Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-04-11

2012-03-05 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 03:48, Peter Corlett wrote: > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:33:10AM +, Mike Whitaker wrote: > [...] >> Joking aside - I don't think this is the kind of talk one attends because >> it will be "directly useful in my day to day work", but rather because >> it's DC, and you don

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-04-11

2012-03-01 Thread Peter Corlett
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:33:10AM +, Mike Whitaker wrote: [...] > Joking aside - I don't think this is the kind of talk one attends because > it will be "directly useful in my day to day work", but rather because > it's DC, and you don't get the chance very often I've seen a video of this

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-04-11

2012-03-01 Thread Mike Whitaker
On 29 Feb 2012, at 11:26, Sue Spence wrote: > On 29 February 2012 11:04, Paul wrote: >> There are a number of us who live in the home counties, so getting into >> London requires a bit of planning and is quite a hassle. I have seen Damian >> talk before, and while he is interesting, I'd just lik

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-04-11

2012-02-29 Thread Leon Brocard
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 05:09:06PM +, Smylers wrote: > I did, as it happens. What I failed to do was spread the word > sufficiently quickly among colleagues who aren't London.pm regulars. (So > what it possibly teaches me is that I should also sign up early with > names of colleagues I'm hoping

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-04-11

2012-02-29 Thread Smylers
Leon Brocard writes: > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:25:20PM +, Smylers wrote: > > > If it turns out that some of the people who've signed up can't > > actually make it, is there a mechanism for them to relinquish their > > spaces and make them available for others? > > No. > > However, I have

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-04-11

2012-02-29 Thread Leon Brocard
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:25:20PM +, Smylers wrote: > Too late, it seems. The event page now says it's full: > https://londonpmtech.appspot.com/ > > If it turns out that some of the people who've signed up can't actually > make it, is there a mechanism for them to relinquish their spaces and

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-04-11

2012-02-29 Thread Graeme Hewson
On Wednesday 29 February 2012 14:14:14 David Cantrell wrote: > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:36:00PM +, Pedro Figueiredo wrote: > > I'll add that if you use any of this stuff in your daily job, you will > > get fired*. At least that's what Damian said it'd happen in the last talk > > of his I atte

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-04-11

2012-02-29 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:36:00PM +, Pedro Figueiredo wrote: > I'll add that if you use any of this stuff in your daily job, you will get > fired*. At least that's what Damian said it'd happen in the last talk of his > I attended. Damian *lies*! I used Quantum::Superpositions in productio

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-04-11

2012-02-29 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:04:45AM +, Paul wrote: > There are a number of us who live in the home counties, so getting into > London requires a bit of planning and is quite a hassle. I have seen Damian > talk before, and while he is interesting, I'd just like to know beforehand > how much I

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-04-11

2012-02-29 Thread Pedro Figueiredo
On 29 Feb 2012, at 11:44, Damian Conway wrote: > Paul wrote: > >> I'd just like to know beforehand how much I would find >> "directly useful in my day to day work". > > Ah, that's easy: absolutely NONE of it will be directly useful > in your day to day work (unless your day to day work is > very

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-04-11

2012-02-29 Thread Joseph Werner
Perhaps: open bidding for seats on ebay? On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Smylers wrote: > Paul writes: > >> I'd just like to know beforehand ... > > Too late, it seems. The event page now says it's full: > https://londonpmtech.appspot.com/ > > If it turns out that some of the people who've sig

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-04-11

2012-02-29 Thread Jonathan McKeown
Having attended one of Damian's talks before, I'd quite happily solve the logistical problems involved in getting there from the Eastern Cape to hear this one. Unfortunately international distance is measured in money, not time. Jonathan

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-04-11

2012-02-29 Thread Smylers
Paul writes: > I'd just like to know beforehand ... Too late, it seems. The event page now says it's full: https://londonpmtech.appspot.com/ If it turns out that some of the people who've signed up can't actually make it, is there a mechanism for them to relinquish their spaces and make them a

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-04-11

2012-02-29 Thread Damian Conway
Paul wrote: > I'd just like to know beforehand how much I would find > "directly useful in my day to day work". Ah, that's easy: absolutely NONE of it will be directly useful in your day to day work (unless your day to day work is very unusual indeed). It will be instructive, it will be amusing,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-04-11

2012-02-29 Thread Sue Spence
On 29 February 2012 11:04, Paul wrote: > There are a number of us who live in the home counties, so getting into > London requires a bit of planning and is quite a hassle. I have seen Damian > talk before, and while he is interesting, I'd just like to know beforehand > how much I would find "direc

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-04-11

2012-02-29 Thread Tomas Doran
On 29 Feb 2012, at 11:04, Paul wrote: > There are a number of us who live in the home counties, so getting into > London requires a bit of planning and is quite a hassle. I have seen Damian > talk before, and while he is interesting, I'd just like to know beforehand > how much I would find "di

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-04-11

2012-02-29 Thread Paul
There are a number of us who live in the home counties, so getting into London requires a bit of planning and is quite a hassle. I have seen Damian talk before, and while he is interesting, I'd just like to know beforehand how much I would find "directly useful in my day to day work". Thanks.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-04-11

2012-02-29 Thread Sue Spence
On 28 February 2012 21:55, Paul wrote: > On Thursday, 23 February, 2012 at 14:27:17 GMT, L?on Brocard wrote: >> >> Damian will be presenting: >> > [...snipped a load of [REDACTED]...] > > What is this meeting actually about? > You snipped a rather lengthy description of the expected subject matte

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-04-11

2012-02-29 Thread Leo Lapworth
Hi Paul, On 28 February 2012 21:55, Paul wrote: > On Thursday, 23 February, 2012 at 14:27:17 GMT, L?on Brocard wrote: >> >> Damian will be presenting: >> > [...snipped a load of garbage...] I'm going to put "garbage" down to a lack of humour and not having come across a Damian talk before (Londo

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-04-11

2012-02-28 Thread Greg McCarroll
On 28 Feb 2012, at 21:55, Paul wrote: > On Thursday, 23 February, 2012 at 14:27:17 GMT, L?on Brocard wrote: >> Damian will be presenting: >> > [...snipped a load of garbage...] > > What is this meeting actually about? It's some washed up ex-neighbours actor, who is doing a one man alternative

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-04-11

2012-02-28 Thread Paul
On Thursday, 23 February, 2012 at 14:27:17 GMT, L?on Brocard wrote: Damian will be presenting: [...snipped a load of garbage...] What is this meeting actually about? -- .

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-04-11

2012-02-23 Thread mascip
Hi Léon, i just tried to sign up and it said " Thanks for signing up, but *pierre masci* is already on the list. " I just wanted to check whether i'm signed up or not : i wouldn't want to miss this. Wonderful talk description! :o) Le 23 février 2012 14:27, Léon Brocard a écrit : > London Per

[ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-04-11

2012-02-23 Thread Léon Brocard
London Perl Mongers organises technical meetings every two months. The technical meetings are a chance to find out what has been going on in the Perl community, what techniques people are using and how Perl integrates with other software. The next technical meeting will be on the 11th April 2012 f