Re: Database setup

2003-09-18 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Wed 17 Sep 2003, Jonathan Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really? I just write the SQL in text files and run them through the database's built in client. I don't want the hassle of having to work out where to install these text files. Kake

Database setup

2003-09-17 Thread Kate L Pugh
So you're starting a new project, and you've designed a database schema, and you want to write some code to set up the tables in the database. You know this won't be a one-off, since you'll want to initialise a test database every time you run your tests, plus you plan to deploy your application

Re: Pub feedback please

2003-09-08 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Mon 08 Sep 2003, Scott McWhirter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the fact that the bottom bar wasn't manned pissed me off a little... I'm sorry you were disappointed by this. I did know it would be the case but forgot to mention it in the announcement. This isn't the only pub we use that doesn't

Module dependencies

2003-09-08 Thread Kate L Pugh
I want to find a nice, visual, automatic way of looking at my modules' dependencies. I want a script that I can give the name of a module and optionally a Perl version, and get a recursive list of its dependencies and their dependencies, maybe with highlighting to show which modules have never

Re: Module dependencies

2003-09-08 Thread Kate L Pugh
Shevek wrote: Surely identifying the dependencies of any one module is incomputable in general, and most likely incomputable in the specific cases of many popular modules, especially those with baroque plugin architectures. On Mon 08 Sep 2003, Rafael Garcia-Suarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Module dependencies

2003-09-08 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Mon 08 Sep 2003, Shevek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like the suggestion later in this thread about having a standard way of specifying optional modules. I think that such a feature could benefit from considerable architecture support, and would make Makefile.PL (or whatever equivalent) more

Re: Pub feedback please

2003-09-07 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Sun 07 Sep 2003, Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find it more convenient than either the Calthorpe Arms, the Lamb or the Star of Belgravia - it has underground stations on several different lines close by. This is one thing I like about it - the multiple possible tube lines mean

Pub feedback please

2003-09-06 Thread Kate L Pugh
Hello. Could people who were at the social meet at the Green Man last night let me know what they thought of it? On or off list as you feel appropriate. In particular I would like to know whether you would complain if we went there again, and if so which aspects annoyed you. I am aware that

Template::Extract

2003-09-05 Thread Kate L Pugh
Template::Extract is really very shiny. For people who haven't seen it yet - it's kind of like Template Toolkit backwards. You can use it to make screenscraping code less ugly. For people who *have* played with it, I have a question. Here is my code:

Re: text'd or texted

2003-08-06 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Tue 05 Aug, Rafael Garcia-Suarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hl?r u fang axaxaxas ml?. I've not yet seen a translation of this that I like. Rising above the onstreaming it mooned is the one that I can remember, but I think the onstreaming is cheating. zool has her own translation on her

[OT] london.crafts

2003-07-25 Thread Kate L Pugh
First of all, yes this is off-topic. Replies to me *offlist*, please. Second of all, it's all Sarah's fault: http://www.livejournal.com/users/atommickbrane/104313.html I want to start something like a cross between a sewing circle and a mailing list for vaguely techy people in and near London

Re: OpenGuides

2003-07-17 Thread Kate L Pugh
I guess I should answer this on list for completeness. On Fri 11 Jul 2003, Alex McLintock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the status of OpenGuides? Is it all available from CPAN in a nice idiot proof stylee? Yes. Search for OpenGuides on http://search.cpan.org/ and you will find it. You

Birthday drinks today

2003-07-09 Thread Kate L Pugh
Hello! I am 28 today. I am already booked for lunch and dinner, but Greg and I have just concocted the most excellent plan of going for beers at the Bierodrome on Kingsway (just down from Holborn station) from 3:30 this afternoon until maybe about 5:30 or so. Anybody who wants to come and join

DBD::Pg, bytea, nulls

2003-06-15 Thread Kate L Pugh
The postgres docs at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/view.php?version=7.3idoc=1file=datatype-binary.html tell me that nulls (\0) need to be escaped when used as part of a string literal. DBD::Pg seems not to escape them for me though:

Re: DBD::Pg, bytea, nulls

2003-06-15 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Sun 15 Jun 2003, Kate L Pugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The postgres docs [...] tell me that nulls (\0) need to be escaped when used as part of a string literal. DBD::Pg seems not to escape them for me though: [...] I grabbed David Wheeler on IRC and he explained to me how to make this work

Re: Danes visiting

2003-06-12 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 10:04:48PM +0200, Michael Aronsen wrote: There are three of us from Copenhagen, Denmark comming to London tomorrow (thursday), to visit Nicholas Clark and share a beer at The Crabtree (http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/show.shtml/1656/). On Thu 12 Jun 2003, Michael

Re: Danes visiting

2003-06-12 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Thu 12 Jun 2003, Kate L Pugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just phoned the pub and they will be serving food until 10pm. So not to worry about the late start. In fact, if anyone wants to make it earlier, I can be there from 6 or 7, but I'm not going to do that unless someone replies

Re: international beer summit

2003-06-06 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Thu 05 Jun 2003, Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now all we need is a venue. Now where did I put that pub minion? The Jerusalem Tavern's definitely too small. How about the Fullers Ale Pie pub on High Holborn? http://www.fancyapint.com/pda/pdafiles/colour/pdathepubs/pdapub71.htm

Re: Sushi at Gonbei - 20th June

2003-06-06 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Fri 06 Jun 2003, Marna Gilligan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, who's up for a gathering at the Gonbei on Friday the 20th of June? Me. Kake

Re: international beer summit

2003-06-05 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Wed 04 Jun 2003, Perrin Harkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to be travelling to London in the last week of June, leaving New York and ny.pm behind for a bit. I've heard that London is a good locale for purchasing and imbibing beer, but being a skeptic I intend to test this for

Thai pub lunch, Friday 1pm

2003-06-04 Thread Kate L Pugh
Thai food is great for hangovers - and surely people will have hangovers after the social meet at the Star on Thursday. How about a nice pub lunch at Churchills in Holborn on Friday. http://grault.net/cgi-bin/grubstreet.pl?Churchills,_WC1X_0AE If nobody else comes I am going on my own, since

[PUB] Green Man, Marylebone, big function room

2003-04-03 Thread Kate L Pugh
Hello. I was very tired this evening and the pub room was small and hot and crowded so I came home early. On the way home I remembered the Green Man, which is near Great Portland Street and Regent's Park tubes, and has a huge function room in the basement that they've been quite happy to reserve

Formatting lists of integers

2003-03-24 Thread Kate L Pugh
Hello, quick question. Is there a module that will turn eg the list 1,2,3,4,6,7,9,20 into the string 1-4, 6-7, 9, 20 (or something similar)? Kake

Re: Formatting lists of integers

2003-03-24 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Kate L Pugh wrote: Hello, quick question. Is there a module that will turn eg the list 1,2,3,4,6,7,9,20 into the string 1-4, 6-7, 9, 20 (or something similar)? On Mon 24 Mar 2003, Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This was a Perl Quiz Of The Week question (week #6

Re: dim sum

2003-03-20 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Wed 19 Mar 2003, Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joel and I are going for dim sum on friday at the new world (see website for details) at around 1pm, feel free to join us if you want. Oh, maybe I should say this on list as well as IRC. I've booked Friday afternoon off, and Greg will

CPANPLUS and long pathnames

2003-03-20 Thread Kate L Pugh
I had a test failure report for Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable::Module::SimpleBlog: http://archive.develooper.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg33437.html Essentially, it was failing a use_ok test because it couldn't find a module - but the module was part of the distribution. I asked for more info and got

Re: [PUB] Report on The Windmill

2003-02-28 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Fri 28 Feb 2003, David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They have a restaurant upstairs which - presumably - has a wider selection, and I'd be surprised if they refused to serve that stuff to us in the function room. I've phoned and asked; they'll need to check and will get back to me

[ANNOUNCE] Emergency meet, The Windmill, Thursday 27 February

2003-02-24 Thread Kate L Pugh
We're going to check out another pub on our list of possibles for social meets - The Windmill, 6 Mill Street, Mayfair (just off Regent Street). http://grault.net/cgi-bin/grubstreet.pl?Windmill,_W1S_2AT http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=529001Y=180921A=YZ=1 Young's pub, food

Class::DBI::Join

2003-02-17 Thread Kate L Pugh
I sent this question to the Class::DBI list last week, but didn't get any replies so I thought I'd ask here too. Can anyone help me out? Kake - Forwarded message from Kate L Pugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Hello. I only started using Class::DBI last week so please don't laugh

Re: URI::Find subclass, comments and help requested

2003-02-05 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Wed 05 Feb 2003, Dave Hinton at home [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it work if, in find(), you replace [thing with thing] Not quite, because the stuff gets put in $6, $7, ... instead of $1, $2, ... But that's easy to fix, especially as there's no need to look for a title if we have no

Re: [PUB] Rising Sun, Ebury Bridge Road, Victoria

2003-01-27 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Fri 24 Jan 2003, Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=528497Y=178425A=YZ=1 A Young's pub which *is* currently selling Winter Warmer and Double Chocolate stout. About 2.40 UKP for a pint of excellent Winter Warmer. Does food up until 9pm -

[PUB] The Windmill, Mayfair

2003-01-27 Thread Kate L Pugh
Spotted this on grubstreet and just phoned them up. http://grault.net/cgi-bin/grubstreet.pl?Windmill,_W1S_2AT http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=529001Y=180921A=YZ=1 Young's pub, food sounds pretty good. The ground-floor function room is free to hire. It has its own bar, which

Re: [PUB] Fitzroy Tavern, Fitzrovia

2003-01-27 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Mon 27 Jan 2003, Joel Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Fitzroy Tavern is /horrible/ [...] noisy, intrusively flashing fruit machines, full of people in reebok classics trainers [...] How much of this would still apply if we booked the function room? I mean, obviously the people in

Re: [REVIEW] Test Driven Development by Example

2003-01-21 Thread Kate L Pugh
Dean wrote: Is the Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns general enough that people without smalltalk backgrounds can take something away from it? On Tue 21 Jan 2003, James A. Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Absolutely it is. The latter chapters perhaps are more obscurely applied to other

Pubs for social meetings

2003-01-20 Thread Kate L Pugh
Hello; here are the updates on the pub hunt, for those who've been asking about them. Sorry to take so long to follow up on these, but I've only just finished the latest round of phone tag. In a previous post: http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20021202/015505.html I

Re: web-based .ht(access|passwd) editor

2003-01-17 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Fri 17 Jan 2003, Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kake irc::suggested Apache::Htaccess which you'd think would be a winner but sadly it's saddled with a rather odd interface and an internal representation of the data (array of (command, @args)) that I don't see making much patchable

[ANNOUNCE] Emergency meet, Monday 13 January

2003-01-09 Thread Kate L Pugh
Sorry this post is a bit of a rush. We need to find a decent pub for the February meet. We're going to check out a pub mentioned by muttley on list ages ago, the Sun Tavern in Covent Garden. Very close to Covent Garden station, also reachable from Holborn and, with a slightly longer walk,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] January Social Meeting: Thursday Jan 9th @ Penderel's Oak

2003-01-06 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Sat 04 Jan 2003, Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The social meeting on the 9th January [...] It's going to be held in the Penderel's Oak. [...] we have booked tables IN THE BASEMENT, but should that not be enough, we can do our usual embrace and extend to the rest of the pub as I have

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emergency pubmeet, Friday 13th December / Social 9th Jan

2002-12-13 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:43:46AM +, Mark Fowler wrote: There will be an emergency pubmeet on Friday 13 December from 5:30pm at the Knights Templar on Chancery Lane. On Thu 12 Dec 2002, David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a big pub. Where will we be in it? Er, good question.

Cheap stuff for sale

2002-12-13 Thread Kate L Pugh
A friend's company is getting rid of some stuff; anyone wants any of this (buyer collects from er I think somewhere near Bond Street) mail *him* (not *me* and definitely not the list) ASAP. Kake - Forwarded message from David Woolger [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: David Woolger [EMAIL

Re: Perl Merchandise

2002-12-10 Thread Kate L Pugh
Dave Cross wrote: I wonder how many women will be asking for this for Christmas http://www.cafeshops.com/cp/prod.aspx?p=perlmonks.4094414 On Tue 10 Dec 2002, Belden Lyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder how many monger-wives will be receiving it anyway ;) Surely none, since, of course, all

Re: Perl Merchandise

2002-12-10 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Wed 11 Dec 2002, Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why get a bad console with only 5 or 6 good games on it when you can geta better console with more good games available 4 of which come *for free* with it for less money? Because I want to steal cars, tanks, helicopters, and, er, golf

Re: Look ma, no barewords!

2002-12-08 Thread Kate L Pugh
(Thanks to everyone for their comments, and especially to Damian for pointing me at the right bit of the manual.) Damian quoted the perlop manpage: If the operand is an identifier, a string consisting of a minus sign concatenated with the identifier is returned. Nick wrote: But

DBD::SQLite confusion

2002-12-08 Thread Kate L Pugh
Hello. -- #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use DBI; my $db_name = test.db; unlink $db_name; my $dbh = DBI-connect( dbi:SQLite:dbname=$db_name, , ); my $table = test; $dbh-do( CREATE TABLE $table ( foo LONGBLOB ) ); my $sth =

Re: Crazy maths proof

2002-12-08 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Sun 08 Dec 2002, Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consider the word wored 'chewed'. It has two personal pronouns in it -- 'he' and 'we'. Can you find a six letter word that has six pronouns it it? You utter, utter bastard. Look what you made me do:

Re: Look ma, no barewords!

2002-12-07 Thread Kate L Pugh
Must think before posting. On Sun 08 Dec 2002, Kate L Pugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [hummous: kake]$ perl -MData::Dumper -we 'use strict; my $foo = [ -foo ]; print Dumper $foo' $VAR1 = [ '-foo' ]; [hummous: kake]$ A smaller test case is: [hummous: kake]$ perl

perl-qa Wiki

2002-12-05 Thread Kate L Pugh
Forwarding in case there are people here who are interested in this but not on perl-qa. While I was poking around on the wiki (handy hint: in Preferences you can tell it to put a Random Page link in the navigation bar; this is a good way of stumbling across things) I found a link to the Compaq

Re: Email full html with images

2002-12-05 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Thu 05 Dec 2002, Natalie S. Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know some MUA's can read and send HTML mail, but many cannot (mine for example) [...] You seem to be using mutt. Putting this in ~/.mailcap might help: text/html; lynx -force_html -dump %s|less Paul Makepeace posted a more

Search::InvertedIndex revisited

2002-12-01 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Sun 17 Nov 2002, Kate L Pugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyone here who's used Search::InvertedIndex and can point me to some working example code? I'm having great trouble getting my head around it. Just for completeness: I seem to have finally figured it out. Example script

Re: Hello London Perl-Mongers

2002-11-29 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Thu 28 Nov 2002, Philip Pereira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wanted to say an offical Hello to everyone. Hi Philip, welcome to London.pm. Are you in or close to London? If so then you might want to come along to the social meet next Thursday. I'm trying to teach myself Perl - and think

Dude, where's the pub?

2002-11-20 Thread Kate L Pugh
Hello. I have some time off work, and one of the days coincides with the traditional dim sum day of Thursday, and also the tech meet. How useful! So who wants to come for dim sum at lunchtime today? [Thu 21 Nov] The New World at 1pm sounds like a good plan. (Note: this is unconfirmed until

Search::InvertedIndex

2002-11-17 Thread Kate L Pugh
Is there anyone here who's used Search::InvertedIndex and can point me to some working example code? I'm having great trouble getting my head around it. Kake -- http://www.earth.li/~kake/cookery/ - vegan recipes, now with new search feature http://grault.net/grubstreet/ - the open-source guide

Re: Apache question

2002-11-14 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 03:14:42PM +, Kate L Pugh wrote: I have a lightweight server serving static content and server-parsed files, and proxying dynamic content through to a mod_perl server. Unfortunately the server-parsed pages have '#exec cgi' directives in them, and the mod_perl server

Apache question

2002-11-13 Thread Kate L Pugh
I ummed and ahhed for a bit before posting this here, since it isn't about Perl or perlmongers. But I guess if we can talk about beer and ADSL, we can talk about apache. Can I make apache proxying and server-side includes play nicely together? I have a lightweight server serving static content

Perl is someone else's bitch

2002-11-05 Thread Kate L Pugh
http://www.stylishgeek.com/cgi-bin/store/cpshop.cgi/1971912010 Kake -- http://www.earth.li/~kake/cookery/ - vegan recipes, now with new search feature http://grault.net/grubstreet/ - the open-source guide to London http://www.penseroso.com/ - websites for the fine art and antique trade

Re: [ANNOUNCE] BEER HERE, NOT THERE; was: Next Thursday; was: small hairy Belfast.pm geek...

2002-10-23 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Wed 23 Oct 2002, Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is an excellent Chinese restaurant called the Hare and Tortoise inside the shopping centre next to the pub (Find the Cinema in the middle and look around) if you also want to eat. Good food and cheap. Yes, the Hare and Tortoise is very

Re: Next Thursday; was: small hairy Belfast.pm geek...

2002-10-17 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Thu 17 Oct 2002, Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was going to suggest whatever the next alternative pub on Kake's hitlist is. Yorkshire Grey, corner of Theobald's Road and Gray's Inn Road. Good beer, function room upstairs, food, convenience. Unfortunately already booked up for

Re: Announce: Acme::Handwave

2002-10-17 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Thu 17 Oct 2002, Simon Batistoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just give it the data structure you're trying to manipulate, and the result you've been expecting. A little handwaving magic later, and presto! The result you were looking for. So, like Test::MockObject but less useful? Kake (I

Re: More testing -- postgres, transactions

2002-10-16 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Tue 15 Oct 2002, Kate L Pugh wrote: -- is that evil? Relying on DBI to give me the right error message? On Wed 16 Oct 2002, Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes; error messages will always change in the future. That's what I thought, but I couldn't figure out another way of doing

Re: DBI, MySQL, locking, and confusion

2002-10-09 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Wed 09 Oct 2002, Kate L Pugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I'm confused again. Richard unconfused me on IRC. I must not have had enough coffee yet this morning, because as I knew full well but didn't consciously register, $rv will be false if and only if there's an *errror* in the call

Re: Testing whether 'use'ing a module throws warnings

2002-10-06 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Sun 06 Oct 2002, Kate L Pugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good? Bad? Ugly? Ah, and I don't even need the eval, just a block -- the eval was left over from an earlier, uglier attempt that looked at $@ Kake -- http://www.earth.li/~kake/cookery/ - vegan recipes, now with new search feature http

Books left at the pub last night

2002-10-04 Thread Kate L Pugh
Someone left a couple of S. M. Stirling books in the pub last night. If they're yours, let me know and we can work out how to get them back to you. I also have a book for rataxis that he told Alex he would turn up and collect for review. Kake -- http://www.earth.li/~kake/cookery/ - vegan

[ANNOUNCE] Social - Thu 3 Oct - Calthorpe Arms

2002-09-23 Thread Kate L Pugh
The next social meet will be from 6pm on Thursday 3 October, at the Calthorpe Arms on Gray's Inn Road. More details and directions at http://london.pm.org/meetings/locations/calthorpe.html We have the upstairs room booked, so we have plenty of room. Hope to see lots of people there! We

[OT] BCA websites (www.qpd.co.uk etc)

2002-07-17 Thread Kate L Pugh
Does anyone know who was responsible for writing the BCA (Book Club Association) club template sites like http://www.qpd.co.uk/ and http://www.etsp.co.uk/ ? I can't seem to find anything definite online. Thanks, Kake

Re: Proposed Vote on Social Meeting

2002-07-17 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Mon 15 Jul 2002, Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, let's go with the majority, and have a vote. Votes to be in by midnight Thursday/Friday, with an announcement on Friday. On Tue 16 Jul 2002, Kate L Pugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This might be leaving it a little late for pub

[PUB] Report on the Calthorpe Arms

2002-07-15 Thread Kate L Pugh
Some of us went to the Calthorpe Arms last Thursday, to see if it would be suitable for a future social meet. Good points: - Good beer (it's a Young's pub). We were mostly drinking Waggledance, at GBP2.30/pint. They also had bottles of Chocolate Stout, Winter Warmer and Special London Ale.

Re: Proposed Vote on Social Meeting

2002-07-15 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Mon 15 Jul 2002, Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, let's go with the majority, and have a vote. Votes to be in by midnight Thursday/Friday, with an announcement on Friday. This might be leaving it a little late for pub-booking, so should I try to provisionally book the Calthorpe

Charlbury beer festival tomorrow

2002-07-12 Thread Kate L Pugh
I'm going to the Charlbury beer festival tomorrow, partly to meet up with Oxford types, and partly because beer is nice. I'll be getting a train from Paddington around noon-ish. Anyone who wants to come along, drop me an email and we can co-ordinate travel plans. Kake

August social meet - in a pub or at the GBBF?

2002-07-12 Thread Kate L Pugh
Reposting with a new subject line and the References: header nuked, since some people on IRC suggested that this shouldn't be hidden in the middle of an unrelated thread. On Fri 12 Jul 2002, Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I picked up a leaflet for the Great British Beer Festival [0], which

Reminder: pubmeet tonight, Calthorpe Arms

2002-07-10 Thread Kate L Pugh
Just a quick reminder that we will be gathering in the Calthorpe Arms in Gray's Inn Road, tonightfromt 6pm. -- Repost of the original announcement, since I can't find it in the archives:

Dim sum on Thursday

2002-07-09 Thread Kate L Pugh
Hello. It is my birthday today. I am having a week off work. So, we should go for dim sum at the New World at 1pm on Thursday, and consider making it a long lunch hour for those employed, and possibly making an afternoon of it for those on short or long term CFT. Kake

[ANNOUNCE] Emergency pubmeet, Wednesday 10 July, Calthorpe Arms, Holborn

2002-07-05 Thread Kate L Pugh
We're still on the quest for another pub. People are getting fed up with Sam Smith's beer, and with being in a cellar in the summer months, and at least some of us find that the acoustics in the Cittie of Yorke make it very difficult to hear people, once we've filled the place up. A little

[ANNOUNCE] Emergency pub reconnaissance: Audley

2002-06-26 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Wed 12 Jun 2002, Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has been reccomended to me http://www.pubs.com/audlw1.htm Theakstons, Courgae Best and Directors, Camra member I think, good food, full disabled access and a function room.

Re: [PUB CANDIDATE] The Sun Tavern

2002-06-13 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Wed 12 Jun 2002, Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Sun Tavern [...] Went there last night. Very nice pub - the upstairs room is available and feels a lot less like a meeting room than say, The 3 Cups. Alas it is already booked out for Thursday 4 July. Maybe for the August meet,

Report on the Princess Louise

2002-06-13 Thread Kate L Pugh
This is going to be brief; I have no interweb at home so all my email is getting written quickly at work. The Princess Louise is indeed a pretty good pub, and the function room upstairs is spacious and light and rather nice. There's a bar up there and it would be staffed. There would be food

[ANNOUNCE] Emergency pubmeet Tues 11 June: Princess Louise, High Holborn

2002-06-10 Thread Kate L Pugh
Emergency pubmeet tomorrow to check out yet another potential social venue. Our glorious leader wants one for July. So we are going to the Princess Louise on High Holborn from 5:30pm on Tuesday 11 June. http://www.pubs.com/louiwc2.htm

Re: Recognising email addresses

2002-05-31 Thread Kate L Pugh
I wrote: What I want to do is replace all valid email addresses in a piece of text with a mailto: link. Randal L. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Email::Find [...] Ooh, excellent, thanks; that does exactly what I want. I'd have found it, too, if I'd searched on rfc 822 instead of

Recognising email addresses

2002-05-30 Thread Kate L Pugh
Hello. I have been playing with Mail::RFC822::Address, which works like this: -- if (valid([EMAIL PROTECTED])) { print That's a valid address\n; } if (validlist([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED])) { print

Re: (over)use of london.pm-announce?

2002-05-28 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Mon 27 May 2002, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: advocate type=devil The only people who turn up to the emergency social meets are those who helped organise it, from the IRC cabal. No-one has ever turned up for a non-{social,technical} event solely through seeing it on the

Re: dim sum tuesday?

2002-05-27 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Sat 25 May 2002, Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm bouncing around the west end on tuesday arvo. Anyone up for dim sum? Or vegan chinese? Sure, either would suit me. Maybe a slight preference for the vegan Chinese, since we had dim sum only last week.

[ANNOUNCE] Emergency pubmeet: Ivy House, Holborn, Monday 27 May

2002-05-24 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Wed 22 May 2002, Kate L Pugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a new suggestion. The Ivy House on the corner of Southampton Row and Cotton Street, just a minute from Holborn tube, has a big sign on the outside saying free function room available. Anyone up for a trip there some time next

Re: Fwd: [Strange Attractor] Esperanto!

2002-05-23 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Fri 10 May 2002, Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wed June 5th is Esperanto Evening at the Horse Hospital behind Russell Sq. Included is a rare showing of Incubus the only Esperanto film that famously stars William Shatner. I'm up for this; anyone else going to come along? Kake

Re: Report on the Glasshouse Stores

2002-05-22 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Kate L Pugh wrote: Beer: Jon noted that there were no hand-pulled beers. Boo. On Wed 22 May 2002, Jonathan Stowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well that'll be a no from me then. Cool, so you'll come to a meet if we find somewhere with good beer? :) Kake

[ANNOUNCE] Reminder: emergency pubmeet on Tuesday

2002-05-18 Thread Kate L Pugh
Just a reminder that on Tuesday evening (21 May) we are going to check out a pub that Leo has suggested might be good for future social meets: the Glasshouse Stores in Brewer Street, very close to Piccadilly Circus tube. http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?P2M?P=W1F9UJZ=1 It's a Samuel

[ANNOUNCE] Punting, Sunday 19 May

2002-05-14 Thread Kate L Pugh
Hello. I hope this manages to get through in time (penderel is ill). Some of us have been discussing new and exciting types of emergency meets. We have finally become organised, and booked two punts in Oxford for 4--6pm this Sunday, 19 May. This gives us 12 places in total. If you would like

[ANNOUNCE] Emergency pub reconnaissance, Tuesday 21 May

2002-05-03 Thread Kate L Pugh
Leo has come up with a suggested alternative venue for meets -- the Glasshouse Stores in Brewer Street, very close to Piccadilly Circus tube. http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?P2M?P=W1F9UJZ=1 We are going to check it out on Tuesday 21 May from 6:30pm. Please come along and join us.

[ANNOUNCE] Emergency pub reconnaissance, Tuesday 21 May

2002-05-03 Thread Kate L Pugh
Leo has come up with a suggested alternative venue for meets -- the Glasshouse Stores in Brewer Street, very close to Piccadilly Circus tube. http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?P2M?P=W1F9UJZ=1 We are going to check it out on Tuesday 21 May from 6:30pm. Please come along and join us.

Re: Boozy Bank Holidays

2002-04-26 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Sun 21 Apr 2002, David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Monday the 6th of May is a bank holiday. I demand to have the finest cider known to humanity! [...] If you ask nicely, you can come along too. I would like to come. I think this would be fun. Who else is coming, then? Go on, you

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emergency meet this Tuesday (23 April) (in London)

2002-04-23 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Mon 22 Apr 2002, Kate L Pugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pete Sergeant (sheriff on IRC) is in London this week, for the Infosec conference. We are going to meet up with him on Tuesday (that's tomorrow) and drink beer, in the Hand and Flower opposite Olympia. It does good food and good beer

[ANNOUNCE] Emergency meet this Tuesday (23 April) (in London)

2002-04-22 Thread Kate L Pugh
[Sent to both Ox.pm and London.pm-announce] Pete Sergeant (sheriff on IRC) is in London this week, for the Infosec conference. We are going to meet up with him on Tuesday (that's tomorrow) and drink beer, in the Hand and Flower opposite Olympia. It does good food and good beer, apparently.

Proposed emergency meet this Tuesday (23 April) (in London)

2002-04-21 Thread Kate L Pugh
[Sent to both Ox.pm and London.pm] Pete Sergeant (sheriff on IRC) is in London this week. I think we should meet up with him on Tuesday and drink beer. Can someone suggest a venue near Olympia/Kensington? Ox.pm: Yes, this does mean I want to do this instead of travelling to Oxford on

Re: Meeting report

2002-03-12 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Tue 12 Mar 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do we know if enough beer was consumed for similar numbers to justify booking the whole bar (if that makes sense). Yes. Sorry; I did mean to post to the list sooner and mention this. As Paul and I were leaving at the end, the woman who'd been

[ANNOUNCE] Social meet: Thursday 7 March 2002, Cittie of Yorke

2002-02-26 Thread Kate L Pugh
The next social meet will be on Thursday 7th March, at the Cittie of Yorke in Holborn. See http://london.pm.org/meetings/locations/cittieofyorke.html We have the back half of the cellar bar booked from 6pm. This meeting will be going ahead regardless of whether the tube strike is called

bring everyone you know meeting postponed till 4 April

2002-02-24 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Fri 22 Feb 2002, Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A third option is to go ahead with a 'normal' meeting and postpone the 'drag along everyone you know' meeting until April, on the grounds that even if there was some disruption lingering on the tubes, some people would be able to turn up

Splitting up text containing non-ascii characters

2002-02-24 Thread Kate L Pugh
Hello. I have been using the DBIx::FullTextSearch module for doing the search engine on the website we're building at work. It works fine and does almost everything I want. What it doesn't do, though, is let searches for things with accented characters in work whether the accents are there or

Re: london.pm digest, Vol 1 #611 - 24 msgs

2002-02-24 Thread Kate L Pugh
Kate L Pugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any chance people could try to only post when they have something to say? anathema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any chance you could ralise that this would dam london.pm to a tiny little trickle? You're claiming that the amount of content

Re: Splitting up text containing non-ascii characters

2002-02-24 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 02:25:03PM +, Kate L Pugh wrote: For example, I want a search for Dore to turn up Doreacute;, and vice versa. On Sun 24 Feb 2002, Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about HTML::Entities which goes back and forth with those sorts of constructs. Oops, I

Supermarkets [Was: Tea]

2002-02-21 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Thu 21 Feb 2002, Roger Burton West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] the advantages of a supermarket seem to be: - if you don't have one in walking distance, you'll be able to park a car there, which you won't for many markets. I try to shop at local shops rather than supermarkets partly

Re: london.pm digest, Vol 1 #611 - 24 msgs

2002-02-21 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Thu 21 Feb 2002, anathema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *bounce* Is there any chance people could try to only post when they have something to say? I've stopped recommending this list to people now, since they subscribe, see several inane one-liners, unsubscribe, and then complain that I was

Re: Social meet kick up the arse [Was: Return to the Yorke]

2002-02-21 Thread Kate L Pugh
On Tue 19 Feb 2002, the hatter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mmmm, kake. Oh, just a sec, it's cake I mmm for, I've little idea what kake is. You will have an excellent opportunity to find out on March 7th. A social gives people more time to find some people they like, I'd think. Though I've

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