Leon Brocard
Thu, 08 Mar 2001 03:30:19 -0800
This is the seventh of hopefully many weekly summaries of the London Perl Mongers mailing list. Many thanks to Simon Wistow for doing the summary last week! For the somewhat quiet week starting 2001-03-05: Don't forget the London.pm website for meetings etc. There is an unofficial London.pm heretic meeting tonight in the cozy bar with the open fire in the Anchor, Bankside, from 6.30ish: http://london.pm.org/ Marcel Grunauer, DJ Adams, Piers Harding and I went to the German Perl Workshop in Bonn, which was excellent. DJ took some piccies. I won a prize: http://www.pipetree.com/~dj/perlworkshop2001/ http://www.perl-workshop.de/2001/ http://use.perl.org/articles/01/03/06/0258251.shtml Hamlet D'Arcy is organising a trip to Bletchley Park, possibly on Sunday March 18th, to see things like the 'bombe' rebuild project, a history of computing exhibit, and hopefully lots of crypto stuff. Should be fun! http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/ http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg02603.html Mark Fowler asked about programs to produce graphical documentation, and got sucked into GraphViz stuff, although dia was also mentioned. Marcel produced GraphViz::DBI. Everyone enjoyed the pretty pictures: http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg02608.html http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office/dia.shtml http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=GraphViz-DBI http://www.codewerk.f2s.com/images/mydb.gif Jonathan Peterson asked about the thesis generator that Damian Conway mentioned in his talk. Robin Houston and I pointed out links to the original Sokal hoax, the Dada Engine, and the postmodernism generator: http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg02620.html http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/ http://dev.null.org/dadaengine/ http://www.csse.monash.edu.au:80/publications/1996/tr-cs96-264.ps.gz http://www.elsewhere.org/cgi-bin/postmodern/ I passed on the announcement of HAL2001, a hacking and security conference in The Netherlands this summer, and realised that this makes three consecutive weeks with conferences this summer that I want to go to: O'Reilly's Open Source Convention, yapc::Europe, and HAL2001. Eeek: http://www.hal2001.org/ Dave Hodgkinson asked about scraping newsfeeds. Everybody pointed him at RSS: http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg02658.html http://purl.org/rss/1.0/ http://www.xmltree.com/ Simon Wistow is organising a Kevin Smith Film Fest on Saturday, where he'll try to fit in Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma and the Clerks animated series. Some people unlurked. Some people discussed which films they liked: http://www.twoshortplanks.com/simon/filmfest/ http://us.imdb.com/Name?Smith,+Kevin http://www.viewaskew.com/ And finally, Simon Batistoni posted a small Perl script (shock, horror) that descrambled CSS (the DVD protection wotsit). It's cute Perl, but he tried to optimise it, whereas I tried to make it clearer (with perltidy). It's currently being made smaller on the fun-with-perl list: http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg02644.html http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg02647.html http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/ http://www.technofile.org/depts/mlists/fwp.html Leon -- Leon Brocard.............................http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europe............................http://yapc.org/Europe/ ... I've got a mind like a.. a.. what's that thing called?
