On 12 Dec 2012, at 12:12, Leon Brocard a...@astray.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 02:29:24AM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
i can't say much about this but you have to look at the code here.
https://metacpan.org/author/PERLOOK/
I congratulate Alexej on joining the CPAN authors club.
On 25 Nov 2012, at 17:25, James Laver james.la...@gmail.com wrote:
Not entirely flattering. You must have picked a hell of a moment.
No, this is a hell of a moment:
https://picasaweb.google.com/104598318166622233830/LondonPerlConference24112012#5814779296635010610
Why is character encoding
On 16 Oct 2012, at 16:39, Leon Brocard a...@astray.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 07:53:38PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
I'm trying to organise a technical meeting for the 2012-10-30 in Victoria
London. I'm looking for a few speakers for 20 minute talks. Perhaps you might
like to practice
On 31 Aug 2012, at 11:54, Mark Fowler wrote:
Q. Do people really need to be told this?
The vast majority of people don't. However, the two groups of people that do
are:
a) People who are worried that they might be victims of harassment. They
need to be reassured - especially when
On 2 Apr 2012, at 10:04, Nicholas Clark wrote:
I'm really not sure what power the leader has.
Well, for one I'm now replacing the photo I have in my little shrine.
Thank you so much, Leo. And welcome, Tom.
On 29 Feb 2012, at 11:44, Damian Conway wrote:
Paul wrote:
I'd just like to know beforehand how much I would find
directly useful in my day to day work.
Ah, that's easy: absolutely NONE of it will be directly useful
in your day to day work (unless your day to day work is
very unusual
On 29 Jan 2012, at 21:02, Leo Lapworth wrote:
Mine:
1) use strict; use warnings;
- obvious why
2) all files to be perl tidied (ideally automatically)
- it makes reading code easier, as long as there is a standard
3) All variable names to be clear about what they contain, no short
On 21 Dec 2011, at 15:23, Leon Brocard wrote:
Hello everybody!
I'm trying to organise a technical meeting for the 26th January 2012.
I'm looking for a few speakers for 20 minute talks. Could you email
me offlist if you're interested?
Hi Le'on,
did you have any particular topic in mind?
On 4 Dec 2011, at 12:12, Steve Mynott st...@gruntling.com wrote:
So it's December now?
Where is it?
ObPerl6Joke.
On 29 Sep 2011, at 18:51, David Cantrell wrote:
Is there any particular reason for using this weirdo 'defaults' tool
instead of just a text editor though?
None that I can think of, other than it being able to talk to OpenDirectory and
used for pretty much everything. I don't know if this
On 28 Sep 2011, at 23:52, David Cantrell wrote:
Apple's bootpd keeps its config in a hateful XML file in
/etc/bootpd.plist, and I need to change one value in it - it seems that
I need to change reply_threshold_seconds from 4 to 0 so that my shiny
new Kindle can connect.
On 29 Sep 2011, at 00:38, Chris Devers wrote:
And `defaults write /etc/bootp parameter value` is definitely the way to go
if you're updating simple key/value settings. For more complex nested data
structures, look into /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy, which is way more flexible.
Is that not
On 4 Jul 2011, at 22:28, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
That's an interesting thought: put money in the kitty and get people to
choose
to leave it in there to benefit perl...
Taking this idea further, we could picket crack dens and ask the punters to
skip their hit and
Here's the email I sent to the powers that be at Playfish. I apologise
to Nicholas for the shameless ripoff.
Hi,
A couple of years ago booking.com made a hugely generous $5
donation to The Perl Foundation, and that money was used to pay one of
the core developers, Dave Mitchell, to work on
Something I use quite a lot when skimming through log files:
perl -le 'print scalar localtime shift'
Ok, probably less than you were looking for...
Cheers,
Pedro
On 28 May 2011, at 00:12, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
Can anyone recommend a good book on iPhone programming and Objective C?
Assume that I know *nothing* about Obj C or XCode.
Programming Objective-C 2.0, by Stephen Kochan. As for XCode/iPhone, Apple's
dev website.
Cheers,
On 22 May 2011, at 18:20, Simon Wistow si...@thegestalt.org wrote:
Is there anything out there that gives Moose style 'has' with type
constraints but without needing all the other functionality that Moose
provides?
Is Mouse too much?
On 27 Apr 2011, at 13:02, Nicholas Clark wrote:
The issues seem to be dependency management and code reuse.
How is Java solving these in ways that Perl is failing at?
It's not automating the (to some degree necessary) bureaucratic
permission-gaining exercises. So what is it doing
On 27 Apr 2011, at 13:15, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
On 27 Apr 2011, at 13:02, Nicholas Clark wrote:
Which makes me ask the same question. How is Java doing it right?
In my limited BBC experience, mvn just pulls freshest everything down
from the repo...
No, it pulls whatever you tell it
On 27 Apr 2011, at 13:51, Andy Armstrong wrote:
http://www.sonatype.com/books/mvnref-book/reference/pom-relationships-sect-project-dependencies.html
As far as dependency management goes. It does so much more than that. I'd go
for the by example book for a quick overview, and then use the
On 27 Apr 2011, at 16:18, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Also: geek-operated mojito bars in the caribbean.
Ten years ago I considered opening a margarita bar on a deserted beach in
Thailand, but couldn't find such thing.
Would gladly consider mojitos, perhaps serve margaritas in the morning when you
On 27 Apr 2011, at 18:08, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
On 27 Apr 2011, at 16:55, Pedro Figueiredo wrote:
On 27 Apr 2011, at 16:18, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Also: geek-operated mojito bars in the caribbean.
Ten years ago I considered opening a margarita bar on a deserted
On 21 Apr 2011, at 12:52, Jesse Vincent wrote:
Jamie swears that it's a vanilla vendor Perl on a new 10.6.7 box with
XCode 4. Someone spotted it trying to use the _ppc_ compiler at some
point during the build. I don't currently have suitable test hardware
to try to repro it on. :/
Could it
On 20 Apr 2011, at 09:40, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/04/a-badge-for-the-software-industrys-failures/
Or does he have a point?
He might or might not have a point. The truth is, as someone working in a Java
shop where the core business is writing games, as long as
On 20 Apr 2011, at 19:08, Joel Bernstein wrote:
On 20 April 2011 18:45, Pedro Figueiredo m...@pedrofigueiredo.org wrote:
He might or might not have a point. The truth is, as someone working in a
Java shop where the core business is writing games, as long as this happens
whenever we need
On 13 Apr 2011, at 14:52, David Cantrell wrote:
I'm looking for something I can use on my shiny shiny iPad for drawing
diagrams and stuff. Need to be able to have multiple multi-page
documents. Ideally it will let me zoom in for fine detail, and will
have clever stuff that I can turn on for
On 9 Feb 2011, at 17:03, Paul Makepeace pa...@paulm.com wrote:
Which registrars have a decent features/price for someone with a few
dozen domains?
P
I've been a joker.com customer for nearly 10 years, and can't recommend them
enough: good prices, excellent DNS service backed with simple
On 30 Aug 2010, at 18:00, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
On 30 Aug 2010, at 16:52, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
[ Apologies for the late announcement, hope as many as possible can still
make it. ]
Is there a facebook event?
I got 4 invitations to this on Facebook.
On 31 Jul 2010, at 19:32, Aaron Trevena wrote:
I'm ordering head first java, mr bunny and effective java books in a
minute and reading online tutorials and getting familiar with eclipse
this weekend.
I liked Head First Java, and Effective Java is probably the best Java book out
there.
On 22 May 2010, at 08:20, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
On 22 May 2010, at 05:53, Zbigniew Lukasiak wrote:
Hi there,
It seems that there is a huge demand for Facebook applications. At
least this is what my colleague is trying to convince me about, but
since I have already been approached by
On 3 May 2010, at 20:09, Ovid curtis_ovid_...@yahoo.com wrote:
affordable accommodation in central London for my upcoming June
wedding. Any suggestions?
The Olympia Hilton and Chelsea Cloisters (serviced apartments) in
South Kensington (5-minute walk from the tube station and museums).
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Chris Jack chris_j...@msn.com wrote:
There are actually reasonably affordable
(http://www.microdirect.co.uk/home/product/44075/Intel-X25-M-Mainstream-80GB-SATA-2-5-inch?source=googleps)
has 80GB drives for £155 ex VAT.
A friend got one from Amazon.co.uk for
Hi,
If by any chance any of you wants to work in social games and move to
the Dark Side, these might be interesting:
http://www.playfish.com/?page=uk_core_server_developer
http://www.playfish.com/?page=uk_server_developer
Funnily enough, it's hard to find really good Java developers :) If
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 for
On 24 Nov 2009, at 20:08, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Any recommendations for online bug tracking tools? We've tried
I quite like Jira, it integrates with your repos, has a good code review tool,
extremely powerful search, dependencies, RSS feeds for everything, API, CI
server, the works.
I
On 24 Nov 2009, at 20:38, James Laver wrote:
Fwiw, I like simple bug tracking, but jira is powerful is budget isn't a
concern or you have 5 or fewer team members ($10/year in that case). Still,
it means running a java appserver.
We use the hosted version, so don't have to run anything.
On 15 Nov 2009, at 15:47, David Golden wrote:
I don't support censoring bad
thoughts. I would rather see the author withdraw it voluntarily.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/08/david-mitchell-comedy
On 15 Nov 2009, at 11:51, David Landgren wrote:
I personally as a Nigerian demand an apology from you for embarrassing me
and my country. Your apology should also be posted on CPAN and any other
place you might have posted the module.
Sure, just send me £5k.
On 13 Nov 2009, at 10:29, Simon Wilcox wrote:
For those who've not seen it elsewhere, congratulations to our very own Leo
Lapworth and the guys at Foxtons for the shiny redesign of www.perl.org.
Nice work Leo. Thank you !
S.
Indeed, thank you very much.
It's like the 90s are
http://muckandbrass.com/web/display/~cemerick/2009/10/01/Java+is+dead%2C+but+you%27ll+learn+to+love+it
On 24 Oct 2009, at 14:40, James Laver james.la...@gmail.com wrote:
When my domains come up for renewal, I'll be looking to switch to
someone else.
Desired features:
- Cheapness
- Good customer service (including actually telling you when there
will be downtime and giving an estimate for
On 13 Oct 2009, at 14:23, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
rejected. It seems I'll have to take my high-value business elsewhere
(they're fine with me buying small stuff like mp3 downloads),
since I'll never be on the electoral roll because I'm too filthy a
foreigner to be allowed to vote.
On 13 Oct 2009, at 20:33, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
It says very clearly on the electoral roll form that only EU and
Commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote, and it even has an explicit
list of them. Norway is not on that list, because we're not in the EU.
I wasn't aware you were
On 28 Aug 2009, at 20:23, Leo Lapworth wrote:
1) Meeting Calendar is now in Google calendar, and it automatically
updates
the site (through the use of widgets, this is the modern era - if
you don't
have JavaScript - subscribe to the announce maiing list or feeds
instead),
and the old
On 18 Aug 2009, at 17:56, Léon Brocard wrote:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/London.pm-Camel/dp/B4TFW5/
http://toys.shop.ebay.co.uk/London.pm-Camel/49019/i.html?_nkw=niles+camel
And this is what a real camel looks like:
http://twitpic.com/ed8fm
On 18 Aug 2009, at 22:04, James Laver wrote:
On 18 Aug 2009, at 21:57, Abigail wrote:
I recently read Australia has a Camel problem. They want to shoot a
million of them. Some of the Camels will be turned into hamburgers.
What about making camel pies?
I had a kangaroo burger the other
On 19 Jul 2009, at 11:20, James Laver wrote:
What Kieren just said, but note that I'm still waiting to hear when
my copy will arrive. Amazon emailed me to let me know their supplier
is having difficulty er supplying. They promised to send an
email letting me know when I'd get my copy
I went about a month ago thanks to the organising super-powers of
Billy, and let me tell you it's the geekiest place on Earth, period. I
will definitely go again (unfortunately I had to miss the trip
organised by Paul a couple of weeks back due to an extreme case of
Hangover).
On 15 Jun 2009, at 14:50, Dave Cross wrote:
O'Reilly have just published a book for you.
The Geek Atlas - http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596523206/
With this unique traveler's guide, you'll learn about 128
destinations around the world where discoveries in science,
mathematics, or
On 20 May 2009, at 19:32, James Laver wrote:
Calling all boozeaholics...
I've just spoken to Matt Raines, the leader of PHP London and we're
going to try and organise a joint social in July, bringing together
the sadly misguided with the followers of the CPAN.
Their meetings are bigger
On 11 May 2009, at 13:38, the hatter wrote:
from
http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html
Plenty more historic moments recorded there too.
linked to in the comments is this great interview with bjarne
stroustrup:
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote:
It's Hack Day (well, weekend really) this weekend. See
http://www.hackday.org/ for details.
Will there be any Perl hackers there? And what are you planning to hack on?
I'm going, planning on hacking on stuff using GeoPlanet
On 20 Apr 2009, at 22:52, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote:
It'll be worth it, if only to watch people throwing in a lot of money
for beer in the land of cheap beer... ;-)
s/cheap beer/expensive ice-cold piss/
On 1 Apr 2009, at 06:45, Toby Wintermute wrote:
Alternatively.. what do YOU use to parse real-world websites that are
often not totally valid?
If it's a quick hack I'll use HTML::Tidy like so:
my $tidy = HTML::Tidy-new({
output_xhtml = 1,
numeric_entities = 1,
});
$tidy-ignore(
i wrote this, it might be handy for some moose
indoctrination^Wadvocacy. or not.
http://pedrofigueiredo.org/blog/2009/03/antlers-rodents-and-frogs.html
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Dominic Thoreau
dominic.thor...@googlemail.com wrote:
2009/3/9 Jacqui Caren jacqui.ca...@ntlworld.com:
Well, it made me smile.
http://www.xkcd.com/519/
I always quite liked http://www.xkcd.com/208/
and
http://xkcd.com/224/
--
http://pedrofigueiredo.org/
you
Hi,
I've had a report from a user regarding some tests under Darwin (10.5.6,
Leopard, I have no idea if it happens on earlier versions too). I've
since noticed the behaviour under 5.10 on Linux is not what I expected
either.
This is the test code:
#!perl -T
use strict;
use Test::More
Oh yeah, Test::More versions:
Pedro Figueiredo wrote:
Darwin (10.5.6, Leopard)
perl 5.8.8:
$ prove foo.t
foook
All tests successful.
Files=1, Tests=1, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.02 usr 0.00 sys + 0.02 cusr
0.00 csys = 0.04 CPU)
Result: PASS
$ /usr/bin/perl -MTest::More -le 'print $Test
Hi,
Perhaps I'm a complete numbskull, but I can't find the Moose talks
from LPW online. Are they?
Cheers,
Pedro
--
http://pedrofigueiredo.org/
you don't code php. you merely edit it until it works. - merlyn
This was written before the glorious days of CPAN::Mini::Webserver...
I might take a couple of hours to update it.
--
http://pedrofigueiredo.org/
you don't code php. you merely edit it until it works. - merlyn
Hi all,
While browsing the slides from the LPW, I decided to try Slideshare.
This is something I wrote some time ago, for in-house training (and
yes, I have permission to make it available).
http://www.slideshare.net/pfig/cpan-training-presentation/
Please feel free to point out the errors.
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:09 PM, David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone got a clue for me on how to build perl (5.8.8 or 5.10.0) on OS X
10.5/Intel? It's being bad naughty software and failing gdbm-ish tests.
all tests successful with 5.10, with 5.8.8 i get 2 failures:
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 5:51 PM, David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I also need a recommendation for breakfast near Westminster station.
inn the park, st. james's park.
--
http://pedrofigueiredo.org/
you don't code php. you merely edit it until it works. - merlyn
7 years of macs and sony ericsson phones, not a single complaint:
address book and ical sync'ing, bluetooth dialing and texting,
bluetooth modem, etc. the k or t series are the best, imo, although i
might have to go for a shiny c905 next april :)
cheers,
pedro
--
http://pedrofigueiredo.org/
you
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyway, so has anyone moved from svk to git? Any thoughts on the experience?
i have to say that i used svk mostly to escape from subversion hell
(i'd rather use cvs), more than anything else. what i really liked in
svk:
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:13 AM, David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Thursday after the first Wednesday would seem to indicate that we
think there might sometimes be one or more days between the first
Wednesday and its following Thursday.
changing it to the day after the first
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