Re: New Year's Resolution - Learn Modern Perl

2014-12-21 Thread Uri Guttman
On 12/21/2014 12:12 PM, Sue Spence wrote: On 21 December 2014 at 16:36, Martin A. Brooks mar...@antibodymx.net wrote: From: Andrew Solomon and...@geekuni.com To: london pm london.pm@london.pm.org Sent: Saturday, 20 December, 2014 6:36:54 PM Subject: New Year's Resolution - Learn Modern Perl

Re: Schwartzian transform

2014-08-13 Thread Uri Guttman
the @sorted array. I'd like to golf this if I can but I've hit a wall. check out Sort::Maker which can generate and rub an ST for you. it can also generate the faster GRT style sort. uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com

info on eligo

2014-05-22 Thread Uri Guttman
type they will likely not do it. they claim to be smallish with 20 or so people. write me off list if you want. thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Damian Conway Speaking at London.pm: Monday, 10th March

2014-03-07 Thread Uri Guttman
. you chewed on it and it melted and stayed crunchy, a most interesting and very memorable experience. uri, who is looking forward to this spring after a very cold winter -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Damian Conway Speaking at London.pm: Monday, 10th March

2014-03-06 Thread Uri Guttman
or blackmail damian to be in oslo in march?! about 10 years ago i produced his training in boston in february and he was frozen to icicles. :) i imagine it would be colder in oslo only a month later. what is the mean temp there in march? and i mean MEAN temp! uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl

smutty british expression?

2014-02-12 Thread Uri Guttman
expression. any of you smutty brits care to elucidate? here is the article with that comment: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harold-bronson/the-beatles-humor_b_474.html thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com

Re: Using grep on undefined array

2013-08-14 Thread Uri Guttman
and the classic metasyntactic names. uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com

Re: Assigning anonymous hash to a list

2013-07-30 Thread Uri Guttman
. the key is that assignment binds tighter than the comma. your eyes may say otherwise but perl (and abigail) knows better! :) thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.com

Re: Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-15 Thread Uri Guttman
On 05/15/2013 12:06 PM, AJ Dhaliwal wrote: Damian (and Dave cross) disagree with you on that one. A week with them is worth more than a year's actual experience. On 14/05/13 22:10, Uri Guttman wrote: also even a week of training by damian (or dave cross) won't give actual experience

Re: Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-14 Thread Uri Guttman
On 05/14/2013 09:05 AM, Aaron Trevena wrote: You don't even need to train them youselves to start with - there are plenty of training courses available to get them started, or you could get a trainer onsite. i tried something like that a few years ago with damian conway. it was an offer to

Re: Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-13 Thread Uri Guttman
On 05/14/2013 12:09 AM, Richard Foley wrote: I had a contract role in Switzerland where the client was happy for me to come on board in a (largely) remote capacity. That meant some on-site work to familiarize me with the team and the project and then shift off-site for the majority of the work.

Re: cpan you have to see

2012-12-12 Thread Uri Guttman
On 12/12/2012 07:12 AM, Leon Brocard wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 02:29:24AM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: i can't say much about this but you have to look at the code here. https://metacpan.org/author/PERLOOK/ I congratulate Alexej on joining the CPAN authors club. Instead of making fun

Re: cpan you have to see

2012-12-12 Thread Uri Guttman
On 12/12/2012 11:46 AM, James Laver wrote: On 12 Dec 2012, at 15:57, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote: On 12/12/2012 07:12 AM, Leon Brocard wrote: he still thinks his code is doing something useful It is. I had to write something similar to his Boolean module when I inherited a fucked

boolean return (was Re: cpan you have to see)

2012-12-12 Thread Uri Guttman
On 12/12/2012 12:57 PM, Joseph Werner wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Gareth Harper spansh+lon...@gmail.com wrote: PBP and I disagree with you on this one, Gareth. When a sub does a return 0; to a list context, that is interpreted as true. A bare return; is best practice. and i

cpan you have to see

2012-12-11 Thread Uri Guttman
i can't say much about this but you have to look at the code here. https://metacpan.org/author/PERLOOK/ in particular the boolean stuff is amazing and the print stuff isn't far behind. uri

Re: Agents part CCXXXIV

2012-12-03 Thread Uri Guttman
On 12/03/2012 07:05 AM, James Laver wrote: On 3 Dec 2012, at 06:38, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote: one reason i ask my candidates where else they are being submitted is to avoid those duplications. Bullshit. You ask because you want to try and muscle in on those positions. If you

Re: Agents part CCXXXIV

2012-12-03 Thread Uri Guttman
On 12/03/2012 04:51 PM, Tom Hukins wrote: On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 10:40:02AM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: On 12/03/2012 07:05 AM, James Laver wrote: one reason i ask my candidates where else they are being submitted is to avoid those duplications. Bullshit. You ask because you want to try

Re: Agents part CCXXXIV

2012-12-02 Thread Uri Guttman
On 12/02/2012 03:32 PM, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: If an agent sends your resume somewhere without telling you, is there any kind of redress? i wish there were redress other than making those agents wear a dress. i have been on both sides and i distinctly told my agents to never submit me without

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-23 Thread Uri Guttman
On 11/23/2012 02:43 AM, Andrew Savige wrote: Live Perl Golf Apocalypse 2000 at TPC 4, aka uri's triumph. wow. that was a painful event. saved by damian's fill in talk and forgiven by gnat. it was a team failure, so i can't take all the credit. iirc nfs didn't work well on the donated boxes

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-23 Thread Uri Guttman
On 11/23/2012 02:43 AM, Andrew Savige wrote: Damian's Coy module 1999 and subsequent explosion of interest in haiku. one of my favorite damian stories is about his talk on coy.pm. this was early damian and tpc didn't schedule him more time or a large enough room. he was given back to back

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-23 Thread Uri Guttman
this thread reminds me of something we need to crow about more. so many conventions, inventions, ideas have come from the perl community and then be copied/stolen/absorbed by other langs, usually without much recognition. the most obvious is regexes with the pcre package everyone seems to use

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-23 Thread Uri Guttman
On 11/23/2012 08:30 PM, James Laver wrote: On 24 Nov 2012, at 00:36, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote: yapc has yet to be properly copied. no one else delivers more bang for the buck and fun as well. mjd invented lightning talks and they are at many confs now, not just lang ones

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-22 Thread Uri Guttman
On 11/22/2012 07:19 AM, Abigail wrote: I do remember Kevin giving us a tour of CMU, which included the location of the box that was running purl. This was during one of the first YAPCs, so indeed no later than 19100. A community thing that hasn't been mentioned yet: conference auctions. (Isn't

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-22 Thread Uri Guttman
On 11/22/2012 12:17 PM, Abigail wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:57:52AM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: the first yapc in pitt/cmu run by lenzo was in the red. during the banquet we passed around a (real) hat). we collected over $2k to cover the shortage. Actually, the collection was during

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Uri Guttman
On 11/20/2012 11:00 AM, Dave Cross wrote: Quoting Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com: in that vein you should also mention matt's scripts. evil code but they helped perl gain massive numbers of users. many were kiddies but some actually learned perl. Yes. I'm well aware of the effects

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread Uri Guttman
On 11/20/2012 04:17 PM, Randy J. Ray wrote: On 11/20/12 1:10 PM, Dirk Koopman wrote: On 20/11/12 20:42, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote: As did PHP. And the rest is history. Speaking of which, is it just a folk memory that suggests that the first 'P' in PHP once stood for perl? I thought, for the

Re: Proprietary Sybase DBI/DBD module

2012-10-30 Thread Uri Guttman
On 10/30/2012 01:35 PM, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote: Chris, Can you define proprietary please? It will be shipped with .so files? The source will be there but the license says we can't change it? it seems pretty obvious to me. the sybase people have written a new driver which is being released

Re: [ADMIN] Testing the Silence

2012-09-24 Thread Uri Guttman
On 09/24/2012 11:17 PM, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: So, HTML::Template or Mason? *ducks* Template::Simple! print '*ducks*' x 100 ; uri

Re: Brainbench perl test?

2012-09-06 Thread Uri Guttman
On 09/06/2012 02:34 PM, Abigail wrote: On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 03:55:36PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote: On 5 Sep 2012, at 17:35, Abigail wrote: [...] No. Well, it filters out the wannabees. It doesn't recognize the serious coder. If, given the Fibonacci sequence, or a similar recursive formula,

Re: Interview Questions

2012-09-05 Thread Uri Guttman
On 09/05/2012 06:34 PM, Simon Wistow wrote: On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 12:12:16AM +0200, Joel Bernstein said: Really I find interviews are less about individual questions or tasks, and more about where the conversation goes based on them and the interviewer's abilities to steer the conversation

Re: Brainbench perl test?

2012-09-04 Thread Uri Guttman
On 09/04/2012 08:03 AM, Mr I wrote: I've literally had people who were Senior programmers (whatever that means) who, when given the instructions Given that fib(n) is equal to fib(n-1) + fib(n-2) write a fib function in any language didn't even get to the sub fib { my $n = shift;

Re: Brainbench perl test?

2012-09-04 Thread Uri Guttman
On 09/04/2012 09:20 AM, Avishalom Shalit wrote: I remember meeting someone who knew what the sequence was but forgot the name. Ended up calling it the Fettucini sequence. Bonus points. told that to my wife and she just about snorted pasta out of her nose! she didn't know the name fibonacci

Re: Brainbench perl test?

2012-09-04 Thread Uri Guttman
On 09/04/2012 09:41 AM, Dominic Humphries wrote: On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 14:31 +0100, Matt Freake wrote: For that reason, I would have thought there were other, better, recursion problems out there I could use. Tower of Hanoi? :) but at least 20 disks and it has run before the interview is

Re: Brainbench perl test?

2012-09-04 Thread Uri Guttman
On 09/04/2012 12:05 PM, Jacqui Caren wrote: On 04/09/2012 15:03, David Cantrell wrote: You are aware, I trust, that the whole point of an interview is to be discriminatory? Discrimination is probably too evocative a word :-) Also an good interview is a two way exchange on info. i said that

Re: Brainbench perl test?

2012-09-04 Thread Uri Guttman
On 09/04/2012 12:18 PM, David Hodgkinson wrote: On 4 Sep 2012, at 16:07, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote: Piers Cawley writes: Tower of Hanoi is always a better example for solving with recursion than the fibobloodynacci sequence. If nothing else, the recursive solution isn't quite so

Re: Can I get some advice on best way to start Perl Programming

2012-08-31 Thread Uri Guttman
On 08/31/2012 06:09 PM, Denny wrote: Hi Rick, On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 11:16 +, Rick Deller wrote: I have brought a couple of books on the subject which I'm reading through I'm very keen to learn more and how to do it Can anyone suggest more books or another way of doing it ? As well as

Re: Can I get some advice on best way to start Perl Programming

2012-08-31 Thread Uri Guttman
On 08/31/2012 07:30 PM, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 4:16 AM, Rick Deller r...@eligo.co.uk wrote: Hi all, I have brought a couple of books on the subject which I'm reading through I'm very keen to learn more and how to do it Can anyone suggest more books or another way of

Re: Brainbench perl test?

2012-08-28 Thread Uri Guttman
On 08/28/2012 01:49 PM, Zbigniew Łukasiak wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone done this lately? Still as useful as it used to be? I did it I think 10 years ago, so not really recently, but I am disappointed that I cannot find my

Re: Brainbench perl test?

2012-08-28 Thread Uri Guttman
On 08/28/2012 02:46 PM, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote: i also did it way back and didn't like it then. multiple choice tests in general suck for actual testing of real world skills and programming ones suck even more. no candidate

Re: Brainbench perl test?

2012-08-28 Thread Uri Guttman
On 08/28/2012 05:15 PM, David Cantrell wrote: We would, of course, then go through candidates' code with them, talking about how they might improve it given more time, what other approaches they considered and so on. Apparently my solution fucked with peoples' heads. I blame MJD, because IIRC

and this place ships bagels to the US!

2012-08-22 Thread Uri Guttman
http://www.stviateurbagel.com/products/?rand=1002335542

Re: and this place ships bagels to the US!

2012-08-22 Thread Uri Guttman
On 08/22/2012 04:35 AM, Raphael Mankin wrote: On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 01:42 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: http://www.stviateurbagel.com/products/?rand=1002335542 So what's the problem? Bagels are no more native to the US than they are to Canada. They are a European invention. never meant to send

Re: Regex help

2012-04-20 Thread Uri Guttman
On 04/20/2012 11:29 AM, Simon Wistow wrote: just fine. However I'm trying to add a new opcode DAT which can take any number of operands DAT 0x170, Hello , 0x2e1 (, ) and it fails there. Running this my ($label, $op, @operands) = $line =~ m! ^ (?::(\w+) \s+)?

Re: Regex help

2012-04-20 Thread Uri Guttman
On 04/20/2012 05:23 PM, Simon Wistow wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 08:37:42PM +, Anthony Lucas said: How about a parser using Regexp? Parser::MGC? You can implement a proper parser, or just a few staged regexp, or anything in-between. I ended up just doing this my ($label, $op,

Re: Programming Heresy

2012-03-30 Thread Uri Guttman
On 03/30/2012 05:24 AM, Steve Mynott wrote: Has anyone tried programming outside? E-ink (like on the Kindle) works well in sunlight and I wondered if any such device would be useable (ideally with a decent keyboard). in years (and decades) past, i did some coding on source printouts. i

Re: Programming Heresy

2012-03-30 Thread Uri Guttman
On 03/30/2012 12:52 PM, Paul Makepeace wrote: Me too. I actually found these paper sessions some of the most productive ever. Just recently I had my head in a bunch of confusing object relations and wished for the soothing sound of a dot matrix (shows last time I did it) that would let me see

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

2011-12-13 Thread Uri Guttman
On 12/13/2011 07:22 AM, Leo Lapworth wrote: YES. that is a very delicate and interesting question. i have just learned what one top deal in the uk is and it is way up there. few in the US could match it. google can but you need to work onsite there and much of the pay is in stock options.

Re: Beware: NET-A-PORTER

2011-12-09 Thread Uri Guttman
On 12/09/2011 02:58 AM, Rudolf Lippan wrote: On Friday, December 09, 2011 at 02:23:22 AM, Avleen Vig wrote: My understanding is that NAP had a very hard time finding people in the US---I know I passed their posts by before. I had serious concerns after talking to them, and the recruiter

Re: Beware: NET-A-PORTER

2011-12-09 Thread Uri Guttman
On 12/09/2011 09:08 AM, Avleen Vig wrote: On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:09 AM, Uri Guttmanu...@stemsystems.com wrote: On 12/09/2011 02:58 AM, Rudolf Lippan wrote: On Friday, December 09, 2011 at 02:23:22 AM, Avleen Vig wrote: My understanding is that NAP had a very hard time finding

Re: Beware: NET-A-PORTER

2011-12-09 Thread Uri Guttman
On 12/09/2011 09:32 AM, Avleen Vig wrote: Not entirely true. Telecommuting doesnt erect barriers, it results in different barriers which need ti be handled differently. I worked for a distributed company for almost to years. Since then I've worked from home for almost 18 months. It's not more

Re: Beware: NET-A-PORTER

2011-12-09 Thread Uri Guttman
On 12/09/2011 10:36 AM, Jason Tang wrote: On 9 December 2011 15:14, Uri Guttmanu...@stemsystems.com wrote: On 12/09/2011 09:32 AM, Avleen Vig wrote: Not entirely true. Telecommuting doesnt erect barriers, it results in different barriers which need ti be handled differently. I worked for

Re: Beware: NET-A-PORTER

2011-12-09 Thread Uri Guttman
On 12/09/2011 10:48 AM, Rudy Lippan wrote: On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:09:00 -0500, Uri Guttmanu...@stemsystems.com wrote: i don't have a deal with NaP so i can't say anything about this blowup. but i wouldn't ever keep someone from taking the bird in the hand. it is unprofessional and #^#^@ed

Re: Beware: NET-A-PORTER

2011-12-09 Thread Uri Guttman
On 12/09/2011 12:03 PM, Richard Foley wrote: I couldn't agree with you more, Uri. When anyone mentions Telecommuting, hackles seem to rise, it's like the religious wars between vi and emacs, perl and java, mac + windoze, linux + the rest of the world, etc. I've worked in many places both

Re: Cool/useful short examples of Perl?

2011-05-30 Thread Uri Guttman
{$_}\n, keys %conf ; -- Uri Guttman -- u...@stemsystems.com http://www.sysarch.com -- - Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support -- - Gourmet Hot Cocoa Mix http://bestfriendscocoa.com -

Re: Cool/useful short examples of Perl?

2011-05-30 Thread Uri Guttman
D == Denny 2...@denny.me writes: D On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 11:59 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: from the File::Slurp synopsis. can't get much cooler, short or useful than this. :) my %conf = read_file( $file_name ) =~ /^(\w+)=(\.*)$/mg ; write_file( $file_name, {atomic = 1}, map $_=$conf

Re: Cool/useful short examples of Perl?

2011-05-30 Thread Uri Guttman
PN == Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com writes: PN On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 17:59, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote: # Here is a simple and fast way to load and save a simple config file # made of key=value lines.  my %conf = read_file( $file_name ) =~ /^(\w

Re: Cool/useful short examples of Perl?

2011-05-30 Thread Uri Guttman
D == Denny 2...@denny.me writes: D On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 13:10 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: if you think those are complex, you haven't seen enough perl! :) D I'm trying to think about the target audience, rather than show how D clever I am. that isn't clever in my book. the slurp thing

Re: Cool/useful short examples of Perl?

2011-05-30 Thread Uri Guttman
DH == Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com writes: DH On 30 May 2011, at 22:17, Uri Guttman wrote: DH No. Real people want to solve real world problems in a simple, DH maintainable way, not wave around a canapé sized penis. you have a strange way of measuring genitals. real world

Re: Cool/useful short examples of Perl?

2011-05-30 Thread Uri Guttman
anything else posted here that is even close to useful and cool and newbie level yet. but everyone can jump on mine. wow. uri -- Uri Guttman -- u...@stemsystems.com http://www.sysarch.com -- - Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support -- - Gourmet

try something different

2011-05-30 Thread Uri Guttman
better. use your collective branes to do that instead of one liners. it should be a teaching site that is the primary one newbies should go to. instead it is a backwater with a single book on it. uri -- Uri Guttman -- u...@stemsystems.com http://www.sysarch.com -- - Perl Code

edit_file, edit_file_lines

2011-05-14 Thread Uri Guttman
when someone asks for a simple way to modify a file from inside Perl, you have an easy answer to give them. -- Uri Guttman -- u...@stemsystems.com http://www.sysarch.com -- - Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support -- - Gourmet Hot Cocoa Mix

Re: Junior-mid level Perl (Victoria Conlan)

2011-04-27 Thread Uri Guttman
. definitely good enough for many butter replacement apps. and we use butter too so we can compare. uri -- Uri Guttman -- u...@stemsystems.com http://www.sysarch.com -- - Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support -- - Gourmet Hot Cocoa Mix

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

2010-03-27 Thread Uri Guttman
All the boggled mongers PC Where do they all come from? PC All the boggled mongers PC Where do they all belong? i feel very dirty. must switch to coding in lisp to feel better. and paul and i share the same birthday. not sure what that means. uri -- Uri Guttman -- u

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

2010-03-27 Thread Uri Guttman
CJ == Christopher Jones c.jo...@ucl.ac.uk writes: CJ On 27 Mar 2010, at 18:16, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote: On 03/27/2010 09:10 AM, 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

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

2010-03-24 Thread Uri Guttman
for boston.pm to be local to london.pm? there are several overlapping members. thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman -- u...@stemsystems.com http://www.sysarch.com -- - Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support -- - Gourmet Hot Cocoa Mix http

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

2010-03-24 Thread Uri Guttman
to. this is not how you are supposed to code in perl uri -- Uri Guttman -- u...@stemsystems.com http://www.sysarch.com -- - Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support -- - Gourmet Hot Cocoa Mix http://bestfriendscocoa.com -

Re: [Fwd: Betonmarkets CTO position]

2010-02-12 Thread Uri Guttman
want to slam something, please slam the right thing. as i said, i am trying to place people there and i did chastise the ceo for his spamming of london.pm. i didn't like it when you all got that. uri -- Uri Guttman -- u...@stemsystems.com http://www.sysarch.com -- - Perl Code

Re: [Fwd: Betonmarkets CTO position]

2010-02-11 Thread Uri Guttman
in a short time frame. that alone impressed me. anyhow, if anyone wants more info, contact me. if you know someone who may be interested in the job, send them my way and there could be a referal fee in it for you. thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman -- u...@stemsystems.com http

Re: Regexp capture group list

2009-11-10 Thread Uri Guttman
be a way to use \G in the regex to start parsing from where you last parsed. i couldn't get that to work but maybe ask damian for help. :) uri -- Uri Guttman -- u...@stemsystems.com http://www.sysarch.com -- - Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support

Re: Efficient sorting of SNMP oids

2009-11-01 Thread Uri Guttman
idea. sort::maker actually generates source code for its sorts and you can print that out. then you cut/paste that generated code into your program. the only issue i see is how to handle varying length OIDs. but i leave that as an exercise to the reader. uri -- Uri Guttman -- u

Re: Efficient sorting of SNMP oids

2009-10-31 Thread Uri Guttman
of integers (or shorts) and pack them for the key. similar to what you have there. uri -- Uri Guttman -- u...@stemsystems.com http://www.sysarch.com -- - Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support -- - Gourmet Hot Cocoa Mix http

Re: Efficient sorting of SNMP oids

2009-10-31 Thread Uri Guttman
RF == Richard Foley richard.fo...@rfi.net writes: RF Should that be a numerical sort via the spaceship operator? RF = instead of cmp nope, since he is trying to compare a long string of the packed OIDs. you can't compare woth = anything other than normal integers or floats. uri -- Uri

Re: Anyone hiring at the moment?

2009-09-29 Thread Uri Guttman
SC == Simon Cozens si...@simon-cozens.org writes: SC 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

Re: Anyone hiring at the moment?

2009-09-21 Thread Uri Guttman
AA == Andy Armstrong a...@hexten.net writes: AA On 21 Sep 2009, at 14:22, Raphael Mankin wrote: Well, I've been bumming about contracting for over 30 years, and the market seems to be picking up a bit. There are more jobs about and rates are also up. Perl is in a funny

Re: Does Perl has a code hider

2009-09-16 Thread Uri Guttman
some code that will automail faq entries so i can spam here. plenty of perl hackers here with obviously nothing else to do! :) uri -- Uri Guttman -- u...@stemsystems.com http://www.sysarch.com -- - Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support

Re: Does Perl has a code hider

2009-09-16 Thread Uri Guttman
JL == James Laver james.la...@gmail.com writes: JL On 16 Sep 2009, at 19:17, Uri Guttman wrote: i also have some code that will automail faq entries so i can spam here. JL Yes, spam is always the answer to problems. JL Crazy idea: there is already a process in place for updating

Re: Does Perl has a code hider

2009-09-16 Thread Uri Guttman
JL == James Laver james.la...@gmail.com writes: JL On 16 Sep 2009, at 20:04, Uri Guttman wrote: crazier idea: it doesn't get enough attention. more eyes eq more updates. JL It's for a good cause doesn't justify spamming a list that frankly JL has nothing to do with the issue at hand

Re: Does Perl has a code hider

2009-09-16 Thread Uri Guttman
DC == David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk writes: DC Uri Guttman wrote: brian d foy autoposts FAQ entries to comp.lang.perl.misc and they get read and feedback is given to some of them. bdf has updated them as he can when good stuff is posted about an entry. yes, many FAQs are sadly

Re: Sub-refs in @INC screwing with your modules

2009-08-05 Thread Uri Guttman
at -e line 1. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted. why would it recurse on the sub in @INC? it prints foo twice which shows that. uri -- Uri Guttman -- u...@stemsystems.com http://www.sysarch.com -- - Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support

Re: Genius plan for the website!

2009-07-03 Thread Uri Guttman
the pages. i now leave you to discuss. uri -- Uri Guttman -- u...@stemsystems.com http://www.sysarch.com -- - Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support -- - Free Perl Training --- http://perlhunter.com/college.html - - Gourmet Hot

Re: Genius plan for the website!

2009-07-03 Thread Uri Guttman
DH == Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com writes: DH On 3 Jul 2009, at 16:47, Uri Guttman wrote: DH == Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com writes: DH On 3 Jul 2009, at 12:32, Edmund von der Burg wrote: 3) tiny, simple, bulletproof script to take templates and generate html

Re: Genius plan for the website!

2009-07-03 Thread Uri Guttman
DK == Dirk Koopman d...@tobit.co.uk writes: DK Uri Guttman wrote: Template::Simple is the easiest and fastest one out there. and the connection to london.pm is that one of your members funded its conversion to a cpan module! also it now has compiled templates (in git

Re: Empty Hash Values

2009-04-14 Thread Uri Guttman
in that circumstance as you will always have a real undef element in the list. the caller needs to know the context of what they want and plain return allows that control. uri -- Uri Guttman -- u...@stemsystems.com http://www.sysarch.com -- - Perl Code Review , Architecture

Re: Perl Christmas Quiz

2008-12-12 Thread Uri Guttman
UG == Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com writes: CJ == Chris Jack chris_j...@msn.com writes: CJ 3) Write a Perl function that takes two references to arrays and CJ returns the intersect of them. If an entry appears n times in CJ array 1 and m times in array 2, the output should list

Re: Perl Christmas Quiz

2008-12-12 Thread Uri Guttman
center opposite the fairmont. the downside is that san jose is a very dull town (especially compared to portland). you have to drive to san francisco or down the coast to monterey to be in more interesting territory. uri -- Uri Guttman -- u...@stemsystems.com http

Re: TPC or not TPC

2008-12-12 Thread Uri Guttman
NC == Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org writes: NC On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:32:55AM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: rumor is tpc may be back in san jose due to outgrowing the portland convention center. san jose has a large center opposite the fairmont. the downside is that san jose is a very

Re: Perl Christmas Quiz

2008-12-12 Thread Uri Guttman
]}}}{$_},@{$_[1]})}} ; uri -- Uri Guttman -- u...@stemsystems.com http://www.sysarch.com -- - Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support -- - Free Perl Training --- http://perlhunter.com/college.html - - Gourmet Hot Cocoa Mix

Re: Looking for the recruitment guy

2008-12-11 Thread Uri Guttman
is that tomorrow is possibly my last day PH here and so I wont be able to pick up mail after the weekend. So PH if you have something to tell me you could try peterhi [ at ] PH ntlworld [ dot PH ] com, which should be a good test of my spam filter :) i cc'ed that address. thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman

Re: epic Dave FAIL

2008-09-05 Thread Uri Guttman
the Daves? NC I wonder how long before we have a point during a social where NC there are more women than Daves, even with all the men declaring NC themselves honourary Daves. October 2nd? November 6th? December NC 4th? dave?! DAVE?! dave's not here!! :) uri -- Uri Guttman -- [EMAIL