Re: Effort-free, box-it-up paperwork management

On Aug 23, 2009, at 6:41 AM, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: This is the future; we were supposed to be done with paper already. Also, jetpack! Paper is the blood of bureaucracy. Paper will never go away so long as there are managers. -- Santa ate all the cookies! -- Zella's first, indignan

Re: [OT] Perl woes

On Jan 28, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Wednesday 28 January 2009 15:24:43 Jonathan Stowe wrote: 2009/1/28 Jonathan McKeown : On Wednesday 28 January 2009 14:30:20 Jonathan Kimmitt wrote: However, what about this one: for (my $i==0; $i<($tbl_width - 1); $i++) { } Is an

Re: Perl is Alive! (Dispatch war rocket AJAX...)

Finally slogging through my mail backlog after the holidays, and i find this: On Dec 10, 2008, at 4:41 AM, Andy Wardley wrote: PS I think we should make "Perl is Alive!" the unoffical secret verbal handshake by which Perl mongers make themselves known to each other (spoken in the style of Br

Re: Perl 5 now uses Git for version control

On Dec 22, 2008, at 3:09 AM, Léon Brocard wrote: Now you know what I've been working on for the last few months! Feel free to forward and repost elsewhere. Léon Most excellent news. Thanks for all the work. -- Sallah! I said no camels! That's five camels! Can't you count? -- Indiana

Re: svk v git + possible gig

On Sep 8, 2008, at 1:48 PM, Tomas Doran wrote: On 8 Sep 2008, at 17:59, Paul Makepeace wrote: Anyway, so has anyone moved from svk to git? Any thoughts on the experience? Disclaimer - I haven't, I'm still using svk... However - I've seen a number of people curse git-svn.. The impressio

Re: return gotcha

On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 06:02, Paul Makepeace wrote: > Is there a standard > efficient, clear way of saying "...or function 'return;'s."? i believe the pod refers to that as "returns an empty list". -- muppet

Re: Dave and Religion

On Friday, September 5, 2003, at 12:42 PM, Jason Clifford wrote: How often are stereotypes correct? rather often. it's how they become stereotypes, you know. ;-)

Re: Dave and Religion

On Friday, September 5, 2003, at 11:39 AM, Jonathan Peterson wrote: Hence also the central tenet 'There is no God but God'. and here all this time i thought it went "the tao that can be named is not the true tao." /me ducks It's worth remembering that most of the saints were created in Christ

Re: Limiting process startup

On Friday, September 5, 2003, at 10:32 AM, Dean Wilson wrote: Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Is it just me or does anybody else have trouble reading the dark purple on almost as dark purple in the top right corner of that page? it may be just you

Re: perl windows apps

places too, I don't know) there are gtk themes to make gtk on windows look native; not quite perfect, but closer than lotus notes gets. although i think wxwindows on win32 actually uses win32api directly. don't quote me, but i think that's true. -- muppet

Re: Ob-buffy

Jason Clifford said: > the movie - truly awful rubbish how can you say that about a film that contains paul rubens' absolutely stellar and breathtaking death scene performance!? thespians the world over could take a lesson from that one. /me ducks -- muppet

Re: Bad C Source (Re: gzipping your websites WINRAR 40 days trial)

ng is the worst thing you could do. you even said yourself that you added two gotos to perl5 because the alternative was a twisty and nasty ratsnest of if() trees. stop the wrongful slander of goto! :-) -- muppet

Re: compression (was: gzipping your websites)

On Monday, September 1, 2003, at 03:52 PM, Paul Mison wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l File-Type.html* -rw-r--r--1 blech 3631 Sep 1 20:51 File-Type.html -rw-r--r--1 blech 1370 Sep 1 20:49 File-Type.html.gz -rw-r--r--1 blech 1449 Sep 1 20:49 File-Type.html.bz2 I maintain that D

Re: XML & XML::LibXML declarations issue

ion, except now things are slower and more bloated... i guess that makes me a pessimist or a codger. -- muppet

Re: OSX - 'the real question'

On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 05:50 PM, Alex Brewer wrote: The real question was why the STDOUT doesn't appear in the terminal window, so the famous 'hello world' script runs OK but puts the output somewhere else. I can pipe it to a second script to put the output in a file but that's no use

Re: Exporting Symbols

SA in a descendant class. for that reason, the Class->method syntax is preferable to the Class::method version. that said, with some modules the whole purpose, as you mentioned, is to import some functions, so it's completely a matter of design and taste. -- muppet

Re: Extending Other Packages

ot;, then here's a real-world example of when you'd need to: due to implementation details, your module cannot be implemented all in one file. in pretty much all other cases, it's an incredibly bad idea. -- muppet

Re: Oops - I meant OT Virtual Reality?

the fire that burned down a jim beam warehouse? man, i keep getting london.pm confused with (void). -- muppet

Re: Oops - I meant OT Virtual Reality?

James Campbell said: > Humble appologies it was my understanding that this list reserved the marker [OT] for perl-related content. i'd be all about a VR experiment, but i'm not near. -- muppet

Re: regexps

ane like me. :-) i use the j form of g in those, by the way. -- muppet

Re: fork()ing in perl

it-to-a-temp-file (which can be accelerated via mmap and/or a memory-based filesystem). those are the ones i've used, there are certainly more. -- muppet

Re: Digging in the (linux) swap file

#x27;s just a guess, but i would wager that you could see old data in the swap partition, unless there have been security-minded wiping algorithms put in. -- muppet

Re: Neural nets

On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 08:02 PM, muppet wrote: in fact, a friend of mine recently wrote XS bindings for a C++ neural net library, and was talking about putting them on CPAN, i'll have to check on that. i bugged him a bit, and now they're up: http://search.cpan.org/author/R

Re: Is dynamic inheritance bad?

On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 11:36 AM, Shevek wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Richard Clamp wrote: my $obj = Factory->$type(...); But now you are allowing configuration variables to modify actual code, whereas normally for security reasons one would prefer to keep code and data strictly separate.

Re: Is dynamic inheritance bad?

On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 11:14 AM, Shevek wrote: The reason this method is used with Gtk/Gtk2 is that even when new widget types are added, a piece of code that factories a ListBox still wants a ListBox, and the only cases where widgets are likely to be configuration-generated as above is

Re: xslt & perl functions

9 [2] GBoxed: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gtk2-perl/gtk2-perl-xs/Glib/GBoxed.xs?annotate=1.4 -- muppet

Re: Neural nets

On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 02:57 PM, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: Andy Wardley wrote: Toby Corkindale wrote: I'm not convinced Perl is the best language to implement such things. Why not? Performance concerns or something else? That's a serious question by the way, not just me being provocati

Re: Is dynamic inheritance bad?

On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 12:42 PM, Tim Sweetman wrote: I'm gonna do a lightning talk on that, but I'm still rubbing the clouds together & it's not ready yet. bravo. read this sentence aloud to my wife and she spat cookie crumbs and soda all across her laptop's screen.

Re: Is dynamic inheritance bad?

On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 06:27 AM, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: At 11:21 +0100 7/7/03, Jon Reades wrote: Mark Overmeer wrote: You don't want Acme::Base->new to work? Why not? In terms of design, IMHO it's cleaner to have: Acme::DBI->new(...) Acme::CSV->new(...) this is what gtk-perl and gtk

Re: matching yer conditionals

On Sunday, July 6, 2003, at 09:03 AM, Simon Wistow wrote: I hate our internal templating language which we affectionateluy refer to as "Satan's own templating language" or "Gah, you suckle on the wang of a syphillitic mule you pus filled buboe of a abomination-stroke-language ... a curse

Re: Detecting + Preventing RAM bloat

On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 09:27 AM, Ben wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 07:56:31AM -0500, Nigel Hamilton wrote: Any good defensive programming practices that help to avoid writing memory-hungry programs? For example, at the moment I'm just letting object references go out of sc

Re: Hundredweight was Re: UK Money, again

On Tuesday, July 1, 2003, at 05:59 AM, Tom Hukins wrote: http://people.freebsd.org/~tom/tmp/units/ i've always loved the sound of yottabyte. yotta yotta yotta. anyway, i read these aloud to my wife: " kbyte1024 byte megabyte 1024 kbyte gigabyte

Re: [ot] Mounting Unix Drives in Windows

On Tuesday, July 1, 2003, at 05:38 AM, Dave Cross wrote: 1/ How much chance is there that a Samba installation will cause problems? How stable is Samba? i've been using samba at my job for four years. i started using it to share a single filesystem to unix, windows, and mac clients (also had nf

Re: [ot] Mounting Unix Drives in Windows

On Tuesday, July 1, 2003, at 05:46 AM, Alex Hudson wrote: You would have to be an a-class muppet though. /me pouts now i see how you really feel about me. i'm going to take my ball and go home.

Re: UK Money, again

David Cantrell said: > The hundredweight is 112 lbs, or 8 stone, or 1/20 ton. suddenly i have a new understanding of "weighin' in at nineteen stone", from "whole lotta rosie". indeed, that is a whole lot of woman. wow. -- muppet

Re: UK Money, again

you consider weight to be how much force you have to exert to lift it (which would indeed be affected by surrounding fluid), then you are using a different definition, and i shall dub thee 'clin-ton'. -- muppet

Re: UK Money, again

the same amount of gravitational attraction. air vs vacuum makes a difference for falling speed, which for some reason is of incredible interest to physicists. -- muppet

Re: UK Money, again

t; 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 least the superlative limit of something's magnitude, is "brass monkey". last i checked, Math::Units doesn't cover any of that. -- muppet

Re: Contracts for contractors

idea. i believe they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. not that the merkins are much better --- we know that metric will save us, and even had a national plan to switch almost thirty years ago, but we're still on the old-school aaanglish system. -- muppet

Re: pub recommendation near Northampton sq

On Monday, June 23, 2003, at 08:03 AM, Dominic Mitchell wrote: Dave Cross wrote: Indeed; I'm sure you never find people like this there anymore. ;-) "I wasn't in a heavy metal band." so what, were you just standing in for a guy that was in the band but didn't have as cool a haircut? or was t

Re: MiddleEarth hacking

this as my new .sig -- muppet

Re: Number Indicating Participation in London.pm (NIPL) (was: assimilating CPAN)

On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 08:09 AM, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: That's a first design flaw : "eight parameters will be enough for all purposes". that's not a design flaw, it's hubris --- "eight parameters should be enough for *anybody*" --- and hubris is a fundamental virtue. :-) On your

re: [scott@asofyet.org: xsubpp patch]

filename globally certainly seems to work and i haven't seen any problems with using it. note also that i use this in conjunction with a MakeMaker override that adds ' -o $@' to the compile command to make sure the objects go to the same directory as the source files. -- muppet

re: [scott@asofyet.org: xsubpp patch]

red it was a only-subbers-can-post list, so apologies if this shows up twice] -- muppet