Books

2014-05-24 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
I have the following to get rid of: O'Reilly Perl testing Conway OO Perl Practical Mod Perl Beck XP explained Beck Planning XP A signed Melissa Cole Let me tell you about beer. Collect from Camden or I might be able to drop somewhere central.

LPW books

2010-12-06 Thread caroline johnston
Hi, I left an O'Reilly bag with a couple of books in it in the pub on Saturday after LPW, don't suppose anyone picked it up? Thanks! Cass.

Re: LPW books

2010-12-06 Thread Martin A. Brooks
On Mon, December 6, 2010 14:10, caroline johnston wrote: Hi, I left an O'Reilly bag with a couple of books in it in the pub on Saturday after LPW, don't suppose anyone picked it up? If no-one did, I'm very happy to check with the pub for you. I'm about 10 minutes walk away.

Re: LPW books

2010-12-06 Thread caroline johnston
On 6 December 2010 14:14, Martin A. Brooks mar...@antibodymx.net wrote: If no-one did, I'm very happy to check with the pub for you.  I'm about 10 minutes walk away. Really? That would be great, thanks! I've been trying to phone them but I can't get through. I owe you beer.

Re: LPW books

2010-12-06 Thread Martin A. Brooks
On Mon, December 6, 2010 14:50, caroline johnston wrote: Really? That would be great, thanks! I've been trying to phone them but I can't get through. I have your books. I live in RM3 and work in W1. Personal handover or post is fine.

Books for sale

2010-10-18 Thread Anthony Fisher
Dear London.ebay, I've decided to remove wads of dead-tree from my life. Accordingly, I'm selling loads of books, many of which are actually quite good. Details here: http://www.anthonysblog.org/books.html Anthony -- To contact me directly please apply s/lists/aef/ to my address.

Re: Books and stuff

2010-09-02 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 1 Sep 2010, at 20:35, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: If anyone wants me to bring book for free/sale to the meet tomorrow, let me know what you want: http://homepage.mac.com/davehodg/deliciouslibrary/ Cancer research got the ones Amazon values at £0.01 :) 11 books down! Only 21 left

Books and stuff

2010-09-01 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
If anyone wants me to bring book for free/sale to the meet tomorrow, let me know what you want: http://homepage.mac.com/davehodg/deliciouslibrary/ Cancer research got the ones Amazon values at £0.01 :)

Last call for books

2009-11-11 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Anyone else want books brought to the emergency tomorrow? There are still some goodies in there, some Murakami and Yoshimoto as well as some brain ones. http://homepage.mac.com/davehodg/deliciouslibrary/ A few monies would be nice. -- Dave HodgkinsonMSN: daveh

Re: Books to get rid of

2009-11-10 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 09:49:20PM +, Denny wrote: On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 22:31 +0100, Richard Foley wrote: On Sunday 08 November 2009 19:44:15 Peter Corlett wrote: Giving stuff away on Freecycle is way too much work. It's almost as if the people who run it have engineered it to

Re: Books to get rid of

2009-11-10 Thread Dave Cross
On 11/10/2009 02:15 PM, A Smith wrote: Charity shops must be losing out big with the change to downloaded music and coming growth of pdf books. Don't worry, I have enough books and CDs to keep charity shops in business for years! Dave...

Re: Books to get rid of

2009-11-10 Thread A Smith
Charity shops must be losing out big with the change to downloaded music and coming growth of pdf books. -- Andrew 2009/11/10 Philippe Bruhat (BooK) philippe.bru...@free.fr On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 09:49:20PM +, Denny wrote: On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 22:31 +0100, Richard Foley wrote

Re: Books to get rid of

2009-11-10 Thread Chris Jack
Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote: Don't worry, I have enough books and CDs to keep charity shops in business for years! Perl Cookbook Version 1. I can almost hear the russle of large notes ;-) Chris

Re: Books to get rid of

2009-11-10 Thread Dave Cross
On 11/10/2009 03:58 PM, Chris Jack wrote: Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote: Don't worry, I have enough books and CDs to keep charity shops in business for years! Perl Cookbook Version 1. I can almost hear the russle of large notes ;-) Actually, I _do_ have at least one spare copy

Re: Books to get rid of

2009-11-09 Thread David Cantrell
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 09:49:20PM +, Denny wrote: On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 22:31 +0100, Richard Foley wrote: On Sunday 08 November 2009 19:44:15 Peter Corlett wrote: Giving stuff away on Freecycle is way too much work. It's almost as if the people who run it have engineered it to

Books to get rid of

2009-11-08 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
I have two archive boxes of books to get rid of: http://homepage.mac.com/davehodg/deliciouslibrary/ Some techie/web ones and quite a few skeptic/brain ones. I'd like money for some, but many I'll let go for nowt. Or take to a charidee shop. Depends on what Delicious library says. Anyone

Re: Books to get rid of

2009-11-08 Thread Leo Lapworth
If your giving stuff away have you come across: http://www.uk.freecycle.org/ ? Leo 2009/11/8 Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com I have two archive boxes of books to get rid of: http://homepage.mac.com/davehodg/deliciouslibrary/ Some techie/web ones and quite a few skeptic/brain ones

Re: Books to get rid of

2009-11-08 Thread Peter Corlett
On 8 Nov 2009, at 18:29, Leo Lapworth wrote: If your giving stuff away have you come across: http://www.uk.freecycle.org/ ? Giving stuff away on Freecycle is way too much work. It's almost as if the people who run it have engineered it to discourage the occasional giver as much as

Re: Books to get rid of

2009-11-08 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk wrote: On 8 Nov 2009, at 18:29, Leo Lapworth wrote: If your giving stuff away have you come across: http://www.uk.freecycle.org/ ? Giving stuff away on Freecycle is way too much work. It's almost as if the people who run it

Re: Books to get rid of

2009-11-08 Thread Richard Foley
Sounds like another great idea turned into a YAWOT (Yet Another Waste Of Time) because it's grown, or was built, too complicated. Whatever happened to the good old KISS principle, too old maybe? -- Richard Foley Ciao - shorter than aufwiedersehen http://www.rfi.net/ On Sunday 08 November

Re: Books to get rid of

2009-11-08 Thread Denny
On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 22:31 +0100, Richard Foley wrote: On Sunday 08 November 2009 19:44:15 Peter Corlett wrote: Giving stuff away on Freecycle is way too much work. It's almost as if the people who run it have engineered it to discourage the occasional giver as much as possible.

Re: Books to get rid of

2009-11-08 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
OK. So nowhere did I even mention freecycle. Stop it. Books people want: a tad of moolah for contractual pospoises. Books people don't want: cherry D. Easy, right? -- Dave HodgkinsonMSN: daveh...@hotmail.com Site: http://www.davehodgkinson.com

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-28 Thread James Laver
download books? Rebuying books you've paid for hardly seems fair. Not to mention they don't actually tell you what the download limit is in advance. http://www.geardiary.com/2009/06/19/kindles-drm-rears-its-ugly-head-and-it-is-ugly/ That said, someone hacked the kindle so you could put non-amazon

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-28 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 08:03:32AM +0100, James Laver wrote: That said, someone hacked the kindle so you could put non-amazon books on it. It involves DRMing regular ebooks. http://igorsk.blogspot.com/2007/12/mobipocket-books-on-kindle.html Jesse hacked his kindle and got all sorts

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-28 Thread James Laver
On 28 Aug 2009, at 08:33, Billy Abbott wrote: I'm worried that I seem to be turning into a Sony evangelist, but I'd definitely give their Readers a look. I had a play with a Kindle 1 and it was a nasty thing in comparison to the PRS-505 - plasticky and overengineered. The new Kindles are

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-28 Thread Billy Abbott
Paul Makepeace wrote The Kindle is one amazing piece of kit; I for one can't wait for it to appear here. And yeah, I don't give a flying f- about Amazon tracking my reading habits or accidentally deleting titles. I'm worried that I seem to be turning into a Sony evangelist, but I'd

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-28 Thread Kieren Diment
On 27/08/2009, at 11:29 PM, Dirk Koopman wrote: Paul Makepeace wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Philippe Bruhat (BooK)philippe.bru...@free.fr wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:21:24PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote: Then again, I generally swear off paper books for a while whenever I've

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-27 Thread Peter Corlett
a bit hard to read on the throne, and generally come in awkward formats, just to make them even less useful. Is there an ebook reader out yet that doesn't suck? Then again, I generally swear off paper books for a while whenever I've just moved house and my arms are six inches longer from

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-27 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:21:24PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote: Then again, I generally swear off paper books for a while whenever I've just moved house and my arms are six inches longer from all the weight. But you also swear them off before the move, because when looking for a new house you

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-27 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Philippe Bruhat (BooK)philippe.bru...@free.fr wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:21:24PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote: Then again, I generally swear off paper books for a while whenever I've just moved house and my arms are six inches longer from all the weight

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-27 Thread Dirk Koopman
Paul Makepeace wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Philippe Bruhat (BooK)philippe.bru...@free.fr wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:21:24PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote: Then again, I generally swear off paper books for a while whenever I've just moved house and my arms are six inches longer

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-27 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:21:24PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote: Perhaps you should institute a policy that if a book isn't reviewed within a month, it should be handed back for somebody else to have a crack at it? That relies on people bothering to bring books back to the next social

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-27 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:58:23PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: For exactly these reasons and so many others: ebooks ftw. I'd be delighted if/when they become the norm and thanks for O'Reilly for doing this. Paul, can read ebooks way faster than paper ones searchable... E-books have

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-27 Thread Robert Shiels
Paul Makepeace wrote: Paul, can read ebooks way faster than paper ones searchable... Maybe this is a desirable feature for technical books. But for novels, or coffeetable type books, and other less work related volumes you're losing a lot of the joy of reading. Paper books will be around

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-27 Thread Kieren Diment
On 28/08/2009, at 12:05 AM, Robert Shiels wrote: Paul Makepeace wrote: Paul, can read ebooks way faster than paper ones searchable... Maybe this is a desirable feature for technical books. But for novels, or coffeetable type books, and other less work related volumes you're losing a lot

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-27 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:17:10AM +1000, Kieren Diment wrote: [2] And being the author of a non-free book, I do feel rather conflicted about seeing my work for free download on the 'net, but I'm confident in the honesty of people who are a. less skint than me, and b. don't have the same

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-27 Thread Billy Abbott
-505. You have to ignore the Sony client software, get used to the 'flash' it does at it refreshes, have occasional issues with PDFs and pay silly amounts to get commercial books on there without being naughty, but I rather like it. There's also a bunch of hacked up firmwares to play

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-27 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Robert Shiels rob...@se71.org wrote: Paul Makepeace wrote: Paul, can read ebooks way faster than paper ones searchable... Maybe this is a desirable feature for technical books. But for novels, or coffeetable type books, and other less work related

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-27 Thread Kieren Diment
On 28/08/2009, at 9:48 AM, Paul Makepeace wrote: most importantly that will allow me to read it a hell of a lot faster than paper. How does a decent ereader make reading speed quicker?

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-27 Thread Paul Makepeace
. I can practically inhale PDFs on screen too. My first bit of OS X/Cocoa coding (in 2000!) I read two or three Apple PDFs in a couple of days and later realised I'd caned about 500 pages of technical material, something i would never, ever be able to do with paper based. I basically don't buy books

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-26 Thread Andrew Smith
/~brian_d_foy/journal/39524 No, I don't remember what the user group discount code is. Incidentally, you may have noticed that I've stopped wibbling about books being available for review. That's because less than 5% of review copies that I distributed actually got reviewed, and that's just unfair

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-26 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:05:49AM +0100, Andrew Smith wrote: Don't assume that anyone in particular isn't subscribed to this list already. Last I knew there were about 600 subscribers, in zones 1 to Inf. (Although probably no longer anyone Antarctica) Nicholas Clark

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-26 Thread James Laver
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Nicholas Clarkn...@ccl4.org wrote: (Although probably no longer anyone Antarctica) No longer? I'm sure there's a story here. My current client has 'Antarctica' as a special-cased country for people who don't want to participate in educational thingymajigs.

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-26 Thread Christopher Jones
On 26 Aug 2009, at 09:39, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:05:49AM +0100, Andrew Smith wrote: Don't assume that anyone in particular isn't subscribed to this list already. Last I knew there were about 600 subscribers, in zones 1 to Inf. (Although probably no longer anyone

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-26 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 09:46:24AM +0100, James Laver wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Nicholas Clarkn...@ccl4.org wrote: (Although probably no longer anyone Antarctica) No longer? I'm sure there's a story here. Alex Gough was in Antarctica. The only Perl mention I can find in his

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-26 Thread Norman Cobley
I think you will find there are a few of us on the list with Antarctic experience, although that might have come before we saw the light and discovered Perl ;+) norm -- -- Norman Cobley PhD. Protein Databank in Europe (PDBe) EMBL Outstation -

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-26 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 01:05:49 Andrew Smith wrote: [...]illegal downloaded pdf's[...] He sees them, even if you only look before buying the book as totally wrong and a criminal offence. s/He/Copyright law in most countries/ T,FTFY. HTH, HAND. Jonathan

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-26 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Jonathan McKeownjonat...@scatterlings.org wrote: On Wednesday 26 August 2009 01:05:49 Andrew Smith wrote: [...]illegal  downloaded pdf's[...] He sees them, even if you only look before buying the book as totally wrong and a criminal offence. s/He/Copyright

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-26 Thread Simon Wistow
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 09:39:20AM +0100, Nicholas Clark said: Don't assume that anyone in particular isn't subscribed to this list already. Last I knew there were about 600 subscribers, in zones 1 to Inf. (Although probably no longer anyone Antarctica) 851 on the regular list and 160 on

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-26 Thread Dominic Thoreau
2009/8/26 Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:05:49AM +0100, Andrew Smith wrote: Don't assume that anyone in particular isn't subscribed to this list already. Last I knew there were about 600 subscribers, in zones 1 to Inf. (Although probably no longer anyone Antarctica)

Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-25 Thread David Cantrell
As an Experiment, Learning Perl and Mastering Perl are now USD9.99 in various electronickal formats. http://use.perl.org/~brian_d_foy/journal/39524 No, I don't remember what the user group discount code is. Incidentally, you may have noticed that I've stopped wibbling about books being

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-25 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 04:43:44PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: Incidentally, you may have noticed that I've stopped wibbling about books being available for review. That's because less than 5% of review copies that I distributed actually got reviewed, and that's just unfair

Re: Cheap perl e-books

2009-08-25 Thread Brian Wisti
is. Incidentally, you may have noticed that I've stopped wibbling about books being available for review. That's because less than 5% of review copies that I distributed actually got reviewed, and that's just unfair on the publishers. Naturally this happens a couple weeks after I decide to legitimize

Books

2003-07-15 Thread MARTELETTI-MAZU
Simon Wistow If you still have: Think Pascal [0] User ManualThink Pascal Object Orientated Programming Manual send me a message. Thank you.

books 7015b70ef5c6b8d88f27ffd6d063425e

2003-02-12 Thread David Cantrell
possible, at least.) I actually got bit by this last month, as Mr Cantrell had started more than one thread with the subject books and pine's very immature threading couldn't cope. My apologies for lack of imagination. In future I shall take an md5 hash of the message body and append

Re: books 7015b70ef5c6b8d88f27ffd6d063425e

2003-02-12 Thread Chris Devers
, USER_AGENT_MUTT,X_AUTH_WARNING version=2.44 X-Spam-Level: Subject: books 7015b70ef5c6b8d88f27ffd6d063425e You don't heven have a positive value there :) -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: newbie cgi/db books

2003-02-06 Thread Mark Fowler
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Peter Pimley wrote: Can anyone recommend any good books on this sort of thing? Hey, might as well continue to plug the resources that are available. The perl book guide (which claims not to be officially open - oh well) is here: http://books.perl.org/ http

books

2002-11-29 Thread David Cantrell
The following are avaialbe now or over the next month or so if anyone who's not on the naughty list fancies taking a stab at reviewing them. All from O'Reilly, and I've cut out a few I didn't think were particularly relevant: C Pocket Reference http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cpr/ Essential

Re: books

2002-11-29 Thread Earle Martin
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 03:03:14PM +, David Cantrell wrote: XSLT Cookbook The XSLT Cookbook provides an ideal companion... for developers still figuring out XSLT's template-based approach who want to learn by example Bagsy. -- rare aliment

Re: books

2002-11-29 Thread Ian Brayshaw
David Cantrell wrote: The following are avaialbe now or over the next month or so if anyone who's not on the naughty list fancies taking a stab at reviewing them. All from O'Reilly, and I've cut out a few I didn't think were particularly relevant: snip 802.11 Security

Re: books

2002-11-29 Thread Richard Clamp
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 03:03:14PM +, David Cantrell wrote: The following are avaialbe now or over the next month or so if anyone who's not on the naughty list fancies taking a stab at reviewing them. All from O'Reilly, and I've cut out a few I didn't think were particularly relevant:

Re: books

2002-11-29 Thread Jody Belka
David Cantrell said: The following are avaialbe now or over the next month or so if anyone who's not on the naughty list fancies taking a stab at reviewing them. All from O'Reilly, and I've cut out a few I didn't think were particularly relevant: sendmail 3e

Re: books

2002-11-29 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, David Cantrell wrote: The following are avaialbe now or over the next month or so if anyone who's not on the naughty list fancies taking a stab at reviewing them. Aye, sir. Apache 3e http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/apache3/ Perl Graphics Programming

Re: books

2002-11-29 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 15:03, David Cantrell wrote: 802.11 Security http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/80211security/ Programming Web Services with Perl http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pwebserperl/ Either or both of these and I promise to be far less lame this time. -- Dave Hodgkinson

More books for review

2002-11-20 Thread Alex McLintock
Here are some more review books that I have received. As always I suggest that London.pm reviewers who review a book from me for http://news.DiverseBooks.com also submit the review for the London.pm.org website. Alex Oh Frabjous Day, O'Reilly have come through for us with books on three

Re: More books for review

2002-11-20 Thread the hatter
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Alex McLintock wrote: We have received a copy of Domain Names - A Practical Guide, which has been written by three UK lawyers. This is heavyweight going but quite important I'll have a look at that, as long as no one cares that my sister works for butterworths. Can't see

DiverseBooks books received for review

2002-11-18 Thread Alex McLintock
Posting in my guise as DiverseBooks.com editor. I have receivd a couple of books aimed at Red Hat Linux users. One is the Red Hat Linux 8 for Dummies and the other is the official Red Hat Users Guide from Redhat Press itself. DiverseBooks Reviewers give me a shout. I still have a book

books

2002-11-01 Thread David Cantrell
Given the recent discussions, would anyone like to review Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason who isn't on the Naughty List? -- David Cantrell|Degenerate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david For every vengeance, there is an equal and opposite revengeance.

Re: Books on london.pm.org (was Re: applying patterns)

2002-10-16 Thread Richard Clamp
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 06:01:54PM +0200, Paul Johnson wrote: Simon Wistow said: Where would we be if we'd not bothered writing some Matt's Scripts replacments on the assumption that nobody would pick them up. Or written an extensible MLM in Perl on the assumption that despite having

Re: More books

2002-10-14 Thread Simon Wistow
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 11:24:09AM +0100, David Cantrell said: Who wants to review Graphics Programming with Perl? Me! I tech reviewed this book so I'd be interested to see if they solved some of the problems.

Re: More books

2002-10-14 Thread Ben
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 12:27:57PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 11:24:09AM +0100, David Cantrell said: Who wants to review Graphics Programming with Perl? Me! I tech reviewed this book so I'd be interested to see if they solved some of the problems. Bah! You beat me

Re: More books

2002-10-14 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 12:27:57PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 11:24:09AM +0100, David Cantrell said: Who wants to review Graphics Programming with Perl? Me! I tech reviewed this book so I'd be interested to see if they solved some of the problems. I've already got

Re: Books on london.pm.org (was Re: applying patterns)

2002-10-12 Thread Greg McCarroll
* David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 03:58:41PM +0100, Lusercop wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 03:49:27PM +0100, Simon Wilcox wrote: * Must be a poster to the list * Or a regular on IRC * Or a regular at the pub and/or technical meets. OK, how do you

Re: Books on london.pm.org (was Re: applying patterns)

2002-10-11 Thread Lusercop
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 03:49:27PM +0100, Simon Wilcox wrote: * Must be a poster to the list * Or a regular on IRC * Or a regular at the pub and/or technical meets. OK, how do you judge any of these? How often does one have to post in order to be a poster on the list. How much time spent

Re: Books on london.pm.org (was Re: applying patterns)

2002-10-11 Thread Roger Burton West
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 03:58:41PM +0100, Lusercop wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 03:49:27PM +0100, Simon Wilcox wrote: * Must be a poster to the list * Or a regular on IRC * Or a regular at the pub and/or technical meets. OK, how do you judge any of these? How often does one have to post in

RE: Books on london.pm.org (was Re: applying patterns)

2002-10-11 Thread Ivor Williams
On Friday, October 11, 2002 4:17 PM, Simon Wistow [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 04:02:21PM +0100, Ivor Williams said: Maybe introduce some kind of XP style voting system, like on Perlmonks or Everything2. Alternatively we could just do it and then, if anybody

Re: Books on london.pm.org (was Re: applying patterns)

2002-10-11 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 04:16:56PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: Of course sometimes I think exactly the opposite but if yer optomistic then you get a lot more done. Hear hear. Just post to webmaster and then have them check it in. Webmaster might like to provide a template (in the general sense)

Books on london.pm.org (was Re: applying patterns)

2002-10-11 Thread Simon Batistoni
On 11/10/02 10:16 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: Which made me thing - is there a section on books we wrote on the london.pm site to give blatant free advertising plugs? [No] Would it be a good idea? Not sure. Because then we'd have everyone (even Matt Wright?) subscribing to london.pm just

Re: Books on london.pm.org (was Re: applying patterns)

2002-10-11 Thread Dean Wilson
- Original Message - From: Simon Batistoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] It could be a long, dark, slippery slope, but I think that it's possible to distinguish between involved perl mongers such as Dave, and freebie-seeking hangers on, who don't even come to a meeting. There *is* a problem of

Re: Books on london.pm.org (was Re: applying patterns)

2002-10-11 Thread Simon Batistoni
On 11/10/02 12:53 +0100, Dean Wilson wrote: I haven't been to an official meeting in the best part of twelve months and i had to miss YAPC. Does that make me a freebie-seeking hanger on? If it does and the criteria for getting something on the site is going to the pub then fine but if it

Re: Books on london.pm.org (was Re: applying patterns)

2002-10-11 Thread the hatter
wouldn't work in practice. I don't see how it could work for bios, but for books, what's to stop us letting people add short reviews/opinions under it. If you question the sexual orientation of strict, for example, would you be in a hurry to get your book on the list, when (a) most of the people

Re: Books on london.pm.org (was Re: applying patterns)

2002-10-11 Thread Nicholas Clark
. *cough* I guess the simpler thing is only to link from members (if we did it) o the reviews of any book (which we would have to have before we'd accept making a link) Then if we don't like a book, we can slag it off in the review. That makes the links to members' books page objective

Re: Books, loverly booooooks

2002-10-06 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 07:59:25AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'll be bringing a copy of McGraw-Hill's catalogue with me on Thursday ... Have they got anything on Web Services? Building Web Services

Books left at the pub last night

2002-10-04 Thread Kate L Pugh
Someone left a couple of S. M. Stirling books in the pub last night. If they're yours, let me know and we can work out how to get them back to you. I also have a book for rataxis that he told Alex he would turn up and collect for review. Kake -- http://www.earth.li/~kake/cookery/ - vegan

Re: Books, loverly booooooks

2002-10-02 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'll be bringing a copy of McGraw-Hill's catalogue with me on Thursday for people to look through and select stuff they might like to review. Please don't take the piss - requests for free copies of Digital Photography will be cheerfully ignored by

Books, loverly booooooks

2002-10-01 Thread David Cantrell
I'll be bringing a copy of McGraw-Hill's catalogue with me on Thursday for people to look through and select stuff they might like to review. Please don't take the piss - requests for free copies of Digital Photography will be cheerfully ignored by me. But if you do want books we can't justify

Re: Books

2002-09-27 Thread Ian Brayshaw
Nicholas Clark wrote: I'd like to review Extending and Embedding Perl by Tim Jenness and Simon Cozens Bumf at http://www.manning.com/jenness/ (and I hope I'm the first person to ask to review it) Go for it. I've nearly finished reading it and will post a review in the next week. The

[Off Topic] ADD Books]

2002-07-07 Thread Dave Cross
I was doing some cleearing out yesterday and I came across a pile of old ADD manuals. Now the likelihood of me ever playing ADD again is very small so I'm sure there are people on this list that can give them much better homes. I have: Player's Handbook (1st Edition 1978) Dungeon Master's Guide

Re: [Off Topic] ADD Books]

2002-07-07 Thread pdcawley-london . 0dd185
Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was doing some cleearing out yesterday and I came across a pile of old ADD manuals. Now the likelihood of me ever playing ADD again is very small so I'm sure there are people on this list that can give them much better homes. I have: Player's

Books?

2002-06-21 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Anyone got: Oracle Unleashed Java in 21 days Java Cookbook they want to shift?

BOFH books

2002-04-23 Thread David Cantrell
I'm going to order a copy of the second BOFH book. As with the first one, I'll order a few more copies if people want 'em. They're UKP10 + a little bit for postage, and I'll bring 'em along to the next social meet. Orders by private mail by lunchtime tomorrow please. -- Grand Inquisitor

Books for Review

2002-04-18 Thread Alex McLintock
Hi folks, I have a book for review Modern Perl Programming by Michael Saltzman Published by Prentice Hall. It looks like it is aimed to be your second or third perl book (but of course if you are reviewing I hope you have several perl books already :-) The usual applies... the book

Fwd: Books for Review

2002-04-18 Thread Alex McLintock
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 18:16:44 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Alex McLintock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Books for Review Hi folks, I have a book for review Modern Perl Programming by Michael Saltzman Published by Prentice Hall. It looks like it is aimed to be your second

Re: Books for Review

2002-04-18 Thread Mark Fowler
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Alex McLintock wrote: The usual applies... the book review will get used on DiverseBooks.com and potentially a paper newsletter, and also on the London.org.pm website as well. The what website? Later. Mark. -- s'' Mark Fowler

books going begging (x-posted)

2002-03-29 Thread Simon Wistow
[Watch those replies people] I'm clearing out some old books that appear to have accumulated and/or been inherited by the various houses I've lived in. If no-one wants them I'll chuck them out but I thought I'd offer them to people before hand. first come, first served ... (mail me off list

Re: Books

2002-03-18 Thread Mark Fowler
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Alex McLintock wrote: PS Someone from Manning asked me about doing technical reviews of books before publication. They also mentioned that Dave Cross (of London.pm) was one of their authors. Can anyone write a review of his book? (I don't even know the title!) Data

Re: Books

2002-03-18 Thread Alex Gough
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Mark Fowler wrote: On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Alex McLintock wrote: What is your opinion of Manning books? Mark said he liked them in his Perl Black Book review... See Object Orientated Perl by Damian Conway is excellent, and considered by many to be the best reference

Books for review

2002-03-12 Thread Alex McLintock
http://news.DiverseBooks.com books for review. Addison-Wesley have surpassed themselves. They have recently published the following books and want DiverseBooks.com to review them · The Linux Companion for System Administrators, 2nd ed, Jochen Hein. · Understanding Open Source

Stuff after the meeting (books, talks and stuff)

2002-03-08 Thread Paul Mison
?) Alex McLintock turned up with a copy of the Perl Black Book, which reminded me it was time to name and shame the people who have books but haven't reviewed them. If you're on the list, *please* either review the book or bring it along to a meeting so someone else gets the chance. (Oh, and if somehow

Re: Stuff after the meeting (books, talks and stuff)

2002-03-08 Thread Dave Cross
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 02:42:27PM +, Paul Mison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Exim - Jo Walsh Actually this was just handed over to the State 51 posse as thanks for all the work they'd put in on Penderel and in the hope that it might be useful to them. It

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