I'm going to be in Swindon for the next few months, so I thought I'd get
the train to London next Thursday evening for the meeting. This seemed
like a great idea, until the train people tried to charge me £56 for
a ticket! Does it really cost £56 to get a train from Swindon to London
and back
On Tue Apr 1 11:47:55 2003, Jon Reades wrote:
I'm doing a little UK address validation, and after looking around on
We use CGI::Untaint::uk_postcode. The CGI is misleading; you can use
the Untaint modules without needing any CGI stuff.
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Marty
On Wed Mar 19 08:00:37 2003, Simon Wistow wrote:
So my options are to patch Mail::Thread or pester Simon to patch
Pester Simon to patch it. Tell us what doesn't work, and we'll pester
him too :-)
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Marty
On Wed Mar 19 10:03:48 2003, S Watkins wrote:
So you're trying to get the XServer display on system A to receive Xclients
from system B, right? Try using xhost.
I suspect Paul is running X with the -nolisten option, so xhost won't
help.
Paul, if I wanted to do what you wanted to do, I would
On Tue Mar 18 10:21:20 2003, Mark Fowler wrote:
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Phil Dobbin wrote:
You can't go wrong with Jeffrey Friedl's `Mastering Regular Expressions'
(O'Reilly: 1-56592-257-3).
You'd be better off with the 2nd Edition.
Or you could come to Belfast next Monday and hear Mark
On Tue Mar 18 17:48:12 2003, Simon Wistow wrote:
I'm convinced that there *must* exists somewhere a C library to parse
emails
http://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils/
I'm not sure how stable it is.
and another one that implements jwz's threading algorith,
Dunno about that. I thought he
On Tue Mar 11 15:45:12 2003, Nick Woolley wrote:
So, judging by this reccomendation and others I've seen, if I were going to
learn a new language, it might be Ocaml.
I arrived at the same conclusion a while ago.
Can anyone compare and contrast Perl6 and Ocaml?
I'm not able to do so in
In case you haven't heard, MJD will be providing training in Belfast
sometime in March.
http://www.kasei.com/training/mjd/
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Marty
On Tue Dec 10 16:21:16 2002, Nigel Hamilton wrote:
Sometimes I need to dynamically create the where clause of an
SQL statement. For example:
select * from table where a = 1 and b = 2 and c = 2
However, depending on the user input I may not want to include
some or all
On Thu Nov 28 15:27:21 2002, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
I'm playing with vim. Either it's standard perl syntax file doesn't
support folding, or I can't get folding to work for some reason (setting
fold method to syntax..).
Vague comments about remedying either situation appreciated.
The
On Tue Nov 12 15:38:07 2002, Simon Wistow wrote:
Now $diety knows why it did that. And I thought LCP was an ATM layer
protocol and shouldn't be affected by firewalling.
You're right: LCP isn't affected by firewall rules.
LCP is part of PPP, so it happens on serial lines too.
Everytime I get
On Wed Nov 6 10:33:28 2002, Greg McCarroll wrote:
[1] Before everyone goes ``Eugh Pascal'', i had to write another
multiuser diary a few years later using Motif and ML (a functional
language, i.e. it has no variables/state), after this exercise Pascal
looked like a wonderful language for
On Sat Nov 2 18:11:34 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote:
You shouldn't, but sadly you have to ? In that if you knew what GET and
POST requests to make to their website to register, then you could use any
OS and client you wished to. But you can't find this information out without
sniffing the wire
On Tue Oct 29 04:24:08 2002, Randy J. Ray wrote:
Also, pointers to fairly inexpensive places to stay.
How inexpensive?
The Generator Hostel (http://www.the-generator.co.uk/) offers bed (in a
shared dormitory) and breakfast from £15.
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Marty
On Tue Oct 29 20:33:39 2002, Greg McCarroll wrote:
Ah, so you will be bringing a solid stick with you then to deal with
the dreaded Gapps on the underground and perhaps during the evening
you meet London.pm you can use your knowledge of the tube system to
participate in a game of Mornington
On Thu Oct 24 15:13:09 2002, Kris Boulez wrote:
What is peoples preferred module for writing XML (files) from within
Perl ? The data is read by a perl script from different (heterogeneous)
sources and stored internally in a tree of objects.
I use XML::DOM for that sort of thing. I haven't
I've changed the venue to The Goose in Russell Square, so we can check
out another pub instead of the Calthorpe Arms.
The Goose seems spacious, clean, and fairly priced. I don't know much
about beer, but they do have some. They also have food.
Hopefully I'll see some of you there.
Time:
On Wed Oct 23 08:55:17 2002, the hatter wrote:
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Toby|Wintrmute wrote:
Speaking of Word docs, what do u with job applications that demand your CV in
MS Word format?
If it's an agency, I suspect it's not worth your effort to do anything
other than send it as a word
On Sun Oct 20 21:49:03 2002, Paul Makepeace wrote:
A while back there was a discussion on IRC where I trolled how I bounced
returned a form response for emails containing .docs requesting a
document in a format that doesn't require a license*
...
* (of course, I don't actually do this but
On Tue Oct 22 13:45:09 2002, Simon Dick wrote:
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:35:29PM +0100, Marty Pauley wrote:
My intended response to email containing Word docs is to bounce and
attach a Debian GNU/Linux boot disc image.
floppy or compact?
Just the floppy. I dont want to stress my own MTA
On Fri Oct 18 10:26:57 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote:
However, it is a moderately long walk from the nearest underground station.
(it's managed to pick a sweet spot (a bitter spot?) moderately equidistant
from three underground stations, so it's certainly an above average
distance)
It is
On Fri Oct 18 11:43:29 2002, Simon Batistoni wrote:
No, as I just ranted. Bloomsbury is lovely. Right up around King's
Cross (the two or three streets immediately surrounding the station)
it does get dodgy. You will see very ill-looking hookers and people
dealing drugs openly.
OK. dodgy
Small hairy Belfast.pm geek wants to meet London.pm geeks some evening
in order to pretend he has a life. Would like food to be involved, in
addition to the usual London.pm beverages.
Algorithms may be sung, and 4-bit encryption danced.
--
Marty
On Tue Oct 8 12:08:33 2002, Shevek wrote:
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Marty Pauley wrote:
On Tue Oct 8 09:47:35 2002, Paul Mison wrote:
His classic example was the iterator pattern, which can be
replaced in perl with a simple foreach loop.
Since Perl has a foreach loop, the pattern
On Tue Oct 8 17:49:33 2002, Simon Wistow wrote:
Ditto removing the preceding path from $0 for a usage function
( my $name = $0 ) =~ s!^.*[\\/]!!;
I prefer:
use File::Basename;
...
my $name = basename $0;
since it handles :foo:bar:baz and foo:[bar]baz as full paths.
Prewritten
On Tue Oct 8 09:47:35 2002, Paul Mison wrote:
I believe -- and I was half paying attention to the talk, half
relaying it on IRC, which is Bad and Wrong and which I now Regret, so
don't be surprised if I've got this compeletly wrong -- that mjd's
point was not so much that the patterns
Hello
On Tue Jan 8 04:43:53 2002, Richard Clyne wrote:
At the moment I'm looking at the Netgear range. Any
comments about Netgear vs other manufacturers, or suggestions on a good
place to buy the bits?
I recently bought the NetGear AP+card bundle from Dabs. The AP is very
On Wed Dec 19 10:58:09 2001, Paul Mison wrote:
If a venue emerges, the technical meeting will be on Thursday, January
17th, as you'd expect. I have a few people I can press for talks, but
more are welcome (on or off list).
I'd love to be there, but I have to go to the Perl Whirl instead :-)
On Thu Dec 13 22:44:51 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote:
I posted this to the modperl list with no response -- anyone here have
any suggestions, or even confirm a working A::R 0.33 on perl 5.6.1?
Yes, I have a working Apache::Request on Perl 5.6.1.
I'm getting the following error,
$ perl
Damian will be in Belfast during the first week of February next year.
While there he will be giving 2 evening talks to the Perl Mongers, and 2
training courses.
The evening talks will be Life, the Universe, and Everything on Monday
4th and Extreme Perl on Thursday 7th. The courses will be
On Tue Nov 20 13:17:44 2001, Sue Spence wrote:
Philip Newton wrote:
I presume that old bank notes can be changed in England for new ones,
possibly at any bank or, as a last resort, in some central bank (BoE,
perhaps?).
The issuing bank (Bank of England in this case) will exchange the
On Wed Sep 19 17:13:39 2001, Newton, Philip wrote:
Marty Pauley wrote:
There are already many hosts with the same name as a TLD. net.com
is one example.
Traditionally speaking (AIUI), that's not a host name, but a domain name,
That's not really tradition. Some systems and people expect
On Wed Sep 19 10:34:47 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
Email addresses are divided into a local part and a domain part, separated
by an @ sign. The local-part and domain-part are themselves divided into
one or more atoms separated by '.'. Comments are enclosed in parens. Any
special
On Tue Jun 19 16:13:31 2001, AEF wrote:
Buffy buffy buffy does anyone know of any decent
Perl/Unix jobs in London buffy buffy buffy?
Permanent? Contract?
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Marty
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