
12:06 To: London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers Subject: Re: We get a dev-room at Fosdem after all. Emergency Call for Papers! Hi Duncan, Please contact the TPF and let them know how many hours a week you are able to commit to helping co-ordinate this sort of thing. Leo On 26 Jan 2013, at 11:25, Duncan Ga

RE: We get a dev-room at Fosdem after all. Emergency Call for Papers!

2013-01-26 Thread Duncan Garland
Hi, Isn't this something TPF should get behind? The Perl Community organises good conferences but they tend to be for quite small audiences. I've been told that YAPC Tokyo is the biggest with roughly 800 attendees and the next biggest ones are grouped around the 300 mark. Fosdem claims to attra

LPW 2012 Template::Toolkit Workshop

2012-12-23 Thread Duncan Garland
Hi, Finally got round to creating a slideshare account and uploading the stuff from the LPW 2012 Template::Toolkit Workshop. http://www.slideshare.net/duncanmg/code-from-lpw-2012-templatetoolkit-worksh op http://www.slideshare.net/duncanmg/introduction-to-templatetoolkit Sorry for the

RE: Perl 5 core maintenance fund drive

2011-07-04 Thread Duncan Garland
Hi, We're talking about £100k a year here. That's 1000 people world-wide donating £100 per year. That doesn't sound too unreasonable. There must be far more people than that who have a vested interest in seeing Perl do well. (There was more Perl is nonsense on the web last week.) I can't see

RE: Perl and IPv6. It's alright now.

2011-04-28 Thread Duncan Garland
Thanks -Original Message- From: london.pm-boun...@london.pm.org [mailto:london.pm-boun...@london.pm.org] On Behalf Of Paul LeoNerd Evans Sent: 26 April 2011 09:42 To: London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers Subject: Re: Perl and IPv6. It's alright now. On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 02:02:59PM +0100, D

RE: Perl and IPv6. It's alright now.

2011-04-17 Thread Duncan Garland
on.pm-boun...@london.pm.org [mailto:london.pm-boun...@london.pm.org] On Behalf Of Jesse Vincent Sent: 17 April 2011 14:44 To: London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers Subject: Re: Perl and IPv6. It's alright now. On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 02:02:59PM +0100, Duncan Garland wrote: > Hi, > > >

Perl and IPv6. It's alright now.

2011-04-17 Thread Duncan Garland
Hi, I was half-involved in a discussion about IPv6 on Friday. One of my colleagues had come across something that suggested that IPv6 may become critical sooner than we thought. As a result our development manager emailed him a strategy document he had written. It didn't concern me directly so

Perl and IPv6. It's alright now.

2011-04-17 Thread Duncan Garland
Hi, I was half-involved in a discussion about IPv6 on Friday. One of my colleagues had come across something that suggested that IPv6 may become critical sooner than we thought. As a result our development manager emailed him a strategy document he had written. It didn't concern me directly so

Re: London.pm Dim Sum Pearl Liang Thursday 1pm

2010-02-15 Thread Duncan Garland
Léon Brocard wrote: What better way to celebrate the Chinese New Year than to have dim sum? Let's celebrate the year of the tiger at Pearl Liang. London.pm dim sum is a social event where we meet up every Thursday at 1pm at a different Chinese restaurant, spend about an hour (and about £10 cash)

RE: Hardware Reliability

2009-06-07 Thread Duncan Garland
Hi, Most of our server drives our mirrored, so I wasn't really thinking about the failure of individual drives. I was thinking about a more serious failure which might take out the whole disk array or server. The starting point then is "How often will a failure occur if we keep our kit new (ie th

RE: ActiveState Perl on Vista

2009-02-15 Thread Duncan Garland
PPMPackages/10xx/ Also, if you are doing Perl CGI under IIS7 then you may find that IIS7 is a lot more picky about the headers it gets. Lyle Duncan Garland wrote: > Hi, > > I've just upgraded my laptop from XP Pro to Vista Home Edition. I've > installed ActiveState Perl 5.1

ActiveState Perl on Vista

2009-02-14 Thread Duncan Garland
Hi, I've just upgraded my laptop from XP Pro to Vista Home Edition. I've installed ActiveState Perl 5.10 on it as I've done with my previous machines. However, very little seems to install properly. For example the PPM (Perl Package Manager) list of modules seems very small when compared to previ