Ski Social!

2003-01-10 Thread Joel Bernstein
When the lovely snow was coming down, Robin Szemeti and I discussed how we should do a London.PM-On-The-Piste social this winter. I was hoping to gauge opinion on this... Would anybody be interested in a weekend in the Alps skiing or snowboarding? /joel -- S. Joel Bernstein :: joel at fysh dot

Re: FOSDEM 2003

2003-01-10 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 01:03:08PM -, Ivor Williams wrote: Free Open Source Developers Europe Meeting, 8th-9th February in Brussels. http://www.fosdem.org/ Anyone interested in going? If I can persuade work to pay. Or maybe anyway... /joel

Re: Ski Social!

2003-01-10 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 03:30:06PM +, Ben wrote: On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:07:08AM +, Joel Bernstein wrote: When the lovely snow was coming down, Robin Szemeti and I discussed how we should do a London.PM-On-The-Piste social this winter. I was hoping to gauge opinion

Re: Ski Social!

2003-01-10 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 05:10:53PM +, Andy Wardley wrote: I can also highly recommend going via Eurostar. I forget how long it is, something like 8 hours, but then it's only a 20-30 minute minibus ride the other end. Ooh, good point! You walk straight on/off the train. No pissing

pub, tonight

2003-01-16 Thread Joel Bernstein
Does anybody fancy a pint or two after work tonight? As I've mentioned on IRC, yesteray was merely bad, today is shaping up to be horrific. Come 6pm, I'll be dying for a pint. Would some perl mongers care to join me somewhere in Soho (preferably, will travel if necessary) about 6pm ? Go on, you

Re: pub, tonight

2003-01-16 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 11:01:05AM +, Mark Fowler wrote: On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Joel Bernstein wrote: Come 6pm, I'll be dying for a pint. Would some perl mongers care to join me somewhere in Soho (preferably, will travel if necessary) about 6pm ? I'm going to the FreeBSD UKUG meeting

Re: pub, tonight

2003-01-16 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 11:03:45AM +, Paul Mison wrote: On 16/01/2003 at 10:43 +, Joel Bernstein wrote: Does anybody fancy a pint or two after work tonight? As I've mentioned on IRC, yesteray was merely bad, today is shaping up to be horrific. Go on, you know you want to. What

Re: Ski Social!

2003-01-16 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 12:08:29PM +, Ben wrote: OK. No-one's posted about this for almost a week, so I thought I'd reopen the discussion. I think we need to decide: Who? Where? When? How Long? Then we can go and book it. :) I'm not electing myself cat herder or anything, I'd

Re: SOAP::Lite IP Address Validation

2003-01-20 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:12:19PM -, Andy Williams (IMAP HILLWAY) wrote: - Original Message - From: Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 1:07 PM Subject: Re: SOAP::Lite IP Address Validation On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:46:53PM

Re: [PUB] Rising Sun, Ebury Bridge Road, Victoria

2003-01-24 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 12:45:20PM +, Simon Wistow wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 12:18:40PM +, Paul Mison said: Traditionally the pubs london.pm visits for socials have been much more central, and invariably within the Circle line. This isn't. Does it have any great advantages

Re: [PUB] Rising Sun, Ebury Bridge Road, Victoria

2003-01-24 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 02:14:56PM +, Mark Fowler wrote: On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Simon Wistow wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 12:18:40PM +, Paul Mison said: FWIW I prefer it when we reserve tables rather than get an entire room to ourselves. I think it's probably just me but meeting

dim sum, today

2003-01-27 Thread Joel Bernstein
Did anybody have any opinions on the other dim sum restaurant? I really fancy dim sum for lunch today - anybody else coming? /rataxis

Re: dim sum, today

2003-01-27 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:50:25AM +, Joel Bernstein wrote: Did anybody have any opinions on the other dim sum restaurant? I really fancy dim sum for lunch today - anybody else coming? The other restaurant being the one Greg mentioned in: http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon

Re: [PUB] Fitzroy Tavern, Fitzrovia

2003-01-27 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:37:57AM +, Kate L Pugh wrote: A suggestion from Ben - the Fitzroy Tavern. It's another Sam Smith's pub, but Ben says the beer is decent, so I'll leave him to defend that point of view. It's on Charlotte Street, parallel to Tottenham Court Road:

beer, camden, tonight

2003-01-27 Thread Joel Bernstein
I'm meeting Diva at the Spread Eagle, 141 Albert St, Camden NW1 http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=528799y=183665z=1sv=albert+streetst=1tl=Albert+Street,+NW1searchp=newsearch.srfmapp=newmap.srf is a streetmap for the pub. 6.30 onwards. Youngs pub, so Double Chocolate Stout is available. Also,

[PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1

2003-01-28 Thread Joel Bernstein
I liked this pub. No music, few fruit machines, good (Young's) beer including Winter Warmer on tap and (bottled, of course) Double Chocolate Stout. The Hamster race was bizarre, to say the least, but I liked the pub. Oh, and it's only about 4 minutes stagger from Wagamama, which was closed by the

Re: [PUB] Spread Eagle, NW1

2003-01-28 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:01:38AM +, Peter Sergeant wrote: I liked this pub. No music, few fruit machines, good (Young's) beer including Winter Warmer on tap and (bottled, of course) Double Chocolate Stout. The Hamster race was bizarre, to say the least, but I liked the pub. Oh, and

Re: How to split 6 digits into 3 lots of 2

2003-01-29 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 01:31:32PM +, David Cantrell wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 12:49:40AM +0100, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:35:29PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:22:48PM +, Phil Pereira wrote: Is there an easy way to split 123456

Re: how do I identify a reference to an array?

2003-01-29 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 02:12:43PM +, Martin Bower wrote: Hi, I'm using the Image::Info module to return Exif information located inside images. image_info() returns a reference to a hash, so the code below returns all keys and dumps their values. This works fine, except some keys

Re: $host-ip_address

2003-01-30 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 11:07:10AM +, Dominic Mitchell wrote: Paul Makepeace wrote: Anyone think it would be nice is Sys::Hostname did this itself? $ perl -MSys::Hostname -le 'print join ., unpack C*, (gethostbyname hostname)[4]' 195.82.114.220 $ perlfaq9, consulted belatedly,

Re: SMP Linux

2003-01-30 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 01:18:41PM +, Jonathan Peterson wrote: Anyone using Linux on anything with lots of CPU's? Attempt to do searches for 'linux smp' on google tends to get me documents last updated in 1997. I used to run it happily on 2 CPU's, but I wondered if anyone was doing

Re: raid array

2003-01-30 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 01:35:44PM +, Simon Wistow wrote: I have a LaCie 6*9Gb SCSI Raid Tower (with drives and dual psus) + PCI RAID controller. Whilst it's nice and stuff it's also a little large and heavy. Would anybody be interested in swapping it for a more conventional HD or

Re: YAPC::Europe

2003-01-30 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 06:01:23PM +, Piers Cawley wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I won't be doing YAPC::Eu this year, I'm doing YAPC::NA - TPC via the Appalachians, DC, NW, Boston, Vermont, Michigan, Chicago, Minneapolis, North Dakota, the Rockies. Which section of the

Re: Quick silly question

2003-02-05 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:53:28AM +, Roger Burton West wrote: On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:31:21AM -0800, Randy J. Ray wrote: $s = $r; for (@list) { $s = $s-{$_}; last unless ref $s; } There's probably a trickier, shorter golf solution, but I was never into obfuscated code writing...

Re: rss / rdf

2003-02-05 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:07:24AM +, Alex McLintock wrote: Hi folks, I want to create some rss/rdf files based upon a MySQL database. I nearly did it in Java because the web front end is java based but thought that perhaps perl would be better for this. Before I plunge in to CPAN,

Re: xs c++?

2003-02-07 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 11:55:18AM +, Graham Seaman wrote: Hi, I'm trying to do a perl wrapper for a c++ library and I'm floundering - I have v. little experience of xs. Can anyone point me to a module that is a good example of how to do this, without being too huge? (I'm aware of the

Re: WWW::Map::UK::Streetmap - A tale of woe

2003-02-10 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:42:57AM +, Andy Wardley wrote: Penny Bamborough wrote: We did write a perl version of the streetmap engine (with some help from some very nice people I might add) however performance tests on the system indicated that the processing power required would

Re: WWW::Map::UK::Streetmap - A tale of woe

2003-02-10 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 11:35:45AM +, David Cantrell wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 11:12:00AM +, Simon Wilcox wrote: Mod_perl provides distinctly poor performance under load on windoze boxes because it runs as a single thread instead of multi-threaded, which means that you can only

Re: WWW::Map::UK::Streetmap - A tale of woe

2003-02-10 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 12:39:07PM +, Ian Brayshaw wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 12:08, Joel Bernstein wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 11:58:31AM +, Tim Sweetman wrote: FWIW, a project I've worked on recently, where I've indulg^H^H^H^H^H^H^H been forced into serious database

Re: WWW::Map::UK::Streetmap - A tale of woe

2003-02-10 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 01:35:37PM +, Jonathan Peterson wrote: Apart from the standard win32 limitations? Are you referring to mod_perl on win32 or mod_perl in general? I wasn't aware of any major performance issues related to large-scale use of mod_perl on (say) solaris... I like

Re: Language Gentlemen and Ladies

2003-02-11 Thread Joel Bernstein
it. You're quite welcome here, although we'd appreciate it if you could try and do something about the bloody sig ;) /joel -- S. Joel Bernstein :: t 020 8458 2323 :: joel at fysh dot org

Re: YAPC::Europe War

2003-02-13 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 09:39:16AM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote: On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:21:16AM +, Leon Brocard wrote: This email got sent to the YAPC::Europe committee mailing list. I thought I'd share it all with you. It's slightly worrying that USians are taking it personally.

Re: Simple cryto script

2003-02-13 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 03:01:35PM -, Neil Fryer wrote: Hi All I found this script on the net, and I am still learning, Perl, but I was wondering, just to play around with, if this script encrypts, how would I decrypt? You wouldn't. It's standard DES crypt(). A (not terribly secure)

Re: regrouping lines of STDIN

2003-03-07 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 01:03:33PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello London.pm first let me apologise, I know this mail will be accompanied by an HTML version I don't know how to prevent it. Outlook swears I'm using plain text but somehow it doesn't end up that way. So, sorry... This

Re: regrouping lines of STDIN

2003-03-07 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 01:20:42PM +, Lusercop wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 01:03:33PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for (%seen) { ^ values %seen is more likely what you want here. It won't work with strict because I get Can't use string (AA) as an ARRAY ref

Re: regrouping lines of STDIN

2003-03-07 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 01:47:36PM +, the hatter wrote: On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Lusercop wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 01:25:29PM +, Joel Bernstein wrote: Ahh, so that's what he meant. Yeah. AOL what mbm said /AOL ^^^ who's this mbm

Re: regrouping lines of STDIN - Outlook does what it wants

2003-03-10 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 10:07:16AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Lee, Outlook-Tools/Options/Mail format tab/Send in this message format = Plain text but no. This message is plain text by that method, enjoy... It would seem that Outhouse is taking your send as Plain text to

Re: regrouping lines of STDIN - Outlook does what it wants

2003-03-10 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 01:33:48PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to David Cantrell's bemusement Still, it's Lent, humility and no alchohol the order of the 40 days. Are you sure you're on the right list? o yes. You've all been very helpful. It's almost a shame I'm leaving for the

Re: Capturing local machine's IP address in bash

2003-03-18 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 05:12:35PM +, Jon Reades wrote: Mongers, Mongchop to you ;-) I've been trying to assemble a simple bash script that will set up some simple VPN tunnels for me when I need to connect to my company's Netscreen box. I've made it most of the way there, but I

Re: c email libraries

2003-03-19 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:17:46AM +, Simon Wistow wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 09:51:19AM +, Peter Sergeant said: There's a link to the Java source of Grendel but that's pretty app specific. And a little free time and a friendly neighbourhood search-engine provides:

Re: dim sum

2003-03-20 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 01:57:52PM +, S Watkins wrote: Greg McCarroll wrote: Joel and I are going for dim sum on friday at the new world (see website for details) snippety Greg Sounds intersting, and I'm bored. Which website? http://london.pm.org/ - look for the New World [which is

Re: dim sum

2003-03-20 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 01:16:36PM +, Kate L Pugh wrote: On Wed 19 Mar 2003, Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joel and I are going for dim sum on friday at the new world (see website for details) at around 1pm, feel free to join us if you want. Oh, maybe I should say this on

Re: rugby

2003-03-25 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:25:43PM +, David Cantrell wrote: On Tuesday, March 25, 2003 17:24 + Simon Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 15:59, Greg McCarroll wrote: Ok, its been talked about in the past, but does anyone have any plans for a london.pm meet up to

Re: graphics cards in servers

2003-03-27 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 12:51:28PM -, Blackwell, Lee wrote: Either way, anyone have any advice for what kind of card to use in a Linux server? Will the choice of graphics card have any noticeable effect or is it OK to nick one from an old desktop? How about no graphics card at all?

Dim Sum, Friday

2003-03-27 Thread Joel Bernstein
AlexT and I are meeting at 1pm for Dim Sum on Friday at the New World, Gerrard Place. All welcome, probably best to aim for 12.50 or so, so that we can go in at 1pm. I'm unlikely to be taking Friday afternoon off again, tho, so no beery afternoon to follow (unless the weather is seriously

Re: message board software

2003-03-27 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 05:37:23AM -0800, Toby|Wintrmute wrote: Ello, I need to setup a message board / forum thing, and I want something that runs on Perl/DBI(::Pg) or Perl/Pg .. (or just a simple dirs+textfiles backend) Freshmeat has 187 projects listed:

Re: Dim Sum, Friday

2003-03-27 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 01:08:59PM +, Joel Bernstein wrote: AlexT and I are meeting at 1pm for Dim Sum on Friday at the New World, Gerrard Place. All welcome, probably best to aim for 12.50 or so, so that we can go in at 1pm. I'm unlikely to be taking Friday afternoon off again, tho, so

Re: HTML!

2003-03-29 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 04:52:17PM +, David Cantrell wrote: I have a couple of HTML questions ... How do I make a form submit itself when the user changes the value of a drop-down list? Mr. Elthek says Javascript, but a leetle bit more detail would be nice :-) select name=selectbox

Re: HTML! - JS (like BS but different)

2003-03-30 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 10:45:22PM +0100, Cal Henderson wrote: At 18:41 GMT 29.03.03, Leo Lapworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Another way (this is off the top of my head) would be: : : form method=POST action=/search name=drop_down_form : select name=selectbox :

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Tim O'Reilly in London

2003-05-28 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 09:54:41AM +0100, Shevek wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2003, Jonathan Stowe wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2003, Dave Cross wrote: Tim O'Reilly will be speaking at The City University, London on June 23rd. The title of the talk is The Open Source Paradigm Shift: LAMP as

Re: assimilating CPAN

2003-06-12 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 03:14:20PM -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth: * * Since when did Damian join the London.pm? :) * *IIRC he insisted on being added. Hmmm. I suspect non-geographic affiliation is cheating but, then again, we blame him for the

[scott@asofyet.org: xsubpp patch]

2003-06-12 Thread Joel Bernstein
This hit the gtk-perl list, and looks really damn useful for all XS developers. I'm certainly going to give it a whirl, because xsubpp error reporting is Broken and Wrong, currently. I'm hoping mutt will DTRT with forwarding the .patch attachment. /joel - Forwarded message from muppet

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

2003-06-12 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:40:09PM +0100, Joel Bernstein wrote: This hit the gtk-perl list, and looks really damn useful for all XS developers. I'm certainly going to give it a whirl, because xsubpp error reporting is Broken and Wrong, currently. I'm hoping mutt will DTRT with forwarding

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

2003-06-12 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 04:09:37PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:44:08PM +0100, Joel Bernstein wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:40:09PM +0100, Joel Bernstein wrote: This hit the gtk-perl list, and looks really damn useful for all XS developers. I'm certainly

mod_perl PerlTransHandler weirdness

2003-06-17 Thread Joel Bernstein
Hi, I would not be surprised if this problem has arisen due to me expecting more from Apache+mod_perl than it's capable of. The server is running Apache 1.3.mumble with mod_perl and mod_php. The site has been entirely built in PHP, by somebody else. They want the facility for

Re: mod_perl PerlTransHandler weirdness

2003-06-17 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 04:30:03AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: you don't want $r-pathinfo (which won't be set during trans). you want $r-uri, which will be something like /THISBITHERE. That could well be the case, and I'll try it. I'm still inclined to think that it's an Apache thing

Re: mod_perl PerlTransHandler weirdness

2003-06-17 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:57:48PM +0200, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: At 13:38 +0100 6/17/03, Joel Bernstein wrote: This one is really really bugging me - can anybody suggest an alternative way to do this redirection (I think it's too complicated a case for mod_rewrite)? I don't think so. I

Re: OT:Possible job

2003-06-17 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 02:53:49PM +0100, Neil Fryer wrote: Hi All, I may know of a job coming up in the very near future, for someone to start as soon as possible, the salary is going to be in the 30k mark. If there are any SysAds out there interested, please mail me your CV's. Like I

Re: mod_perl PerlTransHandler weirdness

2003-06-18 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:43:27PM +0100, Phil Lanch wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 01:38:57PM +0100, Joel Bernstein wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 04:30:03AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: you don't want $r-pathinfo (which won't be set during trans). you want $r-uri, which

Re: Contracts for contractors

2003-06-26 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:01:29AM -0700, Dave Cross wrote: From: Andy Mendelsohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 6/26/03 1:26:15 PM On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 02:04 pm, Dave Cross wrote: A quid is made up of 20 shillings, each of which contains 12 pennies. Sorry to correct you

Re: UK Money, again

2003-06-26 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 04:40:09PM +0200, Anders Hellstr?m wrote: At 14.35 + 03-06-26, the hatter wrote: If you're measuring speeds, you obviously need a time unit to go with your length, I propose wider adoption of the millifortnight - about 20 minutes. I prefer the microfortnight,

Re: UK Money, again

2003-06-26 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 03:42:11PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 03:27:59PM +0100, Ian Malpass wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote: Meanwhile, which is heavier, an ounce of feathers or an ounce of gold? In air, an ounce of gold. In a vacuum, they

Re: UK Money, again

2003-06-26 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 04:20:18PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: however, infinity, or at least the superlative limit of something's magnitude, is brass monkey. actually that's a measure of cold. there is 1 SI unit used as well - the sh*tload as in 1 SI sh*tload of X I think you'll

Re: [OT] Any Mini owners on this list?

2003-07-03 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 06:23:05PM +, Andy Ford wrote: 6'4 and 16 1/2 stone - I'd need a convertible, the wheel in the middle and sit on the rear seat!! No, you don't sound very Mini. /joel

Re: YAPC::EU Recommended hotel

2003-07-07 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 03:25:01PM -, Raf wrote: Hi, I've just been asked to provide the name of a recommended hotel for the conference. Is there one? Since the site has a number of links, I wondered if anyone could give me a good suggestion if the company is forking the bill? Since

[Job] Web Developer / Sysadmin

2003-07-11 Thread Joel Bernstein
This was sent to me by a recruiter who phoned me up. I can't do the job, since I don't want to relocate to Oxfordshire, but I expect somebody here *might*. Seems to be a reasonable perl dev plus some sysadmin job. If you apply, mention my name (Joel Bernstein) to James the recruiter, please

irc

2003-07-11 Thread Joel Bernstein
Is the london.rhizomatic.net server no more? /joel

Re: regexps

2003-07-18 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 04:40:05PM +0100, Chisel Wright wrote: Just how you you pronounce 'regexps'? Personally I don't because I keep tripping over my tongue. Is it r-egg-eckps, rej-eckps or something more pronouncable? It's easy when you remember that Regular Expression contracts just as

Re: HTML::Parser

2003-08-04 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 05:08:39PM +0100, Rhys Hopkins wrote: Whilst Data Munging with Perl is, of course, a fine book, in With a fine title. Following the recent discussion on the pronunciation of regex / regexp, this is something that has intrigued me for some time, mung - ing as

Re: Open Source Web Design

2003-08-14 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 11:17:42AM -0700, Brian Wisti wrote: Paul Makepeace wrote: Grab, contribute, or patch your Open Source HTML templates here, http://www.oswd.org/ Very cool! Paul That's a fun site to wander about in. Just be sure not to let your fingers get confused and

Re: Open Source Web Design

2003-08-14 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 04:37:52PM +0200, Merijn Broeren wrote: Quoting Joel Bernstein ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 11:17:42AM -0700, Brian Wisti wrote: the Outdoor Women of South Dakota. I was *convinced* that had to be something nudist. I'm still boggling

Re: perl and marketing

2003-08-18 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:45:37AM +0100, Alex Hudson wrote: 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

Re: what are you doing

2003-08-18 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 01:35:42AM -0400, Tara L Andrews wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:41:49PM +0100, Michael Stevens wrote: 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

Re: IRC Server/Channel

2003-08-18 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:14:50PM +0100, Andy Ford wrote: Which is the best perl IRC Server/Channel to use!? Rhizomatic is the perl-mongers network, and there's a clueful #perl and a #london.pm on there. In fact, irc.london.pm.org should point to the london rhizomatic server, or did last I

Re: request for supercited mails

2003-08-27 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 05:41:47PM +0100, Lusercop wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 10:57:20AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: I especially want multiply cited sources and preferably multiply nested super cites if such a thing exists. OK, I shouldn't do this, but...: snip thinly veiled personal

Re: perl windows apps

2003-09-04 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 01:21:00PM +0100, Alex McLintock wrote: Is there a standard route for writing windows apps in perl? Do I have to go down the TCL route? ActivePerl by itself? ActivePerl. There's always Gtk2-Perl-Win32 as well. /joel

Re: Pub feedback please

2003-09-06 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 09:33:36PM +0100, Kate L Pugh wrote: Hello. Could people who were at the social meet at the Green Man last night let me know what they thought of it? On or off list as you feel appropriate. In particular I would like to know whether you would complain if we went

Re: Spam tarpits...

2003-09-09 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 06:08:11PM +0100, Earle Martin wrote: I suck even more! On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 05:40:06PM +0100, Earle Martin wrote: http://downlode.org/perl/spamtrap.pl No, that should have been http://downlode.org/perl/spamtrap.cgi Dammit! I think I should go home

Re: back to the 80's

2003-09-15 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:15:39PM +0100, Steve Keay wrote: A strange request, perhaps, but: Does anyone happen to have a collection of old computers like BBC micros, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, ZX 81, etc? My g/f wants to photograph them for a book being published for the Reader's Digest as

[ot] doubtless silly perl question

2003-09-15 Thread Joel Bernstein
I have a problem with some code which I'm trying to debug. I'm not certain, but I think perhaps I'm doing something wrong in the following line - perhaps inadvertently creating an array slice? what do you understand by the line: my $foo=( split ',' = $line )[7]; ? i'm trying to get

Re: [ot] doubtless silly perl question

2003-09-16 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 09:20:04AM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 01:39:26AM +0100, Joel Bernstein wrote: what do you understand by the line: my $foo=( split ',' = $line )[7]; ? i'm trying to get the split to return an array, of which I then get the 7th

Re: [ot] doubtless silly perl question

2003-09-17 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 09:27:03AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote: Joel Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a problem with some code which I'm trying to debug. I'm not certain, but I think perhaps I'm doing something wrong in the following line - perhaps inadvertently creating an array

Re: FW: Regexp::Common::comment

2003-09-18 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 12:03:08PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just discovered Regexp::Common today, and it's most excellent. But I'm having trouble using $RE{ comment }{ Java }. Apparently doing something like: grep /$RE{ comment }{ Java }/, MY_JAVA_FILE; only catches

Re: Richard III spare ticket

2003-09-22 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:46:01PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: I have a spare ticket to see RIII at the Globe this Saturday matinee 2:30. Front row seats (A25), 36.50GBP. Mail me offline if you're interested. ObLiteraryComputingCrossover:

Re: LPW: Slides... DBIC and new recommendations!

2008-12-01 Thread Joel Bernstein
2008/11/30 Leo Lapworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I've put the slides from my talk (the 20 min version) online: http://www.slideshare.net/ranguard/dbixclass-beginners-presentation/ That looks handy. I have put the slides up for my talk, too, which was probably too long before the previous

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

2008-12-10 Thread Joel Bernstein
2008/12/10 Jonathan Stowe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/12/10 Andy Wardley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I agree that it would be in Perl's best interests if TPF controlled perl.com but I'm not convinced that they have a right to demand it. I think even this point might be open to debate. How about we don't?

Re: london.pm.org web site

2008-12-10 Thread Joel Bernstein
2008/12/10 Aaron Trevena [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/12/10 Andy Wardley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: brucey Alright my loves, you've got as long as it takes to shake up the london.pm.org web site... starting from... now! /brucey My dad was on the Generation Game, I think he was demonstrating carving a

Re: Curry tonight: Manchester 19:00ish Oxford Road (and distributed)

2008-12-11 Thread Joel Bernstein
2008/12/11 James Laver [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Who is confirmed? Me. And Hakim, I think. Or I'll have a very lonely dinner. /joel

Re: london.pm.org web site - facelifted

2008-12-12 Thread Joel Bernstein
2008/12/11 Dirk Koopman d...@tobit.co.uk: Robin Berjon wrote: We need a more ecumenical colour. So purple rather than the more pagan orange? /joel

Re: My New Job (Was: Social Thurs 8 Jan 2009)

2009-01-05 Thread Joel Bernstein
2009/1/5 David Dorward da...@dorward.me.uk: The alternatives would be, IIRC, to take the N. Line to TCR then change to the central line, or to take the Jubilee from Waterloo and get to the central line from there. (Target: Notting Hill Gate). Have you considered a bicycle? Perhaps a folding

Re: My New Job (Was: Social Thurs 8 Jan 2009)

2009-01-29 Thread Joel Bernstein
2009/1/29 James Laver james.la...@gmail.com: Are signal failures still driver ignored signal or is the signal quality on the district line actually that appalling From LU's website There are many reasons why signals fail. However, in many cases, the signalling system itself is working

Re: !0

2009-02-12 Thread Joel Bernstein
2009/2/12 Dirk Koopman d...@tobit.co.uk: Just been studying a CPAN module and I see a load of references to !0. Er, what is that? Googling most unhelpful. Which CPAN module? When you say references to !0 do you mean literally \!0? I'm not sure what that means. !0 is not zero. /joel

Re: (Planned) Emergency Social - Friday 20th March, 6pm, Wenlock Arms

2009-03-13 Thread Joel Bernstein
On 11 Mar 2009, at 13:16, James Laver wrote: It's been nearly a week since the last social so everybody must be craving beer. They have excellent beer at the Wenlock in Hoxditch[1] and we can't have a thursday social there because of some writers club[2]. I've booked us in for next friday.

Re: How we see CVs

2009-04-02 Thread Joel Bernstein
On 2 Apr 2009, at 10:34, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Roger Burton West ro...@firedrake.org wrote: On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 05:00:38PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: This is great, http://www.hanovsolutions.com/resume_comic.png A good start, though has facebook page

Re: [OT] finding memory hungry bits of my code

2009-04-09 Thread Joel Bernstein
On 9 Apr 2009, at 10:27, Edmund von der Burg wrote: Hello, I have some Perl code which is being naughty with its memory. In a leaky sense? If this were a speed issue I'd throw Devel::NYTProf at it. What is the equivalent for memory usage? Devel::LeakTrace, Devel::Cycle, etc for finding

DBIx::Class (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] London.pm Social - Edgar Wallace WC2R, 7th May 2009)

2009-05-07 Thread Joel Bernstein
On 7 May 2009, at 16:16, Bob MacCallum wrote: is it more efficient? I'm running into speed problems right now as it happens... It is, but is your app code the bottleneck rather than the DB? (and to make it worse DProf/dprofpp is not reporting anything useful at all) You may want

Re: [OT] New Buffy movie

2009-05-28 Thread Joel Bernstein
On 28 May 2009, at 10:11, Raf wrote: On Thu, 28 May 2009, Gemmail, Rafiq wrote: Sorry but unlike the rest of the world I thought that JJ's trek was sile of phite. Great film; crap trek. He pulled out every gag and fraked up the timeline more royally than ever before. It was a smack in

Re: Anniversary Beer

2009-05-29 Thread Joel Bernstein
Did anything happen about this? Is anniversary beer still on? I'm guessing with June social just days away it's not happening /this/ month, but did enough people get involved to make it happen at all? /joel On 1 May 2009, at 08:50, James Laver wrote: We've almost got enough to make it

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Technical meeting: An evening of dynamic languages

2009-06-11 Thread Joel Bernstein
On 11 Jun 2009, at 14:34, Ben Evans wrote: I just wanted to say thank you to Leon and Billy for organising last night's tech meeting. Wholeheartedly seconded. I had a great time. It was really good to hear such a diverse range of talks, and it's kick-started some very useful discussions

Re: Big Geek Day Out: Bletchley Park 18th July

2009-06-15 Thread Joel Bernstein
On 15 Jun 2009, at 10:01, David Dorward wrote: As the beer flowed at the last social, Leon and I found ourselves both in the position of Never been to Bletchley and decided that we would probably go (dragging along anyone else who was interested) on the 18th of July. I've been to

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