Re: Dear Dr Who experts...

2014-10-08 Thread Randy J. Ray
say LEVITATE. Randy -- Randy J. Ray Sunnyvale, CA http://www.dereferenced.com rj...@blackperl.com twitter.com/rjray Silicon Valley Scale Modelers: http://www.svsm.org

Re: One More (Possibly Unusual) Info Request

2013-11-06 Thread Randy J. Ray
-opened now, but with this closer place I think I'll avoid the longer trip. (Plus, I think the Oyster Card I got is limited to zones 1 2... I'd have to put more into it to go to zone 4.) Randy -- Randy J. Ray Sunnyvale, CA http://www.rjray.org rj...@blackperl.com twitter.com/rjray

Re: Tourist-y suggestions?

2013-11-03 Thread Randy J. Ray
hadn't thought about it until you suggested it. Randy -- Randy J. Ray Sunnyvale, CA http://www.rjray.org rj...@blackperl.com twitter.com/rjray Silicon Valley Scale Modelers: http://www.svsm.org

Re: Tourist-y suggestions?

2013-11-03 Thread Randy J. Ray
-- Randy J. Ray Sunnyvale, CA http://www.rjray.org rj...@blackperl.com twitter.com/rjray Silicon Valley Scale Modelers: http://www.svsm.org

Tourist-y suggestions?

2013-10-31 Thread Randy J. Ray
appreciated... Randy -- Randy J. Ray Sunnyvale, CA http://www.rjray.org rj...@blackperl.com twitter.com/rjray Silicon Valley Scale Modelers: http://www.svsm.org

Could use some hotel/travel help

2013-09-25 Thread Randy J. Ray
help! Randy -- Randy J. Ray Sunnyvale, CA http://www.rjray.org rj...@blackperl.com twitter.com/rjray Silicon Valley Scale Modelers: http://www.svsm.org

Shot in the Dark: Owner of the @PerlUpdate Twitter Account?

2013-07-13 Thread Randy J. Ray
headlines with links to some site called snsanalytics.com, which appears to be a link-farm. Randy -- Randy J. Ray Sunnyvale, CA http://www.rjray.org rj...@blackperl.com twitter.com/rjray Silicon Valley Scale Modelers: http://www.svsm.org

Random Perl Content

2013-05-18 Thread Randy J. Ray
instances it creates are truly independent of each other or not. So, is this something anyone else here has dealt with? Are there modules I just haven't stumbled upon yet, that would do this for me? Any help greatly appreciated, as always. Randy -- Randy J. Ray Sunnyvale, CA http

Re: Random Perl Content

2013-05-18 Thread Randy J. Ray
have to get it installed site-wide at work, a process that can take weeks, if not months... (and no smart remarks about local::lib, cpanm, etc... this is a large corporate environment with its own rules and ways of doing things, unfortunately.) Randy -- Randy J. Ray Sunnyvale, CA http

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Randy J. Ray
an acronym for Perl Hypertext Pages. But people deny that, so I can't be sure. -- Randy J. Ray Sunnyvale, CA http://www.rjray.org rj...@blackperl.com twitter.com/rjray Silicon Valley Scale Modelers: http://www.svsm.org

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-19 Thread Randy J. Ray
to write about AutoLoader/AutoSplit after I'd done some work fleshing out the docs for the core, and that directly led into writing more, and eventually becoming a CPAN contributor, book author, etc. Randy -- Randy J. Ray Sunnyvale, CA http://www.rjray.org rj...@blackperl.com

Re: Perl syntax highlighting

2012-10-26 Thread Randy J. Ray
I'm back in my office I might look it over and see if I can relate a few helpful hints. Randy -- Randy J. Ray Sunnyvale, CA http://www.rjray.org rj...@blackperl.com twitter.com/rjray Silicon Valley Scale Modelers: http://www.svsm.org

Re: Perl syntax highlighting

2012-10-26 Thread Randy J. Ray
= $ppi_html-html($document); And you can decide for yourself if you need line numbers or not... Randy -- Randy J. Ray Sunnyvale, CA http://www.rjray.org rj...@blackperl.com Silicon Valley Scale Modelers: http://www.svsm.org

Fwd: Save 50% on all Perl Ebooks (Includes *New* Intermediate Perl, 2nd Edition) - One Week Only

2012-08-02 Thread Randy J. Ray
/9z1zot6d540pkm0chqeovsm08cd359f3nv6jq2hiamo. O'Reilly Media, Inc. 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472 (707) 827-7000 -- Randy J. Ray Sunnyvale, CA http://www.rjray.org rj...@blackperl.com twitter.com/rjray Silicon Valley Scale Modelers: http://www.svsm.org

Re: Moose and Test::Builder (was Tech Talk Slides)

2012-02-01 Thread Randy J. Ray
, it will be brittle, as you say, because a subtle change in Moose internals could change the number of stack frames either in delegation or in the application of around-code. But that is the first thing I would try, at least. Randy -- Randy J. Ray Sunnyvale, CA http://www.rjray.org rj

Re: perl coding style question

2011-08-16 Thread Randy J. Ray
in main from within a module. Generally, having to refer to a different namespace at all breaks encapsulation, so it should only be done if absolutely necessary. Randy -- Randy J. Ray Sunnyvale, CA http://www.rjray.org rj...@blackperl.com Silicon Valley Scale Modelers: http

Re: [OT]-ish: Can someone explain this?

2011-07-02 Thread Randy J. Ray
-- Randy J. Ray Sunnyvale, CA http://www.rjray.org rj...@blackperl.com twitter.com/rjray Silicon Valley Scale Modelers: http://www.svsm.org

Perl under MacOS X

2011-06-02 Thread Randy J. Ray
, rather the problem is over-abundance of it. And much of what I find on Google is years old, and the problems I'm vaguely remembering seemed more recent than that... Randy -- Randy J. Ray Sunnyvale, CA http://www.rjray.org rj...@blackperl.com

Re: wireless routers

2010-11-08 Thread Randy J. Ray
the antenna connection and now he happily uses it.) Randy -- Randy J. Ray Sunnyvale, CA http://www.rjray.org rj...@blackperl.com Silicon Valley Scale Modelers: http://www.svsm.org

Re: Weird IPC/Apache issue

2010-01-20 Thread Randy J. Ray
-- Randy J. Ray Sunnyvale, CA http://www.rjray.org rj...@blackperl.com Silicon Valley Scale Modelers: http://www.svsm.org

Weird IPC/Apache issue

2010-01-19 Thread Randy J. Ray
string since that would invoke an extra bash process.) Randy -- Randy J. Ray Sunnyvale, CA http://www.rjray.org rj...@blackperl.com Silicon Valley Scale Modelers: http://www.svsm.org

Re: Twitter modules

2009-11-10 Thread Randy J. Ray
::Twitter::Lite supports OAuth just fine, so you should be able to register the application with only a little extra effort. Randy -- Randy J. Ray Sunnyvale, CA http://www.rjray.org rj...@blackperl.com Silicon Valley Scale Modelers: http://www.svsm.org

Re: Twitter modules

2009-11-10 Thread Randy J. Ray
been covered here or in other messages in this thread.) Randy -- Randy J. Ray Sunnyvale, CA http://www.rjray.org rj...@blackperl.com Silicon Valley Scale Modelers: http://www.svsm.org

Tricky localization/scope question

2009-07-27 Thread Randy J. Ray
, and we get such functionality for free while Java et al struggle with their after-the-fact regexp libraries. -- Randy J. Ray Sunnyvale, CA http://www.rjray.org rj...@blackperl.com Silicon Valley Scale Modelers: http://www.svsm.org

Re: Tricky localization/scope question

2009-07-27 Thread Randy J. Ray
This will localise any changes to @INC/%INC on the way into the block and restore them on the way out. Ooh, that's nice. I think I'll attack it from that angle. Should be on GitHub in a day or three... Randy -- Randy J. Ray Sunnyvale, CA http://www.rjray.org rj...@blackperl.com

Re: Gallifrey.pm tshirt

2009-05-18 Thread Randy J. Ray
David H. Adler wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 01:56:07PM +0100, L?on Brocard wrote: I think the time has come for a new London.pm tshirt, this time for Gallifrey.pm: http://astray.spreadshirt.net/en/GB/Shop/Article/Index/article/Gallifreypm-9530899 Sadly, the United States seems not to be

Best pick for time-based 'event' looping?

2009-04-15 Thread Randy J. Ray
I might be using the wrong tech-terminology here, so bear with me... What I'm looking for is a best-of-breed sort of CPAN solution for a job-queue processor in which the jobs are run based on time. Not quite cron, mind you, but not too different from that. In essence: 1. Init job queue 2.

Re: My New Job (Was: Social Thurs 8 Jan 2009)

2009-01-05 Thread Randy J. Ray
Work is good, and so are new experiences I'm going to experience the Circle Line at rush hour for the first time. Is that good? It certainly qualifies as an experience...* Hmmm... in the sense, Experience is what you get, when you don't get what you want. -- Randy J. Ray Sunnyvale

Re: MVC (Re: DBIx::Class - Related Tables)

2008-10-07 Thread Randy J. Ray
Andy Wardley wrote: I disagree. In fact, I think you may have fallen into the MVC Silver Bullet[*] trap. Izzat the one what has to do with not getting into a land war in Asia or a battle of wits with a Sicilian[*]? Randy [*] May only apply when death is on the line -- Randy J. Ray

Re: Calling Conventions and Pass By Reference

2008-09-02 Thread Randy J. Ray
at assignment time from the existing values of a and b. Randy -- Randy J. Ray Silicon Valley Scale Modelers: http://www.svsm.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what are you doing

2003-08-14 Thread Randy J. Ray
On 2003.08.14 05:39 Ali Young wrote: On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Michael Stevens wrote: What are people doing outside Perl/IT these days? Have you got a job outside IT because there's no IT work? Or are you learning something outside IT / planning to do something like this? My usual answer for that

Re: OSCON

2003-07-06 Thread Randy J. Ray
Will beer be drunk? Isn't that a bit like asking, Will Perl be discussed? Randy, off to the airport in a few hours... -- Randy J. RayCampbell, CAhttp://www.rjray.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Silicon Valley Scale Modelers: http://www.svsm.org

Re: OSCON

2003-07-06 Thread Randy J. Ray
Randy, off to the airport in a few hours... And still sitting in the airport long after I should have left. Thank goodness for (relatively) cheap WiFi hotspots... Randy -- Randy J. RayCampbell, CAhttp://www.rjray.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] Silicon Valley Scale Modelers: http

Re: [JOB] Perl developer

2003-06-17 Thread Randy J. Ray
protype new projects. Work is original and challenging. Only programmers with the highest apptitude need apply. There's something wrong here... :-/ And they say I'm cynical. But if he had noticed then he might have applied... And, in my case, they gave up *saying* it years ago. You're

Re: Perl 6 Apocalypse 6

2003-03-13 Thread Randy J. Ray
Among them the whirl as you realise that rm -rf shouldn't be taking this long... Ah, that time-stopping, stomach-dropping, splicter-clenching moment :-) Right up there with the dual realization that not only did you just type kill 1 instead of kill %1, but that you're root,

Re: Perl 6 Apocalypse 6

2003-03-13 Thread Randy J. Ray
Right up there with the dual realization that not only did you just type kill 1 instead of kill %1, but that you're root, as well. 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

Re: referenced types

2003-03-09 Thread Randy J. Ray
the package name. Check out perlref and perldoc -f ref. Randy -- Randy J. RayCampbell, CAhttp://www.rjray.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] Silicon Valley Scale Modelers: http://www.svsm.org

Re: Quick silly question

2003-02-05 Thread Randy J. Ray
a trickier, shorter golf solution, but I was never into obfuscated code writing... Randy -- Randy J. RayCampbell, CAhttp://www.rjray.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] Silicon Valley Scale Modelers: http://www.svsm.org

Re: SOAP::Lite

2003-01-12 Thread Randy J. Ray
include London. And I'm still quite relieved at not having to write any code to generate travel directions around any part of London.) Randy -- Randy J. RayCampbell, CAhttp://www.rjray.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] Silicon Valley Scale Modelers: http://www.svsm.org

Re: SOAP::Lite

2003-01-11 Thread Randy J. Ray
-name(LanguageCode = 'en'), SOAP::Data-name(SportID = 1)); (Do I get to shill my web services book? :-) Randy -- Randy J. RayCampbell, CAhttp://www.rjray.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] Silicon Valley Scale Modelers: http://www.svsm.org

Re: [OT] Playstation2 as DVD Player

2003-01-07 Thread Randy J. Ray
goodness ... so it looks like the DVD drive fitted to your multi-thousand pound laptop is of better quality than the one in the mass-market, cost cut to the bone, 200 quid PS2 how very odd :) I don't know to what extent Sony has ever marketed their PS/2 as being a suitable DVD player, but

Re: Weird Syntax

2002-11-19 Thread Randy J. Ray
On 2002.11.19 15:23 Chris Devers wrote: On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Lusercop wrote: You're not turning on strict at all Interesting. % cat foo #! /usr/bin/perl use strict qw($x); use warnings; $notx = 1; print $notx \n; % ./foo 1 % The strict pragma

Re: REMINDER: Emergency meet TOMORROW (Tues 12 Nov)

2002-11-11 Thread Randy J. Ray
I've made it to London intact (now feeding my -mail fix in a net.cafe on London St. near Paddington tube station). Looking forward to tomorrow evening! Randy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]Linux: Because rebooting is for adding new hardware. Any spammers auto-extracting addresses from this message

Re: Perl book for review

2002-11-01 Thread Randy J. Ray
On 2002.11.01 06:39 Alex McLintock wrote: Programming Perl in the .NET Environment PRENTICE-HALL Now Why anyone would want to use .NET is beyond me, but maybe someone would like to review it? For the foreseeable future, .NET is an unfortunate reality of developing web services. You may

Re: Perl book for review

2002-11-01 Thread Randy J. Ray
On 2002.11.01 12:29 Paul Makepeace wrote: For the foreseeable future, .NET is an unfortunate reality of developing web services. You may choose to develop your service a cleaner, more more standards-friendly fashion, In what way is .NET standards-unfriendly? The way the components

Re: webmail

2002-10-30 Thread Randy J. Ray
On 2002.10.30 08:14 Randal L. Schwartz wrote: It looked a bit ugly, but LISP *can be* ugly. This is true. Lisp is one of the few languages with an actual entitlement to ugliness. Randy -- --- Randy J. Ray | Men

Visiting London 11/11-12/11

2002-10-29 Thread Randy J. Ray
(under rjray). Randy -- Randy J. RayCampbell, CAhttp://www.rjray.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] Silicon Valley Scale Modelers: http://www.svsm.org

Re: Visiting London 11/11-12/11

2002-10-29 Thread Randy J. Ray
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 10:21:47PM +, Marty Pauley wrote: On Tue Oct 29 20:33:39 2002, Greg McCarroll wrote: Ah, so you will be bringing a solid stick with you then to deal with the dreaded Gapps on the underground and perhaps during the evening you meet London.pm you can use your