Re: The joys of web development

2003-04-02 Thread James Powell
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 12:23:37PM +0100, Andy Wardley wrote: Jon Reades wrote: To be a little nit-picky, I think that there are a number of people in Africa on tediously slow (14,4 or less) dial-up connections who might object to being told that they don't count for much. Hospitals

Re: message board software

2003-03-27 Thread James Powell
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 05:37:23AM -0800, Toby|Wintrmute wrote: Ello, I need to setup a message board / forum thing, and I want something that runs on Perl/DBI(::Pg) or Perl/Pg .. (or just a simple dirs+textfiles backend) Freshmeat has 187 projects listed:

Re: message board software

2003-03-27 Thread James Powell
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 02:49:57PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 02:31:20PM +, James Powell wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 05:37:23AM -0800, Toby|Wintrmute wrote: I just wondered if anyone here has some reccommendations? Would prefer Perl, but PHP system

Re: message board software

2003-03-27 Thread James Powell
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 05:37:23AM -0800, Toby|Wintrmute wrote: Ello, I need to setup a message board / forum thing, and I want something that runs on Perl/DBI(::Pg) or Perl/Pg .. (or just a simple dirs+textfiles backend) Freshmeat has 187 projects listed:

Re: rugby

2003-03-26 Thread James Powell
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 05:14:09PM +, Robin Szemeti wrote: On Tuesday 25 March 2003 15:59, Greg McCarroll wrote: Ok, its been talked about in the past, but does anyone have any plans for a london.pm meet up to watch Ireland kick Englands arse on sunday. not as such. How about

Re: [OT] PDA recommendation.

2003-03-17 Thread James Powell
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 11:45:53AM -, Andy Williams (IMAP HILLWAY) wrote: Hi, I've decided to enter the 21st century and buy a PDA. Does anyone have any recommendations? As a minimum I'll need the follwoing: 1) Get at my email using my mobile phone as the modem. I guess

[buffy] is leaving?

2003-02-13 Thread James Powell
to be replaced by the much fitter Eliza Dushku http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/2756657.stm maybe I will start watching this now instead of leaving my girlfriend on a thursday night and escaping down the pub. jp

Re: [buffy] is leaving?

2003-02-13 Thread James Powell
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 01:37:42PM +, Jason Clifford wrote: On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, James Powell wrote: to be replaced by the much fitter Eliza Dushku http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/2756657.stm I am not convinced. I don't think 3 episodes would be enough

Re: [buffy] is leaving?

2003-02-13 Thread James Powell
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 01:52:29PM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote: James Powell wrote: to be replaced by the much fitter Eliza Dushku http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/2756657.stm Hmmm, linked in by the fact that both have been in a mental asylum[1]? Sod it, I don't

Re: CVS Client

2003-01-22 Thread James Powell
wincvs? On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 03:03:23PM -, Neil Fryer wrote: Hi All Can anyone recommend a decent free CVS client, for W2K? To connect to a Linux CVS server? Thanks in advance Neil Fryer Systems Administrator 12Snap UK Ltd Level 8 10 Wardour Street London W1D 6QF

Re: CVS Client

2003-01-22 Thread James Powell
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 06:06:00PM +, Patrick Mulvany wrote: Hi, Just a mild digression. If you are considering simultanious windows/linux development becareful about your Windows editors it is a real pain when someone on windows checks in a file with only the line endings changed.

Re: Perl Merchandise

2002-12-11 Thread James Powell
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:52:54AM +, Simon Wistow wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:14:00AM +, Kate L Pugh said: This is what I want for Christmas: http://www.dabs.com/products/prod-info.asp?quicklinx=137J ObPlayStationHater: Why get a bad console with only 5 or 6 good games

Re: Candidates' attitudes

2002-11-25 Thread James Powell
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 07:26:57PM +, Richard Clamp wrote: [snippety snip] */ I think $candidate is a rude bastard on irc. I won't be voting for him, and neither should you. I think you might have someone in mind here :) Of course it's entirely your vote, to spend as you wish. I

Re: Book: Best of the Perl Journal

2002-11-19 Thread James Powell
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 10:49:00AM +, Graham Barr wrote: As an author I have just been sent two copies of this book by O'Reilly. I have no use for a second copy, so I thought I would throw it up for grabs. However, I live in Guildford and dont travel to London, so it would be easier if

Re: The best film of all time?

2001-09-17 Thread James Powell
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:14:04PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote: I love the Flash Gordon remake for its completely hilarious camp cheeziness. And the Queen soundtrack. Oh, please. It's got the crap Blue Peter presenter from the early 80s in. And Timothy Dalton. Sheesh. Mind you, Brian Blessed

The worst film of all time (The best film of all time?)

2001-09-17 Thread James Powell
How about the worst Godzilla (recent Hollywood version, biggest cinema arse-acher ever) Armageddon Bottom the Movie (what possessed me to rent this I do not know) Deuce Bigalow (ditto) Lethal Weapon 4 The Idiots Anything with Eddie Izzard in it except recent vampire flick (Nosferatu?) Anything

Re: Job

2001-07-03 Thread James Powell
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 07:26:41PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Lee Goddard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry can't remember who wanted a job, but I just got asked if I'd do TCL, maybe TCL-Java. No way. But maybe you can: big bucks, apparently: hassle Argh! One of the horrible bloaty

Re: Job

2001-07-03 Thread James Powell
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 02:17:57PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: James Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone ever used interwoven? Yes. How is it (bearing in mind the market it is aimed at)? Not good. Very perl4 script stylee... You been looking at all the interwoven gigs

Re: TT new website (buffy)

2001-06-28 Thread James Powell
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 04:31:34PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: This is cool. I think the future of perl is in generating ASCII art. Someone I know that works on AOL Communities had to go through their chat boards removing ASCII porn! Fiver for the first person to write a module that can detect