Re: Emacs as a perl IDE

2012-01-25 Thread Peter Edwards
On 25 January 2012 22:17, Dave Hodgkinson 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 build of source

Re: Laptop Recommendation

2012-01-23 Thread Peter Edwards
> > > > On 23 January 2012 19:17, Smylers 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 y

Re: Laptop Recommendation

2012-01-23 Thread Peter Edwards
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 developer

Re: OT: Agile PM courses?

2012-01-09 Thread Peter Edwards
> > > 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 d

Re: OT: Agile PM courses?

2011-12-28 Thread Peter Edwards
On 28 December 2011 11:18, Dave Hodgkinson 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 never used it". Tha

Re: OT: Agile PM courses?

2011-12-27 Thread Peter Edwards
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 wrote: > > Any recs for Agile PM courses that can rubber stamp what I've been > doing for the l

Re: Telecommuting

2011-12-10 Thread Peter Edwards
2011/12/9 Zbigniew Łukasiak > 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 the iron

Re: Beware: NET-A-PORTER

2011-12-09 Thread Peter Edwards
> > 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 anyt

Re: Implementing a Queue in a process

2011-11-22 Thread Peter Edwards
On 22 November 2011 07:16, Shantanu Bhadoria 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 its > data struc

Re: Ruby?

2011-11-16 Thread Peter Edwards
On 16 November 2011 14:09, Mike Whitaker 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 souls sti

Re: Perl Skills Test

2011-09-27 Thread Peter Edwards
On 27 September 2011 17:00, Joel Bernstein 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 > (until I get t

Re: Perl Skills Test

2011-09-27 Thread Peter Edwards
On 27 September 2011 14:36, Joel Bernstein 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 http://www.meetup.co

Re: Perl Skills Test

2011-09-27 Thread Peter Edwards
On 26 September 2011 14:37, Aaron Trevena 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 flavour) > > Ah, that's a

Re: Perl Skills Test

2011-09-26 Thread Peter Edwards
On 26 September 2011 09:44, Egor Shipovalov 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 tracking and completion

Re: Perl Skills Test

2011-09-26 Thread Peter Edwards
On 22 September 2011 22:13, Piers Cawley wrote: > > On 22 September 2011 14:14, Dave Cross 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 flattering me, but I found quite a few

Re: Perl-friendly message queue-like system

2011-09-22 Thread Peter Edwards
> > 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 w

Re: Perl-friendly message queue-like system

2011-09-22 Thread Peter Edwards
On 22 September 2011 15:56, David Cantrell 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 use a table in

Re: Perl-friendly message queue-like system

2011-09-22 Thread Peter Edwards
On 22 September 2011 09:15, Martin A. Brooks 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 queue > and update a

Re: Perl e-commerce?

2011-09-19 Thread Peter Edwards
> > > > 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-k

Re: Perl e-commerce?

2011-09-14 Thread Peter Edwards
> > 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 f

Re: Perl e-commerce?

2011-09-14 Thread Peter Edwards
On 14 September 2011 12:20, Mallory van Achterberg 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 Perl for these things. W

Re: Perl e-commerce?

2011-09-14 Thread Peter Edwards
On 14 September 2011 10:37, James Laver 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 user) what al

Re: Emergency social Monday at Shooting Star, E1 7JF (with ingy!)

2011-09-04 Thread Peter Edwards
On 4 September 2011 21:12, Léon Brocard 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 > London E

Re: Writing about Perl FOR WEBDEVS

2011-09-02 Thread Peter Edwards
On 2 September 2011 11:57, Mallory van Achterberg wrote: > 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' article. It's the kind of

Re: Expected Config File Locations

2011-08-30 Thread Peter Edwards
On 30 August 2011 16:25, Smylers 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 Vista: > > https

Re: Anyone got a US iTunes account

2011-08-27 Thread Peter Edwards
On 27 August 2011 16:25, Andy Armstrong 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 that already k

Re: Writing About Perl

2011-08-23 Thread Peter Edwards
On 23 August 2011 18:11, Leo Lapworth 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: > http://domm.plix.a

Re: Writing About Perl

2011-08-23 Thread Peter Edwards
On 23 August 2011 12:24, Pete Smith 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 distro packages

Re: CFT?

2011-07-28 Thread Peter Edwards
On 28 July 2011 23:37, Dave Hodgkinson 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 Wikipedia, OpenCal

Vote for Pwnies

2011-07-27 Thread Peter Edwards
Voting time http://pwnies.com/nominations/ (not Perl related admittedly since many of these hacks are Apache or PHP but, you see, ponies... )

Re: Dear Git Users

2011-07-21 Thread Peter Edwards
> > On 21 July 2011 22:46, Paul Johnson 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 the "

Re: Slightly offtopic - coordinate conversions

2011-07-13 Thread Peter Edwards
On 13 July 2011 07:16, Peter Sergeant wrote: > I've been playing around with Google Maps recently, and noticed that > they've started using hashes of some coordinates: > > latlng: 52.54296 -0.308166 > hnear : 0x4877f21032e242f5:0x805cb103d71d5051 > > latlng: 51.411586,-0.300893 > hnear : 0x47d8a0

Re: Phenona

2011-06-14 Thread Peter Edwards
On 14 June 2011 16:00, Dave Hodgkinson 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 dead in t

Re: Someone needs to take jwz aside...

2011-06-08 Thread Peter Edwards
> > 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

Re: Perl under MacOS X

2011-06-02 Thread Peter Edwards
On 2 June 2011 14:19, Jesse Vincent wrote: > > > Install Virtualbox or Vmware and use a linux perl.If you're going to go > that route, have a look at Vagrant. > > vagrantup.com > > Oh, it supports Puppet :-) Interesting. Regards, Peter

Re: Perl under MacOS X

2011-06-02 Thread Peter Edwards
I went through setting up perl on a new mac book last month On 2 June 2011 09:10, Leo Lapworth wrote: > Install any version of XCode... (you actually only need the 'unix tools' > bit). > > Watch out for XCode 4 (and I don't just mean the *ridiculous* 4.5GB download just to get a working gcc) se

Re: Speed v Version

2011-06-02 Thread Peter Edwards
On 1 June 2011 09:46, Dirk Koopman wrote: > I contemplating providing "encouragement" to a customer to upgrade from > 5.8.7 to something more modern. One of the overriding issues is "speed". The > customer is fixated with "speed". > > Unfortunately one of the major things the customer's clients d

Re: Cool/useful short examples of Perl?

2011-06-01 Thread Peter Edwards
On 30 May 2011 11:40, Leo Lapworth 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 http://blogs.perl.org/users/pet

Re: Part-time Perl Developer Position based Reading, UK

2011-05-27 Thread Peter Edwards
On 27 May 2011 12:11, David Cantrell 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 journalist, so it must be

Re: Part-time Perl Developer Position based Reading, UK

2011-05-26 Thread Peter Edwards
> > 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 proper

Re: Part-time Perl Developer Position based Reading, UK

2011-05-26 Thread Peter Edwards
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

Re: ActiveMQ (was Re: Devel::Cover with Moose?)

2011-05-24 Thread Peter Edwards
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=12311210&version=12315623 Yet more "Java leaking memory" bugfixes by the look o

Re: ActiveMQ (was Re: Devel::Cover with Moose?)

2011-05-24 Thread Peter Edwards
> > 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 standar

Re: Devel::Cover with Moose?

2011-05-23 Thread Peter Edwards
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 Couldn

Re: Devel::Cover with Moose?

2011-05-23 Thread Peter Edwards
On 23 May 2011 09:27, Toby Corkindale 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 __PACKAGE__->meta->make_immut

Re: Best practice for unit tests that rely on internet access?

2011-05-04 Thread Peter Edwards
On 4 May 2011 12:24, David Cantrell wrote: > On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 10:39:17PM +0100, Alexander Clouter wrote: > > David Cantrell wrote: > > > You could always check whether outbound HTTP is allowed by connecting > to > > > somewhere entirely different. Try penthouse or thepiratebay - > Argh.

Re: Someone needs to take jwz aside...

2011-04-20 Thread Peter Edwards
On 20 April 2011 22:53, Walt Mankowski 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 install >

Re: Someone needs to take jwz aside...

2011-04-20 Thread Peter Edwards
On 20 April 2011 20:51, Abigail 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 diskspace. > > I re

Re: Someone needs to take jwz aside...

2011-04-20 Thread Peter Edwards
that's timely: my talk last week 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 lik

YAPC::EU 2011 Riga, Latvia registration

2011-04-09 Thread Peter Edwards
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 Worthington's

Re: Perl on a smartphone?

2011-03-22 Thread Peter Edwards
> > 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

Re: Perl on a smartphone?

2011-03-22 Thread Peter Edwards
> > > "gvim" == gvim 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 http://www.slideshare.net/xSawyer/when-p

Re: SystemTap hooks in Perl

2011-03-08 Thread Peter Edwards
On 8 March 2011 20:18, James Laver wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 05:45:46PM +0000, 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

Re: SystemTap hooks in Perl

2011-03-08 Thread Peter Edwards
On 8 March 2011 14:01, Steve Mynott 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 some interest?

Re: iPhone Barcode Readers

2011-03-01 Thread Peter Edwards
> > On 1 March 2011 10:34, Dominic Thoreau wrote: > > On 1 March 2011 09:49, Dave Cross 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 books, DVDs and CDs, > > and

Re: Jobs in London

2011-02-26 Thread Peter Edwards
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" 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 leaving the

Re: Jobs in London

2011-02-26 Thread Peter Edwards
> > > 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 Cheers, Peter http://perl.dragonstaff.co.uk

Re: Recommendation for simple Web Frameworks

2011-01-10 Thread Peter Edwards
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. >

Re: Recommendation for simple Web Frameworks

2011-01-10 Thread Peter Edwards
> > > > "Matt" == Matt Sergeant 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 had to bail

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LPW2010: Newsletter #8: Thoughts for the Day

2010-12-01 Thread Peter Edwards
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 wrote: > In this Newsletter: > > 1. The New Venue > In case it has skipped your notice, or if you haven't yet been informed the > venue

Re: FFmpeg/C developer

2010-11-18 Thread Peter Edwards
I've compiled and set up ffmpeg to do transcoding before. Is it really that big a job you need to post a requirement here? IME on some platforms it just works and on others it's a right bastard to compile. And then there's the separate issue that it seems to work until you give it a media file it d

Re: Best practice for variables shared between processes?

2010-09-20 Thread Peter Edwards
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" wrote: On 20 Sep 2010, at 17:30, Roger Burton West wrote: I wish to have two process... You could use threads instead of proces

Re: Best practice for variables shared between processes?

2010-09-20 Thread Peter Edwards
On 20 September 2010 17:30, Roger Burton West 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 them, while

Re: Graphical data representation plugins

2010-09-02 Thread Peter Edwards
> > On 2 September 2010 12:37, Kristian Flint > 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

Re: Running your own mini-cpan or other repos

2010-09-02 Thread Peter Edwards
On 2 September 2010 12:42, Ashley Hindmarsh 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 built, > probably in the s

Re: Need a CRUD thing

2010-08-25 Thread Peter Edwards
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" wrote: Dear interwebs, ple

Re: learning / training in java perl programmer?

2010-08-01 Thread Peter Edwards
On 31 July 2010 19:32, Aaron Trevena 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 for at least 2 langua

Re: London Perl Mongers Social Meeting Thursday 6th May at the Gunmakers

2010-05-05 Thread Peter Edwards
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" wrote: On 30 April 2010 16:45, Léon Brocard wrote: > London Perl Mongers organises social... This is tomorrow! See you there, Leon > We're going back to the Gunmakers this

Programming language job stats

2010-05-05 Thread Peter Edwards
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/perl.do Interesting graphs comparing day rates and n

Re: Cheap places in central London?

2010-05-03 Thread Peter Edwards
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. T

Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?

2010-04-16 Thread Peter Edwards
On 16 April 2010 13:20, Victoria Conlan 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 >> thi

Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?

2010-04-14 Thread Peter Edwards
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,

Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?

2010-04-14 Thread Peter Edwards
On 14 April 2010 16:06, Simon Cozens 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 Bunny's X-Originating-IP

Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?

2010-04-14 Thread Peter Edwards
On 14 April 2010 13:19, ian 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 match). > > Has anyone been give

Re: Directions for Tonight

2010-03-18 Thread Peter Edwards
Indeed you are right http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgeezer/22681357/ On 18 March 2010 16:09, Dave Cross 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. > >

Re: Directions for Tonight

2010-03-18 Thread Peter Edwards
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 Tescos,

Re: Parking At BBC White City

2010-03-17 Thread Peter Edwards
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" wrote: Surely at that time of night, there's an abundance of single yellows to park on

Re: Parking At BBC White City

2010-03-16 Thread Peter Edwards
You need a permit to park in TVC carpark. Tbh you're much better off getting tube to white city (central) or wood lane (h&c) 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" wrote: For Thursday's

Re: [Fwd: Betonmarkets CTO position]

2010-02-12 Thread Peter Edwards
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

Re: TT and UTF8?

2010-01-29 Thread Peter Edwards
On 29 January 2010 19:20, Dave Cross 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.

Re: Monads are like burritos

2009-12-15 Thread Peter Edwards
* Seriously, where in London sells decent burritos?! Chilango, Fleet St. http://www.chilango.co.uk/ Wahaca, Covent Garden, Shite City and Docklands http://www.wahaca.co.uk/html/1_restaurants.html

Re: Recommended hotels or crash place for LPW 2009?

2009-11-19 Thread Peter Edwards
> > £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 :-]

Re: Twitter modules

2009-11-10 Thread Peter Edwards
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 On Nov 10, 2009 2:48 PM, "An