Re: Best practices for database migrations

2013-11-18 Thread Richard Huxton
approach and the reasons behind the project too. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd

Re: More advice about becoming a freelance Perl programmer

2013-03-07 Thread Richard Huxton
them effectively a proper employee but more expensive. The Perl Ministry of Administration would like to clarify that where David said idiot he meant of course valued enterprise client ;-) -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd

Re: Calendar web apps

2012-10-04 Thread Richard Huxton
On 02/10/12 23:38, Mark Overmeer wrote: I use the Baikal server for carddav and webdav... http://baikal.codr.fr Ta for that link. Looks useful (if php-based :-() -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd

Re: Setting Up PCs For Training

2012-06-25 Thread Richard Huxton
take their installations home with them. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd

Re: Perl e-commerce?

2011-09-14 Thread Richard Huxton
On 14/09/11 20:42, Nicholas Clark wrote: I'm not convinced that their language design is sane ...[snipped fairly agree-able list of php's flaws] On the other hand, they have managed to implement a class keyword. And exceptions. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd

Re: Recommendation for simple logger on Windows?

2011-01-10 Thread Richard Huxton
On 07/01/11 18:34, Alex Kalderimis wrote: I've enjoyed Log::Handler - nicely customisable. Perhaps this doesn't address the issue of overkill, but the minimal use cases have sensible defaults. Thanks for the tip. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd

Recommendation for simple logger on Windows?

2011-01-07 Thread Richard Huxton
I'd normally use log4perl but that's overkill for this case - I'm installing Strawberry Perl for one small app. Anyone have any strong feelings between the various Simple(r|st) / Tiny options on CPAN? -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd

Re: Recommendation for simple Web Frameworks

2011-01-06 Thread Richard Huxton
-Middleware-Debug/ http://search.cpan.org/search?query=plack+debug+dancermode=all -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd

Re: Solid state drives

2010-04-20 Thread Richard Huxton
said that, there are clearly plenty of applications where power-failure isn't an overriding worry. Index tablespace is an obvious usage, as is temporary table/sort storage. -- Richard Huxton

Re: On-topic: HTML/JS help please

2010-02-11 Thread Richard Huxton
on each tr: depends_on_1 and then a couple of lines of jquery or similar should let you toggle the rows on/off. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-24 Thread Richard Huxton
Mike Woods wrote: If you do go the public transport route most places can be reached within an hour Pretty much everywhere in London can be reached in about an hour. The flip side of that is that pretty much everywhere in London takes about an hour to reach. -- Richard Huxton Archonet

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-24 Thread Richard Huxton
Dermot wrote: 2009/11/24 Richard Huxton d...@archonet.com: Mike Woods wrote: If you do go the public transport route most places can be reached within an hour Pretty much everywhere in London can be reached in about an hour. The flip side of that is that pretty much everywhere in London

Re: Recommended hotels or crash place for LPW 2009?

2009-11-18 Thread Richard Huxton
://www.laterooms.com/en/hotel-reservations/145131_croydon-serviced-apartments-tg10-croydon.aspx -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd

Re: Production databases on SSDs?

2009-11-10 Thread Richard Huxton
as having constant small writes to them causing the disk heads to seek back and fore. This is why you tend to put them on their own disks. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd

Re: Every other

2009-10-30 Thread Richard Huxton
above it. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd

Re: Payment Providers

2009-10-02 Thread Richard Huxton
. And then it just lets you generate a new one. Which makes it meaningless even if 90% of users didn't end up using PAZZWORD anyway. Secondly - who's providing that 3d-secure form? How do you know it's your bank and not someone collecting PAZZWORDs? -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

2009-07-31 Thread Richard Huxton
by the light of a green-screen monitor. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd

Re: Desperately seeking Javascript help

2009-07-18 Thread Richard Huxton
David Cantrell wrote: Can anyone point me at a tutorial which will show me how to put a map in a page, point it at my own map tiles, and Just Work? Mostly it's people tagging google/yahoo maps. However, is this what you're after? http://wms-map.sourceforge.net/ -- Richard Huxton

Re: SQL: merging tables preserving FKs

2009-06-16 Thread Richard Huxton
there is no match to olduid. PostgreSQL has the useful but non-standard FROM clause for updates: UPDATE info SET uid = newuid FROM xfer WHERE uid = xfer.olduid; -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd

Encode::Mangled?

2009-05-29 Thread Richard Huxton
. Now the *correct* solution is to track down the people responsible for this travesty and beat them with sticks. Failing that, are people just rolling their own three-line function each time? -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd

Re: Encode::Mangled?

2009-05-29 Thread Richard Huxton
Dave Hodgkinson wrote: ZapCP1252. Just nukes all aberrant characters. Thanks to Joel for pointing that out for me. That's what I was after. Ta very much. http://search.cpan.org/~dwheeler/Encode-ZapCP1252-0.12/ -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd

Re: Encode::Mangled?

2009-05-29 Thread Richard Huxton
the problem, it's the fact that you need eight lines of documentation to explain it, and if I've got a typo somewhere in the hex-codes I'll probably never notice, which means writing test cases which means... -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd

Re: Encode::Mangled?

2009-05-29 Thread Richard Huxton
of the internet's character encodings... -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd

Re: Best practice for releasing Perl modules to staging and live

2009-05-18 Thread Richard Huxton
them all into Debian packages. This is the bit that interests me. How do you find out... 1. What modules do I need to install/upgrade to install module M version V? 2. Given my currently installed set of modules, what is the latest version of module M that I can install? -- Richard Huxton

Re: !0

2009-02-13 Thread Richard Huxton
it to an interpolating string six months from now. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd

Re: Extracting information back out of a DBH

2009-02-10 Thread Richard Huxton
then it's probably not worth the trouble. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd

Re: Have at it

2009-01-27 Thread Richard Huxton
custom subtypes I've not used neither bells nor whistles. However, I wanted to add command-line options and config-file support for a little utility. I discovered it involved all of: with 'MooseX::SimpleConfig'; with 'MooseX::Getopt'; Now *that* is what Perl is all about (imho). -- Richard

Just ... won't ... die

2009-01-22 Thread Richard Huxton
, followed by Perl on 18 per cent. PHP attracted just 11 per cent and Ruby six per cent. The numbers are a surprise as open-source PHP has proved popular as a web-site development language, while Ruby's been a hot topic for many. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd

Re: [REPOST] Testing network apps

2009-01-22 Thread Richard Huxton
to spot timing issues from a static logfile (particularly if I've not had enough coffee that morning). Apologies if I'm teaching my granny to suck eggs here, but I can guarantee this is the best response you've had so far :-) -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd

Re: DBI, BLOBS, MySQL

2009-01-09 Thread Richard Huxton
, duplicate-key errors will occur for values that differ only in the number of trailing spaces. For example, if a table contains 'a', an attempt to store 'a ' causes a duplicate-key error Genius. True genius. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd

Re: Sharding, and all that

2008-12-19 Thread Richard Huxton
further down the thread are both being clever. In neither case (from the small amount of detail available) does it look justified. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd

Re: Sharding, and all that

2008-12-19 Thread Richard Huxton
Andy Wardley wrote: Richard Huxton wrote: Yep - that's what sharding is all about - separate disconnected silos of data. I thought sharding specifically related to horizontal partitioning. i.e. splitting one table across several databases, e.g. records with even row ids in one DB, odd

Re: Sharding, and all that

2008-12-18 Thread Richard Huxton
to correct corrupt data. Now I know the likes of ebay and skype do it, but you can bet they wouldn't unless they had to. These articles seem to put it on a par with trying out a new theme in firefox. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd

Re: It Shines! It Shines!

2008-12-18 Thread Richard Huxton
- you'll be wanting one of those animated man-digging icons. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd

Re: Sharding, and all that

2008-12-18 Thread Richard Huxton
the performance problems out. You're already making them admin MySQL - rolling in broken glass is what they do to relax. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd

Re: LPW Slides: Badger Power

2008-12-02 Thread Richard Huxton
and spread TB to cattle. That's probably me though :-) -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd

London Perl Workshop - Thanks

2008-11-29 Thread Richard Huxton
could only attend one at a time. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd