Re: Web scraping frameworks?

2014-03-04 Thread Jesse Vincent
Many years ago Audrey also put together Template::Extract, which is sort of a fascinating layer on top of this On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 06:50:48PM -0300, ?? Guido Barosio wrote: > Curious about this one. How far a scraping franework would be from lwp? > > > > On Tuesday, March 4, 2014,

Re: tablets for parents

2014-03-02 Thread Jesse Vincent
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 09:37:01PM +, Martin A. Brooks wrote: > Hi > > > From: "Nicholas Clark" > > To: "london pm" > > Sent: Sunday, 2 March, 2014 9:20:39 PM > > Subject: tablets for parents > > > > buying a device for the purpose of videoconferencing. My sister and I > > suspect that t

Re: Calendar web apps

2012-10-02 Thread Jesse Vincent
On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 02:54:37PM +0100, Dirk Koopman wrote: > It seems a good idea to ask if there is a recommended > Mojo/Dancer/ perl Calendar web app out there, just before > I write one. > > Any suggestions? What featureset are you looking for? --

Re: Anyone heading out to YAPC::Asia?

2012-08-02 Thread Jesse Vincent
On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 11:22:17AM +0100, Anthony Lucas wrote: > Thanks for the info Jesse. > > On the hallway and pub track front, do you think it will be worth trying to > linkup with some Japanese pm members (Tokyo, Shibuya etc.) before heading > over? > > Yes, definitely drop the organ

Re: Anyone heading out to YAPC::Asia?

2012-08-01 Thread Jesse Vincent
I've been to...all but one? YAPC::Asias to date. Often, slides are in English, even when the talks aren't. There's usually a fair bit of content in English, but not necessarily in every slot. As a westerner, I wouldn't go to YAPC::Asia for the sessions. The hallway track is quite good. And the pu

Re: OT: HTTP server that binds tcp6

2012-01-23 Thread Jesse Vincent
On Jan 18, 2012, at 6:42 AM, Roger Burton West wrote: > I have a handy short program which is built on top of > HTTP::Server::Simple. That's fine, but now people want IPv6 support. > > Is there a convenient server backend which offers this? I've just been > looking at POE::Component::Server::HTT

Re: Perl under MacOS X

2011-06-02 Thread Jesse Vincent
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 10:15:19AM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 09:37, Steve Mynott wrote: > > > > Install Virtualbox or Vmware and use a linux perl. > > Yes. If you're going to go that route, have a look at Vagrant. vagrantup.com

Re: Xcode 4.0.2 and XS modules

2011-04-22 Thread Jesse Vincent
Ah. So _this_ is what fucked jwz. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Simon Wistow wrote: Apple, evil bastards that they are, don't ship with GCC installed. You have to install Xcode to get it. And now, because apparently raping puppies to death with nuns or

Re: Someone needs to take jwz aside...

2011-04-21 Thread Jesse Vincent
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:33:52PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:08:16AM +0100, Jason Clifford wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 23:06 -0400, Jesse Vincent wrote: > > > There is a toolchain bug. Perl's toolchain can't find XCode. > >

Re: Someone needs to take jwz aside...

2011-04-20 Thread Jesse Vincent
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 05:53:20PM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 09:40:57AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > > > http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/04/a-badge-for-the-software-industrys-failures/ > > > > Or does he have a point? > > He's embarrassed that didn't think to ru

Re: Someone needs to take jwz aside...

2011-04-20 Thread Jesse Vincent
On Wed 20.Apr'11 at 13:01:10 +0200, Abigail wrote: > > I don't think that was jwz's point. > > I think his point is: "when doing something trivial, don't have a huge > dependency chain". "Easy things should be easy. Impossible things should be possible." > > Abigail

Re: Someone needs to take jwz aside...

2011-04-20 Thread Jesse Vincent
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 09:40:57AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/04/a-badge-for-the-software-industrys-failures/ > > Or does he have a point? He has a point. --

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

2011-04-17 Thread Jesse Vincent
On Sun 17.Apr'11 at 20:11:09 +0100, Duncan Garland wrote: > Hi Jesse, > > Ok, I'll see if I can organise something. > > Perl 5.13 is a beta release which is due to become the production release > 5.14 this year isn't it? Yes. > Can I conclude that 5.14 is expected to have good > quality IP

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

2011-04-17 Thread Jesse Vincent
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 02:02:59PM +0100, Duncan Garland wrote: > Hi, > > > > I was half-involved in a discussion about IPv6 on Friday. [...] > I think some wheels were turning in the background. In the middle of last > year one of the people who had been highlighting the problems, Steffan

Re: Recommendation for simple Web Frameworks

2011-01-10 Thread Jesse Vincent
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:55:42PM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > On 10 Jan 2011, at 22:41, Peter Edwards wrote: > > >> > "Matt" == Matt Sergeant writes: > >>> > >>>Matt> But the dependencies list *is* much larger for Catalyst. > >> > > > > Indeed. I'm in a corporate envir

Re: London.pm leader election

2010-09-24 Thread Jesse Vincent
I support this proposed public/private power sharing arrangement. Seconded. Twice (?) "David Cantrell" wrote: >On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:43:10AM +0100, L?on Brocard wrote: > >> 4th October: Send nominations to a...@astray.com and d...@dave.org.uk >> before this date > >I nominate Amelia the st

Re: Emergency social: The Gunmakers, tomorrow evening (for Perl 5.12.0)

2010-04-14 Thread Jesse Vincent
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 04:41:52PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > Perl 5.12.0 escaped onto CPAN on Monday night, a few hours after Damian's > talk: > > http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=10/04/13/1953252 > > Clearly this is an emergency. Although whether it's a good emergency or > bad eme

Re: Fwd: Perl 5.12.0-RC1 now available

2010-03-30 Thread Jesse Vincent
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:42:47PM +0100, Paul wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 03:42:46PM +0100, Léon Brocard wrote: > >Please test this release candidate for 5.12.0 with your internal code > >to make sure that we haven't broken anything important without > >realising. > > A list of current issu

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 12th April 2010

2010-03-26 Thread Jesse Vincent
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 06:41:01AM +1100, Damian Conway wrote: > [Various all-too-easily-copied archival format suggestions discarded] > > Look, if we *really* want to preserve and protect this extremely > valuable intellectual property, I propose that we don't film it at all. > Instead, let us

Re: keyboards/RSI/switching costs (was Looking for a secondhand Datahand Pro II)

2009-10-22 Thread Jesse Vincent
On Wed 21.Oct'09 at 17:44:58 +0100, James Laver wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:21 PM, jesse wrote: > > > > In the US, that's ~illegal[1]. The UK doesn't have a similar law? > > > > [1] http://www.section508.gov/ > > > > We have the disability discrimination act which makes it similarly > i

Re: *.perl.org facelift

2008-12-09 Thread Jesse Vincent
On Tue 9.Dec'08 at 16:25:48 +, Léon Brocard wrote: > 2008/12/5 Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I put a few ideas together for a *.perl.org facelift. > > > > http://wardley.org/use.perl.org/test.html > > > > At the moment it's just a stick in the ground. It's probably the > > wrong kind

Re: Perl is dead

2008-12-03 Thread Jesse Vincent
On Wed 3.Dec'08 at 17:55:55 +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > In response to Ovid's post on use.perl: > > http://davehodg.blogspot.com/2008/12/perl-is-dead.html Is there really no Ruby or Python on that list? pgpVMIO4lShST.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [OT] Perl 5.8.9 RC1 is out

2008-11-13 Thread Jesse Vincent
We've tested RT, Jifty, SVK and Prophet on it on linux and osx. Generally things look happy Léon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >2008/11/11 Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/N/NW/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.9-RC1.tar.bz2 >> no-one has tested it on *your* wo