Re: Perl Doom and Gloom

2013-09-26 Thread Nic Gibson
On 26 Sep 2013, at 14:27, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 01:21:25PM +0100, Dominic Thoreau wrote: I know my last employer was very reluctant to know let anyone know we used perl internally, as he felt if there were security holes found in the language we'd be

Re: Perl publishing and attracting new developers

2013-09-23 Thread Nic Gibson
On 20 Sep 2013, at 16:38, Adrian Howard adri...@quietstars.com wrote: On 20 September 2013 14:50, Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk wrote: On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 09:34:01AM +1000, Kieren Diment wrote: On 20/09/2013, at 9:21, Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk wrote: If you are so passionate

Re: Robot turtles

2013-09-23 Thread Nic Gibson
On 23 Sep 2013, at 14:43, Mark Keating m.keat...@shadowcat.co.uk wrote: On 23/09/2013 13:22, Joel Bernstein wrote: On 23 September 2013 13:39, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote: Robot Turtles is a board game you play with your favorite 3-8 year old. It sneakily teaches programming

Re: Perl 5.16 vs Ruby 2.0 UTF-8 support

2013-08-23 Thread Nic Gibson
On 23 Aug 2013, at 17:32, gvim gvi...@gmail.com wrote: On 23/08/2013 16:40, Dave Cross wrote: In your original email, you said: The problematic mail file doesn't display any non-ASCII characters when opened in Vim A pound sign is a non-ASCII character. Dave... By pound sign do

Re: Kindle Fire

2012-11-29 Thread Nic Gibson
I've got a Kindle Fire, a Kindle Fire HD and most of the rest (I do publishing tech for a living, it's an occupational hazard). Given the choice between my Nexus 7 and my Kindle Fire HD, the Nexus 7 wins every time. The best eBook app on it (BlueFire probably) is as good a reading experience

OT? Perl Question, iCal

2012-05-22 Thread Nic Gibson
This appears to be my first message to london.pm in four years or so. Ho hum. search.cpan.org gives me far too many results for iCal. I need to parse iCalendar (rfc 5545) files and then write them out as xCal (rfc 6321) files. Does anyone have a particular recommendation for a module? Writing

Re: OT? Perl Question, iCal

2012-05-22 Thread Nic Gibson
On 22 May 2012, at 18:10, David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 03:35:51PM +0200, Nic Gibson wrote: search.cpan.org gives me far too many results for iCal. I need to parse iCalendar (rfc 5545) files and then write them out as xCal (rfc 6321) files. Does anyone have a particular

Re: spare memory

2008-09-02 Thread Nic Gibson
On 2 Sep 2008, at 12:26, Denny wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 12:16 +0100, Nic Gibson wrote: I'm about to upgrade a macbook pro to 4gig and a macbook to 2g so I'll have some RAM spare in a day or two if anyone wants (I can drop it in the post or, if you're near ShellMex House, 80 Strand, I

Re: mysql autoincs

2002-07-17 Thread Nic Gibson
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 11:33:10AM +0100, Peter Haworth wrote: On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 15:59:20 +0100, Nic Gibson wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 03:56:23PM +0100, Alex McLintock wrote: For the record I hit this sort of problem doing some perl web stuff with Oracle. It seemed that because

Re: mysql autoincs

2002-07-16 Thread Nic Gibson
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 03:56:23PM +0100, Alex McLintock wrote: At 10:47 16/07/02, Roger Burton West wrote: On or about Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:43:17AM +0100, Peter Haworth typed: Surely you shouldn't rely on sequences being contiguous, anyway? Who cares if your test eats up some values;

ahem

2002-07-08 Thread Nic Gibson
from the editorial of the latest Mac User (entitled, Blessed are the Geeks) There are many nerds in my life. Some are definitely Alpha Geeks, the kind of people who speak in Perl if they deign to communicate via primitive, bandwidth-inefficient verbalisation at all. and The Geeks are

Re: Access Microsoft MDB from Perl

2002-07-04 Thread Nic Gibson
On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 11:57:09AM +0100, Harper, Gareth wrote: Unfortunately I don't have much of a choice about this, we've been given some data, which is a microsoft access .mdb and has to be read. (The database is also horrible, and has 20 tables which link to each other via magic

Re: Perl/CGI/Web Calendar Thing

2002-07-01 Thread Nic Gibson
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 04:16:12PM +0100, Scottow Adrian - adscot wrote: Hello, I could really use a web/cgi/perl based calendar scheduling program, an initial google and browse around a couple of Perl web sites seems to show that there are a couple of choices. Before I dive in and start

Re: Perl/CGI/Web Calendar Thing

2002-07-01 Thread Nic Gibson
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 04:44:06PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: On or about Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 03:43:36PM +0100, Nic Gibson typed: I'm seriously considering strapping together some bits of CPAN and some Template Toolkit and writing the damn thing myself. Anyone got any other

Re: Perl/CGI/Web Calendar Thing

2002-07-01 Thread Nic Gibson
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 04:59:48PM +0100, Clayton, Nik [IT] wrote: I could really use a web/cgi/perl based calendar scheduling program, No one's mentioned ReefKnot yet. It's not a web calendar, but it is an effort to implement a toolkit for RFC2445 compliant calendaring. They can

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emergency pub reconnaissance: Audley

2002-06-27 Thread Nic Gibson
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 07:44:53PM +0100, Kate L Pugh wrote: On Wed 12 Jun 2002, Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has been reccomended to me http://www.pubs.com/audlw1.htm Theakstons, Courgae Best and Directors, Camra member I think, good food, full disabled access and a

Re: Fwd: Mac OS X Tech Talk: Unix on the Desktop

2002-06-13 Thread Nic Gibson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 12:11:36PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote: Well, if I was in the country (and could wangle the time off) I'd be interested in this, so I thought I'd forward it to the list. I'll be there. Anyone else going? You never know, if you're really lucky you'll be able to blag a

Re: Oracle client software

2002-05-22 Thread Nic Gibson
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:37:36PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:30:14PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:17:34PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: Yes, you could pay Oracle for support for RedHat, and you couldn't for Debian. This made no

Re: AMD Processors

2002-05-15 Thread Nic Gibson
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 08:47:35PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: Everybody else seems to have said good stuff but I thought I'd add... I'd recommend looking at http://www.overclockers.co.uk/ for cooling stuff even if you aren't overclocking. If you want cooling and quietness look at

Re: language extensions

2002-03-01 Thread Nic Gibson
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 06:01:54PM -, Tim Noll wrote: I, too, have that strange aversion But, I've always been tempted by Switch Anybody have any real world experience with it? How does it perform? Is there a significant difference between using it and rolling your own switch statement?

Re: CFT club

2002-02-25 Thread Nic Gibson
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 08:51:52AM -, Robert Shiels wrote: From: Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 09:32:18PM +, Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Are there many CFT people still out there? Care to be on a side list talking about - CVs, contracts,

Re: User Input at speed

2002-02-13 Thread Nic Gibson
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 05:36:33PM -, Ivor Williams wrote: Philip Newton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote [stuff about ergnomic keyboards] I am also looking to track down a contrasty PC keyboard - black keys labelled in white, or white keys labelled in black (as opposed to dark brown

Re: User Input at speed

2002-02-13 Thread Nic Gibson
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 07:10:04PM +, Andy Wardley wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 05:36:33PM -, Ivor Williams wrote: At one previous employer, I remember a few supposedly ergonomic keyboards which were QWERTY, but split in the middle into two halves at an angle. I found these

Re: JOB: wanted (all serioues offers considered)

2002-02-05 Thread Nic Gibson
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:44:20PM +, The address I am subscribed from (as if a header can be verified as being from the real me) wrote: On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 03:53:34PM +, Simon Wistow wrote: The one advantage of Word is that you cna password protect it so tat AgentScum can't

Re: OSX

2002-02-02 Thread Nic Gibson
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 06:43:56PM -, Robert Shiels wrote: From: robin szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 01 February 2002 15:20, Chris Devers wrote: You still need to be careful though, because you still have, e.g.: /Applications/Internet\ Explorer.app/Contents/Frameworks/MS\

Re: One-Eyed Kings

2002-01-30 Thread Nic Gibson
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 06:49:58PM +, Dave Cross wrote: This person even goes by the name The Eye. http://www.cgi101.com/discuss/article.cgi?5780 This would be the site you mentioned in your talk, yes? Whilst, I'm in slack/CFT mode I'll be reading. nic -- dammit, broke the auto sig

Re: One-Eyed Kings

2002-01-30 Thread Nic Gibson
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 11:18:18AM +, the hatter wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Mark Fowler wrote: It's a merkin thing. The first course in a syllabus is 101, the second is 102, etc. They're alluding it's CGI for beginners. More like 'by beginners'. so we eddycate them ... I

Re: Little Shop of Horrors (was Re: One-Eyed Kings)

2002-01-30 Thread Nic Gibson
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 12:43:22PM +, Jonathan Stowe wrote: [deletia] ... http://www.cgi101.com/scripts/ /J\ doh... nic --

Re: Idiotic Perl

2002-01-25 Thread Nic Gibson
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 01:04:06PM +, Dave Cross wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:40:32PM +, Struan Donald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: i think writing to all the pc magazines saying if you're going to run these articles then you might want to consider using nms scripts might be

Re: OT - anti spam

2002-01-02 Thread Nic Gibson
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 11:40:24PM +, David Cantrell wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 10:29:07PM +, Nic Gibson wrote: I've got Spambouncer running as a test at the mo. Not impressed so far. It's only been three or four days but it has failed to catch any spam so far, letting it all