On 3/9/15 23:04 , Uri Guttman wrote:
i'll be impressed when you have a dead speaker from the future giving a
talk!
... brains!
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On 7/22/13 19:14 , Bill Ricker wrote:
http://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com/2013/07/22/the-rising-costs-of-aging-perlers-part-1-the-data/
this was good and interesting. not earthshaking but nicely done.
in the sweep of history [as i know it], i view perl as a stepping stone
on the
On 1/8/13 22:28 , Bill Ricker wrote:
Wondering why so few (2 and two maybes) RSVP tonight.
it ain't like it used to be ...
i don't know that this would help, but is it worth looking into maybe
broadcasting the meeting over the web ... ? boston ruby does something
with google+ and i've
On 11/23/2011 01:51 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
chromatic tweeted:
The CPAN has 11.4% more uploaders, 19.4% more modules, and 14.3% more
distributions since *last year's* edition of Modern #perl: The Book.`
Perl use is still growing? (Or at least CPAN is.)
i'd say that's a valid interpretation of
greetings
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Randal L. Schwartz
mer...@stonehenge.com wrote:
Was there any consensus on a date (tuesday or monday) and/or a place
for my emergency social meet?
none that i'm aware of ['like herding cats']
not that anyone asked, but what about 'big city' in
hi
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Conor Walsh c...@adverb.ly wrote:
I haven't checked in recently, but I'm pretty sure that anything he
has to present on Perl is not interesting from a Perl perspective and
really only interesting from a hey I'm a cool webcomic artist
perspective.
well, it
hey
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 1:32 AM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote:
at this point i want to just gauge overall interest
and possible corporate help. i will get back with more info as i get it.
while i am not a bean counter at my place of employment, i have been
told by management that
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Asa Martin asa.mar...@gmail.com wrote:
Any suggestions from this group as to what would make sense to put effort
into learning next to make myself more marketable in the Boston area?
social engineering
/rimshot
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On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Laura Bethard betha...@nber.org wrote:
I have no formal computer training, but I taught myself to use MySQL
and Unix as part of my current position.
well, if you can do that, you can learn perl.
i know i'm gonna get nailed for this, but if you're just
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Tom Metrotmetro-boston...@vl.com wrote:
Yesterday I saw a Toyota Matrix in Watertown with a vanity plate that read
PLAN 9. I wondered if it was someone on one of the local tech lists.
yeah- i've seen it too.
What was the history again? A bad sci-fi film, then
w00t!
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Ronald J Kimball
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Tobias Theodore Kimball-Ware
son of Ronald Kimball and Martha Ware
congrats- you forked!
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On 6/28/08, Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
what about the sunset
in allston? we ain't met there for ages.
yeah- sunset sounds good to me ...
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On 6/9/08, Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
what is the opposite of spaghetti code?
fortran cookies
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On 6/5/08, Tom Metro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Umm...so what was your intention?
to just send out a few invites to selected people who were already on linkedin.
To join, go to:
http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/41363/6E675551A940
thx!
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On 1/2/08, Xiong, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm struggling with CGI::Pretty to implement a button to let users download
files from a web server.
um, javascript on click handler?
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not really perl but wothehell ...
On 11/12/07, Alex Brelsfoard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have run this test with a cleared cache, and with previous copies in cache.
the results do not vary.
have you set the no cache headers for the image download? [on the server side]
also, in your
hi
On 8/14/07, Ronald J Kimball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or would people rather do something
on the weekend?
i attend so infrequently, i do not expect my preference to carry much
weight, but this sunday night [19 aug] would be good for me.
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On 1/31/07, Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
and you (or your
colleague?) never mentioned modperl before which is a totally different
animal. apache doesn't usually exit so it will never have the end of
process cleanup. just another reason i think modperl is a crock. it
isn't perl
hi
RM == Richard Morse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
RM There were approximately 4 slices left. Maybe 5? Two cheese, one
RM pepper onions, one tomato, and possibly one other.
On 1/18/07, Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
we need much better accuracy than that. this is a critical
hi
On 12/1/06, Kate Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So... say you were going to teach a child (or several children) of
about ten, reasonable technical aptitude, to program using Perl. How
would you go about it?
well, the main thing would be to connect the programming to another
interest. let's
hi
( 05.09.01 14:31 -0400 ) Uri Guttman:
we could maybe do large talks in 34-101 (just off vassar st behind the
angular glass entranceway) which holds 325 i think.
well, how important is it to have all the talks in the same area? i
think having talks at different locations [different
hi
( 05.07.08 17:40 -0400 ) Uri Guttman:
few mit people seem to be active in pm. they must all think perl is
lisp's ugly but smarter step sister! :)
no- they just can't get any corporate money using perl ...
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( 05.07.08 17:57 -0400 ) Ricker, William:
use Boston::Cambridge;
that would undoubtedly create a disturbance in the force ...
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( 05.05.24 15:07 -0400 ) Drew Taylor:
Is perl on the way out in Boston?
i hope not.
there have been threads on the mod_perl list about advocacy. and how
java is taking over a lot. the bean counters never liked open source
anyway, it goes against their nature [sharing].
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( 05.02.28 21:07 -0500 ) James Linden Rose, III:
However Mr. Shwartz's model of the problem does not reflect majority
opinion with respect to the breadth of the issue, (especially as it
seems to be peppered with idealism and anti-capitalism).
whoa- idealism and anti-capitalism
smells like
hi
( 05.03.01 14:21 -0500 ) Greg London:
What if O'Reilley (or someone) set up a website that
did free (or low cost) online certification?
what if you did that.
What it requires is a community spirit,
and a little bit of generousity from its
members to grant it the possibility of being.
i
hi
( 05.03.01 14:21 -0500 ) Greg London:
What if O'Reilley (or someone) set up a website that
did free (or low cost) online certification?
John Saylor said:
what if you did that.
( 05.03.01 15:59 -0500 ) Greg London:
brilliant. Rather than focus on the goal,
shift focus on how
hi
( 05.02.25 17:13 -0500 ) Greg London:
So, if Certification convinces Mike to allow
perl, and Eve isn't an idiot, it's an overall win.
and if elephants had wings, they'd be the biggest birds by far.
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( 05.02.22 14:38 -0800 ) Ranga Nathan:
I must add that this is a corporate environment.
i guess you should also add 'brain-dead' corporate environment [or maybe
that's just implied].
How can I rebut this arguement in a better way?
doesn't seem too logical and argument. so you can't use
hi
( 05.02.07 10:48 -0500 ) Greg London:
For a one-time buyer, going to a website to purchase
something, it seems like needless overhead to ask them
to create an account, make up a password (and figure out
a way to remember it), when they're only going to ever
make one purchase.
yes, but
hi
( 05.02.07 16:04 -0500 ) Greg London:
I'll buy pizza for a perlmonger meeting if I can get a
definite yes/no answer on these questions.
could the site give him a tracking number / one-time password
so he could check the status of his order and report a problem?
yes
Would it be
Greg London:
Would it be any less secure than having the user
set up an account and their own password?
John Saylor wrote:
yes, more prone to spoofing since it's only one piece of info [trakcing
number] instead of 2 [username/pw].
( 05.02.07 17:08 -0500 ) Greg London
hi
( 04.12.29 13:13 -0800 ) Palit, Nilanjan:
Now, regarding Tom Metro's original suggestion for using an MD5 Digest:
I read that the original MD5 algorithm has known issues with collisions.
i think it's more that there is a way to produce a collision while
altering the file being hashed. this
hi
( 04.12.07 14:13 -0600 ) Alex Brelsfoard:
But say I want to upload all of the pictures from a wedding or
something.
zip them up into one file. [pre-process]
i don't think the browser file selection controls are anywhere near as
flexible as local graphical file selection controls. i think
hi
( 04.11.03 21:29 -0800 ) Ranga Nathan:
Needless to say 99% is spam!
I have some 28MB worth of mail sitting somewhere, waiting to be
delivered. I want that 28MB mail to be filtered and forwarded to my
cox.net address.
so 28MB * 0.99 = 27.72MB of SPAM, 0.28MB of HAM
let's say the average
hi
( 04.08.05 19:31 -0400 ) Uri Guttman:
at least we should have meeting info and directions, talk subjects,
a who's who page of members, job stuff?, boston perl things (what??),
etc.
maybe some of those things go on the main web site- don't need to
duplicate lists. wiki is better for putting
hi
( 04.08.06 11:11 -0400 ) Greg London:
I usually use OpenOffice to create my html.
hmm ...
Do I need a perl script that takes my html and inserts the metadata
into it? Or can I do it in OO?
just use a text editor [vim, notepad, the emacs operating system,
whatever] and cut and paste.
I
hi
i think setting up a wiki of somekind is a great idea. it can even be a
link off of http://boston.pm.org/ if the people who own that site want
to maintain some independence and control.
( 04.08.05 10:19 -0400 ) David:
These two issues may indicate that a wiki which allows an admin
group and
hi
( 04.08.03 17:57 -0400 ) Ron Newman:
die Death by chocolate\n;
could be the newline at the end.
also try 'warn'-ing instead of 'die'-ing.
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( 04.08.02 19:32 -0400 ) Alex Brelsfoard:
But I am a bit curious to know if there is a way to do this without
using CGI.pm.
sure, mod_perl [much faster, lighter]. the interface is a bit better
than CGI.pm, but not a whole lot. i just think it's a tricky thing to be
doing anyway [uploading
hi
( 04.07.16 08:26 -0400 ) William Goedicke:
And, pure and simple, I can't get the syntax right.
i'd do this.
my $hr = {
'NAME'=$results[0],
'ID'=$id,
'TYPE'=$results[1],
'TARGETFIELD'=$id+10
};
push ( @{ $VAR1-{TARGETTABLE}-{SOURCETABLE}
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( 04.07.16 14:09 -0400 ) James Eshelman:
POE--perl object environment. I'm thinking of using it and would love
to hear case stories from any who have -- both pleasures and pitfalls.
i used it to write an irc monitor once. it was pretty nice. i'm sure
uri's got something to say, since i
hi
( 04.07.07 18:57 -0400 ) Arun Nagarajan:
I know there were a lot of offers for meeting space posted previously
for the Boston PM crew - I was wondering if any of that will still be
available for a 20 person J2ME SIG?
java programmers need help from perl programmers? oh right- happens all
hi
not having seen the code, this is a guess.
( 04.06.22 22:54 -0400 ) Bob Mariotti:
I have a perl program that extracts data from a report file. Some of
the fields (columns) are monetary with a trailing sign (i.e: 1,234.56-).
However, I am having problems with sign handling. Can anyone
hi
( 04.06.15 23:48 -0400 ) Chris Devers:
* Time::Space::Continuum
http://damian.conway.org/Seminars//TimeSpace.html
space is the place ...
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( 04.05.06 11:46 -0400 ) Philipp Hanes:
I use MS Outlook 2000 (not much choice at the office).
that's a big problem. outlook is the most massively broken piece of
software released by microsoft [and *that's* saying something]. it's
like complaining that your scooter won't move very fast in a
hi
( 04.02.16 14:08 -0800 ) Ranga Nathan:
Has anyone created any application that uses secure email using GPG pr
PGP?
mutt
I wonder if I can generate a certificate that the recipient can
install for encrypting/decrypting mail from me. I was thinking of
using OpenSSL to generate the
hi
( 04.01.24 12:58 -0800 ) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I've been working on a perl training document
I was planning on putting it on CPAN
i'm not sure there's even a place for it there. maybe use.perl.org?
do people use the perl license for their
documentation too?
people do all kinds of things
hi
( 04.01.24 16:47 -0800 ) steve:
Hey, am I the only one to be burned by a CPAN module that turned out
to be a joke?
yes
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( 03.12.16 13:06 -0500 ) Sean Quinlan:
Anyone interested in a pub meet over the holidays?
i'll drink to that.
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( 03.11.11 09:20 -0500 ) James Sullivan:
Also i believe there's some sort of security in Outlook that prevents
reading of files off your disks.
no, no, no- the security in outlook allows other programs to send email
to everyone in your address book whenever they want to.
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( 03.10.31 17:54 -0500 ) Chris Braiotta:
That makes sense, and was something I finally figured out, but didn't
seem to help.
i think you have more of a problem with ssh authorization and key
management than with perl. crypto is not always easy [if it's going to
be effective]. i think you
hi
( 03.10.23 13:38 -0700 ) Ranga Nathan:
Looks like both ApacheSSL and mod_ssl work only with Apache 1.3
i don't think so:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_ssl.html
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( 03.08.04 17:12 -0400 ) Joel Gwynn:
we're looking for a fast, customizable de-duping solution.
I was thinking there might be some perl stuff out there,
really, any perl programmer worth hiring should be able to do this while
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On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 09:07 AM, John Saylor wrote:
really, any perl programmer worth hiring should be able to do this while
sleeping.
( 03.08.05 19:21 +0100 ) David Cantrell:
No, it's quite a hard problem.
i guess it depends on the way the problem is defined by the client
hi
( 03.07.09 22:20 -0400 ) Chris Devers:
I wish I could think of better metaphors for this, because intuitively
it seems clear to me that there are plenty of examples of things that
are very complex and yet still not necessarily challenging.
this seems too one dimentional- i think most
hi
( 03.07.08 21:48 -0400 ) William Goedicke:
[X]emacs is nigh ultimately functioal and free.
freedom can also be measured in many ways [memory footprint].
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( 03.07.02 21:25 -0400 ) John Sequeira:
If I had a choice, though, I would make life really simple and just
write a COM control or Windows Script Component.
Down with Big Brother!
Down with Big Brother!
Down with Big Brother!
Down with Big Brother!
Down with Big Brother!
Down with Big
hi
( 03.07.03 08:18 -0400 ) Charles Reitzel:
A programmer's editor is his or her hammer.
while i have seen code written like that, i prefer to think of it as a
pencil.
i use vim pretty much all the time.
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( 03.06.03 09:39 -0400 ) Kevin Jackson-Mead:
spice eq spouses
yikes- i can only handle 1 ...
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( 03.03.14 09:13 -0500 ) Tolkin, Steve:
Please advise me as to how to proceed.
i think you can email either damian or larry [psuedo-] directly. or post
something on perlmonks.org.
or you can start your own fork of the perl code- that's one of the
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( 03.02.27 08:03 -0500 ) Bob Mariotti:
When the user select the data desired to be downloaded from the page our
perl programs issue a content-type: directive.
have you tried:
application/octet-stream
and using the content-disposition header?
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( 03.02.04 23:35 -0500 ) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Linux started to lock up at different
stages about a month or so ago.
anything in /var/log to explain the lock up?
Short of calling Penguin Computing and buying
a new system, does anyone have any cheaper
ideas?
freeBSD?
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( 03.01.17 13:56 -0500 ) Dan Sugalski:
Typeglobs are all that's in symbol tables. You need to look in the
globs if you want to get values.
But how do I do this? Do I open () them? Do I dereference them? I've
been digging through the camel book [and writing test scripts] without
success.
Hi
( 02.10.10 17:09 -0400 ) Chris Devers:
Is it cheating to brute force the puzzle with a computer? :)
That's a well known problem solving strategy. Ask RSA ...
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( 02.10.10 17:16 -0400 ) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Someone needs to write a code analysis
tool to measure the complexity and
general unreadability of a piece of
perl code.
Of course, these are 2 independent metrics.
Then, when these kinds of puzzles come up,
people can compete to have the
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