ORIGINAL AND BEST January social

2014-12-19 Thread David Cantrell
of weeks. And so I bring to you news of great joy! There will be an ORIGINAL AND BEST social on the 15th of January, at the Kings Arms, Roupell St, Waterloo. http://thekingsarmslondon.co.uk/ The nearest tubes are Southwark and Waterloo. -- David Cantrell | top google result for internet beard

Fwd: [Ukfreebsd] London BSD pub meetup December

2014-12-02 Thread David Cantrell
that has just opened so no one else has found it yet... Monday 8 December 1830 Temple Brewhouse, 46 Essex Street, WC2R 3JF http://citypubcompanyeast.com/our-pubs/temple-brew-house/ -- David Cantrell | Pope | First Church of the Symmetrical Internet Graecum est; non legitur

Re: in town 28-30 nov - emergency meetup?

2014-11-21 Thread David Cantrell
of the reviews of these places talk about wifi? Ugh. Because people don't go to pubs to mess about on laptops, and in any case 3G and 4G are ubiquitous and cheap. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig What plaything can you offer me today?

Re: in town 28-30 nov - emergency meetup?

2014-11-21 Thread David Cantrell
. A coupla months ago they stopped, and now my phone just connects and everything works. Yay. -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness engineer: n. one who, regardless of how much effort he puts in to a job, will never satisfy either the suits or the scientists

Re: Getting the latest related record from a SQL DB

2014-10-13 Thread David Cantrell
database queries. I also like to avoid sub-selects as MySQL has a tendency to optimise them badly (as Gareth said). If you turn the sub-SELECT into a VIEW it seems to optimise them less badly. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist Deck of Cards: $1.29. 101 Solitaire Variations book

Re: Getting the latest related record from a SQL DB

2014-10-10 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 04:56:22PM +, Adam Witney wrote: Could you select all albums, ORDER BY date DESC LIMIT 1 ? I don't think that LIMIT is standard SQL so it won't be supported everywhere. And also I don't think that useful things like DBIx::Class support it. -- David Cantrell | semi

Re: Getting the latest related record from a SQL DB

2014-10-10 Thread David Cantrell
. -- David Cantrell

Re: CGI::Application and recent bash security hole

2014-09-26 Thread David Cantrell
/bin/sh -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 625228 Dec 19 2004 /bin/bash lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Aug 16 2007 /bin/sh - bash On *recent* Debian-ish systems sh isn't bash, but it's foolish to assume that all Debian-ish systems are recent. -- David Cantrell | http

Re: Open/Free BSD users -- help needed to fix Test::PostgreSQL

2014-08-11 Thread David Cantrell
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 11:37:35PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Why use a pretend Unix when you can use a real one? Because more stuff Just Works. HTH. -- David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing Planckton: n, the smallest possible living thing

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London PM Leadership Change

2014-08-08 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 02:55:15PM +0100, Sue Spence wrote: Speaking of socials, last night's meeting featured 2 women and 0 Daves. This is an utter Dave failure and I am disappointed in you all. My absence is, in a round-about way, entirely the fault of the government of Armenia. -- David

Re: [ANNOUNCE] London.pm September Social - Thursday 4th Sep. - De Hems, W1D 5BW

2014-08-08 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 03:40:28PM +0100, J?r?me ?t?v? wrote: For our September social, we'll be heading at De Hems Ooh, good choice! -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic fdisk format reinstall, doo-dah, doo-dah; fdisk format reinstall, it's the Windows way

Deploying perl code

2014-07-24 Thread David Cantrell
of incomplete shell scripts do? -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world While researching this email, I was forced to carry out some investigative work which unfortunately involved a bucket of puppies and a belt sander -- after JoeB, in the Monastery

Re: Deploying perl code

2014-07-24 Thread David Cantrell
once I can type 'myappdeploy live' and be confident that it will Just Work. -- David Cantrell | top google result for topless karaoke murders Immigration: making Britain great since AD43

perl, icloud

2014-07-22 Thread David Cantrell
Does anyone have sample code for retrieving calendars, reminders and contacts from iCloud? -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig fdisk format reinstall, doo-dah, doo-dah; fdisk format reinstall, it's the Windows way

Re: Evaluating user-defined conditions

2014-06-10 Thread David Cantrell
::ParseDistribution::Unix for an example of running user-supplied code in a Safe compartment with a timeout. It may be a bit overkill for your purposes, especially if you've got your own parser/interpreter. And obviously it's no good if you need to support legacy platforms. -- David Cantrell | top

Re: Regex to match odd numbers

2014-05-28 Thread David Cantrell
the /a flag in effect (thanks Unicode!) I'm sure that if the p5p cabal want to spoil peoples' day, they have far more entertaining things they can do than to release perl version 5.2Ù¥. -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness Irregular English: ladies glow; gentlemen

[ANNOUNCE] Social TONIGHT: Trinity Arms, Brixton, SW9 8DR

2014-05-01 Thread David Cantrell
Tonight in accordance with ancient custom some of us are going to the Trinity Arms in Brixton for beer, more beer, perhaps some food, and more beer. People will start turning up from about 6:30 onwards. http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Trinity_Arms,_SW9_8DR -- David Cantrell | semi

Re: Finding the intersection between two regexes

2014-04-25 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 07:38:55AM +0200, Abigail wrote: On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 12:47:04AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: On 24/04/2014 23:28, Mark Fowler wrote: On Thursday, April 24, 2014, Michael Lush mjl...@gmail.com wrote: if ($x =~ /^246[2-9]\d{6}$/ and $x =~ /^246(?:(?:2[346

[ANNOUNCE] ORIGINAL AND BEST social, Thu 1 May

2014-04-25 Thread David Cantrell
?Trinity_Arms,_SW9_8DR -- David Cantrell | top google result for topless karaoke murders IMO, the primary historical significance of Unix is that it marks the time in computer history where CPUs became so cheap that it was possible to build an operating system without adult supervision

Re: Finding the intersection between two regexes

2014-04-25 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 12:37:17PM -0400, Mark Fowler wrote: David Cantrell wrote: I require no such blood sacrifice for my code, but do insist that the tests still pass on perl 5.8.8. That makes sense. So we sadly can't use /a. Although you can use fancy new features in the build scripts

Re: Finding the intersection between two regexes

2014-04-24 Thread David Cantrell
that the tests still pass on perl 5.8.8. https://github.com/DrHyde/perl-modules-Number-Phone Assuming that you actually care, and aren't just pedanting in the finest custom of this august group, of course :-) -- David Cantrell | top google result for internet beard fetish club Nuke a disabled

Re: Finding the intersection between two regexes

2014-04-22 Thread David Cantrell
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 10:14:48PM -0400, Mark Fowler wrote: On Sunday, April 20, 2014, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: Can anyone point me at some code on the CPAN that, given two regexes, can figure out whether there are any bits of text that will be matched by both? I'm

Finding the intersection between two regexes

2014-04-20 Thread David Cantrell
in covering all the utterly loopy things that one can do with perl regexes, of course. What I'm really after is a version of this: http://qntm.org/greenery because I'm *far* too lazy to port it myself. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic We decided that in a world of 8

Re: Releasing a module with additional dependencies

2014-04-16 Thread David Cantrell
to be a Bad Thing? That's what I'd do. It keeps things simple for both you and your users. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig Guns aren't the problem. People who deserve to die are the problem.

You make a lovely teddy bear

2014-03-27 Thread David Cantrell
-labs.com/cm/cs/tpop/debugging.html -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive Planckton: n, the smallest possible living thing

Re: XP-Replacement for Parents

2014-03-27 Thread David Cantrell
be able to get the scanner working from inside a VM. You then configger stuff so that the VM can only talk over the network to the host machine, and set up some kind of shared directory between the host and the VM. Virtualbox FTW. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice IMO, the primary

Re: XP-Replacement for Parents

2014-03-27 Thread David Cantrell
On 27/03/2014 17:34, Smylers wrote: David Cantrell writes: On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 03:21:02PM +, Smylers wrote: Note my concerns weren't about the OS's user interface, but scanner support and a couple of decades' worth of WordPerfect documents. Assuming that Ubuntu supports the scanner

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Damian Conway Speaking at London.pm: Monday, 10th March

2014-03-13 Thread David Cantrell
a patch from someone to make it use, eg, Term::Screen :-) -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information The test of the goodness of a thing is its fitness for use. If it fails on this first test, no amount of ornamentation or finish will make it any better, it will only make

Re: Hash::Util's lock_keys

2014-02-19 Thread David Cantrell
::Vivify-new(sub { confess(No auto-vivifying\n.Dumper(\@_)); }); It's still a run-time error, but at least it's a nice obvious run-time error. But I confess to not basing my objects on it. I suppose I could, because re-blessing tied objects does leave the tie() magic intact. -- David Cantrell

Re: EMERGENCY SOCIAL . . .

2013-12-05 Thread David Cantrell
all :-) -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig IMO, the primary historical significance of Unix is that it marks the time in computer history where CPUs became so cheap that it was possible to build an operating system without adult supervision. -- Russ Holsclaw

Re: I have a bikeshed, colour suggestions appreciated

2013-12-03 Thread David Cantrell
. It Depends, of course. I think you need to post photos of where it's going to be. -- David Cantrell Professor of Unvironmental Science University of Human Progress

Re: Database Design Advice

2013-11-08 Thread David Cantrell
. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig fdisk format reinstall, doo-dah, doo-dah; fdisk format reinstall, it's the Windows way

Re: Tourist-y suggestions?

2013-11-04 Thread David Cantrell
John Soane's museum. Horniman museum. The current exhibition of Australian art at the Royal Academy is excellent. SOAS has an exhibition about Zoroastrianism http://www.theeverlastingflame.com/ which looks interesting. I reckon that lot should be enough to keep you busy :-) -- David Cantrell

Re: filesystems for external drivesx

2013-11-04 Thread David Cantrell
of years ago in *BSD, which limit filesystems to (I think) 1TB. Or maybe 2. Something small anyway. Or NFS, of course, backed with a POSIXy filesystem. -- David Cantrell | Pope | First Church of the Symmetrical Internet PLEASE NOTE: This message was meant to offend everyone equally, regardless

Re: ORMs du jour?

2013-10-21 Thread David Cantrell
later. There's even a reasonably smooth and gentle learning curve to get to them. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you're reading it in English, thank Chaucer.

Re: Could use some hotel/travel help

2013-09-26 Thread David Cantrell
. Booking.com knows about areas of London, so no postcode necessary, just tell it Paddington or Euston. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig You can't spell slaughter without laughter

Re: Perl publishing and attracting new developers

2013-09-19 Thread David Cantrell
-unit-testing-1e The language is irrelevant. That link, incidentally, is to the first edition, which is a very good book indeed. There's a second edition out next week, which I've not seen. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information NANOG makes me want to unplug everything

Re: Assigning Classes

2013-09-10 Thread David Cantrell
capacity and no class has just one student. See Alvin Roth's Nobel prize in economics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_E._Roth#New_England_Program_for_Kidney_Exchange -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age IMO, the primary historical significance of Unix is that it marks the time

Re: Assigning Classes

2013-09-10 Thread David Cantrell
where students buy a place in a queue, then they get to choose, in order, which course to do? Bonus points if you suggest that the bursar pay you commission. -- David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged

Re: September social

2013-08-31 Thread David Cantrell
is mildly inconvenient for me. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Us Germans take our humour very seriously -- German cultural attache talking to the Today Programme, about the German supposed lack of a sense of humour, 29 Aug 2001

Re: Perl 5.16 vs Ruby 2.0 UTF-8 support

2013-08-30 Thread David Cantrell
) or b) broken a implies b. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Your call is important to me. To see if it's important to you I'm going to make you wait on hold for five minutes. All calls are recorded for blackmail and amusement purposes.

Re: Assigning anonymous hash to a list

2013-08-01 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:44:23PM -0300, Hernan Lopes wrote: if you dont understood what i meant, i am not going to explain. I normally find that if someone can't get another to understand what they mean, then they don't really understand it themselves. -- David Cantrell | A machine

[ANNOUNCE] Joint Croyden.pm / London.pm social, TONIGHT!

2013-08-01 Thread David Cantrell
without either air conditioning or a gigantic heatsink custom fitted to my head. More details and directions here: http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Dog_And_Bull,_CR0_1RG I'll probably be in the garden out the back. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig For every vengeance

Re: isolating thread-unsafe modules

2013-07-30 Thread David Cantrell
for returning data from a forked child to the parent. * the right sort of evil and hacky though -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire fdisk format reinstall, doo-dah, doo-dah; fdisk format reinstall, it's the Windows way

Re: isolating thread-unsafe modules

2013-07-30 Thread David Cantrell
On 30/07/2013 20:38, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote: On 30 Jul 2013, at 14:54, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: Parallel::ForkManager has some (evil, hacky*) support for returning data from a forked child to the parent. And I've used it. Works fine. So have I, to work around

Re: Which modules do you allow yourself to use for production?

2013-07-23 Thread David Cantrell
machine built in the last five years can run multiple virtual machines. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information I remember when computers were frustrating because they did exactly what you told them to. That seems kinda quaint now. -- JD Baldwin, in the Monastery

[ANNOUNCE] Combined London.pm and Croyden.pm social, 1 AUg 2013

2013-07-15 Thread David Cantrell
social will be held in conjunction with Croyden.pm at the Dog Bull, Surrey St, CR0 1RG: http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Dog_And_Bull,_CR0_1RG -- David Cantrell | top google result for internet beard fetish club

Re: Almost on-topic

2013-07-12 Thread David Cantrell
On 12/07/2013 10:58, Denny wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAMSrKqpl_c I wonder why you can't just anaesthetize it and put it on the scales with a forklift. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence The voices said it's a good day to clean my weapons

[ANNOUNCE] Emergency social, Monday 15 Jul

2013-07-12 Thread David Cantrell
. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice

Re: Living with smart match breakage

2013-07-04 Thread David Cantrell
is indeed convoluted. It's a good thing that the 'experimental' pragma does that for you then. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig I remember when computers were frustrating because they did exactly what you told them to. That seems kinda quaint now. -- JD Baldwin

Re: New pet keeping rules in the Netherlands

2013-06-20 Thread David Cantrell
* dog * rabbit * cow Note that they are all non-native. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive Languages for which ISO-Latin-$n is not necessary, #1 in a series: Latin

Re: New pet keeping rules in the Netherlands

2013-06-20 Thread David Cantrell
On 20/06/2013 22:39, Damian Conway wrote: One of our commonest house spiders is the ominously named Huntsman. They are nocturnal and their venom is non-lethal to humans. Obviously an import then. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic Graecum est; non legitur

Re: Living with smart match breakage

2013-06-15 Thread David Cantrell
being hard to remember or type, but about it being convoluted. They're different. -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity -- Hanlon's Razor Stupidity maintained long enough is a form of malice -- Richard Bos's

Re: Living with smart match breakage

2013-06-14 Thread David Cantrell
custom operators using XS. -- David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing There are many different types of sausages. The best are from the north of England. The wurst are from Germany. -- seen in alt.2eggs...

Re: Living with smart match breakage

2013-06-14 Thread David Cantrell
doesn't it or is there comprehensive testing of every current release on CPAN when a new perl is being prepared for release? There are a few people who run all of the CPAN past new perl releases these days, especially perl release candidates. -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda

Re: Living with smart match breakage

2013-06-13 Thread David Cantrell
. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes in the house. -- Robert A Heinlein

Re: proposing an emergency social meeup July 15th

2013-06-04 Thread David Cantrell
onwards. I'll book the upstairs room. http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Horse_And_Groom,_SW1X_7BA -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire All principles of gravity are negated by fear -- Cartoon Law IV

Re: npm, PyPi overtake CPAN

2013-05-24 Thread David Cantrell
land. So having a mirror is useful. 4) you can set up funky distorting mirrors, eg cpXXXan or Pinto and can easily use the public toolchain for private code. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice Human Rights left unattended may be removed, destroyed, or damaged

Re: [off topic] Any londoners know a good 'puter repair place near the city/bishopsgate or docklands?

2013-05-24 Thread David Cantrell
appraisal of what's wrong with the laptop and back up the data for her would be much appreciated Somewhere near Spitalfields would probably be especially helpful If it's a Mac then go to the shop on Cheshire St. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david I apologize if I

Re: Quarantining crap HTML?

2013-05-21 Thread David Cantrell
it doesn't bugger up the rest of the page? Embed it using an iframe. -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness You may now start misinterpreting what I just wrote, and attacking that misinterpretation.

Re: Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-15 Thread David Cantrell
been decidedly on the back burner, due to laziness :-) -- header FROM_DAVID_CANTRELLFrom =~ /david.cantrell/i describe FROM_DAVID_CANTRELLMessage is from David Cantrell scoreFROM_DAVID_CANTRELL15.72 # This figure from experimentation

Re: Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-15 Thread David Cantrell
in five minutes, and find that because I don't know the tools I get frustrated and give up after half an hour in python. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice More people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.-- W C Fields

Re: URL shorteners (was: Re: ISNIC DNS)

2013-05-08 Thread David Cantrell
that useful? There's a world outside twitter, and URLs that line-wrap can be a pain in the arse depending on what email clients people are using, what MUAs messed around with stuff in the middle, and the phase of the moon. -- David Cantrell Professor of Unvironmental Science University of Human Progress

Re: URL shorteners (was: Re: ISNIC DNS)

2013-05-08 Thread David Cantrell
in an exhibition catalogue to a website, and I've seen art galleries make use of them to have a buy this now link on the wall next to a work. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist [OS X] appeals to me as a monk, a user, a compiler-of-apps, a sometime coder, and an easily amused

Re: Number::Fraction

2013-05-07 Thread David Cantrell
or behaviours, then that's their problem and they should expect it to break. Likewise if they monkey-patch my code. If they want more stuff documented, or want stuff changed, then the correct thing to do is not to just charge ahead like a bull in a china shop, but to submit a patch. -- David

Re: PDF creation?

2013-04-23 Thread David Cantrell
how to drive LaTeX and how to trawl CTAN etc for useful packages. Yes. And if you can't do that, consider just producing PostScript, and then converting with ps2pdf. -- David Cantrell | top google result for internet beard fetish club EINE KIRCHE! EIN KREDO! EIN PAPST!

Re: API wrapper best practices?

2013-03-25 Thread David Cantrell
- and if you later find that some of your classes need to be a bit more full-fat, it's easy to implement them while still using classes generated on the fly for everything else. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence All principles of gravity are negated by fear

Re: Raising Perl awareness on Tiobe + Wikipedia, etc.

2013-03-21 Thread David Cantrell
and may or may not have taken some damage to the head. He thinks he's just fine though. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist Fashion label: n: a liferaft for personalities which lack intrinsic buoyancy

Re: Raising Perl awareness on Tiobe + Wikipedia, etc.

2013-03-20 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 04:58:38PM +0800, AJ Dhaliwal wrote: Good points. I wonder about node.js. JS was designed to be a scripting language. Aren't they pushing it too far with node.js? So was perl, but it seems to do OK. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic

Re: Raising Perl awareness on Tiobe + Wikipedia, etc.

2013-03-20 Thread David Cantrell
, the film, the comedians, and the aircraft engine. For perl, the only reason that I know about the place is because ooh look, a place with the same name as a programming language, how funny and, errm, that's it. -- David Cantrell | top google result for topless karaoke murders The whole aim

Re: New perl features?

2013-03-19 Thread David Cantrell
I'd like to talk about cheese. Then start a new thread under a relevant subject. Netiquette 101. -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Morbi nec turpis lorem. Donec eu erat vitae quam convallis feugiat

Re: More advice about becoming a freelance Perl programmer

2013-03-07 Thread David Cantrell
expect them to stay for longer, so can allow time for getting up to speed with the tools. Of course, this doesn't apply if you're the sort of idiot who hires a contractor for months or years on end, making them effectively a proper employee but more expensive. -- David Cantrell | top google result

Re: Croyden.pm future meetings

2013-02-19 Thread David Cantrell
, it's just that it happened to be convenient this time. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive EINE KIRCHE! EIN KREDO! EIN PAPST!

[ANNOUNCE] Reminder: Croyden.pm, this Thursday, 14 Feb

2013-02-11 Thread David Cantrell
An gentle reminder, gentle folks, that Croyden.pm will be meeting at the Dog Bull, Surrey St, Croydon, CR0 1RG, on Thursday 14 Feb. -- David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing There is no one true indentation style, But if there were KR would be Its Prophets. Peace be upon Their Holy Beards.

Re: Perl School 4: Database Programming with Perl and DBIx::Class

2013-02-06 Thread David Cantrell
. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig What a lovely day! Now watch me spoil it for you.

[OT] blessed sub-refs in the symbol table

2013-01-31 Thread David Cantrell
-MImmortal -e '*Foo::bar = Immortal-new(); Foo::bar(); *Foo::bar = sub {print blargh\n}; Foo::bar();' called the object blargh called DESTROY looks like the blessed sub continues to exist right to the end of the process, even though all references to it have gone away. Is this a bug? -- David

Re: Assign method call to hash value?

2013-01-30 Thread David Cantrell
? The only case I imagine it would break would be a hypothetical {%original, key= @odd_list }, but I don't know why anyone would do that. Perhaps it would be nice if it had been like that right from the start, but ... http://grep.cpan.me/?q=%3D%3E+%40 -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy

Re: Updating lots of database fields in a single row

2013-01-24 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 04:49:17PM +0100, Abigail wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 03:38:08PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: Tied variables ;-) Overloaded constants, and not even your place holders are safe. Stupid language. Let's all use C instead. -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler

Royal Society public lecture

2013-01-23 Thread David Cantrell
This lecture http://royalsociety.org/events/2013/logic-computer-science/ looks like it might interest some of you. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig NANOG makes me want to unplug everything and hide under the bed -- brian d foy

Re: PHP community

2013-01-17 Thread David Cantrell
in human languages as in programming languages. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla.

[ANNOUNCE] Croyden.pm social, 14 Feb

2013-01-09 Thread David Cantrell
Croyden.pm will be meeting at the Dog Bull, Surrey St, CR0 1RG, on the 14th of February. All of you - even those from the wrong side of the river - are welcome. -- header FROM_DAVID_CANTRELLFrom =~ /david.cantrell/i describe FROM_DAVID_CANTRELLMessage is from David Cantrell score

Re: cpan you have to see

2012-12-14 Thread David Cantrell
$? 0 $ true echo it was true it was true which is bloody irritating. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist PLEASE NOTE: This message was meant to offend everyone equally, regardless of race, creed, sexual orientation, politics, choice of beer, operating system, mode of transport

Re: cpan you have to see

2012-12-14 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 09:45:25PM +, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote: Would hurling a PBP test at the whole of CPAN to get a metric be of any benefit? It would certainly be interesting. -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat NANOG makes me want to unplug everything

Re: Testsuites and External Dependancies?

2012-12-06 Thread David Cantrell
C pre-requisites such as libraries, it's not really for installing commercial closed-source software. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information Eye have a spelling chequer / It came with my pea sea It planely marques four my revue / Miss Steaks eye kin knot sea. Eye strike

Re: Perl outreach

2012-11-27 Thread David Cantrell
of stuff to already fill it with. -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat

Re: 25 Years of Perl

2012-11-20 Thread David Cantrell
. This was quietly revolutionary. How many webhosts do we think would ship several perls for several different database engines? About as many as give you a choice of database engines. Approximately none. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david There's no problem so complex that it can't

[ANNOUNCE] Reminder: london.pm social tomorrow, 2012-11-01

2012-10-31 Thread David Cantrell
fine beverages. If you're planning on meeting us half way, then please phone me (+44 7979 866975) when you get to Brighton to find out where we are. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice In this episode, R2 and Luke weld the doors shut on their X-Wing, and Chewbacca discovers that his

Presentation tools

2012-10-31 Thread David Cantrell
when I bash on a bluetooth thing. And to be able to spit out an AVI to Dropbox showing slides, where I was pointing, and with the soundtrack. Does anything remotely like this exist? Must work on an iPad. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world comparative and superlative

Re: I love git

2012-10-28 Thread David Cantrell
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 11:32:08PM +, David Flynn wrote: * David Cantrell (da...@cantrell.org.uk) wrote: Now, my question - can I delete the branch, while still leaving the tag in place? Yes, branches (as are tags) are just pointers to commits. As long as a commit is reachable via some

Re: I love git

2012-10-28 Thread David Cantrell
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 12:13:27PM +, Leo Lapworth wrote: On 28 October 2012 12:06, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: Now, having deleted the branch on one machine, and pushed the delete to github, how do I make it disappear everywhere else that I've got a copy of the repo

I love git

2012-10-27 Thread David Cantrell
into master. Doing all of that in CVS doesn't bear thinking about, and doing it in svn, while possible, would have required at least a little bit of thought, and I'm not good at thinking this late in the day. Now, my question - can I delete the branch, while still leaving the tag in place? -- David

Re: Perl syntax highlighting

2012-10-26 Thread David Cantrell
: Back when I used cgit, I wrote a little script that wrapped around perltidy for syntax highlighting. These days I just let github do all that. -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable

Re: UKUUG: [UKUUG-Announce] UKUUG - FLOSS UK - Un-Conference - Tomorrow! - London

2012-10-26 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:58:15AM +0100, Manuel Corpas wrote: Is there a mail list to know about these event more in advance in the future? I sent something out about it a coupla weeks ago. So yes, this one!. -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age Erudite is when you make

Re: Hotels for the LPW

2012-10-25 Thread David Cantrell
have been asked and i know there is a vast wealth of knowledge and experience on this list i thought I might throw the question to the masses. Londoners are the worst people to ask this, cos we don't use hotels in London! -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice Every normal man must

Re: Hotels for the LPW

2012-10-25 Thread David Cantrell
-london.co.uk/ -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat The voices said it's a good day to clean my weapons

Social, 1 Nov, Brighton

2012-10-16 Thread David Cantrell
Please let me know if you think you'll come on the pub crawl in Brighton on Thu 1 Nov. -- David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing Computer Science is about lofty design goals and careful algorithmic optimisation. Sysadminning is about cleaning up the resulting mess.

Re: Wanted: Speakers for London.pm Technical Meeting

2012-10-16 Thread David Cantrell
volunteer to jibber on at you all about unit testing, but I ain't gonna have time to get everything read in time. -- David Cantrell | top google result for internet beard fetish club Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it-- Agatha

Re: Wanted: Speakers for London.pm Technical Meeting

2012-10-16 Thread David Cantrell
the technical or community aspects - both are IMO very interesting and provide, in many ways, very different perspectives (but also some surprising similarities). Do you think that between you and Pedro you could do both? :-) -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig Fashion label: n

FLOSS UK Unconference 27th October

2012-10-10 Thread David Cantrell
to have talk on any subject related to free software and hardware, and previous events suggest that there will be a fair amount of general discussion separate to the talks as well. Further details are available from http://www.flossuk.org/Events/Unconference2012 -- David Cantrell | top google

[ANNOUNCE] Social, 1 Nov 2012, Evening Star, BN1 3PB

2012-10-05 Thread David Cantrell
London and Brighton, with journeys taking about an hour from Victoria or London Bridge. The last northbound train leaves at 11:30-ish, so there's plenty of time for working your way through all the delicious foaming ales that the Evening Star has. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer

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