On Sep 30, 2009, at 9:19 AM, David Cantrell wrote:
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:18:15AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On the other hand, the Japanese managed to make decent lager from
rice.
[citation needed]
The problem with Japanese lagers is that they're generally quite bland
- Kirin,
On 14/03/03 16:55 +, Chris Bannister wrote:
Try www.dedicated-servers.co.uk it's Host Europe' UK hopsting/colo site.
Having used them in the past, and known various others who have, I'd
trust Host Europe less far than I could throw both their hosting
centres combined.
I had no end of
On 13/03/03 14:30 +, Robin Szemeti wrote:
ahh 2 wheels good, 4 wheels bad. well done sir. Can I recommend you promptly
nip over to http://www.ixion.org.uk/ and join the mailing list ... it is to
motorcycling what london.pm is to programming only less on topic.
2 wheels good, 4
On 28/02/03 14:59 +, Kate L Pugh wrote:
Food: the evening menu is not large, but of good quality. There is only
one vegetarian option - grilled halloumi sandwich (GBP4.95) and no vegan
options other than chips, though you might be able to convince them to
give you some (rather nice) side
Well, what a difference a slashdot thread makes.
Although I should provide a quick handy hint, kids - waking up on
Saturday morning and finding that you're the indirect topic of a
slashdot thread is not a nice way to start the weekend.
Still, various discussions of the issues surrounding the
On 10/02/03 12:51 +, Joel Bernstein wrote:
That strikes me as a piece of poor work by the original DBA. Is there
any legal recourse along the lines of you did a terrible piece of work.
we paid you to do it. we had to get another contractor in to pick up the
pieces, so we're going
Could people who are now talking about unrelated issues (mod_perl and
contractors' standards) please retitle their posts accordingly. I
imagine that the staff at Streetmap may well still be taking an
interest in any posts relating specifically to their site, and to the
module, which these aren't.
We're currently considering shifting our core mod-perl system here at
work to use Class::DBI, since many of the classes we have already are
pretty much reinventing its wheel, and we currently have the time and
space to make a few structural changes before the next development
onslaught begins.
On 05/02/03 11:07 +, Alex McLintock wrote:
Hi folks,
I want to create some rss/rdf files based upon a MySQL database. I nearly
did it in Java because the web front end is java based but thought that
perhaps perl would be better for this.
Before I plunge in to CPAN, can anyone who
So, back in the summer, I was fiddling with some bot-related code, and
site-related stuff that needed easy access to streetmap URLs - you
know, the kind of thing that you post in a mail when you want people
to find a pub and drink too much beer with you.
I ended up putting the code into a module,
On 04/02/03 16:56 +, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
[small quantities of Devil's advocacy included]
And more than welcome. I only wish I could have had this conversation
with them directly.
Did it internally respect, or optionally allow its users to respect, the
robot exclusion protocols? I
On 04/02/03 17:30 +, Mark Fowler wrote:
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Simon Batistoni wrote:
Tale of woe
May I suggest that we see what other providers exist for the UK and see if
any of them would be happy for us to implement their interface instead.
Yahoo! springs to mind.
It's added
Hello.
Slides from my talk last night are at
http://hitherto.net/talks/tt_xml/
The site that is actually generated by my system is (surprise
surprise) http://hitherto.net
I'm going to write up my notes and add some stuff about how I generate
page indices with XML::LibXML this weekend. I'll post
On 20/01/03 10:21 +, Alex McLintock wrote:
A perl question.
I'm considering whether to build a web app on an NT4 box using perl and
apache, or java and tomcat. The existing box is NT and although I'd
normally recommend dropping in a new PC with linux on it no one on site has
On 24/11/02 10:13 +, Dirk Koopman wrote:
On a slightly serious note: has anyone successfully used any GUI
framework on both Unix and Windows with perl? I have a very simple
little terminal type prog that I want to have work on both.
Apparently WxWindows works reasonably well, are there
On 17/11/02 23:21 +, David Cantrell wrote:
If they're irrelevant I'll save time and space by not bothering to answer.
I don't feel that these questions, or the addenda provided by MBM are
in the least bit irrelevant, and I would tend towards reading alex's
title as unnecessarily
On 04/11/02 15:14 +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Robert Shiels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Some of us are getting together for a few ales on Monday night at
the Jerusalem Tavern, feel free to join us although I should warn
you its a tiny bar.
On 04/11/02 00:44 +, Paul Makepeace wrote:
I dunno, in light of reports like the one on LWN I'm struggling to see
this.
PHP Overtakes Microsoft's ASP as Web's #1 Server-side Scripting
Language: http://lwn.net/Articles/1433/
According to a Netcraft survey published in April 2002, PHP
Hello.
Our company generally takes on other small companies as
clients. They're generally shop-type affairs, with maybe a network of
3-7 PCs. Some places may only have a single stand-alone machine.
We offer these places web services, but we're finding that we're often
the first people who do
On 18/10/02 11:29 +0100, Marty Pauley wrote:
It is approaching one of the less nice parts of central London, sufficient
for one london.pm member's wife to insist that he doesn't go there.
What's wrong with that area? Should I avoid it?
Are there other parts of central London that I
Prompted by the lovely gallons of crack poured upon us by Mr Wistow
this afternoon, I suddenly realised that I never announced my
supremely useful module Acme::Handwave to the list, although I did
wibble about it on IRC, and at the last social.
The release of Acme:: modules seems to be becoming a
On 11/10/02 10:16 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
Which made me thing - is there a section on books we wrote on the
london.pm site to give blatant free advertising plugs? [No]
Would it be a good idea? Not sure. Because then we'd have everyone
(even Matt Wright?) subscribing to london.pm just to
On 11/10/02 12:53 +0100, Dean Wilson wrote:
I haven't been to an official meeting in the best part of twelve months and
i had to miss YAPC. Does that make me a freebie-seeking hanger on? If it
does and the criteria for getting something on the site is going to the pub
then fine but if it
On 24/09/02 20:48 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
This was a useful reminder. Please also remember that Jubilee and Bakerloo
trains are not stopping northbound at Baker Street until early summer next
year. And that pretty much bugger all is going anywhere on the Underground
tomorrow (before 8pm)
, and beer festivalage is still possible. I
for one would be well up for festivalling it up...
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it for a few single-part text
messages, simply because I know its on the servers and that it works,
and I like the interface.
That's all really, but it's another option.
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, muttley predominantly)
can bring t-shirts to any london.pm events if given a bit of warning.
To do my bit for sales, they really are very nice t-shirts. Good
quality, understated designs, they're wonderful.
Now hurry up and fricking buy some so I can have my floorspace back :)
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have exactly
what I wanted.
Digging in google for a while yielded this example code, which uses
IO::Socket. As the author says, its not perfect, but it's a good basic
concept starting point.
http://mailman.linuxchix.org/pipermail/techtalk/2001-August/000126.html
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On 22/05/02 07:02 +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:06:11PM -0400, Mike Jarvis wrote:
When do you guys get it? I won't spoil, I'll just say I have real hope
for next season. It could be really good.
Or not. Lots of
On 10/05/02 14:35 +0100, Mark Fowler wrote:
Ooops.
Okay, something in my perl program is retaining memory. I'm pumping about
a Gigabyte of data though it and sooner or later it barfs as it exhausts
all the memory on the machine. Something is retaining data between each
chunk that's
On 11/04/02 09:55 +0100, Imran Chaudhry wrote:
Hello out there to my fellow PM'ers,
I'm new to this list so please excuse any breaches of netiquette!
I was recently made redundant from a Perl/CGI/DBI web development role in
London and I'm now seeking work in the same field.
However the
On 05/03/02 09:47 +, Simon Wilcox wrote:
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Natalie Ford wrote:
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 05:21:55PM +, Paul Mison wrote:
Peopke have brought the old idea of there being a beer kitty back to the
fore, so we should probably do this; bring a fiver or tenner to
the main reason why
MM/Mars decided to use 'Snickers' on both sides of
the Atlantic.
As I understood it, they renamed Marathon when they got into a
tizzy because someone else paid more than them to sponsor the London
Marathon.
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On 30/01/02 21:05 +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This could be an urban legend, but it might not be.
Not on snopes and not on google.
As a former student of the place, despite requisite constant
drunkenness whilst attending, I can fairly
On 05/12/01 18:28 +, Redvers Davies wrote:
I first saw Rent its first time round - don't know the name of
the theatre - Its the one on the junction of Shaftsbury and
what should be Gower street. Near Drury lane.
Anyways - that performance sucked. Was my first exposure to rent.
Ah,
On 26/11/01 12:08 +0100, Newton, Philip wrote:
Chalfont Latimer
Options, options. There's the classic change at Chalfont and Latimer
for Chesham, but without a Bushy Shepherd in play, that renders me
liable to the Watford Manoeuvre, as used to such devastating effect
by Alfred Gummer in the
account of meeting attendance. I can't recall off
the top of my head if I've posted here in the past month, because I
very rarely have something useful to say amongst so many people who
are infintely wiser than I.
But I nearly always turn up at the pub :)
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On 10/11/01 13:16 +, Richard Clamp wrote:
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 11:28:07AM +, robin szemeti wrote:
the best bet is to buy it at a local market [ should you find one ] or
smaller shop.
I'm sorry to dissapoint you, but if you really think market sellers
are using a completely
On 08/11/01 13:06 -0500, Wesley Darlington wrote:
I'm thinking more of employers who were reasonable once upon a time,
when the contract was signed perhaps, but who have since become
unreasonable.
Yes, that's always going to be a problem, and I think some of
london.pm have experienced it
I'll respond...
Bear in mind that these modules go out to people who don't converse
with the rest of the perl community on a daily basis. Unwritten
conventions may well get lost in the noise.
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with slime and mildew on the
walls, where burly torturers wearing black hoods visit them twice
daily for a quick stretching on the rack.
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On 01/10/01 14:19 +0100, Simon Batistoni wrote:
Probably shackled in a medieval dungeon with slime and mildew on the
walls, where burly torturers wearing black hoods visit them twice
daily for a quick stretching on the rack.
By the way, my tone in that last mail wasn't supposed to be at all
that this
is the blueprint for the way they should live their lives because
Cosmo Told Them So. Spare us all.
Er, thanks for the soapbox, Dave. :)
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would. Not because of the stance, which I don't wish to
discuss here (politics verboten), but because it's not the place of
a pub chain to propagandise particular standpoints on important
political issues to their drinkers. I think it's irresponsible and
inappropriate.
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GNU make should work in place of nmake.
I'd volunteer to do the conversion (I've done it a few times to get
the latest versions of TT on windoze boxen), but my laptop is
awaiting reinstallation to get the HDD partitions to cope with
save-to-disk :(
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