Leon Brocard
Wed, 13 Jun 2001 08:18:58 -0700
This is the twenty-first weekly summary of the London Perl Mongers mailing list. This is brought to you from yapc::NorthAmerica during Brian Ingerson's "CPAN, PPM and the Future" talk. For the quiet week starting 2001-06-04: Don't forget the London.pm website for meetings etc. The next meeting is an technical meeting on the 21st, and then a social meeting on Thursday 5th July. Some pictures were taken of the last meeting: http://london.pm.org/ http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/london.pm/2001-06-07/ http://husk.org/perl/pics/ Paul Makepeace posted some posting statistics for the list. Greg posted ny.pm stats. People gave thanks. People complained about the noise *being* the signal (it's signal, Jim, but not as we know it): http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg06626.html Jonathan Stowe mentioned www.gateway.gov.uk, the new UK government portal wotsit, not working on any other platforms other than IE on Windows. There followed a huge thread - basically, they're being stupid and we should all complain to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matthew Robinson asked about changing the default library paths in a compiled copy of Perl. Iffy solutions: symbolic links, PERL5LIB, doing a global replace. Best solution: get a compiler. I wrote a blogging bot for the #london.pm IRC channel on irc.rhizomatic.net. See what people have been talking about in the past week and right now: http://astray.com/scribot/2001-06-11.html http://astray.com/scribot/ YAPC::Europe registration was announced: http://yapc.org/Europe/ Simon Wistow asked about a persistent Perl daemon (much like mod_perl) but in a general case, keeping a bytecode cache and making programs run faster in the long run. See ByteCache. There was some discussion, but it's probably too much work for too little gain. In other news: Microsoft SQL Server sucking (SQueaL), Sun Ultra Enterprise 10000, google++, the Sony Clie being small and cute, checking out pubs for the next meet, buffy, search.cpan.org being hacked (Catalog module apparently), 'back doors' in Linux, obnoxious sigs: and a geeknic with an inflatable penguin: http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/h-ttperf.idc http://www.sonystyle.com/micros/clie/ http://buffy.slayers.co.uk/ShowStrip.asp?CS=1 http://homepage.tinet.ie/~cullenm/2dart/regi.jpg http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg06738.html http://husk.org/lndn/circ/compat/DSCF0102.jpg Eh?, leon -- Leon Brocard.............................http://www.astray.com/ Iterative Software...........http://www.iterative-software.com/ ... Have you seen Quasimoto? I have a hunch he's back!
