Re: Interactive graphics

2014-11-16 Thread Ruud H.G. van Tol
On 2014-11-16 12:02, Sue Spence wrote: From: Roger Bell_West ro...@firedrake.org What are the cool kids using for interactive graphical stuff these days (not just dialogues, but changing graphics), assuming the underlying language is still Perl? I used to use Perl/Tk. Perl/Gtk? Something

Re: sub signatures coming

2014-02-25 Thread Ruud H.G. van Tol
On 2014-02-25 04:45, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Steve Mynott steve.myn...@gmail.com wrote: http://perltricks.com/article/72/2014/2/24/Perl-levels-up-with-native-subroutine-signatures Finally. But don't believe the python/perl comparison troll, as python, for

Re: Quarantining crap HTML?

2013-05-21 Thread Ruud H.G. van Tol
On 21/05/2013 13:31, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: In keeping with the spirit of the list, this isn't directly a perl question but it might be part of the solution. I'm picking up HTML from another site, and that HTML is pretty crappy. Is there any way of quarantining it so it doesn't bugger up the

Re: Random Perl Content

2013-05-18 Thread Ruud H.G. van Tol
On 18/05/2013 23:29, Abigail wrote: On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 01:53:33PM -0700, Randy J. Ray wrote: (It's a pun, see, because I'm going to be asking about random number generators... get it? Get it...?) (Short, TL;DR summary: I'm looking for a pRNG that can have multiple instances at once that

Re: Random Perl Content

2013-05-18 Thread Ruud H.G. van Tol
On 19/05/2013 02:26, Ruud H.G. van Tol wrote: On 18/05/2013 23:29, Abigail wrote: On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 01:53:33PM -0700, Randy J. Ray wrote: (It's a pun, see, because I'm going to be asking about random number generators... get it? Get it...?) (Short, TL;DR summary: I'm looking

Re: PDF creation?

2013-04-21 Thread Ruud H.G. van Tol
On 2013-04-21 13:43, Mark Fowler wrote: In a few weeks I'm going to want to be creating PDFs from Perl, something I haven't done in a few years. What's the recommended approach these days? I know I'm going to want to create the document from scratch, not fill in a template, and I'm probably

Re: French invasion

2013-02-27 Thread Ruud H.G. van Tol
On 2013-02-27 11:40, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 09:21:55AM +0100, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: This is tonight! We should be at the Gunmakers around 7pm. See you there. Having safely returned back to France, I'd like to thank everyone who came to the Gunmakers;

Re: Updating lots of database fields in a single row

2013-01-23 Thread Ruud H.G. van Tol
On 2013-01-23 10:27, William Blunn wrote: my @fields_to_update = grep { $hash-{$_} } @fields; Be aware that it skips any false value, like undef, '', '0', 0. -- Ruud

Re: Perl threads and libwww wierdness

2011-12-18 Thread Ruud H.G. van Tol
On 2011-12-18 08:43, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: On 18 Dec 2011, at 02:57, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: If all you need is to return results of a discrete bit of work to the parent, Parallel::ForkManager makes it trivial. And the best way to return those results...? Unless the exit code is

Re: website maintenance gig available

2011-08-03 Thread Ruud H.G. van Tol
On 2011-08-01 19:11, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: please let me know off list Did you also mean that all who don't will not be considered? -- Ruud

Re: Cool/useful short examples of Perl?

2011-06-08 Thread Ruud H.G. van Tol
On 30 May 2011 11:40, Leo Lapworthl...@cuckoo.org wrote: 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. # see also perlvar: $BASETIME { my $t0 = time; sub elapsed { time - $t0 } } -- Ruud

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

2011-05-25 Thread Ruud H.G. van Tol
On 2011-05-25 09:19, James Laver wrote: On 24 May 2011, at 06:31, Daniel Pittman wrote: It is, presently, the best of the options out there in terms of scale You mean apart from RabbitMQ? Rabbit is also the most full-featured of any of the free message queues I've come across. My personal

Re: ActiveMQ

2011-05-25 Thread Ruud H.G. van Tol
On 2011-05-25 19:33, Daniel Pittman wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 02:10, Ruud H.G. van Tolrv...@isolution.nl wrote: On 2011-05-25 09:19, James Laver wrote: On 24 May 2011, at 06:31, Daniel Pittman wrote: Anyone here who used Spread recently? I made trivial use of it in both testing and

Re: YAPC Pisa

2010-07-08 Thread Ruud H.G. van Tol
Chris Jack wrote: It's a long time since I sent credit card details by email and whilst I think it is obviously a very bad thing... It is not even allowed by the industry. By fax is still OK, by email never was. -- Ruud

Re: Lovefilm, yes or no?

2010-04-14 Thread Ruud H.G. van Tol
ian wrote: I was once asked at an interview 'how many digits of PI do you know?'. If phrased like that, I would ask Decimal? and then answer ten, 0..9. -- Ruud

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 12th April 2010

2010-03-28 Thread Ruud H.G. van Tol
Luis Motta Campos wrote: Dave Cross wrote: On 03/27/2010 08:13 AM, Uri Guttman wrote: and paul and i share the same birthday. not sure what that means. I expect you'll find it's a coincidence :-) As a mathematician I must say coincidences have really low probability of happening... So

Re: On-topic: HTML/JS help please

2010-02-12 Thread Ruud H.G. van Tol
David Cantrell wrote: I'm going to be very rude to the next person to suggest something that assumes I have a hierarchy of uls instead of a table. No javascript: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rvtol/DHTML/final_drop.html -- Ruud

Re: On-topic: HTML/JS help please

2010-02-12 Thread Ruud H.G. van Tol
Ruud H.G. van Tol wrote: David Cantrell wrote: I'm going to be very rude to the next person to suggest something that assumes I have a hierarchy of uls instead of a table. No javascript: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rvtol/DHTML/final_drop.html More of that here: http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus

Re: Brazilian PM looking for a job in London area

2010-01-11 Thread Ruud H.G. van Tol
Dave Cross wrote: Chris Jack: Solli: [ Snip rather patronising English lesson ] Chris Yeah. That's _exactly_ the best way to make a non-native English speaker feel welcome. Thanks for your input. You are what you read. I liked it. But hey, I don't like softies. -- Ruud don't like?

Re: Perl Christmas Quiz 2009

2009-11-30 Thread Ruud H.G. van Tol
Abigail wrote: On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 06:24:12PM +, Chris Jack wrote: 7) Write a one line program that takes a non-negative integer as an argument and prints the square root when the answer's an integer. Restrictions: the perl line should be a regular expression. Just a regular

Re: Every other

2009-10-30 Thread Ruud H.G. van Tol
Dirk Koopman wrote: Not certain why everyone avoids map and uses grep grep returns aliasses, map copies. -- Ruud

Re: Anyone hiring at the moment?

2009-09-23 Thread Ruud H.G. van Tol
Dominic Thoreau wrote: At the moment head office for me is Amsterdam, and I work in small outpost of three and a bit people. I travel there several times a year - if anyone can get specific recommendations about good places to eat in Amsterdam that charge on a scale I can fit on my expense

Re: Anyone hiring at the moment?

2009-09-22 Thread Ruud H.G. van Tol
Richard Foley wrote: What, relocate to Amsterdam, whatever for? Without investigation, I'd be prepared to bet that booking.com does most of it's booking online, remotely. So almost the entire client base is remote, all transactions completed online, it's entire business model is remote.

Re: Measuring power

2009-04-30 Thread Ruud H.G. van Tol
Nick Cleaton wrote: A computer is just a complicated heater, after all. google search of the day: human as a habitat -- Ruud