Re: Robot turtles

2013-09-23 Thread Matt Freake
I'm not aware of any 3-8 year olds in this group, am I missing the point? Are you trolling again? On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Joel Bernstein j...@fysh.org wrote: Aren't you still living in Austria? Child abuse is practically a national sport, it seems. On 23 September 2013 15:25,

Re: Using grep on undefined array

2013-08-14 Thread Matt Freake
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Mark Overmeer m...@overmeer.net wrote: * Andrew Beverley (a...@andybev.com) [130813 23:24]: Could someone please explain to me why the following outputs an empty string rather than *? @fields != @$fields, which is causing the confusion. I don't think the

Re: Perl School on Saturday

2013-04-04 Thread Matt Freake
You should look into doing a Webinar Matt On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote: Quoting Mark Stewart m...@originalstewart.com: I would like to attend but cannot make this Saturday. Do you have a podcast or the like I can download, even for a fee?

Re: PHP community

2013-01-17 Thread Matt Freake
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Jérôme Étévé jerome.et...@gmail.comwrote: , Perl remaining significantly more popular than PHP on the US job market. I'm probably missing something (it's been a long day) but I don't really understand that graph. If I click on the 'Perl jobs' link it returns ~

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-22 Thread Matt Freake
1/ Technical What CPAN modules deserve to be mentioned as part of Perl's history? Which Perl infrastructure projects are (or were) important? Are there any other technical things that need to be covered? Has the CPAN shell always been there? Discovering that made me life a lot easier and

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Matt Freake
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote: What CPAN modules deserve to be mentioned as part of Perl's history? Which Perl infrastructure projects are (or were) important? Are there any other technical things that need to be covered? Templating modules (embperl,

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Matt Freake
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote: Yeah. Got TT and Mason on my list. Was Embperl ever really important. I know I have a strong aversion to it (and I think you might also have the same aversion - engendered by the same project). That project was the only one

Re: Brainbench perl test?

2012-09-04 Thread Matt Freake
And besides, I don't think I'd really want to work with a programmer who didn't know what the Fibonacci sequence is :-) I dunno. Think of the teaching opportunities :) My concern would be, given that interviews are already a fairly stressful situation, that the developer familiar

Re: [ANNOUNCE] IMPORTANT: change of venue TONIGHT

2011-10-06 Thread Matt Freake
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Leo Lapworth l...@cuckoo.org wrote: Firstly apologies, the pub for tonight has just told us they are closed / sold out! Co-incidentally I was about to post about this. You're better off at a different pub, I was there on Friday and they'd run out of all beer

Re: Impending arrival

2011-10-04 Thread Matt Freake
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 Oct 2011, at 12:49, Ashley Hindmarsh wrote: http://www.o2shepherdsbushempire.co.uk/event/31298/caravan-performing-songs-from-the-classic-album-in-tickets Looking at the venue site they only offering tickets for

Re: Coming to London

2011-09-28 Thread Matt Freake
Sinclair and David Sinclair won't be performing and that Richard Coughlan is now so decrepit they've brought in another drummer, whilst he has been demoted  to just playing percussion. But don't let that put you off. Matt Freake

Re: Writing About Perl

2011-08-23 Thread Matt Freake
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Jason Clifford ja...@ukfsn.org wrote: On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 11:39 +0100, Dave Cross wrote: So, purely hypothetically... If a popular Linux magazine had given you the opportunity to write a 3000 word article giving a practical project-based demonstration