Re: Geolocation services: what's good, what's not?

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 7:49 AM, Sam Kington wrote: > What about IP addresses, though? What do people currently use for > geolocation? The first question I'd ask anyone considering using anything other than MaxMind's Geo2IP product is "Why aren't you using MaxMind's Geo2IP product?" Cheap, they

Re: CRM as a service with Perl module

Why "(except for Salesforce)"? -P On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 10:48 PM, Andrew Beverley wrote: > Hi guys, > > Can anyone recommend a hosted CRM solution (except for Salesforce) that > has a CPAN module in order to easily access the API? > > Thanks, > > Andy > > >

Re: Due to mass layoffs at Moonfruit (big surprise, I know)....

On Tuesday, 28 October 2014, wrote: > Looking for new work. I've currently got at least 3 recruiters and 2 > direct contacts from LinkedIn scurrying around looking for offers, and for > the moment I'm rather optimistic. > The market is good right now in London, and commutable distances from Lond

[ANNOUNCE] Sponsored London Perl M[ou]ngers May Social - 2014-05-08 - Shooting Star E1 7JF

Hi, For May, we're once again going to an old haunt that we haven't visited for a few months, this time the Shooting Star. It's a Fuller's "Ale and Pie House", thus immediately covering two of London.pm's favourite activities. The Shooting Star is easy to find. It's about three minutes walk from

Re: tablets for parents

On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote: > 1) What tablet? >(with camera, obviously, 3G, and possibly not much else "special") > No-one ever got disinherited for buying an iPad. Combine it with a £70 Apple TV, and you can give them Netflix and LOVEFiLM as well as easy access to

Re: Recommended IDE...?

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Ovid wrote: > I would almost claim that I get most of the common benefits of an IDE out > of my vim setup (completion, debugging, testing, refactoring tools, > rebuilding the project, and so on) > Google suggests these as good starting points: * https://github.

Re: Recommended IDE...?

On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Peter Corlett wrote: > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:18:14AM -, Andrew wrote: > > Looking to try using an Integrated Development Environment. > Why? What problem are you having that you expect an IDE to solve? > I became quite partial to "Refactor" menus, integr

Re: I have a bikeshed, colour suggestions appreciated

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Aaron Trevena wrote: > So.. some of you might know I quite like bikes.. I now have a proper > bikeshed (or at least I will once I've built and attached the doors > tonight) - and I was hoping you nice people could give me some helpful > suggestions. > Have you seen

Re: Database Design Advice

On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Abigail wrote: > I opted for two columns, "additional" and "percentage", the first > defaulting to 0, the other to 1. Prices can then be easily calculated > as original_price * percentage + additional. No conditionals needed. > And the calculation is currency agnos

Re: Perl publishing and attracting new developers

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Paul LeoNerd wrote: > I would be prepared to pay £30 to write such a book. > My Paypal account is the same as this email address. Please send me the money, and a copy of the book when you're done.

Re: Fosdem Perl-devroom AW1.126, Saturday, Feb 2nd, 11:00-19:00; Success! 14 speakers!

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 8:48 PM, Wendy G.A. van Dijk wrote: > Fosdem. https://fosdem.org/2013/ We made it. I know we definitely discourage "me too" type posts here, but this is absolutely fantastic work. Well done, and thankyou! -P

Re: Offtopic(ish) ops question

Why not use the latest stable? No good reason I can see to use an old Perl... On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > New VM, installing CPAN deps (cpanm obvs). > > I know all the apps are going to be the same level of stuff > as they'll all be latest Cat/DBIC and so on, and

Re: Device for reading perldoc

On Friday, January 4, 2013, gvim wrote: > Is there currently a reader/device which is suitable for reading both PDFs > and perldoc, ie. can install Perl + modules? > > gvim > This sounds a bit like an x/y problem. What are you trying achieve? If there are certain documents available via perldoc

Re: cpan you have to see

On Wednesday, December 12, 2012, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote: > > Would hurling a PBP test at the whole of CPAN to get a metric be of any > benefit? > Probably not. perl critic, which sounds like what you're thinking about, is a useful tool for catching silly mistakes you might have made, but if you k

Re: cpan you have to see

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Aaron Crane wrote: > I agree. The talk I did at LPW and YAPC::EU this year covers this and > some related issues Thanks Aaron. Someone told me about your talk, and it got me thinking about it in-depth a little while ago. Shame I missed it -P

Re: boolean return (was Re: cpan you have to see)

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: > then the caller can't ever use the sub in a list context expecting an > empty list ... so? True or false are reasonable things to expect a subroutine to return. A list is a reasonable thing to expect a subroutine to return. True, false, or

Re: cpan you have to see

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Gareth Harper wrote: > On 12 December 2012 17:57, Joseph Werner wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Gareth Harper > wrote: > > > > PBP and I disagree with you on this one, Gareth. When a sub does a > > "return 0;" to a list context, that is interpreted a

Re: cpan you have to see

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Anthony Lucas wrote: > Flexible::Output::Printer To be honest, it's not too different in intent from several other CPAN modules - aliasing features to be more like other languages... I am pretty curious about the return values, though: return bless {}; I wond

Re: Testsuites and External Dependancies?

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Mark Fowler wrote: > If you don't have Keyboard Maestro installed on your Mac[1] it's useless My understanding is that this is what the Alien:: namespace is for... http://search.cpan.org/~abergman/Alien-0.91/lib/Alien.pm And that the correct solution is to writ

24 Pull Requests

http://24pullrequests.com/ Seems like a neat idea, and oh look, they'll recommend projects! But oh look... "There no project(*hic*) for [Perl] yet, why not add suggest(*hic*) one?" Anyone?

Re: Perl outreach

On Tuesday, November 27, 2012, Guinevere Nell wrote: > > I don't think you can say it about any language - I mean, you *can*, but > you'd be lying. My guess is that only 1 in 37 programmers that have both > allocated memory in C and not had to allocate memory in Perl would choose > to continue to a

Re: Perl outreach

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Mark Blackman wrote: > On 27 Nov 2012, at 07:05, Peter Sergeant wrote: > > > Great! Now, any ideas how we further Perl outreach? > > Evangelism in non-perl-specific outlets. I think this is the right direction. Perl is often cited as a

Re: Perl outreach

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Abigail wrote: > Arguing which language is better seems to be as pointless to me as > arguing which car is better, or which brand of hammer. > Sure. But that's pretty far removed from giving people compelling reasons to try a specific car. Also: I suspect people

Re: Perl outreach

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Salve J Nilsen wrote: > > «So you want to write some useful software? Learn from Perl. We in the > Perl community saw what happened when one just focuses "getting stuff done" > without spending any attention on software life-cycle management. So, what > did we lea

Re: Perl outreach

Fundamentally we fail to answer the question "Why Perl?" Sure the tools are good. But the common view seems to be that for every good tool Perl has, Ruby or Python have its own (perhaps superior) version. Plack is neat, but a Perl project named after the Ruby port of a Python tool isn't a USP. Fi

Re: 25 Years of Perl

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Dave Cross wrote: > Finding it harder to trace the history of #perl though. Can anyone help > out there? Even if it's just an idea of when it first started. > > Oh, and when was irc.perl.org set up? > EFnet #perl was the 'original' Perl IRC channel - I'm sure Ran

Re: Brainbench perl test?

On Wednesday, September 5, 2012, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Abigail > > wrote: > > Your first instinct should be "Is there a generating function I can > use?". > > Try not to blow your cache pipeline with all that silly branching, > > sub fib { > my $n = shift; > i

Re: Can I get some advice on best way to start Perl Programming

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: > also the o'reilly school of technology has 4 levels of perl courses > written by *peter scott* > Interesting! He's the author of what I consider to be one of the best Perl books of all time (Perl Medic), so that sounds highly worth looking i

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-08-14

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Leon Brocard wrote: > London Perl Mongers organises technical meetings every two months. The > technical meetings are a chance to find out what has been going on in > the Perl community, what techniques people are using and how Perl > integrates with other softwar

Re: Dotcloud?

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > Anyone use it? I have, and have had generally excellent service from them -P

Re: Dim Sum?

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > Does anyone have a craving for Dim Sum in the West End tomorrow? A 100% > Venda turn out > again would count as a fail... :) > There's tasty Szechuan food in West London ... Tian Fu is convenient for people at the Beeb and at NAP... -P

Re: Free online courses in computer science / maths + others

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Adam Witney wrote: > > Some of these courses may be of interest to the people here > > https://www.coursera.org/ I've started the Compilers Course, which looks interesting so far, although has meant I've had to teach myself Java in a very short period...

Re: Google Chart API with Perl -Dancer - SQLite DB

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Mark fowler wrote: > On Tuesday, 10 April 2012 at 20:43, Taka wrote: > > I'm very new to Perl Modules, and I would be much appreciated if someone > > can give me some your expertise and advices to how to link database to > > Google Chart API. > > > > > > The googl

Re: OT: Agile PM courses?

Agile training seems to be one of those things where the individual teaching it is far, far, far more important than almost any other factor. I've found almost all the Agile trainers I've met to lack anything approaching experience in developing real software, and be full of facile and unhelpful so

Re: Testing databases with DBIx::Class

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Ian Knopke wrote: > I need to test some DBIx::Class code where the database may not be > available. I can set up something to generate a small, temporary > SQlite db, but I was wondering what approaches others are currently > using for this. DBD::Mock seems ok but

Re: Writing About Perl

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Dave Cross wrote: > > So, purely hypothetically... > > If a popular Linux magazine had given you the opportunity to write a 3000 > word article giving a practical project-based demonstration of how Perl had > moved on in the last ten years, what would you do? Wha

Re: More free stuff at the ORTHODOX social

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > Sorely tempted to take the Pratchett as I've NEVER READ ONE. > Certainly if you love the work of Stephenie Meyer you'll find them to be engaging and intelligent.

Re: LPW 2011 carpooling

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote: > Note that some cruise ships can just fit under Tower Bridge, and hence can > dock next to HMS Belfast, in the Pool of London. Zone 1, beating even > London > City Airport's Zone 3. > > Sure, and while we're at it: http://www.londonheliport

Re: Slightly offtopic - coordinate conversions

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 7:16 AM, 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 > &

Slightly offtopic - coordinate conversions

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 : 0x47d8a00baf21de75:0x52963a5addd52a99 A few attempts at working out

Re: Someone needs to take jwz aside...

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Pedro Figueiredo wrote: > If only it knew how to manage a Shipwright vessel... > So, I was gonna ask. Does Shipwright do most of what "we" like about Maven? Would it be that hard to define a list of modules, a Perl version, and let something driving Perlbrew just

Slides from last night

If you weren't there at the talk, these probably won't make all that much sense to you... http://www.slideshare.net/petersergeant/highlevel-web-testing -P

Spam tarpits...

I've been looking at OpenBSD's spamd, which is a fake SMTP server that's very very very slow, the idea being to waste spammers' resources. One idea might be to redirect connections to port 25 from IPs in a blackhole list to this process instead of the local SMTP server. However, spamd does not actu

Re: (no subject)

> Does anyone know of a module or a technique or incantation I can use to > achieve what I really mean by the following: I've always liked the examples of using IO::Select and friends in the WebMonkey article on how to write a chat-server (from 1997, no less)... http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonk

Re: any recommended web-hosting?

As always, I'm going to have to recommend Bytemark - http://www.bytemark-hosting.co.uk/ -- they're cheap, you get free technical support from two thoroughly clued up guys, and you get root on your own machine - if you're comfortable administering your own machine, go with them. +Pete

Re: Exim and HELO

> How would one do the ditching at SMTP time? It would appear that any email from this company starts its transaction with my mail-server with 'HELO compuserve.com'. I've seen an exim4 config-file snippet to block at this point[1] - I'm looking to do the same with exim3... +Pete [1] http://black

Exim and HELO

I've recently been getting hammered by mail15.com performing a dictionary attack on my mail server - my server accepts email to anyone @clueball.com, and so I've been recieving several thousand piece of spam a day advertising mail15.com. This is obviously somewhat upsetting - it may get marked as

Re: [OT] Web Hosting on Linux with ssh access

> I'm looking for a hosting company for a website I want to set-up. > It'll need the following: > I've had absolutely nothing but pure joy from Bytemark: http://www.bytemark-hosting.co.uk/index.html £15 a month for a machine with 64MB memory, 3GB HDD and 7.5GB transfer (with more transfer being

Re: Mercury Amalgam (was: insidious biometrics, identity crises)

> Well, Vitamin C does make a reliable abortifacient for women who are very > early in their pregnancy since it blocks the uptake of progesterone. It's > usually taken orally in very high doses and often combined with other > herbal substances to help the process when it's a desired effect. Such

Re: Programming Email Filters

http://grou.ch/bounce.txt is very effective. But if you're using fetchmail or similar, remember the Email::Simple team chose correctness over usefulness, and not to write the emails back to mail folders, unless you want all kinds of pain. +Pete

Re: Stupid fucking antivirus software

> Which suggests that one approach would be to create such demand. Or at > least the appearance of such demand. Maybe we should all start making > requests to sales departments: > > "Hi, I was evaluating AV products for purchase. I notice that while many > are capable of warnings the senders o

Re: Stupid fucking antivirus software

I'll keep this brief because I don't want to trip my anti-slashdot-mentality-rant-mode. On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 11:53:17AM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: > Because by sending email they get to advertise their product; and, like > spammers, they think that it doesn't matter how many people you ann

Re: Stupid fucking antivirus software

On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 01:54:56PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > What you are saying is equivalent to "if there's money to be made from > spamming, there's nothing wrong with doing it.". No, what I'm saying is that expecting businesses to act like charities is more than a little silly. Bouncing

Re: pine editor derby, was Re: London.pm identity cards

> If you want to use vi instead of pico always, select the option labeled > enable-alternate-editor-implicitly -- this kind of screws up the display > of message header info though, so personally I didn't care for this > setting. How so? Dropping into it from mutt, the headers are nicely highlight

Re: request for supercited mails

> OK, I shouldn't do this, but...: Right, you shouldn't, because, as you quite rightly said[1], ad-hominem attacks help no-one... +Pete [1]

Re: Test Sweets?

> To be honest, there's not that much difference. You run the script and > run the results though Test::Harness which works out if they passed or > not. Or you run each test manually and look at the output. This may be different now, but, I found Test::Simple and Test::More to be a lot easier to

Re: [OT] SQL woes

> Thanks - I did see the module on CPAN but wan't sure if I only needed the > one download. What I can't see there (or at the SQLite site) is a nice > example which shows creates, updates and queries a dbase. If I look at the > books I've got which show the DBI working with MySQL, can I simply tr

[OT] G4 Cube for sale...

For sale: 1 450Mhz G4 Cube, 30GB HDD, 512MB RAM, OS X 10.2.6 DVD drive, and external CD writer This would make an absolutely perfect center to someone's little audio-visual den... The machine itself (if you don't know what they look like) is a very sexy cube shape

Re: IRC Server/Channel

> In fact, irc.london.pm.org should point to the london rhizomatic server, > or did last I checked. Try: /motd grou.ch When connected. Gives you some useful info about hosts. +Pete

Re: IRC Server/Channel

> Which is the best perl IRC Server/Channel to use!? EFNet/#perl !? -- If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. -- Henry David Thoreau

Re: [OT] SQL woes

> UPDATE user, user_names Leading, it would seem to: mysql> UPDATE user, users_names SET user.user_realname = users_names.name WHERE user.user_id = users_names.user_id; ERROR 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax near ' users_names SET user.user_realname = users_names.name WHERE user.u

Re: [OT] SQL woes

> is it not simply: > ? Apparently not. mysql> UPDATE user SET user.user_realname = users_names.name WHERE user.user_id = users_names.user_id; ERROR 1109: Unknown table 'users_names' in where clause However, users_names definitely does exist. I'd speculate here, and, if I'm wrong I'd appreciate

[OT] SQL woes

It's at times like this I realise my SQL skills only cover the basics... I have two tables, 'user' and 'users_names'. I'm looking to deprecate 'users_names', so I've altered 'user' to now contain a 'user_realname' column. Both tables have a column 'user_id', which correspond to each other. I'd li

Re: Messing with spammers

> > http://grou.ch/bounce.txt > I had been thinking of using Mail::DeliveryStatus::BounceParser. > Wonderful that CPAN thing, eh? Further to discussions with Leon on IRC... Mail::DeliveryStatus::BounceParser doesn't fill this niche. It is, in fact, a tool for people writing mailing-list software

Re: Messing with spammers

> My personal feeling is that whatever comes and replaces SMTP has to > insist that certain information be guaranteed - for example, if > smtp.foo.com wants to send an email which has From: [EMAIL PROTECTED], then > smtp.foo.com.can-relay.bar.com or something ought to point at > smtp.foo.com's IP a

Re: text'd or texted

> Also following the recent discussion on pronunciations, the words text'd > or texted do not exists in the dictionary. Which do you think will make > it first!? One would assume neither will make it into the dictionary like that, but that 'text [v]' may one day make it in, the logical past-tense

Re: Messing with spammers

> I'm currently getting 2-300 bounce messages a day from spam email > that I didn't send :( http://grou.ch/bounce.txt I added a pointer to that from procmail, and they all got magically filtered... +Pete

Pollution and Inheritance

I'm writing a module, Some::Module::Extended, which is a sub-class of Some::Module. There are two or three methods that I want Some::Module::Extended to override - I want them to do some munging of their arguments before sending them on to the parent method. So, for example: # Some::Module::Extend

Re: Meetings

> any signs that you lot think are indicative. :-) That's easy, look for an unconventional team: a man who smokes cigars; a crazy pilot; an angry man; and the man from UNCLE...[1] +Pete [1] With apologies to Mr Clamp[2] [2] http://unixbeard.net/~richardc/cgi/blog.cgi/siesta-timeline.pod/ -- Ki

Re: [ANNOUNCE] YAPC::Europe Auction

> So what was the result? A certain Esperantophone (sp?) member of the list made an exceptionally generous donation, and a lot of other people followed... Do we know the Esperanto for 'camel'? +Pete -- B: Pinky, Are you pondering what I'm pondering? P: Well, I think so, Brain, but I can't mem

Re: Eurocracy sucks.

> Is this Schengen thing a recent thing? No, it's been around eight years. http://www.eurovisa.info/ It sounds highly possible you've gotten the wrong end of the shtick. +Pete

Re: in case you didn't notice

> > http://search.cpan.org/orange.html > > Visit our website at http://www.ubs.com > > This message contains confidential information and is intended only > for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you > should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please > notify t

Re: Problem Connecting to IRC?

> I just tried to connect with "irc.perl.org" listed as the server. No luck. > What am I doing wrong? (In the meantime, I'm back to being a grouch.) What are you doing wrong? Depends largely on the value of 'No luck'... bash-2.05a$ host -t ANY irc.perl.org irc.perl.org has address 216.232.28.21

Re: [Job] Web Developer / Sysadmin

> I know someone who works there so if you want I can get the inside opinion > on working for the company. Or you could just cut out the middle-man, and ask the two members of the list who work there (although, actually, I work for their sister company)... +Pete -- Do not be too moral. You may

Re: Problem Connecting to IRC?

> I have been told that irc.perl.org should now be used > instead of anything else, the LPM website has been updated > accordingly. This is correct. grou.ch and london are the two IRC servers in the UK. grouch.irc.perl.org london.irc.perl.org irc.perl.org is a round-robin for all the rhizomatic

Re: [Job] Web Developer / Sysadmin

> Seems to be a reasonable perl dev plus some sysadmin job. > As part of the web team, you will have the opportunity to work in a > multi-language web environment on the latest technology, helping to > promote the benefits of and its products. Using just a little deduction, I'd guess this i

[OT] Chewing gum

I appreciate that this is more off-topic than most, but... I was at Heathrow today. I paid 44p for a pack of chewing gum. I eat a lot of chewing gum, maybe two packets a day... That's 88p a day, in a worst-case scenario. I have trouble believing that it costs shops more than about 15p a stick, mea

Re: [sigs] a small collection

> Well, doesn't compiled code count as obfuscated? I run other people's > compiled code all the time, usually on the basis I have some degree of > trust regarding its source. Which, as I should point out, is largely why these 'stupid Windows users' keep getting hit by viruses - when Microsoft se

Re: [sigs] a small collection

> So you code review every module before you install them with CPAN / > CPANPLUS? That depends on where I'm installing it. At work, of course, every module is hand-checked for malicious code (although not by me - we have a lab for that). The CPAN shell and CPANPLUS are both prohibited (and blocked

Re: UK Money, again

> > For some value of "soon". > Soon being defined as "If i'm here, over my dead body". Surely the value of 'soon' here means 'as soon as possible', and implies that it would be an exceptionally good thing? /me dons flame-retardant suit, runs, ducks, covers +Pete -- B: Pinky, Are you ponderin

Re: [sigs] a small collection

> yep, although at least you know where i live. (or at least some do...). > > also i hope most of you know i'm a nice kind of chap who isn't so lame as > to do something malicious (lame enough to write obfuscated sigs > though..). Windows email viruses also often send themselves from seemingly t

Re: [sigs] a small collection

> $_="just another technical yahoo!";@b=sort{rand cmp [EMAIL PROTECTED]//;$|= > print"\ec";[EMAIL PROTECTED];sub p{print"\e[$_[1];$_[0]H$_[2]"}while($e=$a[$g++]){ > $f=0;{redo if$b[$f++]ne$e}$b[$f-1]=0;p($f,1,$");$i=$f-$g<0?1:-1;while($f > !=$g){select$q,$q,$q,p($f,2,$e)/20;p(($f+=$i)-$i,2,$")}p($f

Re: auction time

> I won't be auctioning myself off either as I have enough to do with > helping to keep Jarkko from going nuts over the elusive 5.8.1. Maybe we > could auction you off Pete...Just think of the joy you'd give to Uri for > 20 quid :) Jokes about Uri's stem[1] aside, I'll go on the record as saying I

Re: auction time

> ps I am Jos' and Elaine's bitch I believe Elaine prefers 'pussy-whipped towel boy', but my memory may be faulty... +Pete -- A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out. -- Samuel Johnson

[OT] Places to go, people to see...

Dear Mongers, It so happens that I'm expecting a visit from a delightful foreign young lady next week, who's expecting me to show her England. I have eight days, no car, and not a great deal of cash. We'll be based in Fleet (near Basingstoke). I'm half considering going down Dorset way (should be

Re: [OT] Co-location again

> I've been trying to find a cheap alternative to co-location, but they all > seem to be a right PITA. I can highly recommend http://www.bytemark-hosting.co.uk/ - not colocation, but virtual linux machines. Service has been absolutely first class +Pete

Re: The answer to the map and disc problem

> It's true that the z->s tranformation is recent and that the > 'z' spellings were in use here when the pilgrims left, but I'm > not sure that fact makes them any more correct than the generally > accepted 's' spellings. Since when waa antiquity a measure of > correctness in spelling or grammer?

Re: pattern matching against phonenumbers

> I just think the domain names you can get from them are cool. > > http://www.earth.li/ Switch (who handle .li), also handle .ch (http://www.switch.ch/ -- for the interested) +Pete (proud owner of cou.ch, grou.ch, snit.ch, and bugbit.ch) > > -- > Lusercop.net - LARTing Lusers everywhere si

[OT] [SPAM] Cassiopeia EM-500

Following on from the discussions of PDAs, it occurs to me that my lovely, precious Palm has removed the need for my fairly chunky, but colour-screen Cassiopeia EM-500. Half.com is selling it used for 120 quid, they seem to retail on eBay for about 70. Reviews: - http://half.ebay.com/cat/

Re: CPAN site

> Out of interest, what do people get from www.cpan.org? I only ever > use search.cpan.org myself. What am I missing? a) Provides a useful link to theory5 when search.cpan.org is down b) It's much easier to scan specific heirachies on it, like URI::, especially now that people are polluting the

Re: RegEx for UK Postal Codes

> Yikes, there's also BFPO... I seem to remember, and perhaps incorrectly, that BFPO is not part of a postcode, and takes a form similar to: Peter Sergeant BFPO 5 UK But it's been a long time since I lived somewhere reachable by one... +Pete -- A cucumber should be well-sliced,

Re: RegEx for UK Postal Codes

> m/[A-Z]{1,2}\d{1,2}[A-Z]{0,1}\W\d{1,1}[A-Z]{2,2}/ I would personally rewrite it like this: m/ [A-Z]{1,2} \d{1,2} [A-Z]? \W \d [A-Z]{2} /x +Pete -- Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. --

Re: use warnings and 5.005

> Warnings are things that tell you when you did something you > shouldn't. No, that's wrong, and apparently the central point of your misconception. Warnings are things that tell you when you *might* have done something wrong. That's why they're called 'warnings' and not 'errors'. +Pete -- R

Re: The joys of web development

> What about old browsers, that support JavaScript but not the noscript > HTML element? *sighs* Which are they? -- When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. -- Samuel Johnson

Re: use warnings and 5.005

> If your code issues > warnings, it's wrong. It is? Warnings are just that: warnings. Information to make you sit up and say 'is that what I meant to do'? If your code doesn't compile, it's probably wrong, whether or not it issues warnings is irrelevant. +Pete -- When a man is tired of London

Re: HTML!

> > And, seeing that it would be Just Wrong to make that the only way of > > submitting the form, I'm going to have a submit button too. How do I do > > that funky thang where you can just hit enter to make that button do its > > thang? > > > Hmm, I think that's just something that all browser

Re: rugby

> > Ok, its been talked about in the past, but does anyone have any plans > > for a london.pm meet up to watch Ireland kick Englands arse on sunday. > > How about somewhere nice and central as well, what about the pillars > > of hercules? or does someone have a better suggestion? > > I'm planning

Re: c email libraries

> There's a link to the Java source of Grendel but that's pretty app > specific. And a little free time and a friendly neighbourhood search-engine provides: Balsa's implementation: I'm sure it can't be *THAT* hard

User-mode Linux (was: Re: Perl 6 Apocalypse 6)

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:03:24AM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: > What, you're running on physical hardware? D'oh :-) > > I'm quite rapidly becoming a fan of User Mode Linux especially now that > the Separate Kernel Address Space patch is out. > > Toys: > http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net

Re: Learning regular expressions

> I disagree. Regexps are quite well documented. There is even a manpage > exclusively dedicated to it. =-] Though actually most of the docs used to be split between perlop and perlre, neither of which are friendly pieces of text. I believe this situation has ameliorated a little, but, certainly

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