Re: [Boston.pm] yapc::boston?

2005-08-25 Thread Ricker, William
Uri, while back, sean put some effort into getting BU for yapc but that got shelved. A worthy effort, for which we all applauded Sean at the time, and laud him now again. One would expect our high density of schools to make it easy here. However, at least some of the larger local

Re: [Boston.pm] yapc::boston?

2005-08-25 Thread Uri Guttman
RW == Ricker, William [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RW Uri, while back, sean put some effort into getting BU for yapc but that got shelved. RW A worthy effort, for which we all applauded Sean at the time, and laud RW him now again. agreed. if we could get a decent site (fsdo

[Boston.pm] Signal handling

2005-08-25 Thread Ranga Nathan
I need to remember the last record processed no matter how a script completes - kill or stop. My perl is a little rusty now. The following coding does not seem to work. $SIG{KILL} = $SIG{STOP} = $SIG{TERM} = $SIG{__DIE__} = sub { system (echo $last_rec /tmp/ftpscan);die Now I am stopping;};

Re: [Boston.pm] Signal handling

2005-08-25 Thread Uri Guttman
RN == Ranga Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RN I need to remember the last record processed no matter how a script RN completes - kill or stop. RN My perl is a little rusty now. The following coding does not seem to work. RN $SIG{KILL} = $SIG{STOP} = $SIG{TERM} = $SIG{__DIE__} = sub {

Re: [Boston.pm] yapc::boston?

2005-08-25 Thread Kripa Sundar
Dear Uri, so an easy thing to do is to search the local college sites for similar pages and see what is out there. then call someone and get some more info. this is something anyone (even kripa! :) can do. in fact can someone call the lesley contact on that page and see if they have larger

Re: [Boston.pm] yapc::boston?

2005-08-25 Thread John Macdonald
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 06:02:57PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: i think boston would make a great place for yapc. [ ... ] what about showing to the other host cities how much better boston is for yapc? No way that Boston could match the job done in Toronto. :-) I'm sorry to hear that there