Re: OT: Cheapo vps hosting

2013-06-21 Thread Greg McCarroll
On 21 Jun 2013, at 14:08, Mark Fowler wrote: On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 08:54, Ben Tisdall wrote: I'm moving to Germany and would like to maintain a UK IP address while there, primarily to run a web proxy. Maybe you should consider a VPN solution instead. I've used StrongVPN to do this.

Re: Scope of variables in a function

2013-06-01 Thread Greg McCarroll
On 1 Jun 2013, at 18:23, Dirk Koopman wrote: It is very annoying. The more so because this is an artefact that is (apparently) relied on by a lot of legacy code. Quite a lot of other perl artefacts have been deprecated and then removed. Why does this one persist? In what way is it useful o

Re: Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-14 Thread Greg McCarroll
On 14 May 2013, at 14:43, Ben Vinnerd wrote: I live in the North West and recently I saw a contract at Jobsite in Hampshire (i.e. a long way away). I spoke to the agent and they don't allow WFH (is this the agent not allowing me? Or Jobsite?). I don't want to unleash the dogs of war and al

Re: Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-14 Thread Greg McCarroll
On 14 May 2013, at 14:34, Aaron Trevena wrote: On 14 May 2013 14:10, Dave Cross wrote: Quoting Aaron Trevena : or you could get a trainer onsite. That sounds like a *fabulous* idea :-) Other perl trainers are available ;) I don't think training is the answer always here, i think what

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

2013-05-08 Thread Greg McCarroll
On 8 May 2013, at 17:09, Peter Corlett wrote: The real problem is browser support of Gopher. None of the common popular browsers support it any more. Clearly they are not fit for purpose then! ;-) G.

Re: API wrapper best practices?

2013-03-25 Thread Greg McCarroll
On 25 Mar 2013, at 15:23, David Cantrell wrote: > > I don't like the way that some API modules have eleventy bajillion > objects which get in the damned way of the data. OTOH when I do want > objects, I *really* want them. > I once worked with a company who worked with another company who had

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

2013-03-21 Thread Greg McCarroll
On 21 Mar 2013, at 14:46, David Dorward wrote: > > For a moment I thought that was a Palladium game and nearly took more SAN > damage, but it appears to be a WEG d6er so phew. > GM: You take unknown points of SAN damage. DD: You can't do that. GM: Maybe i didn't? DD: I go speak to a psycholog

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

2013-03-21 Thread Greg McCarroll
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" (the moral equivalent of mod_perl) to >> write web applications using Netscape's Enterprise Web Server back around >> 1998. So JS has been mo

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

2013-03-20 Thread Greg McCarroll
On 20 Mar 2013, at 08:20, AJ Dhaliwal wrote: "It is possible that Perl became less of the duct tape of the internet because of JavaScript." Didn't know Perl ever competed with Javascript? I think at a certain point UI/UX became more important than just serving up information, Flickr m

Re: New perl features?

2013-03-19 Thread Greg McCarroll
Good topic! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGW2w6PdnE8 G. On 19 Mar 2013, at 14:39, David Cantrell wrote: > 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 ips

Re: New perl features?

2013-03-18 Thread Greg McCarroll
On 18 Mar 2013, at 16:00, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: > > You'll need to write in French, though. And get paid in Euro. Couldn't we just write loudly in CAPS? G.

Re: New perl features?

2013-03-15 Thread Greg McCarroll
On 15 Mar 2013, at 13:29, James Laver wrote: On 15 Mar 2013, at 13:04, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote: So, no then. In the sense of having a single page of good examples of using the new features. With so many orgs stuck on ancient perls, it may not be a full solution. Sure it may attract newbie

Re: More advice about becoming a freelance Perl programmer

2013-03-07 Thread Greg McCarroll
On 7 Mar 2013, at 13:33, Richard Huxton wrote: On 07/03/13 13:05, David Cantrell wrote: 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 hir

Re: More advice about becoming a freelance Perl programer

2013-03-07 Thread Greg McCarroll
On 7 Mar 2013, at 12:22, Chris Jack wrote: Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk wrote How long is a piece of string? A piece of string is 3 inches long. Now you might be thinking you've seen a piece of string that was 4 inches long. But that was another piece of string. *Sorry: and it's not

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

2013-02-15 Thread Greg McCarroll
On 15 Feb 2013, at 13:31, Peter Corlett wrote: That was an excellent choice of pub. We should do that more often. But can you pre-warn them next time so they have more pies on the bar? :) Just wait until summer, then they do BBQ's ;-) G.

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

2013-01-26 Thread Greg McCarroll
Maybe what we need is a match.com of sorts for the Perl community. Who has time/skills/resources and who in the Perl community/TPF knows that something needs done. I'll pick on Jess (castaway) as an example . "1 hour a week proof reading." That would get snapped up every week. And the

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

2013-01-26 Thread Greg McCarroll
Before this blows up, can i just say that Leo is a good guy and your work speaks for itself Duncan, and sometimes we can all fire off a quick email a little too rashly as we get used to trolls and other internet mailing list beasties. G. p.s. now who wants to buy me first class eurostar ticke

Re: Updating lots of database fields in a single row

2013-01-24 Thread Greg McCarroll
On 24 Jan 2013, at 17:15, Paul Makepeace wrote: So we're using Perl still then? :D Perl was never cool, it was the kid that liked wearing a sports coat to school with leather patches sewn on the elbows as they took style tips from their 'cool' maths teacher. G.

Re: Updating lots of database fields in a single row

2013-01-24 Thread Greg McCarroll
language/toolset was cool about 10 years ago. G. On 24 Jan 2013, at 16:00, David Cantrell wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 04:49:17PM +0100, Abigail wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 03:38:08PM +0000, Greg McCarroll wrote: >>> Tied variables ;-) >> Overloaded constants, and not

Re: Updating lots of database fields in a single row

2013-01-24 Thread Greg McCarroll
Tied variables ;-) G. On 24 Jan 2013, at 13:57, Denny wrote: > You do know what $status contains in the example (so you could hardcore it in > the SQL anyway). $id is up for grabs though. > > > > Simon Wilcox wrote: > >> On 24/01/2013 03:01, Sam Kington wrote: >>> I mean, sure, this is s

Re: Project management

2013-01-23 Thread Greg McCarroll
ation of set theory is pretty damn bad. On 23 Jan 2013, at 11:51, Greg McCarroll wrote: I'd also suggest finding yourself a mentor in your organization - it might not even be inside the IT function, my mentor was head of findance, and maybe have a first chat about what the various

Re: Project management

2013-01-23 Thread Greg McCarroll
I'd also suggest finding yourself a mentor in your organization - it might not even be inside the IT function, my mentor was head of findance, and maybe have a first chat about what the various stakeholders (and i dont mean just the business) want to get out of a successful project. In m

Re: Updating lots of database fields in a single row

2013-01-22 Thread Greg McCarroll
In this day and age I'd be looking at an ORM[1] layer for such simple changes, they are almost foolproof until someone is a fool ;-). And they will probably avoid stupid SQL mistakes that you and I might both make. And DBIx::Class[2] is the current best of breed, it can also 'reverse engineer'

Re: PHP "community"

2013-01-17 Thread Greg McCarroll
On 17 Jan 2013, at 09:57, Kieren Diment wrote: On 17/01/2013, at 2:08 AM, gvim wrote: PHP UK (22nd Feb.): £380 London Perl Workshop: £0 'nuff said. Apparently not. Having been part of the teams that organized the first YAPC::Europe and first LPW there is a good reason for it being free

Re: Proprietary Sybase DBI/DBD module

2012-10-31 Thread Greg McCarroll
On 31 Oct 2012, at 20:40, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote: > > On 31 Oct 2012, at 20:00, Joel Bernstein wrote: >> >> Not to be snarky but the answer here seems to be "yes, and what's your >> point?" > > Companies that make you buy their software (limited, free, > development version notwithstanding,

Re: Brainbench perl test?

2012-09-04 Thread Greg McCarroll
On 4 Sep 2012, at 13:26, Mr I wrote: > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Roger Burton West wrote: > > >> >>> It's equivalent to asking you to write a function ved(n, m) that >> implements >>> the 16 sutras* and uses them to return the result. A task that maybe >> easily >>> done by many an India

Re: Who made the law?

2012-09-01 Thread Greg McCarroll
I'd suggest two things ... 1) be excellent to one another - all the best philosophies come from bad 80's, 90's movies, if you need a good movie from that time period, might i suggest the mantra 'save ferris'. 2) what Tom says goes, not an IRC op, not an ex-leader, not anyone else, 'In Tom we

Re: Started getting London.pm list digests but I don't know why

2012-08-03 Thread Greg McCarroll
Thanks for being gracious, and look on the bright side, you didn't top post. G. On 3 Aug 2012, at 12:38, Alex Balhatchet wrote: > On 3 August 2012 09:37, Alex Balhatchet wrote: >> I've requested a password reminder *and* an unsubscribe at >> http://london.pm.org/mailman/options/london.pm for th

Fwd: [Conferences] Call for Venue for YAPC::Europe::2013

2012-03-09 Thread Greg McCarroll
All I'm going to say is if some masochists, sorry i mean volunteers, want to think about doing a YAPC London, they'd get a lot of support. Just saying, G. YAPC::Europe London 2013, we waited 13 years to do it again because we wanted to turn the volume to 13. Begin forwarded message: > From:

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-04-11

2012-02-28 Thread Greg McCarroll
On 28 Feb 2012, at 21:55, Paul wrote: > On Thursday, 23 February, 2012 at 14:27:17 GMT, L?on Brocard wrote: >> Damian will be presenting: >> > [...snipped a load of garbage...] > > What is this meeting actually about? It's some washed up ex-neighbours actor, who is doing a one man alternative

Re: The proper way to open()

2012-01-30 Thread Greg McCarroll
On 31 Jan 2012, at 05:18, Avleen Vig wrote: This is the problem with TMTOWTDI. There should just be one way to do it. Then we wouldn't have this problem. :-) We'd also not have a language that attracts people who like to fly giant kites (Andy W. and a few others) and buy priests cassocks

Re: 5 minimums for any perl script?

2012-01-29 Thread Greg McCarroll
I'm afraid i'm going to be boring and suggest some business requirements. In comments or pod, note the following: When you are doing this (even if version control can tell people), and who you are. Why? if there is a long worded document/spec, at least give its name. Check it in under version

Re: Heretics Meeting with a Shadowcat guest(s) appearance

2011-08-07 Thread Greg McCarroll
I shall be there, i've always like the 1st thursday of the month when it's also the first, honest, G. On 7 Aug 2011, at 02:14, Mark Keating wrote: > If I understand the metrics correctly the 1st September is a heretics meeting > for London.pm, which is auspicious if true for Matt S. Trout (ms

Re: Perl T-shirts

2010-03-11 Thread Greg McCarroll
On 26 Feb 2010, at 20:00, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > > [1] I blame Greg for this. > Why do you think most YAPC's have a t-shirt in the welcome pack, the first one is always free . Greg

Re: Anniversary Beer - Plea for graphic artistry

2009-06-21 Thread Greg McCarroll
On 17 Jun 2009, at 13:47, Dave Cross wrote: p.s. I'd completely forgotten about that. Might need to save some money to bid on that shirt myself. duly noted. don't be surprised if there is a mysterious person in your blind spot bidding you up ;-) G.

Re: It Shines! It Shines!

2008-12-19 Thread Greg McCarroll
On 19 Dec 2008, at 18:22, Avleen Vig wrote: On Dec 19, 2008, at 17:36, Tony Kennick <0995a06aaeaf6b70e79c3aafd6719...@half.pint.org.uk > wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:39:30PM +, the following was promulgated by Andy Wardley: Behold! http://london.pm.org/ Now it has rounded corn

Re: Perl Christmas Quiz

2008-12-16 Thread Greg McCarroll
On 16 Dec 2008, at 19:17, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 07:08:18PM +, James Laver wrote: With all of these code-based things going on, I'm inclined to suggest a more disturbing challenge - overcomplicating "hello world" Cheap joke I know, but isn't the canonical example o

Re: Perl is Alive!

2008-12-09 Thread Greg McCarroll
On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 07:25:25PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Nige wrote:- > > >p.s. maybe we could have an auction item - let's buy back perl.com? > > This sounds like a good idea. > It sounds like a terrible idea. It's not a good auction item - trust me. It also doesn't achieve much

Re: *.perl.org facelift

2008-12-08 Thread Greg McCarroll
On 8 Dec 2008, at 07:17, Nigel Hamilton wrote: This looks brilliant. A lot of Perl sites certainly could do with a face lift. I think it'd go a long way towards making Perl look more alive :) I especially like "the Onion" logo - Perl's official trademark never looked better. ;-)

Re: BCS: Geeks, Gizmos & Gadgets Christmas Show n'Tell

2008-12-05 Thread Greg McCarroll
On 5 Dec 2008, at 09:29, Léon Brocard wrote: There has been some talk recently about getting more involved with other user groups, specifically the British Computer Society. Seeing as we are a society of computer users in Britain, you'd think we'd get on together - but the BCS has traditionally h

Friday Fun Problem: Floor Plans With Perl

2008-12-05 Thread Greg McCarroll
I thought this might interest some of you. I was lying in bed this morning wondering about how to take a pile of measurements and have Perl (for why use something silly like a CAD package) generate floor plans. So say my room is like this B /| A | | | D-C I might end up with a set

Re: Perl is dead

2008-12-04 Thread Greg McCarroll
On 4 Dec 2008, at 16:28, Jonathan Stowe wrote: 2008/12/4 Simon Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: David Cantrell wrote: And no, setting up yet another blog aggregator or yet another obscure site that occasionally publishes an article, those don't count. perlbuzz's existence hasn't fixed any prob

Fwd: [Conferences] YAPC::EU::2009 Newsletter #1 - Theme, Dates, Venue and other useful information

2008-11-21 Thread Greg McCarroll
it's a start, but roll on issue #2 with the exact dates :-) also, as a reminder LPW is just over a week away (Sat 29th). G. Begin forwarded message: From: "José Castro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 21 November 2008 14:15:08 GMT To: "Discussion about YAPC conferences" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject

Re: London.pm Dim sum Thursday 1pm: New World

2008-10-30 Thread Greg McCarroll
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 09:11:28AM +, Steffan Davies wrote: > Léon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote at 08:01 on 2008-10-30: > > > 2008/10/27 Léon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > New World > > > 1 Gerrard Place > > > London W1D 5PA > > > Leicester Square Tube Station > > > http://maps.

Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2008-10-16 Thread Greg McCarroll
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:47:27AM -0300, Ot?vio Fernandes wrote: > Sorry, I was importing my gmail contact and I made this mistake. > But such reasonable excuses spoil all the substance flinging, ;-) G.

Re: London.pm Dim sum Thursday 1pm: Oriental Brasserie

2008-09-25 Thread Greg McCarroll
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:10:32AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:26:26AM +0100, Dominic Thoreau wrote: > > > I promise to turn up to something, honest. > > But Chiswick is too far to go for lunch. Next time it's in Soho, that > > would be easier. > > You could come

(forw) [pm_groups] New Perl Projects

2008-09-16 Thread Greg McCarroll
See below, I think the new one (compared to his previous email) is Perl Certification. I've got no idea what the ** stuff is about. Oh and if you have colleagues wanting some free Perl training, you might also like to look at the course our very own Dave Cross will be running at this years LPW. I

Re: [ANNOUNCE] September social - Thurs 4 Sep - Crown, Clerkenwell Green

2008-09-02 Thread Greg McCarroll
s/tomorrow/thursday/ On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 02:42:37PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote > > Just a reminder, this is tomorrow ... > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 04:27:29PM +0100, Kake L Pugh wrote: > > Hello! For the September social, we're going somewhere we've not be

Re: [ANNOUNCE] September social - Thurs 4 Sep - Crown, Clerkenwell Green

2008-09-02 Thread Greg McCarroll
Just a reminder, this is tomorrow ... On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 04:27:29PM +0100, Kake L Pugh wrote: > Hello! For the September social, we're going somewhere we've not been > before - the Crown on Clerkenwell Green. We have the upstairs function > room booked from 6:30pm. There's no bar up there

Re: [job advert] looking for a perl person to write a web control panel

2008-08-31 Thread Greg McCarroll
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 08:30:07PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 08:07:10PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote: > > > > However, you're after a fixed-price job, which costs more because the > > contractor is taking on the extra risk of the job going pea

Re: [job advert] looking for a perl person to write a web control panel

2008-08-31 Thread Greg McCarroll
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 08:07:10PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote: > > However, you're after a fixed-price job, which costs more because the > contractor is taking on the extra risk of the job going pear-shaped > for reasons outside their control. And IMO, £500 isn't enough to cover > that risk.

Re: Dave and Religion

2003-09-05 Thread Greg McCarroll
* James Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: When it comes to religion I think Hitler had some interesting ideas. Note to self - write Acme::Siesta::Plugin::GodwinsLaw Greg -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.org.uk/~gem/ jabber

Re: Ob-buffy

2003-09-05 Thread Greg McCarroll
arly are people of exceptionally good taste, imagination and intellect. Greg -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.org.uk/~gem/ jabber://[EMAIL PROTECTED] msn://[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: insidious biometrics, identity crises

2003-09-01 Thread Greg McCarroll
Ireland you do, where in the its hay day, the RUC carried sub machine guns and were generally escorted by army with fully automatic rifles and a penchant for tracking you in the scopes despite what the regs might have said, Greg -- Greg McCarroll htt

Re: Perl on end-of-lifed Irix 5.3

2003-08-24 Thread Greg McCarroll
ctually get to use it[1]. Greg [1] To get an idea of compile speed, http://www.mccarroll.org.uk/~gem/computing/performance.html -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.org.uk/~gem/ jabber://[EMAIL PROTECTED] msn://[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bottom End Contractor Rates

2003-08-18 Thread Greg McCarroll
tor market (or at least deskilling it) seems like a bad idea. ah well, maybe its time to be a plumber, after all if your loo breaks you cant just expect employees to get by, you wouldn't expect them to come to work every day and deal with a pile of shit after all - sadly the same isn't tru

Re: perl and marketing

2003-08-17 Thread Greg McCarroll
currently use Perl. Greg -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.org.uk/~gem/ jabber://[EMAIL PROTECTED] msn://[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: High speed beer

2003-08-17 Thread Greg McCarroll
hat cold was good it still didn't inspire you to have more. And before one of you beardy weirdy, raving CAMRA 'old guzzlers drollop beer is especially fine due to the authentic gerbil droppings' lunatics chirp in, you can get good lager, you just have to go to Germany

Re: [RFC] arbitary maths evaluation

2003-08-15 Thread Greg McCarroll
the google calculator, its very good ;-) Greg -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.org.uk/~gem/ jabber://[EMAIL PROTECTED] msn://[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bra

2003-08-15 Thread Greg McCarroll
Last time you made a wise crack like that you ended up auction your bra, be careful what you suggest this time ;-) Greg p.s. also weird science style -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.org.uk/~gem/

Cafe Pacifico Cat Herding

2003-08-15 Thread Greg McCarroll
would like to come along, please email me offlist by say monday evening and i shall book an appropriately sized table. I'll probably bring my wife along, so it might be a good chance to bring your own ``signficant other'' to meet some perl mongers. That is all,

Re: Siesta party

2003-08-15 Thread Greg McCarroll
that we deserve each other and hence play the cunning rouse of switching business cards, h. but never fear, as you can tell my highly detailed map, i know exactly where it is! ;-) G. -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.org.uk/~gem/

Re: Oops - I meant OT Virtual Reality?

2003-08-14 Thread Greg McCarroll
ect for a Perl related list. G. -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.org.uk/~gem/ jabber://[EMAIL PROTECTED] msn://[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Oops - I meant OT Virtual Reality?

2003-08-14 Thread Greg McCarroll
al/heretical meetings have demonstrated our twin status conclusively in the past. Greg -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.org.uk/~gem/ jabber://[EMAIL PROTECTED] msn://[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Oops - I meant OT Virtual Reality?

2003-08-14 Thread Greg McCarroll
long as it also involveds beer/whisky/whiskey/bourbon. The only thing I can recall seeing actively discouraged was whining about people discussing beer/whisky/whiskey/bourbon. I really should resubscribe soon. Greg -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.org.uk/~gem/ jabber://[EMAIL PROTECTED] msn://[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Meetings

2003-08-05 Thread Greg McCarroll
party hats. And to help people find me, I'll be > wearing (for one night only) one of the many totally unique tie-dyed > Learning Perl t-shirts that Dan made. > will other people be wearing clothes they won at the auction - leon? G. -- Greg McCarroll

Re: Orange

2003-07-14 Thread Greg McCarroll
a nice buffy background image. or perhaps stars and stripes, draig goch or tricolore as the background. of course someone could organise a bid to give it a nice easy on the eyes makeover and return it to a nice sensible design. the key to winning is probably to get like minded people to join you i

Re: [OT] Any Mini owners on this list?

2003-07-04 Thread Greg McCarroll
ve a old style mini comfortably, the seats went really far back, so i guess it would have been a problem if more than myself (a mere 6', but fairly 'broad') and him were in the car. i also seem to remember that mini's were great fun for hand brake turns - but i was young and

Re: auction time

2003-06-26 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Rafael Garcia-Suarez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greg McCarroll wrote: > > So does anyone have anything that they think would sell? > > I could sell a running joke, or another recurrent mention of > something, for the P5P summaries. - That's not like I was > copying o

Re: auction time

2003-06-26 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Leon Brocard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greg McCarroll sent the following bits through the ether: > > > So does anyone have anything that they think would sell? > > I would just like to point out that I have already been auctioned off > this month and that auctioni

auction time

2003-06-25 Thread Greg McCarroll
you have two parties who disagree on it and are willing to put some cash of their own and to persuade others to help out to get the result they want. Greg -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.org.uk/~gem/ jabber://[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: leytonstone.pm

2003-06-25 Thread Greg McCarroll
gt; > And the reserve price is... > i believe embarassing pictures are best displayed 12'x8' via a projector ;-) -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.org.uk/~gem/ jabber://[EMAIL PROTECTED] msn://[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Going to Pub Tommorow (Thursday) Night

2003-06-21 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Tim Sweetman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > someone says "serendipity" and a bunch of neurons labelled "Dogma" light > up, Metatron (Rickman)'s rant is very relevant. > indeed it was, but i shouldn't be talking about this just now, i'm not

Re: Going to Pub Tommorow (Thursday) Night

2003-06-18 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Robert Shiels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > From: "Greg McCarroll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Some of us (Kake and I, and maybe others) are going to the pub tommorow > > (thursday) night, we will be there from earlyish to lateish. The pub > > that has

Going to Pub Tommorow (Thursday) Night

2003-06-18 Thread Greg McCarroll
Anchor for me to decide if it is still a fun pub or not after its refurbishment. If anyone is coming for the first time to a social meet feel free to mail me off list for a mobile number. Err not that this is an official social meet, its just drinking by the river. Greg -- Greg McCarroll

Re: assimilating CPAN

2003-06-12 Thread Greg McCarroll
ng 'Live long and Prosper' and doing strange things with their hands be a bit of a give way that the secret base is there? Greg -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.org.uk/~gem/ jabber://[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Making perl modules for CPAN

2003-06-10 Thread Greg McCarroll
, Martyn Lewis and Michael Buerk as they have only seen Balham through their MI5 TV spying devices. Anyway Godwin's law is start to make strange creaking noises so I best stop now. G. -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.org.uk/~gem/

Re: [Advert] indy hardware for sale

2003-06-08 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > HP SureStore 2000 Tape Drive > AIWA External SCSI CD-Rom (a buyer of one of the indys might > like this, although both machines can install via the net > thanks to their funky netboot proms) >

Re: [Advert] indy hardware for sale

2003-06-08 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Piers Cawley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Some of the less interesting stuff that I will be getting rid of > > includes, > > > > HP SureStore 2000 Tape Drive > > That's SCSI DAT right? > yip.

[Advert] indy hardware for sale

2003-06-08 Thread Greg McCarroll
although both machines can install via the net thanks to their funky netboot proms) Sun Sparc Classic feel free to make an offer on any of this stuff. Greg -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.org.uk/~gem/

Re: Last-ish call for YAPC::EU travel/accomodation

2003-06-06 Thread Greg McCarroll
this time I can't guarantee that we'll be able to get extra people into > the hotel so make sure I get your details before Monday. > > More details here : > > http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm-announce/2003-May/56.html > > Simon. > > -- > &qu

Re: The Perl Color?

2003-06-06 Thread Greg McCarroll
that. as for the colour of perl shurely its octarine wheter you are a pratchett fan or not. Greg -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.org.uk/~gem/ jabber://[EMAIL PROTECTED] msn://[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pattern matching against phonenumbers

2003-04-12 Thread Greg McCarroll
the idea. Anyway the interesting fact is that its population is less than the average gate at a premiership match, and the England team still didnt beat them in the recent match convincingly. Anyway I'll return you to your normal service of meta discussion about e-mail.

Re: rugby

2003-03-29 Thread Greg McCarroll
Please *** *** update your email address book. *** *** *** Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.org.uk/~gem/ jabber://[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rugby

2003-03-25 Thread Greg McCarroll
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rugby

2003-03-25 Thread Greg McCarroll
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Re: Why Assembler is better than Perl

2003-03-20 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Mark Fowler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > http://www.mccarroll.org.uk/~gem/dc_why_assembler_is_better_than_perl.png > > > > p.s. it might be slow going over ADSL but just you lot wait a week, oh > > yes, and then y

Why Assembler is better than Perl

2003-03-20 Thread Greg McCarroll
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Re: dim sum

2003-03-20 Thread Greg McCarroll
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[JOB] perl database programming

2003-03-20 Thread Greg McCarroll
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dim sum

2003-03-19 Thread Greg McCarroll
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Re: Learning regular expressions

2003-03-18 Thread Greg McCarroll
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Re: Learning regular expressions

2003-03-18 Thread Greg McCarroll
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Re: Perl6 vs Ocaml (was Re: Perl 6 Apocalypse 6)

2003-03-14 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Nick Woolley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tuesday 11 Mar 2003 5:37 pm, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > however I can say that ML[1] is very rewarding until you try and > > do anything involving interactive user input in it, then there is a > > hurdle which you must cross a

Re: [OT] Magazines

2003-03-13 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > [ apologies if this appears twice. i'm sure i remember typing > > it this morning, but there seems to be no evidence to support > > this ] > > > > I&

Re: [OT] Magazines

2003-03-13 Thread Greg McCarroll
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Re: External Mic for tonights meeting?

2003-03-13 Thread Greg McCarroll
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Re: Test More Branding

2003-03-12 Thread Greg McCarroll
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Test More Branding

2003-03-11 Thread Greg McCarroll
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Re: Perl 6 Apocalypse 6

2003-03-11 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Luis Campos de Carvalho ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Greg McCarroll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 10:13 AM > > > > It has to be said, that I wasn't fully expectant of that, > > but

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