Re: Open/Free BSD users -- help needed to fix Test::PostgreSQL

2014-08-11 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 11 August 2014 15:48, Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com wrote: Toby == Toby Wintermute t...@wintrmute.net writes: Toby I still get a lot of test failures from OpenBSD and FreeBSD users on Toby CPANTS, and I think it's simply down to the postgres binaries being Toby installed

Re: Open/Free BSD users -- help needed to fix Test::PostgreSQL

2014-08-11 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 11 August 2014 16:21, Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com wrote: Toby == Toby Wintermute t...@wintrmute.net writes: Why the heck would people put bin stuff under a *lib* directory? That's just... insane. Toby Well, you can have multiple versions installed at once that way. Then Toby

Re: Deploying perl code

2014-08-10 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 29 July 2014 06:11, Paul Johnson p...@pjcj.net wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 07:51:12PM +0100, Robert Rothenberg wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:25 PM, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: I'm looking for tools that will make it easy to go from a bunch of code in a release

Open/Free BSD users -- help needed to fix Test::PostgreSQL

2014-08-10 Thread Toby Wintermute
Hi, I took over Test::PostgreSQL a while back. I still get a lot of test failures from OpenBSD and FreeBSD users on CPANTS, and I think it's simply down to the postgres binaries being installed in different locations. If you run either of those systems, would you be able to tell me the path to

Starman and Docker

2014-07-16 Thread Toby Wintermute
Hi, I have a problem with Starman when run inside a Docker container. Well, rather, it runs just fine - but doesn't want to die neatly. I can Ctrl-C the running docker container, or send it a SIGTERM or SIGKILL, and the docker process returns me to a command prompt.. but the container lives on!

Re: OT: Cheapo vps hosting

2013-07-05 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 4 July 2013 22:29, Dirk Koopman d...@tobit.co.uk wrote: On 04/07/13 11:24, Stanislaw Pusep wrote: There's a free VPN server hosted in UK: http://www.vpnbook.com/ Quite responsive; sponsored by NSA, maybe?! More likely by one of their local agents In all seriousness - that is quite

Re: New pet keeping rules in the Netherlands

2013-07-04 Thread Toby Wintermute
That would be a Spider Wasp then. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_wasp Note that they attack and paralyse large spiders then drag them back to their nests. If you don't look closely (and why would you!) then you may think this is one creature, and come to the conclusion that giant spiders have

Re: OT: Cheapo vps hosting

2013-07-04 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 21 June 2013 22:54, Ben Tisdall b...@tisdall.org.uk wrote: I'm moving to Germany and would like to maintain a UK IP address while there, primarily to run a web proxy. I'd like to spend no more than 10 GBP/mo; I don't care too much about uptime and not at all about the data on the server,

Re: Living with smart match breakage

2013-07-04 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 15 June 2013 09:03, Gordon Banner t...@gordonbanner.me.uk wrote: Putting my hand up as one of the idiots... I've been using given/when for ages. My impression was that it was announced as a new feature, yay perl has a case statement (only better) at last, and I piled in. Maybe I passed

Re: CVE-2013-1667: important rehashing flaw

2013-03-11 Thread Toby Wintermute
I note that while 5.16.3 is visible on CPAN, no-one seems to have updated perl.org yet - it still offers 5.16.2 as the latest release for download. On 5 March 2013 02:26, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote: Technically this is off topic: - Forwarded message from Ricardo Signes

Re: [OT] Prepaid mobile plans with data, possibly roaming

2012-08-23 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 23 August 2012 00:41, Anthony Lucas anthonyjlu...@gmail.com wrote: They just want you to buy their tethering add-on and mifi products. It's probably simpler for me to just pay for the damn tethering add-on, but part of me is annoyed at the restriction and wishes to try to bypass it :) I'll

Re: [OT] Prepaid mobile plans with data, possibly roaming

2012-08-23 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 23 August 2012 19:43, Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk wrote: On 23 Aug 2012, at 07:22, Toby Wintermute wrote: [...] I'll try VPNing back to my shell account and see what happens.. can't be any slower than 3G already is.. IME, this will make HTTP *faster* because it bypasses the bloody

Re: [OT] Prepaid mobile plans with data, possibly roaming

2012-08-21 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 21 August 2012 01:17, James Laver london...@jameslaver.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 04:03:43PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote: [0] The unlimit appears to be of the order of a few gigabytes. They're claiming truly unlimited actually. For an extra fiver they even officially permit

Re: [OT] Prepaid mobile plans with data, possibly roaming

2012-08-21 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 22 August 2012 02:15, Anthony Lucas anthonyjlu...@gmail.com wrote: 3 can be quite good with the traffic detection if it's obvious. In my experience, 5 or so hours of usage (unauthorised tethering) and they're on to you. Pop it back in your phone, reboot or lose the tower, and you're back

[OT] Prepaid mobile plans with data, possibly roaming

2012-08-20 Thread Toby Wintermute
Hello all, I'm making a whirlwind visit to London and bits of Europe soon, although with awfully poor timing, just missing YAPC:EU :( Hopefully I'll manage to run into a few of you while I'm in London though. The last time I visited, I picked up an Orange SIM that had Unlimited data on the plan..

Re: CRUDdy DBIC question

2012-01-23 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 20 January 2012 01:00, Bob MacCallum uncool...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry about the Perl question. We have a database model where the master copy of the data is file based. Is there some DBIx::Class magic which does some kind of nested update_or_create_or_delete?  For example, an object might

Re: Should I work in the US or the UK? - which pays best? (slight diversion)

2011-12-15 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 15 December 2011 17:25, Toby Wintermute t...@wintrmute.net wrote: On 15 December 2011 11:36, Toby Wintermute t...@wintrmute.net wrote: On 15 December 2011 08:01, Kieren Diment dim...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/12/2011, at 2:52, Travis Basevi tra...@cricinfo.com wrote: On 14/12/2011 09:39

Re: Perl threads and libwww wierdness

2011-12-15 Thread Toby Wintermute
2011/12/16 Peter Vereshagin pe...@vereshagin.org: Hello. 2011/12/14 12:16:04 +1100 Toby Wintermute t...@wintrmute.net = To London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers : TW I'm hitting some really odd behaviour, infrequently, with libwww and TW mechanize under a highly-threaded Perl. TW Error rates

Re: Perl threads and libwww wierdness

2011-12-14 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 14 December 2011 19:44, Leo Lapworth l...@cuckoo.org wrote: I still think it's your webserver See below.. On 14 December 2011 01:16, Toby Wintermute t...@wintrmute.net wrote: I'm hitting some really odd behaviour, infrequently, with libwww and mechanize under a highly-threaded Perl

Re: Should I work in the US or the UK? - which pays best? (slight diversion)

2011-12-14 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 15 December 2011 08:01, Kieren Diment dim...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/12/2011, at 2:52, Travis Basevi tra...@cricinfo.com wrote: On 14/12/2011 09:39, Kieren Diment wrote: (I've got to concur with Toby btw. Australia is a pretty good option in a lot of respects. Outside of Melbourne, Perl

Re: Should I work in the US or the UK? - which pays best? (slight diversion)

2011-12-14 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 15 December 2011 11:36, Toby Wintermute t...@wintrmute.net wrote: On 15 December 2011 08:01, Kieren Diment dim...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/12/2011, at 2:52, Travis Basevi tra...@cricinfo.com wrote: On 14/12/2011 09:39, Kieren Diment wrote: (I've got to concur with Toby btw. Australia

Re: Should I work in the US or the UK? - which pays best?

2011-12-13 Thread Toby Wintermute
Just wanted to chip in and say -- why are you only considering the US or the UK? If you're looking for a nice English-speaking city which employs Perlmongers, have you considered Melbourne or Sydney in Australia? Toby -- Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the

Perl threads and libwww wierdness

2011-12-13 Thread Toby Wintermute
Hi, I'm hitting some really odd behaviour, infrequently, with libwww and mechanize under a highly-threaded Perl. Can I get a quick check to see if what I'm doing is known to work reliably for you? I have encountered a situation where I see unusual 404 errors - in between 0.03% to 0.10% of

Re: Should I work in the US or the UK? - which pays best?

2011-12-13 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 14 December 2011 12:17, Simon Wistow si...@thegestalt.org wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:07:12PM +1100, Toby Wintermute said: Just wanted to chip in and say -- why are you only considering the US or the UK? If you're looking for a nice English-speaking city which employs Perlmongers

Re: Perl threads and libwww wierdness

2011-12-13 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 14 December 2011 12:16, Toby Wintermute t...@wintrmute.net wrote: Hi, I'm hitting some really odd behaviour, infrequently, with libwww and mechanize under a highly-threaded Perl. Worth noting - I'm pretty sure LWP is all pure-perl, but mechanize calls some XS libraries - HTML::Parser

Re: Speed v Version

2011-06-03 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 1 June 2011 18:46, Dirk Koopman d...@tobit.co.uk wrote: I contemplating providing encouragement to a customer to upgrade from 5.8.7 to something more modern. One of the overriding issues is speed. The customer is fixated with speed. Unfortunately one of the major things the customer's

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

2011-05-30 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 27 May 2011 02:58, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 05:25:01PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: Unless things have changed dramatically ActiveMQ has many, many features pretty much all poorly documented in the typical ASF/Java project fashion (i.e a poorly

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

2011-05-24 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 24 May 2011 15:18, Toby Wintermute t...@wintrmute.net wrote: On 23 May 2011 21:07, Peter Edwards pe...@dragonstaff.co.uk wrote: Back to fighting with ActiveMQ. Feh. By the way.. how are you finding ActiveMQ, especially when interacting with it from Perl? Answering my own question a bit

Re: GTUG's

2011-05-23 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 7 May 2011 22:15, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone know anything about this? http://www.gtugs.org/ I joined up and went to a few GTUG meetings, but then they seemed to run out of content/presenters.. Or maybe the guy running it in Melbourne just lost interest or was too

Re: Best practice for unit tests that rely on internet access?

2011-05-03 Thread Toby Wintermute
2011 23:09, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 11:15:58AM +1000, Toby Wintermute wrote: What is the best practice for writing unit tests that rely on internet access? ie. You have a CPAN module which is all about talking to a web service.. So you have unit

Re: Best practice for unit tests that rely on internet access?

2011-05-01 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 1 May 2011 08:34, David Precious dav...@preshweb.co.uk wrote: On Friday 29 April 2011 08:33:47 Leon Brocard wrote: If the module is all about testing a live service then by all means test it. Unless it takes too long, or costs money, or might change in the future when you don't have time to

Re: Best practice for unit tests that rely on internet access?

2011-05-01 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 1 May 2011 19:14, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote: Isn't is traditional in an interactive CPAN shell session to ask if people want to connect to the internet and run the real tests? It seems to be traditional, but I don't like it and hope it isn't best practice. I hate it when I

Re: Flickr CPAN module

2011-04-28 Thread Toby Wintermute
Just a quick mention, since a few people were interested earlier.. I've uploaded the first version to CPAN today, as Flickr::API2 It could use some more, many more Perl helper classes, but the most important few are done, and more will follow. Maybe in the current state it will attract more

Re: Flickr CPAN module

2011-03-22 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 22 March 2011 19:20, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 Mar 2011, at 02:04, Toby Wintermute wrote: On 22 March 2011 05:59, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 Mar 2011, at 02:17, Toby Wintermute wrote: On 10 March 2011 08:27, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Flickr CPAN module

2011-03-22 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 22 March 2011 20:42, Kieren Diment dim...@gmail.com wrote: On 22/03/2011, at 1:04 PM, Toby Wintermute wrote: A way to ask for photos, and to be given back an iterator of Flickr::...::Photo objects, rather than the current method which is just a big hash of keys that vary depending on what

Re: Perl on a smartphone?

2011-03-22 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 23 March 2011 10:56, gvim gvi...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone running Perl on a smartphone? Android must be close by now but I haven't ventured into this market yet. Would like bash 4 too. Make that Perl + bash + vim and I'm happy to pay. There were some official Android packages to give you

Re: Flickr CPAN module

2011-03-21 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 22 March 2011 05:59, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 Mar 2011, at 02:17, Toby Wintermute wrote: On 10 March 2011 08:27, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote: Which is preferred? There are a few by people I would trust so I'm confused! I'm rather dissatisfied

Re: Flickr CPAN module

2011-03-20 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 10 March 2011 08:27, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote: Which is preferred? There are a few by people I would trust so I'm confused! I'm rather dissatisfied by the current Flickr::API, so have been working on a new/forked version of it. I'm not quite ready to release yet, but perhaps

Re: SystemTap hooks in Perl

2011-03-20 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 9 March 2011 01:01, Steve Mynott st...@gruntling.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 04:23:04PM +1100, Toby Wintermute typed: I've been playing around with Perl's SystemTap integration (in core since 5.12.0), but I've been struggling to find any documentation on it. Maybe this is of some

Re: Relocatable @INC puzzle

2010-07-15 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 14 July 2010 03:39, Paul Makepeace pa...@paulm.com wrote: I might be misunderstanding the purpose of this... I just built perl 5.12.1 with relocatable @INC but when I relocate (mv ~/perl5 ~/perl) the site_perl directories haven't moved, so CPAN breaks.  Compiled at Jul 12 2010 23:52:59

Re: Sanity check - DateTime on Perl 5.12.1

2010-06-09 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 9 June 2010 18:27, Colin Campbell colin.campb...@ptfs-europe.com wrote: On 09/06/10 06:00, Toby Wintermute wrote: Hi, I wondered if anyone else running Perl 5.12.1 (and 12.0 would be interesting too) could quickly check if they can build DateTime 0.5x and pass the unit tests? I have

Re: Sanity check - DateTime on Perl 5.12.1

2010-06-09 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 9 June 2010 17:31, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote: Toby Wintermute t...@wintrmute.net writes: I wondered if anyone else running Perl 5.12.1 (and 12.0 would be interesting too) could quickly check if they can build DateTime 0.5x and pass the unit tests? I can't, but the CPAN

Sanity check - DateTime on Perl 5.12.1

2010-06-08 Thread Toby Wintermute
Hi, I wondered if anyone else running Perl 5.12.1 (and 12.0 would be interesting too) could quickly check if they can build DateTime 0.5x and pass the unit tests? I have them failing on two machines, but they're very similar and I am worried I might have screwed something up elsewhere, since I

Re: Sending $US to the US

2009-10-12 Thread Toby Wintermute
2009/10/7 Ovid publiustemp-londo...@yahoo.com: So, in order to get married, I need my birth certificate.  Texas requires, since I live outside the US, that I mail all of my paperwork to them, along with $27 US (not surprisingly, they don't accept pounds).  That's about £17. My bank charges

Re: Anyone hiring at the moment?

2009-10-01 Thread Toby Wintermute
2009/9/22 Matt Follett matt.foll...@gmail.com: On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Ask Bjørn Hansen a...@develooper.comwrote: On Sep 21, 2009, at 15:16, Abigail wrote: Well, we (booking.com) are. But that unfortunally requires a relocation to (or near) Amsterdam, and I can't imagine anyone

Re: PARing autobox has me stumped

2009-08-12 Thread Toby Wintermute
2009/8/13 Chisel Wright chi...@herlpacker.co.uk: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 04:06:56PM +0100, Chisel Wright wrote: Just to confuse things further ... not for me: Of course I get different results after actually installing autobox: chi...@zombie:tmp$ unzip -l test.par Archive:  test.par  

Re: PARing autobox has me stumped

2009-08-12 Thread Toby Wintermute
2009/8/13 pe...@dragonstaff.com: Quoting Chisel Wright chi...@herlpacker.co.uk: Of course I get different results after actually installing autobox: Ack! Is this normal for PAR? I've always avoided it due to suspicions of Evil .so library problems and so on. It does do some black magic in

Re: How we see CVs

2009-04-06 Thread Toby Wintermute
2009/4/4 Bradley Dean bjd...@bjdean.id.au: On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 11:25:27AM +0100, Clark, Nicholas wrote: On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 10:44:25AM +0100, James Laver wrote: [...] Provided there's a valid text/plain part, people tend not to have a problem. Does that include a text/plain

Re: XML::LibXML and HTML (in =v1.67)

2009-04-01 Thread Toby Wintermute
2009/4/1 Tatsuhiko Miyagawa miyag...@gmail.com: On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:53 AM, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote: I know that really one should escape the ampersand in those circumstances, however real-world web-pages rarely do this.. And this behaviour was tolerated in XML::LibXML 1.66, just

Re: XML::LibXML and HTML (in =v1.67)

2009-04-01 Thread Toby Wintermute
2009/4/1 Tatsuhiko Miyagawa miyag...@gmail.com: On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Toby Wintermute t...@wintrmute.net wrote: The problem occurs when the html contains (the commonly used) symbol within attributes, such as: a href=/foo?a=bc=d I know that really one should escape the ampersand

Re: XML::LibXML and HTML (in =v1.67)

2009-04-01 Thread Toby Wintermute
2009/4/2 mirod mi...@xmltwig.com: Tatsuhiko Miyagawa wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Toby Wintermute t...@wintrmute.net wrote: The problem occurs when the html contains (the commonly used) symbol within attributes, such as: a href=/foo?a=bc=d [snip] Indeed when I tested

XML::LibXML and HTML (in =v1.67)

2009-03-31 Thread Toby Wintermute
Hi, I've been using XML::LibXML in the back-end of rea-toys[1] to scrape a certain website for a while now, but noticed it all broke down when I upgraded XML::LibXML from 1.66 to 1.69, and after some quick testing I narrowed the change down to being between version 1.66 and 1.67. My first instinct

Re: DateTime::TimeZone breaking under PAR?

2008-12-22 Thread Toby Wintermute
2008/12/23 Johan Lindström joh...@darserman.com: At 08:18 2008-12-22, Toby Wintermute wrote: When using it via a PAR archive, it refused to determine the local timezone. (This was on a Debian Etch fresh install, albeit with upgraded PAR libraries, since the normal Etch ones are quite broken

DateTime::TimeZone breaking under PAR?

2008-12-21 Thread Toby Wintermute
Hmm, I encountered an odd problem with DateTime::TimeZone today. When using it via a PAR archive, it refused to determine the local timezone. (This was on a Debian Etch fresh install, albeit with upgraded PAR libraries, since the normal Etch ones are quite broken, and then confirmed on an Ubuntu