Re: [Boston.pm] Perl popularity and interview questions

2005-03-07 Thread Darren Chamberlain
* Greg London email at greglondon.com [2005/03/07 10:43]: Palit, Nilanjan said: $ perl -e '$x=1; $y=$x+++1; print x=$x, y=$y\n' Bummer. I just got a ding on your interview. How do you parse $x+++1 ? $ perl -MO=Deparse,p -e '$x=1; $y=$x+++1; print x=$x, y=$y\n' $x = 1;

Re: [Boston.pm] GUI builders, support tools

2005-02-28 Thread Darren Chamberlain
* Sean Quinlan sean at quinlan.org [2005/02/28 18:12]: [...] But here's something you basic text editor doesn't give you that I think Eclipse does. Function jumping (or whatever it's called). I'd _LOVE_ to be able to click (or highlight and meta-somthing, whatever) on a function or method call

Re: [Boston.pm] Re: Reminder: Tech Meeting Tues, Jan 13 (Ronald J Kimball)

2004-01-12 Thread darren chamberlain
* toisanji308 at hotmail.com [2004/01/12 13:11]: I will be coming for the first time, is Boston.com's office just the Boston Globe or is there an address I can use and office room? Boston.com is at 320 Congress Street, which is not near the Boston Globe. The announcement includes directions,

Re: [Boston.pm] Why is the mailinglist for Boston-pm Python Powered?

2004-01-07 Thread darren chamberlain
* Steven W. Orr steveo at syslang.net [2004/01/07 14:03]: The best mailinglist manager is Majordomo2 (Not to be confused with Majordomo). It's written in perl and it's absolutely mahvelous. Actually, the best mailing list manager is siesta (http://siesta.unixbeard.net/), which is also written

Re: [Boston.pm] OT:Safari Bookshelf

2003-12-30 Thread darren chamberlain
* James Freeman jmfreeman at comcast.net [2003/12/30 16:05]: Anyone on the list have direct experience with O'Reilly's Safari Bookshelf? +1 (darren) -- In the fight between you and the world, back the world. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Boston.pm] [Fwd: perl needs your support]

2003-12-09 Thread darren chamberlain
* Sean Quinlan sean at quinlan.org [2003/12/09 11:43]: ... I also digitally sign my email, which I don't think a virus is capable of??? A virus can be capable of *appearing* to sign a message, but only those who actually verify signatures will tell if the signature was OK. In the past, I've

Re: [Boston.pm] Request Guidance with LWP newbie???

2003-11-13 Thread darren chamberlain
* Bob Mariotti r.mariotti at financialdatacorp.com [2003-11-13 13:57]: Can any of you in the know kindly point me to a good thorough reference or perhaps itemize a few pointers to accomplishing this and/or working with lwp? First of all, have you seen Sean Burke's Perl LWP book[0]? I don't

Re: [Boston.pm] Tk question.

2003-08-14 Thread darren chamberlain
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Timothy Kohl tkohl at it.bu.edu [2003-08-07 08:17]: I am trying to set up an associative array where the values are method calls (specifically widget creation calls) for Tk. You want a dispatch table, with the keys pointing to subroutine

Re: [Boston.pm] emacs discussion

2003-07-09 Thread darren chamberlain
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * David Cantrell david at cantrell.org.uk [2003-07-09 13:55]: On Tuesday, July 8, 2003 21:48 -0400 William Goedicke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Y'all - One thing that always confuses me about the emacs debate is the functionality vs. cost

Re: [Boston.pm] .Net platform and Perl - feedback please

2003-07-03 Thread darren chamberlain
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Chris Ball chris at void.printf.net [2003-07-03 08:45]: You can see how this creates problems for a Perl or Python port, too. When $a goes from being an IV to an PV, what do we do with the local variable preamble? Why wouldn't you simply declare

Re: [Boston.pm] Komodo vs. emacs

2003-07-02 Thread darren chamberlain
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Greg Marr gregm at alum.wpi.edu [2003-07-02 10:26]: At 09:42 AM 7/2/2003, darren chamberlain wrote: My complaint with emacs' indenting isn't that it's the wrong amount but that by default it mixes tab and space characters, which are not the same

Re: [Boston.pm] Komodo vs. emacs

2003-07-02 Thread darren chamberlain
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Mikey Smelto seventhcavalry at hotmail.com [2003-07-02 16:29]: My problem with Komodo was that it was slow. I have a P4 1.5Ghz with 768 MB of ram, and it took a long time to call it up. Yes I was running the windows version. But darren and the

Re: [Boston.pm] DBI question

2003-06-18 Thread darren chamberlain
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Joel Gwynn joel.gwynn at digipress.net [2003-06-18 09:28]: The problem is not so much that I can't connect, the problem is that if I can't, I don't want to return the db credentials to the browser. How can I turn this off? I assume you're

Re: [Boston.pm] tcl-perl-unix problem

2003-03-25 Thread darren chamberlain
* Greg London GregLondon at oaktech.com [2003-03-25 15:31]: The original script had a line that said this: if {[catch {exec rsh $linuxMachine cd $pwd/test/c/$testName; \ make $makeparam ! log/make.log} result]} { ;# exec error error \n Can't execute make:\n '$result'\n\n

Re: [Boston.pm] Job listings by programming language

2003-01-07 Thread darren chamberlain
* Joel Gwynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-01-07 08:18]: Here's an interesting graph. While demand for perl has never been as high as demand for other languages (C++, Java, etc.), the demand has not petered off as much as those languages. http://mshiltonj.com/sm/categories/languages/ I find the

Re: [Boston.pm] Job listings by programming language

2003-01-07 Thread darren chamberlain
* John Tobey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-01-07 09:36]: Btw, the sharp drop in C++ around 10/2002 smacks of a change in statistics gathering methods. Yep: http://mshiltonj.com/sm/faq/#4 What happened on Oct 22, 2002 to cause that huge spike of more than 3500 listings? A few weeks before that

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Favorite Mac OS X utilities

2003-01-02 Thread darren chamberlain
* Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-01-02 14:08]: At 1:31 PM -0500 1/2/03, Drew Taylor wrote: I know everyone raves about mutt, and will probably look into it at some point. But it seems strange to be using a text-oriented mail program in one of the prettiest GUI's available. ;-) I

Re: [Boston.pm] for loop iterator variable -- !?

2002-11-21 Thread darren chamberlain
* Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-11-20 16:19]: On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, darren chamberlain wrote: I think the answer is to use a C-style for loop: for (my $i = 0; $i $#array; $i++) { # $i is your iterator # $array[$i] is the current element What is the advantage

Re: [Boston.pm] for loop iterator variable -- !?

2002-11-21 Thread darren chamberlain
* Erik Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-11-21 22:37]: On Sunday, December 8, 2002, at 11:56 PM, Komtanoo Pinpimai wrote: you see? It is not elegant.. has perl this iterator variable ? Man! And I thought one of the nice things about Perl was you didn't have to use an Iterator to traverse a

Re: [Boston.pm] for loop iterator variable -- !?

2002-11-21 Thread darren chamberlain
* Andrew M. Langmead [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-11-21 23:51]: This would be an odd place to look to for efficiency. Maybe an odd place to look to make a script run more efficiently, but I personally find I have to think harder about $#array than about scalar @array, so the latter is more efficient

Re: [Boston.pm] $/ and pattern matching

2002-09-24 Thread darren chamberlain
* Erik Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-09-23 17:30]: Anyone know of a way to get a regular expression to respect the input record separator ( $/ ), so that $ represents the end of a line as defined by $/ ? I'd do it a little differently: local $/; my $mileage; my @milage = split /