Re: [Boston.pm] cgi form question

2008-01-18 Thread Kenneth A Graves
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 15:11 -0500, Mike Williams wrote: On Jan 17, 2008 3:56 PM, Xiong, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure. Please see my code snippet below. use CGI ':standard'; generate_form(); do_work(); Generate_form both starts and ends the form. Do_work tries to add input

Re: [Boston.pm] allow user to download a file from web server

2008-01-02 Thread Kenneth A Graves
On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 12:38 -0500, Xiong, Bob wrote: Thanks, John. But I was looking for the Perl code. I also intended to allow a user to download the file and save it to his/her own computer (without opening it up). Sorry about not making myself clear. - Bob Xiong The trick is to lie to the

Re: [Boston.pm] allow user to download a file from web server

2008-01-02 Thread Kenneth A Graves
On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 12:57 -0500, Christopher Schmidt wrote: I don't think this is the best solution. Instead, one should probably set the Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=preferred_filename.pdf . This will tell the browser Download ths file to the filename specified -- which the

Re: [Boston.pm] Social Meeting in August

2007-08-14 Thread Kenneth A Graves
On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 11:07 -0400, john saylor wrote: 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

[Boston.pm] Moose vs Kakuro

2007-03-12 Thread Kenneth A Graves
Moose 0.18 just hit the FreeBSD ports, so I tried my kakuro benchmark: Mooseless 0m17.8s Moose 0.13 9m05.6s Moose 0.17 3m29.1s Moose 0.18 0m58.3s 0.18 immutable 0m18.1s That is, the new version is more than 3 times faster than the previous. Plus it adds the ability to mark

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl and DST 2007 -- a couple glitches?

2007-01-22 Thread Kenneth A Graves
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 00:41 -0500, Bill Ricker wrote: General advice has been that if the OS is patched for the DST change, Perl will be OK between March 11 and Apr 4, when US DST starts 3 weeks early this year. This is why we need more touch-screen interfaces: so we can spin the minute hand

Re: [Boston.pm] Fwd: Tech Meeting Followup

2007-01-18 Thread Kenneth A Graves
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 18:33 -0500, Guillermo Roditi wrote: Efficiency: No, thanks. You are using Moose, runtime loading of objects and runtime instantiation of anon classes. You were doomed way before I came in. Moose is getting better on the efficiency issue. For those who remember my Kakuro

Re: [Boston.pm] Loop index in foreach?

2006-09-18 Thread Kenneth A Graves
On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 08:28 -0700, Palit, Nilanjan wrote: That works too ( I have used it as well), but I guess what I'm really asking (hoping?) for is a Perl special variable, kinda like $., which Perl auto-magically initializes increments ... Perl6 will have a way of iterating over indices

Re: [Boston.pm] pretty-printing messages

2006-06-21 Thread Kenneth A Graves
On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 14:59, Federico Lucifredi wrote: can anyone remind me how that pretty-printing module that El Damian showcased the other year was called? It was able to handle plurals (x file/s deleted), even irregular ones, among the many things ;-)

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl Curses?

2006-06-01 Thread Kenneth A Graves
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 15:29, Janet Marie Jackson wrote: I'm writing a command-line program to manage student grading for a course, which will run on the school's Unix boxes (it can't be put on the web for security reasons), and was debating what the best choice is to handle the user

Re: [Boston.pm] Using Perl to communicate to a Palm device

2005-10-26 Thread Kenneth A Graves
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 10:00, Alex Brelsfoard wrote: Has anyone here used Perl to communicate to a Palm device? What I am primarily concerned with is updating the calendar with a specific event. I have a scheduling system, calendar system, and event's registration system that I'd like to

Re: [Boston.pm] Special Tech Meeting w/ Damian Conway, Wed, Oct 26

2005-10-20 Thread Kenneth A Graves
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 16:02, Ronald J Kimball wrote: Send your preference to the discussion list. Time::Space::Continuum --kag ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Social Meeting on Thursday with brian d foy

2005-10-18 Thread Kenneth A Graves
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 10:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi ( 05.10.17 22:17 -0400 ) Ronald J Kimball: But first things first, we need to choose a location. Suggestions? brewpub? i'm usually wary of epinions, but this might be a good starting point:

Re: [Boston.pm] Social Meeting on Thursday with brian d foy

2005-10-18 Thread Kenneth A Graves
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 23:16, Ronald J Kimball wrote: On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 11:10:13PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: who wants to handle the group reservation? I figured I would start collecting RSVPs once we had agreed on a time. I'll probably be there, but 8pm would be better for me. --kag

[Boston.pm] brian d foy is in the neighborhood

2005-10-17 Thread Kenneth A Graves
http://use.perl.org/~brian_d_foy/journal/27200 Emergency Social Meeting? Try to hold it near Hopkinton, or invite brian into town? --kag ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] brian d foy is in the neighborhood

2005-10-17 Thread Kenneth A Graves
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 16:22, John Macdonald wrote: On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 02:23:40PM -0400, Kenneth A Graves wrote: http://use.perl.org/~brian_d_foy/journal/27200 Emergency Social Meeting? Try to hold it near Hopkinton, or invite brian into town? Brian is actually in Milford - I'm

Re: [Boston.pm] other campus conference pages

2005-09-01 Thread Kenneth A Graves
Just to update everyone: my contact at Simmons likes the idea of hosting YAPC. The ball is being passed to Conferences and Special Events to figure out if Simmons has the capacity. Uri: What's your guess as to how long do we have to get this together? --kag

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

2005-08-27 Thread Kenneth A Graves
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 23:17, Uri Guttman wrote: KAG == Kenneth A Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KAG http://www.yapc.org/venue-reqs.txt has the full list. The key KAG thing missing from above is a venue to hold dinner for everyone. KAG Toronto did this with the cruise. We should

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl Parsers

2005-07-28 Thread Kenneth A Graves
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 16:11, Mike T. Machenry wrote: It is said that 'only perl can parse Perl' -- Wikipedia I have been searching the 'net for a Perl Parser. I haven't had any luck on CPAN and I found a dead project on sourceforge(t). Does anyone know of any Perl parsers that exist? I

Re: [Boston.pm] YAPC::NA rideshare

2005-05-04 Thread Kenneth A Graves
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 10:59, Sean Quinlan wrote: I'm considering attending YAPC this summer, and was considering driving. Is anyone else planning on driving and would like a backup (or primary) driver who is willing to chip in on costs? Or would anyone be interested in being a backup driver

Re: [Boston.pm] perl6/pugs

2005-02-28 Thread Kenneth A Graves
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 13:32, Aaron Sherman wrote: On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 12:51, Benjamin Kram wrote: Has anyone had a chance to play with pugs? I just svned down a copy and was going to toy with it a bit. Only a little bit. I am, however, sure that the correct way to boost the popularity

Re: [Boston.pm] Weird regex behavior?

2004-08-02 Thread Kenneth A Graves
Just tried it with version 5.005_03 built for i386-freebsd, and the captures worked. So the problem isn't with all old versions. --kag ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting w/ Damian Conway, Tuesday, July 13

2004-07-01 Thread Kenneth A Graves
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 16:43, Ronald J Kimball wrote: Please RSVP to me if you're planning to attend. Because we anticipate a big turnout for this meeting, send your RSVPs now, so we can arrange for a larger room if necessary. Yes. I'll plan on bringing my laptop. --kag

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting w/ Damian Conway, Tuesday, July 13

2004-07-01 Thread Kenneth A Graves
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 17:16, Kenneth A Graves wrote: Yes. I'll plan on bringing my laptop. How did I hit reply-to-group? Stupid fingers. Pay no attention to the man hiding behind the laptop. --kag ___ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting w/ Damian Conway, Tuesday, July 13

2004-07-01 Thread Kenneth A Graves
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 23:03, Chris Devers wrote: On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Kenneth A Graves wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 17:16, Kenneth A Graves wrote: Yes. I'll plan on bringing my laptop. How did I hit reply-to-group? Stupid fingers. Pay no attention to the man hiding behind

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting w/ Damian Conway, Tuesday, July 13

2004-07-01 Thread Kenneth A Graves
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 23:34, Kripa Sundar wrote: KAG Pay no attention to the man hiding behind the laptop. why are you going to bring it anyway? damian uses his own ibook. I see you are paying no attention, as advised. :-) He needs it to hide behind. :-) More or less effective than

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: DSL service in NE

2004-06-27 Thread Kenneth A Graves
Federico Lucifredi wrote on 6/27/04 2:32 pm (GMT): is it currently possible to get a DSL line hooked up without the extra 30$ cost of the Verizon phone line typically associated with it? There is a rumor that Verizon will soon offer DSL over naked copper. You would still have to pay for the

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Followup

2004-06-16 Thread Kenneth A Graves
Uri Guttman wrote on 6/16/04 4:19 am (GMT): CD == Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CD* Perl 6 Update CD http://damian.conway.org/S eminars//Perl6.html not sure how up to date (whatever that means with p6) this is. Read your conference materials, Uri. He's giving an

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Followup

2004-06-15 Thread Kenneth A Graves
On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 23:57, Uri Guttman wrote: KAG == Kenneth A Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KAG SelfGOL i think he did that here. i remember my wanting it and seeing it. we can chat with him here for info on the newer talks he has. My flaky memory, then. I'll change my vote

Re: [Boston.pm] travel plans to YAPC::NA

2004-06-06 Thread Kenneth A Graves
On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 11:58, Philipp Hanes wrote: I appear to have missed the window of cheap flights to Buffalo from Boston. Yesterday, things were looking like about $160, today they're around $350. Bah. How are people who are going there this year traveling? I really want to go, since

[Boston.pm] Perl Medic: the Blog

2004-04-30 Thread Kenneth A Graves
I walked away from this week's meeting with a copy of Perl Medic, the it book of the moment. (Thanks, Uri.) Now, what every it book needs is a Reading Group. Unfortunately, Oprah seems to have overlooked Perl Medic. So, I'm appropriating a bit of web space from one of my clients to host a blog

Re: [Boston.pm] Which T-station for tomorrow's meeting?

2004-04-26 Thread Kenneth A Graves
On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 12:52, Kripa Sundar wrote: I am planning to park at Riverside (the D Green line), and take the inbound train. Which T station should I get out at? Do I need to switch to a different Green line? It's a short walk from Kenmore. (Or a short walk from Blandford on the B

Re: [Boston.pm] OT - cannot SSH into Redhat box

2004-04-20 Thread Kenneth A Graves
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 21:32, Ranga Nathan wrote: I installed Redhat server (Enterprise) on a box but I can not SSH into the box. The sshd is running and I can ssh from within the box but not from outside. /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny are both empty. There is no other firewall I can

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech meeting?

2004-04-08 Thread Kenneth A Graves
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 15:20, Ronald J Kimball wrote: I have at least one other possible location, but it's not on the T. :/ On first parsing, I missed the not, and pictured us all gathered in a red line car... --kag ___ Boston-pm mailing list