D3 (Javascript) or Incanter (Clojure) are typically my choices these days.
Thanks,
Ben
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Sue Spence wrote:
> From: Roger Bell_West
> To: london.pm-annou...@london.pm.org
> Cc:
> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 09:03:08 +
> Subject: Interactive grap
Now there's a T-shirt waiting to happen.
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:03 PM, Dominic Humphries wrote:
> Real daleks don't climb stairs, they level the building :)
>
>
>
> On 8 October 2014 19:55:34 Gareth Harper wrote:
>
>> It's not just the more recent episodes (depending on your definition of
>> "
would be to use some CSS to highlight the
background of conflicting selections with red.
Ben
On 31 August 2014 12:14, Dave Cross wrote:
>
> I need some HTML/Javascript help.
>
> See http://dave.org.uk/grid.html.
>
> On this page you have a list of courses (Course 1 to Course 6
Ansible & SaltStack but concluded that the former was the best
for the project in question because it was easier to get started with
and it came with a lot of modules that were useful to us out of the
box.
HTH.
-Ben
friend to sanity check your results.
Cheers,
Ben
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> On 21/04/14 03:14, Mark Fowler wrote:
>>
>> On Sunday, April 20, 2014, David Cantrell wrote:
>>
>>> Can anyone point me at some code on the CPAN that, given t
else short of
the $100k dedicated infra I've seen in banks.
A smart TV combined with a Freeview box and the catchup services available
on the Smart TV basically do everything my parents want apart from video
games.
YMMV, of course.
Ben
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Ovid wrote:
>
> Plus, it's hard to share my setup because it's "accreted" over the years
> ("grown" is too kind of a word). I need to clean it up and put it out there.
>
+1 for that!
I seem to have ended up on the above email list by mistake.
I’d be very grateful if you could remove me from it.
All the best
Ben
http://www.bbc.co.uk
This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal
views which are not the views of the
Thanks to everybody that contributed to this thread.
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, any of this lot set alarm bells ringing?
http://www.minivps.co.uk/
h
What if it contains \ ? :)
Seriously though, I'd assumed that OP (Dave) didn't want to make any
changes to the HTML he'd taken from the other website - although I may be
wrong.
On 21 May 2013 14:06, Philip Skinner wrote:
> \
>
>
> On 05/21/2013 02:28 PM, Ben Vinn
What if the HTML contains single or double quotes?
On 21 May 2013 13:14, Philip Skinner wrote:
> You can specify the content of an iframe using a javascript call in the
> src:
>
>
>
>
> On 05/21/2013 01:57 PM, Ben Vinnerd wrote:
>
>> You could try putting it in
You could try putting it in (which doesn't support inline html, so
you'd have to load it with src="/path/to/buggered_html_loader")
On 21 May 2013 12:31, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> In keeping with the spirit of the list, this isn't directly a perl question
> but it might be part of the solution.
On 14 May 2013 15:02, Dominic Humphries wrote:
> 50 miles? Luxury! I have to do sixty! :)
>
> Indeed. My previous contract was 223 miles, each way! (I became Travelodge
guest of the year during that gig!! lol)
ture, you bet your life WFH will
be mandatory! :)
Ben
On 13 May 2013 22:22, Duncan Garland wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> We're advertising for a Perl programmer again, and once again we are
> struggling. It's a shame because we've got quite a lot of development work
>
g
> really that useful?
Not only are they of marginal utility in almost all cases, they are
actively harmful in many others.
Ben
+1 on wkhtml2pdf. I've used it in the past, it's awesome. Didn't know about
PDF::WebKit, will have to check that out!
On 21 April 2013 14:11, Ruud H.G. van Tol wrote:
> On 2013-04-21 13:43, Mark Fowler wrote:
>
> In a few weeks I'm going to want to be creating PDFs from Perl, something
>> I
>>
Bibeault's jQuery in Action (but it may be a little behind
the times these days).
You should also get a copy of "Javascript - The Good Parts" by Douglas
Crockford.
My guys seem to like Angular.js as well.
Cheers,
Ben
On 7 March 2013 17:09, Peter Corlett wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 02:31:48PM +0000, Ben Vinnerd wrote:
> > On 6 March 2013 18:54, Peter Corlett wrote:
> >> Don't typecast yourself as a Perl developer, as that just limits what
> roles
> >> you can do.
>
On 6 March 2013 18:54, Peter Corlett wrote:
> Don't typecast yourself as a Perl developer, as that just limits what
> roles you
> can do.
>
It depends on who you're trying to market yourself/your company to.
Some companies are specifically looking for a Perl developer, therefore
it's a good id
he client to discuss
contracts/rate/etc. I am making no money out of this.
Cheers,
Ben
ben {at} vinnerd {dot} com
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
>> No reason to brew a new perl?
Brewing a Perl is so easy I can't see why you wouldn't want to. In
addition to being less risky than screwing with system Perl you can
easily tar the whole thing up if you need to redeploy on the same
OS/a
thankless
> task. So thank you.
>
Indeed, I do hope you'll forgive the unconstructive responses to your
contributions (which I don't think are characteristic of the community
at large) and that you'll continue to engage with Perl.
Best wishes,
Ben.
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:05 PM, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 05:23:04PM +0100, Ben Evans wrote:
>
>> I've been discussing a talk with Leon, tentatively entitled "Through
>> The Looking Glass" - basically an account of what I found in the yea
uage level, or where anyone short of a Damian-level
hacker can easily get at it.
Sure, that may well be what your virtual machine (or equivalent
hardware abstraction layer) wants, but don't, for the love of Mike,
expose it in the HLL. That's pretty much the biggest lesson learned in
the last 15 years of implementation decisions in the JVM.
Ben
found in the years
I've been spending a lot of time with Java & JVM technology and
communities.
I could do either the technical or community aspects - both are IMO
very interesting and provide, in many ways, very different
perspectives (but also some surprising similarities).
Ben
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Dave Cross wrote:
> Finally, a few weeks ago I bit the bullet and upgraded the firmware. It took
> a while but eventually I finished and everything seemed to work.
>
> Except, after I while I noticed a problem. All of the devices on the
> internal network could sti
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Mark Fowler wrote:
> Tom,
>
> I know this is a lot to ask of you, especially as you're right about having a
> limited time to spend on all of this, but could you if you haven't already
> would you please watch this year's YAPC::NA keynote:
>
> http://www.youtube.
>> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 04:38:39PM +0530, Shantanu Bhadoria wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey Folks,
>>> Is there a good guide book or reference to get started on SNMP?
I found this useful when I needed to write Nagios plugins that spoke
snmp (in Perl, natch):
http://www.cuddletech.com/articles/snmp/
Finally pulled my finger out and sorted everything out today. First
YAPC, v.excited!
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Mallory van Achterberg
wrote:
> A note:
> There are a lot of "people" registered, with no info or anything.
> I wonder if these are spam attempts that didn't go anywhere?
>
> :)
I can't make 6 but am trying for before 7. I'll be wearing a Zod
tshirt with a caption that reads 'kneel'.
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Léon Brocard wrote:
> On 25 June 2011 15:24, Ben Tisdall wrote:
>> The group, in case Leon is hit by a meteor.
>
> T
The group, in case Leon is hit by a meteor.
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Job van Achterberg wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> Mallory and me will attempt to be there around 6pm. We'll be coming back
> from Cambridge that day (hopefully around 5pm), and apparently there is
> a train connection from K
I shall be attending.
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Bob Walker wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Léon Brocard wrote:
>
>> We're going to have an emergency social meeting on Saturday evening as
>> Job (jkva) and Mallory (stommepoes) are in town. We can also celebrate
>> the Perl 5.12.4, 5.14.1, an
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Léon Brocard wrote:
> On 6 June 2011 12:11, Mallory van Achterberg wrote:
>> So, Bridge House at 18 Tower Bridge Road, London on Saturday evening
>> 25th June? (DuckDuckGo brought up another Bridge House in London but
>> this one seemed correct)
> I'll reannounce
Config::Tiny fits the bill nicely.
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Denny <2...@denny.me> wrote:
> 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+)=(\.*
Ooh that's useful, thanks!
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Uri Guttman wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Have you ever wanted to use perl -pi inside perl? Did you have the guts
> to localize $^I and @ARGV to do that? Now you can do that with a simple
> call to edit_file or edit_file_lines in the new .018 r
Utobeer at the Borough Market.
Ben
m aware is that announce -> gllug-social
list where it raises hackles from anti perl brigade.
Why would a "social" group not want to be informed of relevant, and
usually very pleasant pubmeets?
If they don't think it's relevant ot their interests, they can always unsub.
Ben
Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 12:33:26AM +0100, Ben Evans wrote:
If you're prepared to deal with recruitment agents, then you talk to me,
^
and I provide you with a list of agents who can:
a) Follow s
ot try and sell you a pup just to make a buck
d) Actually behave like real human beings with whom technical people
might want to hang out / drink with once in a while[0]
Ben
[0] Is it surprising that this is the only reliable indicator I've ever
found for whether recruiters are worth my
here was a museum.
IRC has already enlightened me.
Doesn't sound like something to take partners/girlfriends to. It
sounds pretty boring.
That rather depends on the partner, I would think.
Ben
uages (and catch
up with some people I haven't seen for ages!)
My slides are here:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/973503/dyn_langs_bcs_2009-06.pdf
Let's have another one later in the year!
Ben
ere it
should be done. If the managers ultimately refuse then use Dave's
solution and just aggressively trim errant crap out of the feed - and
include clear documentation as comments in your code as to what you're
doing and why - that way if people whinge you (or the next guy) know
where to point them.
Ben
Andy Armstrong wrote:
On 17 Apr 2009, at 19:47, Ben Evans wrote:
Ovid wrote:
Last night's tech talks had a very interesting talk about Perl on
the JVM Are those slides available anywhere?
I don't know if Leon's put them up anywhere yet.
If not, mail me offlist and I
attendee at last night's tech
meet or not) would like to work on this - please get in touch as well.
There are plenty of interesting things in this area.
Thanks,
Ben
-perl
3151 web 18 0 117m 103m 4504 S4 1.3 0:15.30
/usr/sbin/apache-perl
Am I missing something? I don't see what's particularly scary about
those numbers.
Ben
p the list
copied on them.
Thanks,
Ben
Ben Evans wrote:
James Laver wrote:
[3] And if you're planning to come, please mail me offlist, I've no
idea how many people are going to turn up.
I'm planning to come along.
Ben
Apologies - I'm trying out a new mailer - but it doesn't seem to be
behaving itself
James Laver wrote:
[3] And if you're planning to come, please mail me offlist, I've no
idea how many people are going to turn up.
I'm planning to come along.
Ben
trivial. ;)
>>>>
>>>>Joss Whedon has a new tv show.
>>>
>>>It has Eliza Dushku in it.
>>
>>But no vampires.
>
>repeat after me
>
>"Joss Whedon is not the saviour of television"
http://hijinksensue.com/2009/03/02/a-crisis-of-faith/
Ben
Hi,
Is anyone on list thinking of going to FOSDEM this year?
I've not been before, but it's looking interesting.
Thanks,
Ben
ch involves getting on a train
to Sussex the day after we've seen off this particular year is beyond me.
Holiday season British Rail with a high probability of hangover? No, thanks.
Ben
ugh the dynamic invocation
stuff isn't integrated yet.
I would welcome collaborators / people to talk about it with at the
pub, from within the Perl community or the Java community, or any other.
Thanks,
Ben
nt to make an alternative plan? Although I can't make it to
the LPW tomorrow, I was hoping to have a couple of beers and a chat with
people tonight.
Ben
gh percentage of Apple hardware
is defective, that you're unable to keep enough technical staff on hand
to deal with the issues?"
The Genius found the dodgy RAM in about 5 minutes, and I was fixed and on
my way in another 10.
Ben
n't be arsed going through the 40-odd
>steps just to get at the bits to look at them.
>
>The symptoms are that sometimes the display goes all wibbly. Giving the
>case a sharp tap fixes it temporarily.
>
>Make me an offer off-list.
You're seriously expecting this to have some resale value?
Ben
| strong | paranoid | batshit ) type system. Certain
types of bugs persist for far longer than they should in > 10 line
Perl applications whereas a less laissez-faire type system would flush them
out basically trivially.
Whether this occupies more or less programmer time than beating your skull
against a timorous typecast or other pointer pedantry will, of course, Depend.
Ben
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 03:07:08PM +0100, Lusercop wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 01:40:08PM +0100, Ben wrote:
> > return foo;
> >
> > FAIL3:
> > free(foo->quirka->fleeg);
> > return NULL;
> > FAIL2:
> > free(foo->quirk
L2;
}
if ((foo->quirka->fleeg = (fleeg_t *) calloc(1, sizeof(fleeg_t))) == NULL) {
*error = ENDORIAN;
goto FAIL3;
}
.
return foo;
FAIL3:
free(foo->quirka->fleeg);
return NULL;
FAIL2:
free(foo->quirka);
return NULL;
FAIL1:
free(foo);
return NULL;
}
With nested structures like these, this structured approach just seems
cleaner to me than all those temporaries kicking about.
Ben
r vitamin C is only, what, 60 milligrams?
This seems awfully high to me.
Ben
The compression (and reporting stats so we knew which sites and which parts we
needed to optimise) plus the removal of the proxy layer (and the removal of
our previous load-balancing tech, which had been EOL'd) made the cost actuallly
worth it.
Mail me offlist for more details, especially if you're seriously considering
Redline.
Ben
it extremely well."
That sounds like a quote from TWK, or someone like him.
That's the second pseudo-Kornerism you've sigged us with today. Is
there a reason?
Ben, curious now
y).
It's *so* not finished but it's up and working - in fact quite a few l.pmers
have accounts on it.
Mail me offlist if you want details / code.
Ben
the rules for subsequent contest, I believe...
Yes. I first read about this is in Peter van der Linden's excellent book
Expert C Programming. I would heartily recommend it as one of the most readable
books about a programming language I have ever read. Go find.
Ben
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 02:16:32PM +0200, Robin Berjon wrote:
> Ben wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:52:48PM +0200, Robin Berjon wrote:
> >>[0]http://www.w3.org/2003/07/binary-xml-cfp.html
> >
> > Pardon me for being thick here, but what possible gains are
es out there?
I can't see that reinventing the wheel with a bunch of domain-specific binary
formats is anything other than a retrograde step.
What am I missing?
Ben
to draw the dividing line
between the OS and the applications which live on top of it.
Ben
t;
> Surely that's just a smidgeon to close to S&M'd?
(Assuming s/ to / too / ... )
I've never seen that particular verbing before. The verbs 'do' or 'play' are
generally far more likely to be used in that context. YMMV, of course, but
just because any noun can be verbed doesn't make it sensible to do so.
Ben
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:29:42PM +0100, Paul Golds wrote:
>
> Naturally I skip over such posts anyway, nasty little things.
Hopping around, eating carrots.
Ben
IL PROTECTED]>
I've never had any contact with them personally but several friends
and ex-colleagues work, or have worked there, and they seem to be
reasonable people.
Ben
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:54:03AM +0100, Nigel Rantor wrote:
>
> Sorry, I'm a bit of a foodie. (AAnd if you like steak, then you should
> go to the camden brasserie, but thats a whole NOTHER story...)
Are you on london.food ?
Ben
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 01:43:30PM +0100, Ben wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 01:26:26PM +0100, Richard Clamp wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 11:24:47AM +0100, Ben wrote:
> > > [1] Don't say "Why don't you just use the debian-supplied ones" to me unless
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 01:26:26PM +0100, Richard Clamp wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 11:24:47AM +0100, Ben wrote:
> > [1] Don't say "Why don't you just use the debian-supplied ones" to me unless you
> > actually want
> > to hear the answer. Yes, apt
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 10:08:27AM +0100, Andy Wardley wrote:
> Ben wrote:
> > Cannot load /usr/local/apache/libexec/libperl.so into server:
> > /usr/local/apache/libexec/libperl.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Ipatchlevel_ptr
>
> Could it be that you're using an Apache/mo
just won't load the .so
I can't find the symbol anywhere obvious at all.
Meep.
Any ideas?
Ben
unreleased SPKI::Sexp
might do what you want.
I'll just check with him that it's OK to distribute.
Ben
ray
goes to zero, the dictionary space used by the large-but-volatile stuff can
be reclaimed.
Depending on the relative sizes of the dictionary and the average key and
value length, this may or may not be a sensible idea, however. No warranty,
YMMV, blah blah #include , etc
Ben
ce, than separate chains and so on.
People have been known to become confused and have conceptual problems with chains,
etc.
This may say more about the people I have administering firewalls than anything,
though.
Ben
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 01:21:03PM +0100, Shevek wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Ben wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:47:40PM +0100, Shevek wrote:
> > > I do not understand the need for [the added complexity and perversion
> > > of] [firewall rule management]
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:47:40PM +0100, Shevek wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Ben wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 07:38:12PM +0100, Chris Benson wrote:
> > >
> > > I had a lot of difficulty thinking about the f/wall rules for a system
> > > acting as
kage and probably an RPM). It was written by
a mate of mine, it handles more than just iptables as a backend and I'm
reasonably happy with it.
Ben
tirely different (and at times impossible to reconcile) usage
modes that people want to use them in.[1]
Subversion and DeltaV have different ideas about some fairly fundamental
things, IIRC.
> Now there's also the questions of access control, file ownership, rights
> management, e
ar.
As others have noted, Samba really is the solution here.
Ben
amp;mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf
Upper St is also not too much further than the Red Lion, although I find many
of the pubs up there to be Not Great.
Ben
ore about the little
bit of this that I know about, mail me offlist.
Ben
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 07:51:54PM +0100, Patrick Mulvany wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:32:13AM +0100, Ben wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having a nasty HTTP implementation mismatch.
> >
> > Some server I'm talking to using LWP (I can't tell wha
nsfer-coding and is
responding normally, if in a somewhat clipped dialect. I don't believe that it
can't handle POST as a request method.
(I think that the segfault is being caused by fishyness in the way the other side
is doing TLS, but that's another story).
Thoughts? Am I on crack this morning?
Ben
Found this mostly finished on my HD. Finished it off and thought I'd post it -
I think someone may have already posted a review of this, though.
Ben
=head1 NAME
Graphics Programming With Perl
=head1 Author
Martien Verbruggen
=head1 ISBN
1-930110-02-2
=head1 R
x27;s an excellent
debunking of this latest urban myth on David Farbers IP (www.interesting-people.org)
list.
Ben
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 02:40:20PM +0100, Ali Young wrote:
>
> OK, lets solve this:
> Take a large quantity of psychotropic drugs.
> Look at some Perl code.
Curse you! I'm working this weekend
Ben
.
As Glastonbury (to which a fair few l.pm'ers are going) is the 27-29th
of June, and many people travel up on the 26th, might I suggest either
the 25th or 24th as possible dates?
Ben
What circumstances are there under which eval {}; will not trap a program exit ?
I assume a naughty XS module segfaulting will do for it - but are there any
others?
Ben
ontribute a few pages. Can someone give me a headsup on
how to make them so that they fit into 'House Style'?
Ben
ibuted. It's actually by Peter van der Linded, from his
book 'Expert C Programming', which I highly recommend.
Ben
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 07:49:27AM -0800, jonah wrote:
>
> Website accessability to the disabled is one of my little pet rants, but I
> won't bore you lot with it. You're all much better at ranting than I am.
*waves sushi around until Marna notices*
Kitty
this time, try and
Choose Your *Own* Adventure.
Ben
s the
only way to stop it behaving like a knobgoblin.
Happily, Oracle have decided to drop the RBO from the next release of
Oracle. IIRC it's already marked as 'deprecated'. Well, make the CBO
work properly then, motherfucker!
Ben, having been wrestling with the optimizer for a while now.
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 06:30:18PM +, Steve Mynott wrote:
>
> On Monday, Mar 10, 2003, at 14:15 Europe/London, Ben wrote:
>
> > I dispute that it is not the fault of the installer. I am not careless,
> > incompetent or inexperienced with Solaris. If the installer is sti
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 02:01:43PM +, Bob Walker wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Ben wrote:
> >
> > I have seen Solaris installs over console go wrong. That does not imply
> > that every install I've done like that (this is over a data set of at most
> > fou
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 01:20:54PM +, Lusercop wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 01:22:58PM +0000, Ben wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 12:55:24PM +, Lusercop wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 12:24:59PM +, Leo Lapworth wrote:
> > > > Yes, it has
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