On 25 January 2012 22:17, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
Pulled together some links and thoughts, and actually learned stuff:
http://www.davehodgkinson.com/blog/2012/01/using-emacs-as-an-ide/
Any other comments? Piers?
Emacs and SBT is pretty good for Scala with continuous
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:51:48PM +, Smylers wrote:
Hello. Anybody like to recommend a laptop?
Most of our team are using Mac Book Air or Pro. That's been a painless
experience, good for development, also great for face to face demos and
feedback from internal customers.
Two developers
On 23 January 2012 19:17, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote:
I realize that I stupidly omitted to state that I'll be running
Ubuntu on whatever I buy.
Surely not on a Macbook Air though?
Use VirtualBox full screen and then deploy/break/OMFG/reinstall of Ubuntu
won't b0rk
Any recs for Agile PM courses that can rubber stamp what I've been
doing for the last 2-3 years?
I realise you may already have been stamped on by now :), but: last year
we worked with an Agile coach trainer from Rally and I found she was very
practical / did a good job. They do
On 28 December 2011 11:18, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
Yep, I know the Skills Matter folks.
skillsmatter++
Agreed that certs make little difference. I talked with one supplier and he
said Oh, we don't really do Agile shortly followed by I'm a certified
Scrum Master but have
try Googling Certified Scrum Master and if you're really masochistic
PRINCE2 Practitioner
throw in some Kanban for maintenance / workflow activities
-Peter
On 27 December 2011 18:38, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
Any recs for Agile PM courses that can rubber stamp what I've been
2011/12/9 Zbigniew Łukasiak zzb...@gmail.com
Recently I was surprised by the following (from a talk by Greg Wilson):
Physical distance doesn’t affect post-release fault rates but Distance
in the organisational chart does.
Nagappan et all (2007) and Bird et al (2009)
Very interesting!
And
I wouldn't put much faith in anything I didn't hear directly from a
N-a-P employee on this matter.
Hah. After chatting to NAP's HR person at YAPC::EU about a job, and then
sending an email asking, and then a follow-up email checking why I hadn't
heard anything, I gave up trying to do anything
On 22 November 2011 07:16, Shantanu Bhadoria shant...@cpan.org wrote:
Hey people,
Here is a interesting problem that I am facing right now. I need to
implement a process(in perl) that would sit and wait for someone to push
tasks into its queue, each task consists of a set of information in
On 16 November 2011 14:09, Mike Whitaker m...@altrion.org wrote:
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
I believe there are a couple of lost
On 26 September 2011 14:37, Aaron Trevena aaron.trev...@gmail.com wrote:
I had a go at code dojo at the recent Agile on the Beach conference
and thought to myself - this would be a handy technical test tool
: http://jonjagger.blogspot.com/p/cyberdojo.html (and yes, it does
come in perl
On 27 September 2011 14:36, Joel Bernstein j...@fysh.org wrote:
It doesn't appear to explain coding dojo but jumps straight into assuming
you know what it means. Only Dojo I ever came across is a rather painful JS
framework. Context?
http://codingdojo.org/
an instance thereof
On 27 September 2011 17:00, Joel Bernstein j...@fysh.org wrote:
Maybe I've got this wrong, but I don't much like the idea of applying for a
permanent job with little scope to negotiate the rate regardless of skills
and experience, where (conventionally, without FOI requests) I don't know
On 22 September 2011 22:13, Piers Cawley pdcaw...@bofh.org.uk wrote:
On 22 September 2011 14:14, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote:
At an interview with Auntie a few years ago, they gave me a Perl script
and asked me to highlight all the problems/errors in it. Not sure if they
were
On 26 September 2011 09:44, Egor Shipovalov kogdaugo...@gmail.com wrote:
Could you share the name of the company which gave you this pair
programming test? It should be a good place to work.
Hi Egor,
it was a financial services company in the City of London providing backend
stock swap
On 22 September 2011 09:15, Martin A. Brooks mar...@antibodymx.net wrote:
I have a bunch of servers doing mail ilftering. I would like them to send
tiny messages about the results of said filtering to a central point. I
would then like something at the central point to pop messages off the
On 22 September 2011 15:56, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 02:48:32PM +0100, Tomas Doran wrote:
There are other advantages of having a 'real' message queue ...
I have yet to come across a situation where you needed a real message
queue and can't just
The problem is not the database I store stuff in, it's getting stuff to the
database in the first place. The final data store will almost certainly be
postgres, I see no reason to use anything else.
If volume is not a problem, sure.
We already had 10GB in our PostgreSQL db and didn't want
Catalyst is a good start. It really is. Now I want to see Dancer and
Mojolicious get going as they target different types of developers
Well that's good to know ... but how do any of these install on a shared
hosting setup?
http://docs.dotcloud.com/services/perl/
Shared-kinda anyway
On 14 September 2011 10:37, James Laver james.la...@gmail.com wrote:
On 14 Sep 2011, at 10:11, Mallory van Achterberg wrote:
Is there a (decent, maintained) Perl-based e-commerce platform
out there?
No.
I can find plenty of, for example, shops running Magento and I can
see (as a
On 14 September 2011 12:20, Mallory van Achterberg stommep...@stommepoes.nl
wrote:
My question isn't because I'm personally looking for a shopping
cart to use myself, or for a client (at least, not yet). My question
is because, I see it as another reason web developers don't even
consider
ZenCart is a fork of OSCommerce that does not fix the horrible security
holes. Don't use either of these.
I tend to assume any PHP site is going be insecure unless proven otherwise
:-D
I won't repeat conversations I've had with small business owners about why
they should pay a bit more for a
On 4 September 2011 21:12, Léon Brocard a...@astray.com wrote:
Ingy döt Net, founder of Acmeism is in town and he wishes to drink
tasty beer. Come enjoy a drink with us on Monday.
Monday, 7pmish onwards
http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Shooting_Star,_E1_7JF
125-129 Middlesex Street
On 2 September 2011 11:57, Mallory van Achterberg
stommep...@stommepoes.nlwrote:
Leo,
I LOVE the Plack talk that went with those slides. As someone who does
no Perl, they were awesome, they made sense, and they were exciting.
That's why I suggested a Plack / Dancer app for Dave Cross'
On 30 August 2011 16:25, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote:
On Windows, it uses %LOCAL_APPDATA%\bang.cfg (where %LOCAL_APPDATA% is
gleaned from a system %call). How does that seem to Windows users?
However it doesn't seem to support recent Windows versions, crashing on.
Windows 7 and even
On 27 August 2011 16:25, Andy Armstrong a...@hexten.net wrote:
On 27 Aug 2011, at 14:25, Andrew Beattie wrote:
The trouble is that whilst I'm sure that your request is genuine, it is
so close to a Western Union fraud or a cheque overpayment fraud that you
really want to be asking someone
On 23 August 2011 12:24, Pete Smith p...@cubabit.net wrote:
I think that devs are interested in tools that let them get things up and
running with little effort, so perhaps an article explaining how easy it is
to use catalyst/dancer/mojo + dbic + plack (with a bit of moose thrown in)
using
On 23 August 2011 18:11, Leo Lapworth l...@cuckoo.org wrote:
Installing / using / extending Domm's App::Timetracker (
https://metacpan.org/release/App-TimeTracker) might make an interesting
article.
He gave a talk about it at YAPC::EU
http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/talk/3391(slides:
On 28 July 2011 23:37, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
Do any people have time to hack on something for IOU's pending us getting
more funding? It's doing interesting things with images, interfacing to
numerous sites like flickr, Hipstamatic, Instagram as well as databases
like
Voting time
http://pwnies.com/nominations/
(not Perl related admittedly since many of these hacks are Apache or PHP
but, you see, ponies... )
On 21 July 2011 22:46, Paul Johnson p...@pjcj.net wrote:
I seem to recall moving stuff to github being fairly straightforward
once you worked out what needed to be done. I'm afraid that I can
neither remember what I did, nor can I find the instructions on how to
do it...
I dub this
On 14 June 2011 16:00, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
On 14 Jun 2011, at 17:42, Dirk Koopman wrote:
Anyone had a go with: http://www.phenona.com/ a perl cloud?
dotcloud has Miyagawa. That wins.
AFAICS if the 14 year old sole employee is run over by a bus that platform
is
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, David Cantrell wrote:
It's the lack of a CPAN-a-like for any other language that keeps me
coming back to perl.
Of course, it's possible that the Comprehensive Python Archive Network
or similar for ruby/javascript/java/C/whatever does exist but I just
can't find it.
On 30 May 2011 11:40, Leo Lapworth l...@cuckoo.org wrote:
Hi,
I'm working on http://learn.perl.org/ and I'd like to have a few rotating
example of what can be done with Perl on the home page.
Here's an idiot simple code colorizer for logs / diffs that I use quite a
lot
On 27 May 2011 12:11, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
OMG! I'D NEVER HEARD OF IRC AND HAD NO IDEA WHAT IT COULD DO!!!
LOL.
Here's an article for you Dave. You should have been born a German and then
all your colleagues would avoid phatic communication. According to a
I worked from home for 5 years when my kids were younger so I could be there
for them after school and so on and that turned out quite well. (Now they're
grown up I enjoy going in to an office again.)
BT did a study some years ago of teleworking and assessed it as an
appropriate option for highly
Let's assume that you and I work together. You like working at home, I
prefer to work at work. Now, one day we need to discuss something. How
do we do that?
What I used to do was schedule 2-3 days a week in for meetings if that was
necessary at points of a project lifecycle.
A properly
By the way.. how are you finding ActiveMQ, especially when interacting
with it from Perl?
I'm using it from Net::Stomp which had issues but now (version 0.40 on)
works fine for us.
Historically, ActiveMQ had problems with memory leaks though 5.3 works fine
for us. It is also the standard
Actually we are running ActiveMQ 5.4.0 in production although latest is
5.4.2 on that branch and 5.5.0 is now also available.
http://activemq.apache.org/
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12311210version=12315623
Yet more Java leaking memory bugfixes by the look of
On 23 May 2011 09:27, Toby Corkindale t...@dryft.net wrote:
Is anyone else using Devel::Cover with Moose, much?
I seem to get megabytes of warnings displayed even on trivial modules.
It's trying to create MD5 digests of files containing the materialised
functions created by
After upgrading to latest NYTProf 4.06 I get fewer warnings
82% ... Source for Moose generated method (unknown origin) isn't available
(/home/edwarp11/dev/generated method (unknown origin): No such file or
directory)
Then when I upgrade to latest Moose 2.0007 I get
$ perl -d:NYTProf t.pl
On 4 May 2011 12:24, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 10:39:17PM +0100, Alexander Clouter wrote:
David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
You could always check whether outbound HTTP is allowed by connecting
to
somewhere entirely different. Try
at http://miltonkeynes.pm.org/
Adding OAuth to the BBC World Service Twitter Feeder (Peter Edwards)
http://perl.dragonstaff.co.uk/twitter_oauth/
I think the answer (I cannot be bothered to reply on that blog) is to use
Net::Twitter::Lite or roll your own like I did there.
I had problems installing
On 20 April 2011 20:51, Abigail abig...@abigail.be wrote:
I've been trying to tell people for many, many years that this is a good
way to deliver applications, but Perl programmers seem to be stuck in the
60s; and the mere thought of having two copies of a text file takes too
much costly
On 20 April 2011 22:53, Walt Mankowski walt...@pobox.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 09:40:57AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/04/a-badge-for-the-software-industrys-failures/
Or does he have a point?
He's embarrassed that didn't think to run apt-get
A reminder that there are 5 days left for the early bird price on YAPC::EU
2011 which is in Riga, Latvia August 15th-17th
and that now would be a good time to start thinking about booking travel and
accommodation.
http://yapceurope.lv/ye2011/
I'm looking forward to attending Jonathan
gvim == gvim gvi...@gmail.com writes:
gvim Anyone running Perl on a smartphone? Android must be close by now
gvim but I haven't ventured into this market yet. Would like bash 4
gvim too. Make that Perl + bash + vim and I'm happy to pay.
Check out
gvim too. Make that Perl + bash + vim and I'm happy to pay.
P.s. bash and vim?
You can install sshd/dropbear on Android
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442754 and ssh in, keep in
mind the Linux there is minimal.
I guess you'd want to edit locally on your dev computer and use
On 8 March 2011 14:01, Steve Mynott st...@gruntling.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 04:23:04PM +1100, Toby Wintermute typed:
I've been playing around with Perl's SystemTap integration (in core
since 5.12.0), but I've been struggling to find any documentation on
it.
Maybe this is of
On 8 March 2011 20:18, James Laver london...@jameslaver.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 05:45:46PM +, Peter Edwards wrote:
Anyone got recommendations for best practices for using perlbrew and
local::lib?
Used together they don't play nicely with the Cwd.so in my developer
sandbox
On 1 March 2011 10:34, Dominic Thoreau domi...@thoreau-online.net wrote:
On 1 March 2011 09:49, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote:
Need some advice on iPhone Barcode reading apps - so I turn to
london.pm, my
favourite group of iGeeks.
On a side note - I've got a moderate library, of
In here I aspect to find some contacts of enterprises with good
programmers,
A new board I found recently which seems quite straight up is
http://www.coderstack.co.uk/perl-jobs
http://www.coderstack.co.uk/perl-jobs
Cheers,
Peter
http://perl.dragonstaff.co.uk
Mid range 32,000 - 40,000. Senior 40,000 - 55,000. Dev manager 55,000 -
70,000. More for banking jobs
On 26 Feb 2011 20:05, marcos rebelo ole...@gmail.com wrote:
My problem is to know how to answer to the question:
How much money do you expect to receive?
If I say a value to low, I will be
Matt == Matt Sergeant mserge...@messagelabs.com writes:
Matt But the dependencies list *is* much larger for Catalyst.
Indeed. I'm in a corporate environment where installing 70+ up to date CPAN
modules is a non-trivial requirement.
I needed to update our Twitter feeder recently and
On 10 January 2011 22:59, Denny 2...@denny.me wrote:
On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 22:00 +, John Imison wrote:
Out of interest, does anyone use CGI::Application? What are the general
thoughts on that?
It's called Titanium now isn't it? Seemed nice and simple when I last
used it.
I'm
Hi Leo/whomever, the London.pm Google calendar is still showing the old
address. Could you update it please?
Ta, Peter
On 1 December 2010 12:04, Mark Keating m.keat...@shadowcat.co.uk wrote:
In this Newsletter:
1. The New Venue
In case it has skipped your notice, or if you haven't yet been
On 20 September 2010 17:30, Roger Burton West ro...@firedrake.org wrote:
I wish to have two processes, a producer (which will create files) and
a consumer (which will do something with them), running
simultaneously. Ideally the producer would push filenames to a list as
it finishes producing
And I spotted this tonight
http://octobot.taco.cat/
Supports AMQP/RabbitMQ, Beanstalk, and Redis PubSub. Others easily addable
On Sep 20, 2010 6:51 PM, Mark Fowler m...@twoshortplanks.com wrote:
On 20 Sep 2010, at 17:30, Roger Burton West ro...@firedrake.org wrote: I
wish to have two process...
On 2 September 2010 12:42, Ashley Hindmarsh a...@best-scarper.co.uk wrote:
We've currently got some vague requirement for a 'snapshot' for CPAN (not
the standard minicpan) to help us reproduce builds at a given time, getting
the 'current' version of a module at the time it was originally
On 2 September 2010 12:37, Kristian Flint kristian.fl...@tamar.com
wrote:
I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations, experience or comments
around graphically representing data in a browser?
http://www.highcharts.com with jquery is good for stats reporting.
Regards, Peter
http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Catalyst::Plugin::AutoCRUD
Originated from a beastie we wrote to do Cat + extjs for recruitment
software using web browsers, CatalystX::ListFramework
Regards, Peter
http://perl.dragonstaff.co.uk
On Aug 25, 2010 2:34 PM, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
On 31 July 2010 19:32, Aaron Trevena aaron.trev...@gmail.com wrote:
That's about it, I was thinking I can bootstrap myself through the
SCJP, and then invest serious time and money on the SCJD, possibly as
part pof a new job (which is why I'm learning Java - lots of jobs
using both or asking
I was just looking at trends over the past year:
http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/uk/java.do
http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/uk/java.do
http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/uk/perl.do
http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/uk/perl.doInteresting graphs
comparing day rates and
On election night? I will be at teh count as I'm a candidate. Maybe next
month :-
On May 5, 2010 9:24 PM, Léon Brocard a...@astray.com wrote:
On 30 April 2010 16:45, Léon Brocard a...@astray.com wrote: London Perl
Mongers organises social...
This is tomorrow! See you there, Leon
We're going
Check out http://laterooms.com
you can get some pretty good deals there
I usually use them to book http://www.waverleyhousehotel.com/ near work for
around £60-70 per night mid week incl. full English breakfast
That's not bad. I can't get it as cheap if I use that hotel chain's own
booking site.
On 16 April 2010 13:20, Victoria Conlan vi...@comps.org wrote:
I don't know about anyone else here, but the only reason I would ever ask
that question would be to turn down anyone who claimed to know more than
3.
I'd make that 5 (since it's what's taught at school here) but yeah, I was
On 14 April 2010 13:19, ian londonperlmong...@iandocherty.com wrote:
There might be less comments to this thread if the people who have *not*
been tested and rejected leave a comment.
However, as a matter of interest, the test I took was the 'pelmanism' game
(turning over cards to find a
On 14 April 2010 16:06, Simon Cozens si...@simon-cozens.org wrote:
I guess I should be the first to point out that, not only are there
people from Lovefilm reading this list, there are people from the BBC
reading it too.
Not many people have access to the proxy logs to look up Purple
I'm not sure if that interview question thread proves you are all deranged
nutters, maths geniuses or scarily good programmers.
Probably a bit of each.
Jeez, where has my PHP For Beginners book gone, it's not too late for a
career in a meejabollix agency.
Cheers, Peter
On Apr 14, 2010 10:53 PM,
To add to what Andy said:
http://maps.google.co.uk/places/gb/london/wood-ln/201/-bbc-media-village?hl=en
Tube to White City.
Come straight out and cross road.
Turn right. Cross road.
Follow path into Media Village passing White City building on right and
Media Centre on left (ground floor
Indeed you are right
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgeezer/22681357/
On 18 March 2010 16:09, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote:
On 03/18/2010 03:57 PM, Peter Edwards wrote:
On the right on the wall above you should be Olympic 1956 plaque.
Could have sworn it was 1908.
http
Good point, a yellow line nearby may be possible, if insecure.
The traffic is terrible though. I used to sit at work and watch the poor
suckers queueing on the A40...
On Mar 17, 2010 4:22 AM, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
Surely at that time of night, there's an abundance of single
You need a permit to park in TVC carpark. Tbh you're much better off getting
tube to white city (central) or wood lane (hc) or a bus or taxi unless you
have mobility problems in which case let us know off-list and we'll help.
Regards, Peter
On Mar 16, 2010 6:48 PM, Paul
I do hope anyone considering the online gambling gig has read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carruthers#Arrest_during_US_transit_flight
Welcome to the Land of the Free. Unless you provide on-line gambling to US
Netizens :-]
Regards, Peter
http://perl.dragonstaff.co.uk
On 29 January 2010 19:20, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote:
On 01/29/2010 07:07 PM, Dave Cross wrote:
Templates that contain UTF-9
These Template are one more encoded!
/me waits for inevitable UTF-11 gag. Oh! Too late.
£48 ppn for a tiny room in Chalotte Street London Regents Park, London,
W1T4RD, furnished, includes wifi. Not too bad for a hacker on a budget.
and a Blues Bar down the road :-]
Net::Twitter::Lite works fine. We're using it to send out Arabic breaking
news alerts. To change the program agent string shown on Twitter you have to
use the new API and that requires Net::Twitter which is more complex but
does have a lot more features.
Regards, Peter
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