On 18/01/2014 02:48, William Blunn wrote:
no-administrator-access
I don't trust you.
Windows
I don't like you.
If you're trying to develop software in such a hostile environment, no amount
of support from the editor is going to help you.
On 04/12/2013 10:53, James Laver wrote:
I always wondered why ‘monkey’ was a bright blue. http://monkey.bikeshed.org/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-think-chucknorris-is-a-color
On 04/12/2013 08:54, Paul Makepeace wrote:
$ perl -le '($a = aabbb) =~ s/b*$/c/g; print $a'
Why... oh. That's clever. Yes.
For those like me who are slow and can't immediately see why that does what it
does, here are some hints:
What does perl -le '($a = aabbb) =~ s/b+$/c/g; print $a' do?
On 16/05/2013 19:20, Peter Corlett wrote:
The agent added OPUS WILL
PAY £300 TO ANYONE WHO CAN RECCOMEND A SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE in a double-size
font, which showed a certain amount of desperation to fill the role, another
red flag.
Also, it will not help to recruit Perl programmers who are
On 28/08/2012 22:16, Will Crawford wrote:
ACME, Email, Getopt, Date?
Nice! Which leaves:
woolfy, book, ash, cog (IRC nicks)
clang, awk, ping, comm (Unix commands)
crunch, biff, kapow, bash (Batman onomatopoeia)
Except that bash isn't a Batman onomatopoeia word. (And there's a clank,
clunk
On 14/07/2012 21:40, Guinevere Nell wrote:
His Question: What is a decently priced British-based web hosting company,
not so large that it can be slowed by all the accounts, with good customer
service, an easy interface and the ability to host unlimited add-on domains
on a single account?
I
On 22/05/2012 22:35, Nic Gibson wrote:
search.cpan.org gives me far too many results for iCal.
Text::vFile is my weapon of choice for v-flavoured file formats, of which
iCalendar is a variant.
On 16/12/2011 22:20, abhishek jain wrote:
Any suggestions?
Where and how to look for such a thing / work.
Follow http://jobs.perl.org/rss/telecommute.rss in your RSS reader.
On 29/09/2011 01:30, Paul Tweedy wrote:
!= true I'm afraid. They just have the temerity to not live in (and
are unable to move to) the south east or near a major city.
If you want to be a fisherman, it helps to live near the sea.
If you want to be a fisherman and not live near the sea and then
On 23/08/2011 19:39, Dave Cross wrote:
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? What would you write about?
What's changed in the past
On 15/07/2011 21:24, ian.doche...@nomura.com wrote:
unfortunately it has to be India since that is where our offices are.
I guess this must be that new company नोमुरा सहोकेन, rather than the
野村証券 of old.
On 01/06/2011 18:55, Peter Edwards wrote:
Here's an idiot simple code colorizer for logs / diffs that I use quite a
lot
http://blogs.perl.org/users/peter_edwards/2010/08/colorized-perl-code-snippets-on-ansi-terminals.html
Here's my idiot simple log colorizer:
use Config::Auto; use
On 02/06/2011 21:50, gvim wrote:
Considering the amount of development you've done on Perl web frameworks over
the years isn't this tantamount to having given up on Perl, at least for web
development?
Yes and no. I've moved from being more of a developer to being more of a user.
Perl is a
On 23/04/2011 13:46, Sue Spence wrote:
Beyond installing my own Perl
Do this. Best to ignore the system Perl IMO.
I don't get it. I've never used anything other than system Perl all the time
I've been using OS X, and I don't recall any problems. (Of course, that may be
the RDF talking.) In
On 21/04/2011 09:26, Mark Overmeer wrote:
CPAN was never made to maintain software. It is made to distribute
software. When you upload something to it, there is no warning that
you will become responsible for its future.
And this, folks, is precisely why I use Drupal these days.
On 20/04/2011 09:40, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Or does he have a point?
He completely has a point. CPAN developers right now seem to have a strong
predilection for throwing the kitchen sink into modules that really don't need
it. (You want to parse dates, you use DateTime. Um, no, not necessarily.)
On 20/04/2011 11:42, Zbigniew Lukasiak wrote:
The alternative to having one big, but mostly universal module (like
DateTime) is to have many small specialized modules.
No, the alternative is to have the option of either using one big universal
module *or* many small specialized modules. A
On 20/04/2011 11:59, Peter Edwards wrote:
Go ahead and write CPAN modules requiring perl 5.12 and up to date Moose
then watch organisations throw Perl out the window and replace it with Java.
Given that a lot of the push behind the Modern Perl cult is to make Perl more
Serious and Enterprise, I
Hello,
I have a spare afternoon in London. I'll be at Jen Cafe in Newport
Place from
1pm with Joel and anyone else who turns up. I may be able to metabolise
alcohol afterwards. I'll be picking up email, thanks to this need free 3G
access point and Linux tablet that's masquerading as an
It has been altogether too long since I wrote XS code. I have some code which
goes through an array and splices out a certain value:
void _drop_node(HV* a, SV* activelist) {
AV* newlist = newAV();
I32 i = 0;
while (i = av_len((AV*)SvRV(activelist))) {
SV** x =
On 24/02/2011 18:35, Simon Wistow wrote:
Any other suggestions?
% perl -le '$f = bless {}, Test; Internals::SvREFCNT(%$f, 1); $f-foo()'
Can't call method foo on unblessed reference at -e line 1.
On 03/02/2011 15:59, Simon Wilcox wrote:
Does anybody know of any companies that can provide support and development
for Prolog based systems ?
Does it need to be a company, or would an individual consultant work? If the
latter, http://www.j-paine.org/ is your man.
S
On 07/01/2011 10:29, Dave Cross wrote:
Email::Find looks nice. Is there something similar for phone numbers
anywhere?
http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/SIMON/Mail-Miner-2.7/Miner/Recogniser/Phone.pm
On 25/08/2010 14:28, David Cantrell wrote:
Dear interwebs, please point me at a Thingy which will allow me to point
a tiny script at a database and have it do CRUDdy web stuff.
If only there were a web application framework in Perl that's really simple to
use and comes with a nice set of
On 17/06/2010 12:48, David Cantrell wrote:
What's Hacker News?
It's like Reddit, but everyone is Paul Graham.
--
Dames lie about anything - just for practice. -Raymond Chandler
On 14/04/2010 11:24, Pinky Weaselly wrote:
Sorry for anon email, but I don't want to announce to my employer that I've
been approached by lovefilm about a job.
I guess I should be the first to point out that, not only are there
people from Lovefilm reading this list, there are people from the
On 02/04/2010 12:05, Matthew Seaman wrote:
AA are penguin and daemon friendly, give you a static IPv4 allocation
(and as many IPv6 addresses as you can eat), are happy for you to run
your own servers from a residential broadband line, plus their support
are generally clueful. I've been a
On 11/02/2010 22:13, Tom Hukins wrote:
Has anyone made a self referential TV show yet where they follow a
group of people trying to make a TV show?
The film equivalent is Lost In La Mancha.
--
perl -le 'print (@) - $; +$ (- % _); * *+* *'
Does anyone work at an organisation which has a library? Specifically,
which has a library managed by IS Oxford's Heritage software? I think
a few NHS places and colleges have this.
If so, can you get in touch with me? Ta.
S
On 26/09/2009 21:40, Billy Abbott wrote:
Assuming we're not referring to fried email, than the answer is yes.
http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=254168
That assumes you live in Hawaii, of course.
The Hawaiian love of Spam has scared me since I heard of it.
It should
Hello all,
It's a long shot and I know this isn't london-freecycle but... My
mission agency (WEC International) is looking to deploy a couple of
Asterisk PBXes to connect its two headquarters buildings with a unified
internal phone system.
They've asked me to look into how this
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa wrote:
[Web::Scraper]
The github master version just took it out the big fat warning a few
days ago, ready to be shipped to CPAN soon with more POD docs :)
I also just finished writing an application which uses it a lot, so I'm
planning to write an article about how I did
breno wrote:
I've never used it, but Angerwhale *might* suit your needs:
http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Angerwhale
CPAN Deps tells me that Angerwhale requires 221 additional modules.
Bryar requires 45. Blosxom requires zero.
What was that word again? *simple*, was it?
S
Tomas Doran wrote:
I guess it depends which axis of simple you were concerned about. With
the pedant hat still on, I'd go on to argue that the definition of
'simple' wasn't well enough specified in the original post.
A fairly horribly restricted hosting environment *was* specified,
though.
Dirk Koopman wrote:
No MySQL/postgres or complex databases allowed, won't allow either on
the server. I would accept (a tad reluctantly) SQLite3, but would prefer
something that is directory/file based.
Two good choices are Blosxom and Bryar, then.
--
Complete the following sentence: People
Jonathan Kimmitt wrote:
However, what about this one:
for (my $i==0; $i($tbl_width - 1); $i++) { }
Is anybody seriously arguing this could possibly do anything useful. Yet
it is not trapped out as an error unless you add the obscure syntax:
I think you need a lollipop.
--
But it's
Chris Jack wrote:
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:30 AM, David Dorward da...@dorward.me.uk wrote:
No, its a, um, er, Django shop.
You wouldn't be a coffin-dragging gunslinger by any chance?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060315/
I prefer the Japanese remake: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0906665/
Ovid wrote:
Rather than focusing on advanced tools and modules, I'd focus on
advanced techniques.
I've had this debate a hundred times over since sitting down to
write APP2ed: these days Perl programming is much more about using
tools well than using the language particularly creatively. The
http://www.dev411.com/blog/2009/01/14/perl-5-for-the-future-the-enlightened-perl-organization
--
Art Life is perfectly fair, by the way; just to other people.
David Alban wrote:
4) How many different variable types are there in Perl? Be as sensibly
voluminous in your answer as you are able.
i would have said only two: scalar and list, since arrays and hashes
are both lists.
The question was about variable types, not value types. (The horror.)
Sam Smith wrote:
Or use a different one so you have different
coverage chances; depending on how far into the middle of
nowhere you'll be.
Another question: Bloody hell, people, what have your mobile phone
providers been doing for past five years? I'm used to getting 3G
coverage on top of
Denny wrote:
You wouldn't normally be using a mobile broadband dongle to access
mobile websites.
If they're going to meter my connection per byte, I want the most
bang-per-byte I can get.
--
The elder gods went to Suggoth and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.
I'm coming back to the UK in January and will be moving around a lot
until we buy a house in May. Some of the places we'll be going won't
have Internet access and I think I'll need it to work, (anyone know of
any telecommute Perl contracts then, please let me know...) so I'm
thinking about
Nigel Hamilton wrote:
Well Tom knows the value of the domain name - he's been getting good rent
for it for 8 years.
Could you tell the list how much you think this good rent is?
(Disclaimer: I was the managing editor of perl.com for a large
proportion of those 8 years.)
--
Hubris is when you
Nigel Hamilton wrote:
Well if you were the managing editor why don't you tell us? ;-)
For a very simple reason: I want you to admit that you have no idea.
--
You're not Dave. Who are you?
Randy J. Ray wrote:
Izzat the one what has to do with not getting into a land war in Asia or
a battle of wits with a Sicilian[*]?
I think the quote is actually something like Never go in against a
Sicilian when death is on the line; I always used to think it was about
chess.
--
Sauvin
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:20:13AM -0600, Chris Devers wrote:
* O'Reilly are laying off 16 people
Are they in trouble?
No.
In danger?
Who isn't, right now? There'll be lots of talk, I'm sure. For the
reality, wait and see.
What would the repurcussions of this be?
Less money
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