On 13 Oct 2009, at 22:43, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
I'm in favour of our votes being taken to a place of safety,
preferably out of the reach of idiots.
Dude. Godwin.
I made you a verb, but I eated it.
On 23 Dec 2008, at 15:59, Andy Wardley a...@wardley.org wrote:
Chisel Wright accidentally the verb:
I don't this should be limited to Mac folk.
Paul Makepeace wrote:
See how long it takes you to actually come up with a verb that
gives a
substantially
The idea with branding is a bit like user experience design. You
claim that your remit is very broad, including everything about how
the thing in question (the Perl language, the overground network,
whatever) is perceived by its its users, but then, in practice, you
just concentrate on
Obligatory Joel Spolsky quotation:
(http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/DevelopmentAbstraction.html)
When uttered by a software developer, the term marketing simply
stands in for all that business stuff: everything they don't actually
understand about creating software and selling it.
On 5 Dec 2008, at 19:09, Andy Wardley wrote (I paraphrase):
My facelifted *.perl.org: Let me show you it
http://wardley.org/use.perl.org/test.html
Hey! It's... the same, but blue.
Highly recommend http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/ (and Tufte's
books) for design inspiration. There's way
On 2 Oct 2008, at 16:43, Raphael Mankin wrote:
We got few calls. It was possible to go a whole week without being
called out. It helps when a person releasing buggy software knows
that
his colleagues will give him a good kicking in the morning.
In this country, it is wise to beat a
Patrick Mulvany wrote:
Subject Clone 0.13 cuases Segfault
Created Thu Mar 20 04:40:43 2003
Updated Sun Sep 7 02:33:41 2003
Got fixed in the end but ended up replacing the module with a equivilent (storable).
Gook luck
Paddy
There's more than one way to do it. Some of them work
Adrian Howard wrote:
Does that mean that London.pm coders are full
my $gor_blimey ;
my @apples_and_pears;
etc?
die It's all aromatic crispied, mate: $@ if $pete_tong;
Martin Bower wrote:
The parser module works fine, but the final string contains
WHERE date = $today_date
instead of
WHERE date = 2003-09-22
any ideas ?
Use placeholders? See the bind_param part of the DBI doc. (That way you
don't need to substitute in the variable, but pass it to DBI when you
Dave Cross wrote:
It was pointed out last night that london.pm tech meets are becoming
too popular. What I mean is too many people have too many cool things
that they want to tell us about. We have too many speakers :)
A few of us had a discussion about solutions to this problem and
my suggestion
Ben was also seeing:
... some of the problems caused by not
having a (strict | anal | strong | paranoid | batshit ) type system. Certain
types of bugs persist for far longer than they should in 10 line
Perl applications whereas a less laissez-faire type system would flush them
out basically
Curiously, the original article
(http://www.reason.com/0308/cr.vp.why.shtml) explains some of why I'm
uneasy about buffy: the extent to which it carries Standardized American
Memes (good and bad). American tolerance/demand for Moral Closure seems
to be very high, cf. all those films where the
Jonathan Peterson wrote:
P.S. The play Jumpers by Stoppard is on at the NT right now. Deals with
just this topic in a highly clever and amusing way.
Natch clever and amusing (and probably incomprehensible without several
degrees and as-yet-undeveloped hypermedia technology), it's Tom Stoppard.
Phil Lanch wrote:
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:29:02PM +0100, Tim Sweetman wrote:
all. At which point I want to throw the following at Mr Stoppard, but I
don't have a time machine:
Mr Stoppard is alive and well.
I know that, but the sources in question postdate Jumpers. Talented as
Mr Stoppard
Philip Newton wrote:
On 1 Sep 2003 at 12:40, Simon Wistow wrote:
Now, gzipping your outgoing webpages is a good thing cos it cuts down on
transmission time and reduces your bandwidth costs.
Unfortunately it's also fairly processor intensive.
Which is why I heard that it's better to
Toby Corkindale wrote about SQLite:
Transactions, sort-of, in that you get them within a single query; but there's
poor support for simultaneous-request stuff.
Hmm. To my mind that's more like not than sort-of. It's confusing
enough evaluating packages, without people making stuff up, or being
Leon Brocard wrote:
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Class-Prevayler/
It's a nice idea with a little too much hype, but I generally don't
have databases which fit in memory. I mean, otherwise they'd be in
hashes anyway ;-)
It's a curious idea shrouded by great mountain ranges of bombast.
My main
Greg McCarroll wrote:
ah well, maybe its time to be a plumber, after all if your loo breaks
you cant just expect employees to get by, you wouldn't expect them to
come to work every day and deal with a pile of shit after all - sadly
the same isn't true for IT working conditions ;-)
if we'd just
Alex Hudson wrote:
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:36:28AM +0100, Alex McLintock wrote:
You might really say that this is a problem of Open Source as a whole.
Its marketing really sucks.
Double plus for Free Software.
Similarly and earlier, Leon Brocard wrote:
[Perl PR] needs people to just do it.
Billy Abbott wrote:
and yes, it does taste different - temperature affects taste, just try
drinking lager at body temperature :)
otherwise known as drinking lager in England... (;
Andy Williams (IMAP HILLWAY) wrote:
Great thanks.
I had thought of doing that but it needs to know about subroutines that
another programmer may put in an entirely different package. (Basically
I will be the only one to have access to this code).
Er... you seem confused. If you're the only one
appear to need some help organising a piss up in a brewery.
Maybe london.pm could help out?
(timetable optimism worthy of an IT project plan)
Pah
bof
Zzz
ti'
My slides are now on the web (yay!) at:
http://www.lemonia.org/ti/
(The one on wikis was last seen last Thursday in The Angel, passing
through the function room at great speed).
See anyone who's gonna be at YAPC::EU at YAPC::EU.
Cheers
Tim
Lusercop wrote:
Can I just have bad-web-design-sensitive sunglasses. :-/
Lusercop, you're sounding like Jakob Nielsen (who you claim is full of
organic fertilizer) again:
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/2723.html # the death of web design
ti'
Simon Wistow wrote:
Ok, so I agree, it's completely effing crackfuelled. I was just bored.
*adds to big list of pointless things that attract other people to go
'oh, what's that?' when bored*
ti'
Jon Reades wrote:
Shevek wrote:
snip
But in answer to John's comments, look at what DBI does!
You assume that I think DBI is a good model for OO design. ;)
Well it does seem to be kinda useful...
Does mean you can do things like
SESSION_DBI_DATASOURCE=DBI:DBD:informix
or whatever it works[1]
Redvers Davies wrote:
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 11:34, Lusercop wrote:
Pet peeve: Wight
Pet peeve: Shite
I used to have a pet peeve.
It was always complaining. Cats are more friendly.
ti'
Jason Clifford wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Raf wrote:
I haven't used postgres for a while, but I used to use something like
select(next_val(my_sequence)) and then insert this in or something along
those lines. If you find the sp I mean, which grabs the next id in the
sequence id, it'll work for
Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Robert Shiels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Some of us (Kake and I, and maybe others) are going to the pub tommorow
(thursday) night, we will be there from earlyish to lateish. The pub
that has been choosen after much careful thought
David H. Adler wrote:
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 11:22:12AM +0100, Tim Sweetman wrote:
*exasperated* you people. If it's not in a movie it's not worth knowing
about, is it?
There's something other than movies? *gasp*
:-)
So much for paraphrasing from memory.
*Metatron (Alan Rickman
the hatter wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, David H. Adler wrote:
*Metatron (Alan Rickman) http://uk.imdb.com/Name?Rickman,%20Alan*: You
people! If it hasn't been made into a movie, it's not worth knowing
about, is that it?
The question is, did you quote that *because* of the reference to
Lusercop wrote:
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 10:41:48AM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote:
subclasses released by other people? The later is much quicker to do, but
causes major headaches when it's time to refactor the interfaces between
modules.
If you design your interfaces sensibly in the first place, then
Lusercop wrote:
I know of at least one in Waterloo.
Mornington Crescent.
Lusercop wrote:
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 08:58:09AM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
[vi screendump]
The syntax command is unknown.
You didn't show the highlighting! That bit comes up as rev video on my
screen.
Lusercop identifies /J\ as using nvi.
Lusercop's original post was with sun vi.
M-x
Dominic Mitchell wrote:
Klippy would be fun...
Now you're just being silly.
ti'
Nicholas Clark wrote:
I suppose I better make it clear that I don't actually dream about this,
or more accurately I rarely remember my dreams, and none have involved
Linux distributions.
I once dreamt of two of my tech coworkers. They were in a bookshop,
putting copies of one of the dilbert books
Simon Wilcox wrote:
Twin/double sharing (per person)
With EurostarAccom Only
4 nights £315£156
5 nights £349£195
6 nights £384£234
Ben wrote:
What circumstances are there under which eval {}; will not trap a program exit ?
Changing the subject slightly, you can stop an eval from trapping a
program exit by doing something with $@ (like, by doing an eval) within
a DESTROY. Or using a module that does that.
a) exception
Shevek wrote:
[Randal Schwartz's opinion]
Hence my conclusions are warnings are interesting, but not the end
all. Notice when they happen for development. Turn them off for
production.
This implies that you get very high coverage testing in development to
make the warnings totally unnecessary
Chris Benson wrote:
Bzzzt! in 8i and 9i, Oracle defaults to the Cost Based Optimizer.
Unfortunately it needs a (manual)
SQL exec dbms_utilities.gather_schema_statistics('APPS');
(or something like that) to work reasonably well. Viz last week a
4-table query on out of date statistics - 15min to
Andy McFarland wrote:
http://soapenv.org/cookbook/02/07/18/1926233.shtml
With soap tracing on and the heavy xml back from amazon you can see
the wealth of info returned. Packshots, Customer reviews, Release dates
and track listings for cd's, etc, etc.
No strict, no -w, ... *tsk*
ti'
Lusercop wrote:
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 07:21:19PM +, Robin Szemeti wrote:
On Sunday 09 March 2003 15:10, Shevek wrote:
/g evaluated in a list context causes =~ to return a list of all bracketed
^^ note: no is
no no my pretty little vampire slayer ...
Lusercop wrote:
I doubt it will have been melted down, more likely instantly vapourised,
I suspect. And it will probably be friendly-fire that bombs london by the
USAF, because they got their maps upside-down, too.
Dooom.
It's the war elephants with the amphibious assualt capabilities
Simon Wilcox wrote:
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 12:06, Tim Sweetman wrote:
Lusercop wrote:
I doubt it will have been melted down, more likely instantly vapourised,
I suspect. And it will probably be friendly-fire that bombs london by the
USAF, because they got their maps upside-down, too
Jason Clifford wrote:
[On 13 Feb 2003, Simon Wilcox peered dimly into the future of asymmetric warfare]:
OK then, as we rot from the inside in the dust from the dirty bombs let
off around London. Better ?
Well that's easy to avoid. Simply sell more bleach to all muslims ;)
*cough* all
Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Peter == Peter Pimley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Peter ... he says, writing on his QWERTY keyboard
http://www.independent.org/tii/news/liebowitz_economist.html
(Precis: the fable of the QWERTY keyboard - that it was designed to slow
typists DOWN, and yet has
Andy,
Andy Wardley wrote:
Penny Bamborough wrote:
We did write a
perl version of the streetmap engine (with some help from some very nice
people I might add) however performance tests on the system indicated that
the processing power required would cripple the server and our site would
Joel Bernstein wrote:
(Tim quoted)
FWIW, a project I've worked on recently, where I've indulg^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
been forced into serious database renormalisation, has resulted in
queries that used to take ~20sec taking a second, or less...
Joel:
That strikes me as a piece of poor work by the
Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:42:57AM +, Andy Wardley wrote:
I'm a little surprised by that. Although I must admit that I've never
written IIS extensions in C++, I'm surprised that it offers significantly
better performance than a mod_perl solution.
Programmer
Joel Bernstein wrote:
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:53:28AM +, Roger Burton West wrote:
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:31:21AM -0800, Randy J. Ray wrote:
$s = $r;
for (@list) { $s = $s-{$_}; last unless ref $s; }
There's probably a trickier, shorter golf solution, but I was never into
Not wanting to be awkward or anything, but ...
Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 12:10:38PM +, the hatter wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Paul Makepeace wrote:
So there are a bunch of things order by rank. I'd like to implement a
move up/down in SQL. So say the target was
Dave Cross wrote:
I thought the point of a Tivo was that you didn't have to set
it. Doesn't it Just Know?
That's a bit subtle, expecting it to realise that a london.pmer who
regularly watches Buffy watches Buffy, and that it should tape Buffy.
Heuristics are always fallible when making a tricky
Simon Wilcox wrote:
Yes, in this case I know there are no messy rewrites going on (it's site
from an IIS server :)
The specific case I have is an old site with close to 1,000 files in its
directory tree, of which only 380 are actually referenced from the
navigable pages. Even allowing for some
Alex McLintock wrote:
Hi folks,
One of the most common things I need to do is provide some sort of web
interface to a database.
Class::DBI?
--
Tim Sweetman
A L Digital
Who could believe an ant in theory?
A giraffe in blueprint?
Ten thousand doctors of what's possible
Could reason half
?*
Ai
* ie. you have to trust them not to do anything bad. Developers can do
bad things, but only by being vaguely subtle and devious.
--
Tim Sweetman
A L Digital
Who could believe an ant in theory?
A giraffe in blueprint?
Ten thousand doctors of what's possible
Could reason half
at a time of their choosing.
Well, Jakob Nielsen has this to say on the subject:
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/2820.html
Some of you will doubtless respond by doing the reverse (:
--
Tim Sweetman
A L Digital
It's way too broke to fix --- Placebo
Mark Fowler wrote:
Doesn't December come round quickly?
http://www.perladvent.org/2002/
Rght...
so you use IO::AtomicFile, and ... at risk of being picky ...
1. Its temporary filename doesn't incorporate anything random, or the
process ID. So should you
Mark,
Mark Fowler wrote:
eval
{
print {$fh} $self-bar();
print {$fh} $self-baz();
print {$fh} $self-buzz();
$fh-commit;
close $fh;
};
if ($@)
{
... other error handling code ...
}
I can see how that would work. If I was the author I'd probably either
put it as an option in the
climbing up the corner of the building.
Can we have directions which make sense without dropping acid first?
Cheers
--
Tim Sweetman| http://www.thebunker.net/
A L Digital | My, my! If my shell isn't green and not green! I like
that!
Now, Mr. T - you're not supposed to just 'like' koans.
Very well
Lusercop wrote:
Not to mention that the understanding of cryptosystems present in the Perl
modules supplied was, well, risible.
You're confusing tragedy and comedy again.
Cheers
Ti'
Ben wrote:
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 12:47:09PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 11:13:43AM +, David Cantrell wrote:
Stupid programmers forgetting to appropriately quote/escape data before
stuffing it into a database.
INSERT INTO users (userid, username,
if it worked properly, this
would leave you with little idea that anything had gone wrong, or what
had gone wrong.
I don't know whether PHP would behave any more gracefully.
Cheers
--
Tim Sweetman | http://www.thebunker.net/
A L Digital | eXistenZ is _PAUSED_!!! *splat* --- eXistenZ
David Cantrell wrote:
Let me clear up a few things here. I wrote my toy system because I had an
itch which needed scratching. I looked at pre-existing alternatives and
rejected them all for various reasons. The only reason I'm even bothering
to argue about this is because of the incorrect
Shevek wrote:
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Tim Sweetman wrote:
I don't know whether PHP would behave any more gracefully.
Is dumping core considered graceful?
Compared with slurping memory forever or spitting to STDERR forever,
yes, very. One can't really fault a very ill person from leaving
out enough, but not too much, and are easy
to edit etc, probably depends on what systems you're using (but H::T can
cope with most of them). That's not, IMO, the important bit (and not
worth mudwrestling over).
--
Tim Sweetman | http://www.thebunker.net/
A L Digital | *squeak* --- Kate Bush
David Cantrell wrote:
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:09:51PM +, Tim Sweetman wrote:
David Cantrell wrote:
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:26:41AM +, Andy Wardley wrote:
PHP is, or should be, a quick hack language. The fundamental feature
of embedding application code directly
Andy Wardley wrote:
Sounds like you need AML - Andy's/Amazing/Abstract/Another/Arsecrack
Markup Language.
It's like XML, but not quite. It's also like Lisp, but not quite,
It's also like, nearly finished, but not quite.
XML: titleblah blah/title
AML: title:blah blah
Aw, you mean
Lusercop wrote:
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 02:07:12PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
Since noone else has really argued this, I'm going to rise to it, as to
me, Cantrell obviously needs a good kick up the backside.
Grr. I _knew_ connecting my outgoing mail via IP-over-sloth was going to
cause
know, it doesn't add whitespace that you didn't
specify or anything like that.
Cheers
--
Tim Sweetman | http://www.thebunker.net/
A L Digital | The geese flying in formation honk to encourage those
up
front to keep up their speed --- http://www.karinya.com/geese.htm
Ian Brayshaw wrote:
Dave Cross wrote:
I _thought_ I understood XML and DTDs, but I'm obviously missing
something.
snip type=problem with DTD/
It works with xmllint if you use the --loaddtd option. Still not sure
why the browser is being a pig, though.
I see.
So a program
Aaron Trevena wrote:
now the BBC require 5 years experience of databases to be a Software
Enginner and experience of cgi and perl to be a Database Architect.
The latter doesn't sound that silly to me, depending what, exactly, is
involved. I'm presuming they aren't after someone to sit in a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] was thus ridiculed:
Le petit bonhomme rondouillard qui nous fait la pre'sentation est une
pa^te d'englishman
Try this:
NAME
Defense::de::Gourmander - stop people slurping your database
SYNOPSIS
if ($ddg-over_limit($ip_address)) {
shrug (Bof);
# my computer is
.
There is information overload. It is raining very heavily. I do *NOT*
want an umbrella, I want a storm drain, some dams, and a hydro plant.
And possibly some beavers to hang around, look cute, and puzzle
censorware.
(um, coat please ...)
--
Tim Sweetman | http://www.aldigital.co.uk/ (my opinions, etc
Robin Houston wrote:
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 04:36:08PM +, Tim Sweetman wrote:
So: display by thread. *PLEASE*. Or at least have big thread-pages as an
*option*, splitting rilly huge threads into multiple pages.
I think Google Groups does this reasonably nicely.
So it does! Exactly
Lucy McWilliam wrote:
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Chris Devers wrote:
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Anthony Fisher wrote:
It seems clear to me, that in order to secure
a future for the human race with both genetic
diversity and technical skills, the government
should introduce a programme
Greg McCarroll wrote:
Also why can't we have something like the Amelia concept but with a
real person as the figurehead? Or even a group of people standing as a
single entity that can be voted for?
The strategy of having a figurehead capable of dealing with tedious
press conferences, being
.
Tim Sweetman
London, UK, EU
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