Out of interest which bits of the Beeb are still Perl? Are l.pm-ers
still there? And where does http://news.bbc.co.uk fit into everything
these days?
We've poached a couple of people from the beeb here, they still have a
LOT of perl developers though, pretty sure there are still plenty of
peopl
As you are surely aware, the London Perl Workshop is this Saturday. In
Oh crap. Ever get one of those "I knew I was forgetting something" moments?
And all that time you waste showering and getting dressed!
You think I shower and dress for work? Pfft. You can tell you work on a
different floor to me!
Yeah, it would be interesting to do a large scale study on productivity/culture
for remote versus office based setups.
I know I was a lot more productive before my manager unceremoniously halved
my working from home allowance, so now I spend much more time on trains and
rushing around trying
not in london, but very nice location ;)
Not that I don't think everywhere is nicer than London, but ... could you be
more specific?
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 complain
about it, fine, but don't expect many others to be sympathetic.
Did I mention we* once got an ex-lighthouse keeper with no computing
experience whatsoever ap
We are.
We had someone start just a coupla days ago, and we're still looking for
MOAR PEEPUL.
Hmm, maybe you lot just scare me too much. :-P
I think I've forgotten how to write code now, anyhow. :-(
Next you'll be asking if the permies got a pay rise this year or if their
pension fund[1] didn't get raided.
I got a pay rise, at the cost of signing up to their stupid pension fund
raiding scheme. As with most things around here, I tutted to anyone willing
to listen, and did nothing more abo
Auntie is ALWAYS looking for perl people. ALWAYS.
Really? I've been shunted into a non-programming job for the last year
precisely because they aren't.
At an interview with Auntie a few years ago, they gave me a Perl script
and asked me to highlight all the problems/errors in it. Not sure if they
were flattering me, but I found quite a few they didn't seem to be aware
of..
I've been on the other side of that interview. I was astonished by
/Really/ fed up with commuting this week.
I think perl folks are particularly suited to remote work.
Yeah, shame my job now involves 0% code writing. :'(
For a part-time job, I would expect the advert to say how many
hours/days per week are involved.
When hours/days are not mentioned I assume they want a small number of
odd hours and some on-call stuff - without having to pay a FT staffer
an on-call bonus :-/
Personally I'd love a job like tha
Specifically, it must be butter. No butter, no shortbread.
I've found that vegan buttery-style margarine is acceptable. Especially if
you replace half of the flour with ground almonds. Pop over, I'll make you
it some time.
Some kind of amaretto? (the macaroon, not the spirit:
http://en.wiki
'Used' sloes can also be used in biscuits, flapjack and presumably
cakes. I was thinking of using up a cupful in a fruitcake this
weekend.
Splendid idea. I tend to win or come 2nd in the local gardening club fruit
cake making competition (yes, I was one of those who once came 3rd in a
compet
I was just thinking that surely a Bloody Mary is 1 of your 5-a-day.
How about sloe gin?
If you make sloe gin you can use the gin-soaked sloes later as an ice-cream
topping, apparently. :-)
(We did it with vodka raspberries, which were very very nice!)
Vegan shortbread? WTH.
The short(ening) agent in Short Bread = fat.
Specifically, it must be butter. No butter, no shortbread.
I've found that vegan buttery-style margarine is acceptable. Especially if
you replace half of the flour with ground almonds. Pop over, I'll make you
it some tim
Also: geek-operated mojito bars in the caribbean.
Having just returned from a slightly overly rich-Americans-taking-over kind
of trip to St.Lucia (got a bit fed up with "no, we're not rich American
tourists, we can't afford to pay you 20 dollars just to take a rope and tie
the boat to a bouy f
I still favour getting the hell out of IT and setting up a tea shop, though.
(tea and cakes at my place when I do so!)
Victoria(n) sponge cakes?
But of course! I also do a pretty nifty chocolate fudge cake, and a hugely
calorific sachertorte, plus very nice vegan shortbread.
I am going to g
There's enough of a demand for Perl devs in London that a lot of companies
that are looking to hire in that space are willing to hire people with
OO-PHP/Python experience.
That's good to hear. I'm alternating between excitement and terror at the
prospect of being back on the job market. :-/
You're getting a lot of bikeshedding here. Summary: there's a
shortage of perl programmers in London right now. Go back
through jobs.perl.org and as far as I know, many of those folks
are still hiring. I've had two contract offers this cycle with
some other interesting things going on in the bac
Here's what you all missed by not coming to the emergency social at the
Britannia:
http://abuse.mooli.org.uk/dscf3859.jpg
Blimey. I seem to have missed the invite, can you send me the address for
future reference (and visitation!) please?
Ta.
(apologies for the late reply!)
(although watch out for late rooms - I booked a room for my brother and his
gf and her daughter, it was listed as a 'family room', but it turned out to
be a double bed which was smaller than theirs at home, and the 3 of them
were meant to share it!)
The third
If they're after the basics, look at travelodge.
I will never stay in a Travelodge again after staying at their one in
Edinburgh. For what they charged, it was AWFUL.
Fair enough. Personally, I've never had a bad one, although my like of them
was a little diminished when they decided their
Now that the formalities are out of the way, my apologies for a completely
off-topic email. I've some friends from the US who are struggling to find
affordable accommodation in central London for my upcoming June wedding. Any
suggestions?
If they're after the basics, look at travelodge. T
That's about as easy as you can get and seems to satisfy OP's requirements.
Thank you, Ovid + Peter. My problem is actually a little bit more
complicated than described, but between the 2 examples as a starting point,
it's looking a lot better all of a sudden. :-)
For this sort of thing, HTML::Parser should suffice. By default it just prints
the HTML it's just parsed, so it's a case of writing a suitable handler to look
for the appropriate IMG tags and then mutate them and print them.
Ok, I'll give it a go. (I got as far as using LinkExtor to extract
It's been a while since I actually got to write some Perl (considering what
I do for a living!), so I thought I'd try and make this one as sensible as
possible. I've hit a snag in my implementation.
I have .
I want to
loop through them
pick out all the image tags
change the pat
I don't know about anyone else here, but the only reason I would ever ask
that question would be to turn down anyone who claimed to know more than 3.
I'd make that 5 (since it's what's taught at school here) but yeah, I was
thinking the same thing :)
Thank you, you made me feel a lot better
At that time I could remember about 100 digits so I had a dilemma, would I do
better in the interview if I recited all 100 or perhaps 10?
I don't know about anyone else here, but the only reason I would ever ask
that question would be to turn down anyone who claimed to know more than 3.
Fortu
I don't know yet. The office is around Paddington, but I have no idea where that'd make
me live apart from "hopefully not horribly far" :)
Being near a mainline station you may even choose to live outside of London
and commute. Which makes childcare both more and less complicated! (I
curren
Provided you are using a registered childcare provider (which you'd be mad not
to) and your employers signs up to the scheme (which most employers have) then
*each* parent can apply for ?243 of childcare vouchers each month which come
off your gross salary so you pay no tax or NI.
I don't kno
Wow, I must have seen my first email warning of this peril almost 20 years ago
For a second then I felt /really/ old.
Then I realised that 20 years ago I was still at school. And I felt a
lot* better.
Thank you. :-)
I've checked the clues/answers, hopefully I've fixed any mistakes.. if
anybody spots any let me know and I'll fix and republish.
It may not be relevant as I've just skimmed it and my brain is fuddled
from an extended Christmas-present-wrapping session, but would you mind
posting the full quest
In particular I had a mail a couple of days ago from everyone's favourite "we
don't use Perl any more - it's all Java and PHP now" broadcaster. It was about
a Perl role.
Was it a permanent or contract role? I spotted a senior perl person
job advertised today, about an hour after I'd had the
Long shot, but is there anyone out there with Nuxeo skillz?
Not personally, but 2 people on my team are currently using it.
What kind of skillzet are you looking for?
Thanks James. I'm going to have to move to bloody London aren't I? :)
You could be the single solitary perl coder who volunteers to work at
BBC North ...
Oi, that's my slot!
I won't be able to come along (too late to sign up now, and East Anglia
trains have kindly decided to go on strike every Thurs/Fri of the next
month or so!), but I'd love to hear what comes out of this one:
Dave Cross - Why do so many companies re-invent well-known CPAN
modules badly and end up
This is great, http://www.hanovsolutions.com/resume_comic.png
I thought we had banned jokes on the list on the grounds that it
discriminated against those without a sense of humour ...
IMHO I would suggest it's too accurate to be a joke.
More a guideline/warning.
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