That's awful. He was a great bloke, and I enjoyed our chats on #dancer.
On 13 Aug 2014, at 10:23, David Precious wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> (Posted this to dancer-users first; it was suggested that it be posted
> to london-pm too as several mongers had met/knew James.)
>
>
> Sadly, my friend and
On 27 May 2014, at 16:22, David Cantrell wrote:
> As part of the nasty mess that is CPANdeps, I have this line of code:
>
> $record->{is_dev_perl} = (
> $record->{perl} =~ /(^5\.(7|9|11|13|15|17|19|21)|rc|patch)/i
> ) ? 1 : 0;
>
> I'd like to not have to remember to add 23 to the list in a yea
On a similar subject, what PDF (or even text, assuming I can find something to
extract the text on a page by page basis) indexing solutions are there out
there in Perl?
On 22 Apr 2013, at 11:42, Kieren Diment wrote:
> Similarly one can use pandoc (markdown to pdf and many other formats
> inclu
You mean apart from doing all the things you just said you're not going to do?
On 23 Mar 2013, at 16:01, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
>
> So I'm writing an interface to an API. It's a simple info request one.
> What top tips do we have for writing one that doesn't suck? I'd
> just go for a new that
On 17 Jan 2013, at 11:04, Peter Corlett wrote:
>
> Sturgeon's Law applies to PHP and Perl developers alike. The only reason
> you're seeing a lot of terrible PHP in the wild because it's a wildly popular
> language with a low barrier to entry.
Which latter is also true of Perl outside the echo
On 16 Oct 2012, at 17:19, Dave Cross wrote:
>
>> and another one I've been mulling and considering writing to submit to LPW,
>> but I'm afraid it wouldn't warrant me many friends in the L.pm community,
>> it's titled "The problem with Perl" and is basically me ranting about the
>> nice things
On 4 Sep 2012, at 13:48, Mr I wrote:
>
> You do not want to be assessing their knowledge of mathematics. You want to
> be assessing their programming acumen
And the fib() test, regardless of whether you know what the Fibonacci sequence
is or are simply looking at the definition of the problem w
On 4 Sep 2012, at 13:26, Mr I wrote:
>
>> If the candidate doesn't ask "what happens when n is less than 2", he
>> may be a passable maintenance programmer but he's not someone I'd hire
>> to have any sort of responsibility.
>>
>
> Again your assumptions are on knowing about the fibonacci seque
On 31 Aug 2012, at 10:31, Roger Burton West wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 04:28:27PM -0400, Mark Fowler wrote:
>
>> Here's my longer drawn out version, stolen from YAPC::NA's code of conduct.
>> Comments on this are genuinely welcome, and I'll leave it to the current
>> London.pm leader to
On 30 Aug 2012, at 13:42, Andrew Beattie wrote:
>
> On 30 Aug 2012, at 10:57, William Blunn wrote:
>> If you want a "technical" style service, you could go for AAISP
>
> I might go with them just on the strength of their website.I just looked
> at http://www.aa.net.uk/broadband.html and fo
On 21 Aug 2012, at 15:48, Nuno Jesus wrote:
>
> I'm also going to London very soon and I was thinking to order a giffgaff
> SIM card. They seem to have the best prices. Am I missing something?
I *have* a giffgaff SIM going spare (they send you one after a while if you're
a customer to give to a
On 29 Feb 2012, at 11:26, Sue Spence wrote:
> On 29 February 2012 11:04, Paul wrote:
>> There are a number of us who live in the home counties, so getting into
>> London requires a bit of planning and is quite a hassle. I have seen Damian
>> talk before, and while he is interesting, I'd just lik
On 30 Jan 2012, at 17:05, Roger Burton West wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 04:56:53PM +, Dominic Thoreau wrote:
>
>> open IN, '<', $cfg || handle_that_error_sub;
>
> OK, that's the same error I was making, so I'll point out that this will
> not fail as desired, but
>
> open (IN, '<', $cf
On 30 Jan 2012, at 16:28, Mark Fowler wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Damian Conway wrote:
>
>> 3. Strictures: Always 'use strict' (and 'use warnings' during development)
>> and
>> explicitly state your minimum Perl version requirement. (e.g. 'use v5.10')
>> [Ch18: "Strictures",
On 30 Jan 2012, at 15:40, Sam Kington wrote:
> In the code that we write at $WORK, any filehandle we close tends to be a log
> file or something, so adding extra boilerplate to our close statements would
> just be annoying.
use 5.10;
use autodie;
perhaps?
On 30 Jan 2012, at 15:26, Paul Johnson wrote:
> could you explain why you think checking the return value of close() is
> silly? I tend to have the opposite opinion.
I don't have the slides of the talk I gave on Defensive Perl Programming a
couple of years ago, but there's a definite case or t
On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 14:39 +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> For the avoidance of Heresy*,
> the one with the free drinks for newcomers is on the 8th December.
Damn. I had forgotten that when I turned up at the October one, which
was actually my first :D
On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 14:18 +, David Dorward wrote:
> On 16 Nov 2011, at 14:09, Mike Whitaker wrote:
> > He's not the only one who's moved on :D
> Yes, but we are shunning you for the "Open Source Is Evil" incident. :D
I was misquoted, I tell you! :D
On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 13:57 +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> Yes. There is a W12 cabal. I blame the late Piers. Who has now gone to
> a better place.
He's not the only one who's moved on :D
The number for whom that's 'used to' has gone up recently.
On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 12:59 +, Jacqui Caren wrote:
> I believe a few on here work for aunty.
>
> Original Message
> Subject: [uknot] BBC DNS down
> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:50:37 +
> From: Ray Bellis
> Reply-To
The slightly cynical answer is 'find out what Apple's Mail.app does and steal
it" :D :D
On 7 Jan 2011, at 10:29, Dave Cross wrote:
>
> What's the state of the art in detecting email address and phone numbers
> in text? Unfortunately, the Regexp::Common docs say:
>
> Future releases of the modu
I can, if you like.
We can skip the eternal love, though :D
On 15 Dec 2010, at 01:27, David Cantrell wrote:
> I have a hideously out-of-date Debian 3.1 machine that needs upgrading
> to latest-stable. Any of you lovely people fancy doing it in exchange
> for copious beer tokens and my eternal lo
On 30 Nov 2010, at 17:56, James Laver wrote:
> I'll be talking about the difficulties of running an international website,
> with specific focus on character sets (you
> should also go see David Dorward's speech on this),
ermmm... mine, not his :)
You are aware that's illegal XHTML, aren't you? :D
On 18 Oct 2010, at 16:11, Michael Lush wrote:
>
>
> I have a string ABCDEFGH and want to highlight two overlapping hits
> BCDE and DEFG in HTML to make ABCDEFGH
>
> The obvious $string =~ s{(BCDE|DEFG)}{$1}g; does not work as the
> modified s
On 23 Jul 2010, at 18:39, Zbigniew Lukasiak wrote:
> In the name of yak shaving I am reporting the following:
>
> There is a bug report at:
> https://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Name=Pod-Xhtml - it is related
> to the recent 290 fail reports from CPAN testers - and it includes a
> patch, so it
On 7 May 2010, at 17:44, ian wrote:
> Can anyone else on London PM help with the appeal? I am willing to help
> co-ordinate collection and to get the discs to Bruce.
That would be this shelf of useless CDs I was about to toss? Yup.
> Though on t'other hand I can't remember ever having needed to know _any_
> digits of pi for work purposes, so perhaps it's fair ...
One 3D CAD system I worked on did have a math library with a #define PI...
which I fixed to have better precision.[1]
Mike
[1] Yes, I know pi to 26 DP. Why do you
On 2 Apr 2010, at 12:05, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 02/04/2010 11:39:41, Andy Armstrong wrote:
>> On 2 Apr 2010, at 11:27, Mike Whitaker wrote:
>>>> I'm in a flat in Wandsworth. I'd like a fat and relatively
>>>> unmetered broadband package. Who are
On 2 Apr 2010, at 11:39, Andy Armstrong wrote:
> On 2 Apr 2010, at 11:27, Mike Whitaker wrote:
>>> I'm in a flat in Wandsworth. I'd like a fat and relatively unmetered
>>> broadband package. Who are we liking at the moment?
>>
>> If you're not w
On 2 Apr 2010, at 11:16, Andy Armstrong wrote:
> I'm in a flat in Wandsworth. I'd like a fat and relatively unmetered
> broadband package. Who are we liking at the moment?
If you're not working from home much, A&A (aaisp.net), possibly their service
via BE rather than BT if you want speed).
Screw it. There's pride at stake.
> Ah, look at all the london Perlers x 2
>
> Damien Conway
Comes from Down Under to meet up with London P M
> Now and again
>
> At the Prince Alfred
April the twelfth, where there's real ale and cider in stock
> Seven o'clock
>
> Ah, look at all the London Perl
On 27 Mar 2010, at 21:58, Mike Whitaker wrote:
>>>>> ...wow. I'd donate several hundred dollars to $PERL_CHARITY to see that
>>>>> happen. Not that I expect to get taken up on this offer.
>>>>
>>>> Hmm... the tricky bit is finding a tun
...wow. I'd donate several hundred dollars to $PERL_CHARITY to see that
happen. Not that I expect to get taken up on this offer.
>>>
>>> Hmm... the tricky bit is finding a tune where 'Damian Conway' will scan...
>>
>> How about the bass line from the Doctor Who theme?
>>
>> Da-da-da-da
On 11 Feb 2010, at 10:58, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> Snap..
>
> I got one of these as well. Wonder if that is coincidence :-)
>
> Perhaps we should ask whose mailing list he has managed to get hold of?
Dunno, but, FWIW, mine was addressed to my IRC nick not my real first name.
-
On 20 Jan 2010, at 09:03, Luis Motta Campos wrote:
> http://www.nro.net/media/less-than-10-percent-ipv4-addresses-remain-unallocated.html
>
> Now, the IP Allocation Market will start warming up... if you're sitting
> on some IP addresses for several years now, I see big business
> opportunities
On 7 Dec 2009, at 15:04, Jasper wrote:
> 2009/12/7 Joel Bernstein :
>>
>> I don't think this should have prevented your participation in the
>> post-LPW Saturday Night Femur.
>
> Tibia honest, that's the worst joke I've ever heard.
Indeed. It wasn't even remotely humerus.
On 1 Dec 2009, at 07:44, Ruud H.G. van Tol wrote:
> Abigail wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 06:24:12PM +, Chris Jack wrote:
>
>>> 7) Write a one line program that takes a non-negative integer as an argument
>>> and prints the square root when the answer's an integer.
>>>
>>> Restrictions:
On
> Does anyone know of a way to get proxypass-like behaviour inside a
> CMS, so that the content block (div, whatever) of every page below a
> certain level, say
> http://mysite.org/app1, would be generated by the back-end web application?
> (So that the trailing path and any vars were passed th
Adrian Lai wrote:
2009/7/29 Ovid :
On the off chance that anyone here is interested, I thought it would be fun to produce a small parody of the
"I'm a PC/I'm a Mac" ads. Basically, it would be a series of video shorts along the lines of
"I'm Java/I'm Perl", "I'm Ruby/I'm Perl", etc. All in g
get around to
submitting something.
Hoping to get there. Requires negotiation with wife, as it's in school
term time.
--
Mike Whitaker| Perl developer, writer, guitarist, photographer
m...@altrion.org | Board member, http://www.enlightenedperl.org/
Y!: tuxservers | Blog: http://perl
'...
In some cases, the feed maintenance folks even do it the way we tell
'em to.
--
Mike Whitaker| Perl developer, writer, guitarist, photographer
m...@altrion.org | Board member, http://www.enlightenedperl.org/
Y!: tuxservers | Blog: http://perlent.blogspot.com/
IRC: Penfold | Yahoo! UK Ltd - internal CMS team
nal social at the Television Centre bar.
Can I thank Peter and the rest of the BBC guys for organizing/helping
out at the tech meet?
I had a blast, and I learned stuff, too. :D
--
Mike Whitaker| Perl developer, writer, guitarist, photographer
m...@altrion.org | Board me
intersection xs ys = snd $ foldr aux (ys, []) xs
where aux x acc@(ys, r) = if x `elem` ys then (delete x ys,
x:r) else acc
If Perl is line noise, that just looks like someone barfed up a random
chunk of /usr/dict/words :D
--
Mike Whitaker - m...@altrion.org
How were the Manchester and Penfold's-house curry meets?
Morrison's rotisserie chicken, due to wifely scheduling crisis. Very
tasty. :)
--
Mike Whitaker - m...@altrion.org
On 10 Dec 2008, at 10:01, Nigel Hamilton wrote:
But the fact is "perl.com" has been *very* good for Tom.
Careful. That's starting to sound like sour grapes.
--
Mike Whitaker - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 8 Dec 2008, at 04:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The future is with the youth, and the solution is simple, as Tony
said "Education, Education, Education!".
I beg to differ.
"Marketing, marketing, marketing."
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