D'oh. Thanks for schooling me on 'map EXPRESSION' gents. I do vaguely
remember seeing that before, but I never use it so I completely forgot
about it :-)
- Alex
On 13 August 2014 11:03, Abigail wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 10:50:39AM +0100, Alex Balhatchet wrote:
>&
#x27;M',
'position' => '0',
'title' => 'Man and woman beside highland loch in rai',
'id' => '562734',
},
'569368' => {
'license' => 'F',
&#x
more ancient tech in there we use wigwam framework
for managing roles (environment variables and service lists per role) and
services (stop, start, restart, etc.)
I'm not proud of it, but we launch multiple times a day so clearly it works.
- Alex
On 25 July 2014 08:40, mascip wrote:
> I
nding does the same.
See you in Sofia (and next week at the technical meeting),
- Alex
Hi Sue,
This is a fantastic idea, see you there :-)
- Alex
On 11 July 2014 17:32, Sue Spence wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Based on conversations with various people, I thought it might be a good
> idea to schedule an event in which people interested in Perl programming
> could ge
Hey Tom,
You sound busy!! Anything I can do help with the technical meeting?
- Alex
On 27 June 2014 15:07, Tom Hukins wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 02:35:42PM +0100, Chris Jack wrote:
>> Is there a website for signing up to this? If I search on google for "London
>>
And obviously I answered before letting your email sink in... "odd
number from 7 upwards"! But still, my solution should just about work
if you change \d* to \d+ and do the 9 manually :-)
- Alex
On 27 May 2014 16:42, Alex Balhatchet wrote:
> Odd numbers end in [13579] so... m{5 [
Odd numbers end in [13579] so... m{5 [.] \d* [13579]}gmsx ... ?
- Alex
acpan.org/source/KAORU/App-highlight-0.14/t/05-nocolors.t
-
But in general I would agree with Leo's suggestion to avoid doing
either, and just set it as a mandatory dependency, unless you have a
really good reason :-)
Hope that's useful,
- Alex
ation.
On another topic if you want something that looks like Windows XP but
acts like Ubuntu I've read good things about Lubuntu[2].
Hope that's helpful,
- Alex
[0] http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=hplip
[1] Not to be parsed as $work::s
[2]
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/02/four-reasons-why-windows-xp-users-should-switch-to-lubuntu-this-april
nks for the heads up :-) Nice work Perl 5.10!
> Smylers++ mentioned my Text::Match::FastAlternatives module upthread.
Looking through the code base at $work it looks like we are putting
Text::Match::FastAlternatives to good use in a couple of places, so
ARC++ too! :-)
- Alex
> The search time you're after is Trie.
I mean "search term"...
- Alex
tacpan.org/pod/Regexp::Trie#SEE-ALSO
Hope that helps,
- Alex
On 25 February 2014 12:49, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> I am looking at an application where some incoming string needs to be
> compared to many (certainly 10s, probably 100s but not 1000s) regexes. This
> being a message passing ap
On 21 February 2014 13:13, David Leadbeater wrote:
> If you care about people not having your full postcode make sure you enter
> something else (I used SW1A 1AA).
Or pick something fun from this list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcodes_in_the_United_Kingdom#Special_postcodes
- Alex
On 15 March 2013 13:07, Mark Fowler wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Alex Balhatchet wrote:
>
>> I don't think any major release has made perl *slower*,
>
> Is this now true? I remember ten years ago Nick said in his
> YAPC::Europe::2002 talk that newer versi
l upgrades to management that's always a good
line :-)
- Alex
wow,
Thank you ALL. Massive amount of info.
Sorry I didn't respond earlier, been a bit of a crazy day.
But this was all REALLY helpful.
Thank you all for sharing your stories and advice.
This sets me straight and prepared.
Cheers all!
--Alex
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Richard
and/or our
agreement?
Thanks for any advice.
--Alex
t Perl at a
non-Perl-specific conference this is as good an example as any :-)
- Alex
On 25 September 2012 04:17, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> So, HTML::Template or Mason?
Mason 1 or 2? :-)
now:
Speaker Title
Leo LapworthPlack
Alex Balhatchet File::CleanupTask
Greg McCarroll Musings of one half of Statler and Waldorf
David LeadbeaterCPAN Grep
Alex Gough Perl with the Penguins
See you tomorrow, looking forward to it :-)
- Alex
On 3 August 2012 09:37, Alex Balhatchet wrote:
> I've requested a password reminder *and* an unsubscribe at
> http://london.pm.org/mailman/options/london.pm for that address. I
> didn't receive the password reminder email (yet?) The digests usually
> come through at 12:00 B
on in case others were similarly affected and it was
indicative of a bug :-)
- Alex
On 2 August 2012 19:16, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 03:20:54PM +0100, Alex Balhatchet wrote:
>
>> It looks like around May 31st (london.pm Digest, Vol 79, Issue 12) I
>> start
/kaoru--at--slackwise.net
then my "Set Digest Mode" setting is set to "Off".
Is anybody else experiencing this?
Note I am getting digest posts *and* regular posts, which I don't
think is even possible with the regular settings.
Thanks,
- Alex
ll Yourself but it's simple enough to
maintain given small/incremental changes in the API.
- Alex
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
>
> I hated the Amazon one, it was overkill. Probabl my usual approach of
> flinging hashes around is suboptimal. Schwern
> Very pretty :) ... and a shameless plug for XP ?
>
>
unless you meant the "heart warming" story, well, I'm a soft bugger so
there!
a
> ;)
> Lesley
>
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:40 AM, lesleyb wrote:
>
>
> Very pretty :) ... and a shameless plug for XP ?
>
> ;)
> Lesley
>
ha! vat iz ziz eggs pee?
I'm probably doing perlmonks wrong to be a proper XP whore (last post in
march, and then previously may 2007!), However I was slightly surprised
tha
504e4
70d0a1a0a");print F pack("N",-4+length).$_.pack"N",sub{$w=$h=0x;$w=$u[($
w^$_)&0xff]^($w>>8)for unpack"C*";$w^$h}->()for"IHDR$h",pack("H38","504c5445
3000b26f004"),"tEXtComment\0".join($/,unpack("(a32)*","\$_=$v$_$v;")
,"s#\$/##g;eval"),"IDAT$w","IEND"';s#$/##g;eval
(outputs "rose.png")
you can see here:
http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=940286
for a bit more info.
alex
potentially
dangerous as it kinda goes against the "use strict;" methodology, does it
not?
I haven't seen this style code in a long time so I wanted to get other
feedback on its potential benefits before I suggest updating it.
Thanks in advance to all that can help.
--Alex
On 22/05/11 18:20, Simon Wistow wrote:
Is there anything out there that gives Moose style 'has' with type
constraints but without needing all the other functionality that Moose
provides?
How about Moo?
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Moo/
Alex
e what I've done
> so far.
>
> Chiz
I was recently playing with Image::Magick (due to work on
Plack::App::ImageMagick) and that's how I've solved the same problem
you've got:
LDFLAGS=-L/home/alex/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.12.2/lib/5.12.2/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/COR
If only there were android smartphones with keyboards...
Clearly I phrased that wrong.
Given that we're talking about device roughly the size of a pack of
cards, they're all going to either have a tiny keyboard, or no keyboard.
I know many millions of Blackberry users would disagree with me,
I've enjoyed Log::Handler - nicely customisable. Perhaps this doesn't
address the issue of overkill, but the minimal use cases have sensible
defaults.
On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 09:52 -0800, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 04:02, Richard Huxton wrote:
>
> > I'd normally use log4perl bu
Hi,
How about running a DNS cache on your web server(s)?
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html
Cheers,
Alex
On 20/12/10 14:52, Bob MacCallum wrote:
Hi,
I know the cool cats don't use Apache httpd any more, but maybe someone can
help anyway..?
We (non-profit bioinformatics site maintainers
At 08:47 +0100 9/19/03, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Aye me hearties, rum and back slappin' to arrr fine swashbucklin' monger
Earle, t'day is be'in' celebrated accordin'ly,
Liz wrote:
I wonder when it will be "Talk Esperanto" day... ;-)
Or frist and lsat ltetres day?
ended (if you don't
count Damian Conway's visit).
I didn't feel there were too many speakers.
(Changing the subject slightly)
Does anyone want a talk on my experience of slashcode?
Can anyone show me how they did slideshow PDFs?
Alex
me to a perl version.
Alex
tried has run out of beer at least once.
Alex McLintock
;-)
SO how much is Kendo then? I wonder if the Cambridge games shop has it
and is open today (Sunday)?
Alex
gion?
Ob buffy.
I don't see that devils or demons require religion. They are supernatural
"monsters"
but Buffy teaches us they are not necessarily created by the Christian or
other organised religion.
Alex
Is there a standard route for writing windows apps in perl? Do I have to go
down the TCL route? ActivePerl by itself?
Cheers
Alex Mc
date....
Alex
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At 09:35 01/09/03, Nicholas Clark wrote:
Hmm. I wonder if we can spread the FUD to the point of suggesting that
the AV vendor might get sued for defamation.
Try it - and maybe we can get it slashdotted.
Alex
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Apache FOP, Cocoon
> Tell me, is "business" the reason for the anti-virus spammers to include
> binary attachments with some of their bogus error reports? Binary
> attachments which match the signatures I'm using to catch some of the
> blasted viruses in the first place.
what is actually worse is that non - technic
.
:-)
Alex
this is (almost) always spam?
Alex
7;s some company (usually one that is
the lowest bidder/pays the biggest backhander, not offers the best
solution) also profiting from my taxes - something i object to strongly.
alex
ps. massive massive appologies to anyone on list who may work for Capita -
nothing personal, its just personally i really don't want my country
operating this way.
> Aah, but what programming language would be best for them to use on
> such a project?
VB obvously.
oh god, i'm sorry, the fact that sleep deprivation due to jetlag has had
serious affects on my sanity is now patently obvious.
(btw, /me waves from sunny california).
a
>
> Michael
>
ing from there.
As for Perl 5.8 I'll wait until I need the new functions. I'll probably
use the installers when I do. As a beginner that's some way off I
should think!
You may be interested to know that I am using the 'Data Munging' Book
by David Cross, a good bit of work by one of your number.
Best wishes to you all
Alex Brewer
d of electricians and plumbers who were
ex-IT people. Expect rates to drop in a few years. Hmmm.
Congrats to Paul on doing his Physical Trainer course.
Alex
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uns. I have the
'#!/usr/bin/perl -w' as line one.
The other stuff was how I get hold of perl 5.8 (do I need compilers?),
and thanks for the cpan url.
Best wishes
Alex
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:36:28AM +0100, Alex McLintock wrote:
> You might really say that this is a problem of Open Source as a whole.
> Its marketing really sucks.
Double plus for Free Software.
> "Sell the benefit - not the technology".
>
> So how does that apply t
eting has to be along the lines of
"Sell the benefit - not the technology".
So how does that apply to perl? what could anyone do differently now
which hasn't been done over the last five years?
Alex
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Apache FOP,
> > And before one of you beardy weirdy, raving CAMRA 'old guzzlers drollop
> > beer is especially fine due to the authentic gerbil droppings' lunatics
> > chirp in, you can get good lager, you just have to go to Germany to get
> > it. ;-)
>
> or Belgium.
or the US.
oh wait, no they serve beer-o-
> > Or even, do away with the bartender altogether and put in a robot,
> > http://www.wickednightclub.com/webgfx/venue/Cynthia%20pouring.jpg from
> > http://www.wickednightclub.com/cyberzone.htm
>
> amazingly enough, a friend of mine applied to be robot wrangler there, but
> something else came up
> Or even, do away with the bartender altogether and put in a robot,
> http://www.wickednightclub.com/webgfx/venue/Cynthia%20pouring.jpg from
> http://www.wickednightclub.com/cyberzone.htm
amazingly enough, a friend of mine applied to be robot wrangler there, but
something else came up - it's actu
> ``The technology will enable bar staff to pour ten pints in less than
> a minute''
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3156773.stm
>
> Looks like a coffee machine, producing a similarly sized froth/head. Hmm.
you have to wonder what the hell they're pumping into their beer to get it
to do th
Dear London Perl Mongers
I have had a look at your archives and can't see much reference to
this, and wonder if there are any users of the perl in Mac OSX out
there?
TIA
Alex Brewer
> you could always just use google, maybe write a screen scraper for,
> have you seen the google calculator, its very good ;-)
*slap!*
a
eforge.net/
Cheers,
Alex.
> > What are people doing outside Perl/IT these days? Have you got
> > a job outside IT because there's no IT work? Or are you learning
> > something outside IT / planning to do something like this?
>
i'm getting my butt kicked at diplomacy (by the devious mr wistow, damn
his norwegian campaign).
y looking for a golf-ish
solution to populate a two dimensional array.
I've got this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED],[(_)x$10]for 1..5;
which does work.
tia
alex
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 03:01, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> Are there any free tools for extracting tables etc from MS Access
> databases?
mdbtools any good?
http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/
Cheers,
Alex.
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> awesome - I may modify the script to fire off for an hour or so upon
> receiving spam mail.
me ponders about something like this:
for $table (a,aa,ab,ac){
$email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]';delete from $table;";
}
and start parsing through will you get the correct table name.
al
>
> Andy
>
> On Tue,
At 12:56 06/08/03, you wrote:
I have checked the london.pm FAQ but I am still confused about this [OT]
business.
Use [OT] when the subject is definitely off topic - but still of interest
to many people on the list and there is no better way to tell them.
I think the idea behind using [OT] to de
> me ponders about something like this:
>
> for $table (a,aa,ab,ac){
> $email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]';delete from $table;";
> }
>
> and start parsing through will you get the correct table name.
or email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]';show tables;"
>
> al
>
> >
> > Andy
> >
> > On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 10:28, Ear
on, like the
domains, things start to become a lot more traceable that goes a fair
way (pretty hard to use unsecure proxies to hide yourself with the above
two-way configuration, for example - you'd have to start taking over DNS
too...).
Cheers,
Alex.
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At 08:21 07/08/03, you wrote:
I think I'm going to have to do this automagically to any link that
appears to be an unsubscribe link in any of the emails that appear on my
SPAMFOLDER.
Please remember that spammers often use other people's identities
when posting spam - please be careful about who yo
At 16:56 04/08/03, Nigel wrote:
would be interested in any signs that you lot think are indicative. :-)
London perl mongers.
higher proportion of beards than most groups, lack of suits, um, hopefully
some books if I turn up... but I don't promise to.
Alex
Available for java/p
ter me. How many members of
ICSF are in London.pm? must be loads adam, bob, me, gidon,
phil, um, more I've forgotten.
Alex
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I think you missed out that extra tag in the subject line simon.
bad si.
al
ps and yes, it's all done in 4 lines.
> Yahoo Europe recently launched a complete redesign (with masterminding,
> machination and studly coding by at least two london.pm members - one of
> whom recoded part of the searc
ks, two regg-ecks, many
regg-ecks. My regg-ecks didn't work. All my regg-ecks were broken. Etc.
I don't get the 'redjular eckspreshun' thing. 'red-jex' sounds like some
kind of cleaning fluid :/
Cheers,
Alex.
is far too busy hassling
people for perl.com articles :)
I must get around to that article saying how diabolically irritating
Slashcode is,
and how the ORA book only scratches the surface of the problem.
Alex
gh a rating you would
either need uncommon terms (like yours), or lots of in-bound links. They
don't have the in-bound key terms, so it's basically due to the lack of
results. Sadly, in niches, I think Google could easily get beaten. They
don't fight battles, only wars.
Cheers,
Alex.
k at the Unicode and GNU miscutils discussion I pointed
you at; it sounds like that might be a solution, but you probably need to
check with an actual lawyer. debian-legal is again the place to raise
this.
Cheers,
Alex.
t for free.
Cheers
Alex
n my instinct
says it's non-free (it's not just non-DFSG-free, but sounds like non-FSF-
free and non-OSI-open too). The only option open to you would be to replace
the non-free data with free data - this happens on a fairly frequent basis.
Look up the recent debian-legal discussion on Unicode tables.
Cheers,
Alex.
it be possible to write up people's recommendations for visiting
Paris and stick it somewhere online?
My girlfriend and I have been meaning to go to Paris - though I'm not going
to YAPC.
Perhaps we could pollute Grubstreet with it :-)
Alex
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Hi people...
I did see somewhere that the SotO speech was going to get posted online
in mp3/ogg or something, but haven't seen it go up anywhere yet.
Does anyone know for definite if and when it will be posted?
Cheers,
Alex.
o if you want I can get the inside opinion
on working for the company.
(I'm teaching her perl :-)
Alex
ng of using the
OpenGuides one and throw out any of the geopgraphical stuff I don't need.
Thanks again to Kake, Ivor, Earle and the team for putting so much effort
into grubstreet/openguides.
Alex
:-)
SOrry for the off-topic post, but hey, there are people who like Perl, and
Buffy, living in the house who would be your housemates :)
Seems to me that more buffy/angel gets watched in my house than anything else.
Alex
matches in the XSL.
Is it possible to do this in two stages? A first stage which generates some
intermediate XML,
and then a second stage which processes the generated XML?
Alex
Hi Andy, Paul,
I may only make it along some time after 9pm. Can someone ring me on 07976
512145 to give me their phone number?
PS I may bring review books!!!
Alex
At 13:45 08/07/03 +0100, you wrote:
Just a brief reminder: tonight from 7pmish, The Sir Alfred Hitchcock
Hotel, 147 Whipps Cross
k alphabet?
At least that is what my greek teacher told me.
http://www.ibiblio.org/koine/greek/lessons/alphabet.html
Alex
Egho Then Mila Ellinika
(Which means "I don't speak greek" in greek)
tp://news.diversebooks.com/metadata/listTwoKey.do?action=List&searchkey=XML
http://news.diversebooks.com/metadata/listTwoKey.do?action=List&searchkey=XSL
http://news.diversebooks.com/metadata/listTwoKey.do?action=List&searchkey=XSLT
If you need professional XSL help feel free to give me a shout :-)
Alex
using it as an XML RPC/SOAP method for describing data
structures and command across a net?
Are you going to be doing XSL/XSLT/XSL:FO?
Alex
ries
in @INC that are subdirectories of other elements in @INC, nor with people
who fiddle $PERL5LIB, etc...
Cheers,
Alex.
t for Windows?
Unix Services for Windows, but it's supposed to be a bit sucky. Samba is
really the solution here though.
Cheers,
Alex.
) {
my $link = pop @links;
if ($link =~ m,^/,) {
$link = "http://$domain$link";;
}
$result .= (' [ '
. $link
. ' ]'
);
}
}
}
}
elsif ($type eq TEXT) {
my $text = $token->[1];
if ($upper) {
$text = uc($text);
}
$result .= $text;
}
}
return $result;
}
##
1;
--
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g?
I know I can use "iterators" but the perldoc say that Class::DBI iterators
still suck up all the data into memory - which isn't really much use either.
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>
> there are several (5) multipliers, usually used only on "a lot" and "a bunch":
> .5x ickle
> 2x whole
> 4x damn
> 7x bleedin'
> 10x f*ckin'
> plus combinations, such as "a whole, whole lot" (2x2x7=28), and "a whole damn
> f*uckin bunch" (2x4x10x6=480).
>
> however, infinity, or at lea
> "Quid" is the real name of the UK's monetary unit. You might
> hear it called a "pound" by people who don't know what they are
> talking about, but "quid" is the proper term.
>
> A quid is made up of 20 shillings, each of which contains 12
> pennies.
>
> There are also larger amounts called a "
> Running obfuscated code is A VERY VERY BAD IDEA.
>
yep, although at least you know where i live. (or at least some do...).
also i hope most of you know i'm a nice kind of chap who isn't so lame as
to do something malicious (lame enough to write obfuscated sigs
though..)
> my maze sig, in 6 lines for those that missed it before. I've been
> hacking for ages trying to get it down, but i'm buggered if i can find any
> more spare chars (i also tried doing it with bitwise operators):
>
> $p=1;[EMAIL PROTECTED]&$_>47&$_<751,($p-1)%47&&$m[$p-1]ne"|"?$p-2:0,($p+2)
> %47
is smaller? mail me of list!)
and finally in honour of wimbledon - i'm sure peeps might have seen this:
$m=2;$x=$y=4;$n=$|=1;print"\ec";$f.="\e[$_;20H|\n"for(1..11);{printf"$f
\e[$y;$x\H \e[%d;%dH*\e[$l;H \e[%dH\e[7m \e[m\e[$r;40H \e[%d;40H",$y+=$n
*=$y<2|$
that the Hitchcock has had really good chef's in the past
but I don't know how good the food is now.
As it is also a hotel I hope it should be quite good.
I'm tempted to ask my Walnut tree sf fan friends to go to the Hitchcock
instead.
Alex
At 15:11 24/06/03 +0100, Ian Malpass w
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 09:12:22AM +0100, Alex Hudson wrote:
Replying to myself, bad form I realise...
but:
$ host -t ns thegestalt.org
thegestalt.org NS theproject.fierypit.org
thegestalt.org NS ns0.astray.com
!!! thegestalt.org NS host ns0.astray.com is not
sing up your
results? I can send you some dig/host output from here if you like, it's
probably worth digging against a specific DNS server though.
Also, the SOA for astray.com doesn't list ns0.astray.com as a primary or
secondary from where I'm looking, and there is no NS record for ns0 in
astray.com either - just ns[1-5].
Cheers,
Alex.
If you remember Sinclair Spectrum's or have any interesting stories about
the UK or European computer game history this author would like to hear them.
Either post to the list if it is of interest to all, or I can give you the
author's email address.
Alex
I am hoping this ge
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