Amusing rewrite:
http://caseyfiesler.com/2014/11/18/barbie-remixed-i-really-can-be-a-computer-engineer/
On Wednesday, November 19, 2014, Guinevere Nell guinevere.n...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi London.pm (ers)
Having just got a reminder from perl's Barbie about LPW, it occured to me
that I could
Why not include a sub-select like,
... where album.published = (select max(album.published) from album
join artist on album.artist_id = artist.id) ...
Paul
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 5:28 AM, Andrew Beverley a...@andybev.com wrote:
Hi guys,
I'm after some best-practice advice regarding SQL
$thread-resurrect();
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Mark Fowler m...@twoshortplanks.com wrote:
On Tuesday, May 27, 2014, Sam Kington s...@illuminated.co.uk wrote:
Sounds like you want something like
/ ( ^ 5[.] ( [79] | \d+ [13579] ) ) /x
This is where I mention that \d matches
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Schmoo schmoos...@gmail.com wrote:
On 24 July 2014 22:31, Paul Makepeace pa...@paulm.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 2:06 PM, James Laver james.la...@gmail.com wrote:
Then I’ll double down on my capistrano/tak recommendation.
capistrano is a (the?) winner
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:16 AM, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 10:14:48PM -0400, Mark Fowler wrote:
On Sunday, April 20, 2014, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
Can anyone point me at some code on the CPAN that, given two regexes,
can figure
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 2:55 AM, david da...@chromiq.org wrote:
Thread drifting for a moment, do folks have any recommendations for where to
buy reasonably priced, legal Win 7 licenses ? I really should upgrade my
compatability platform...
The trick is to go for the OEM license. This is
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Martin A. Brooks mar...@antibodymx.net wrote:
I don't think I would recommend trying to videoconference over a 3G
connection. Not as anything other than a one-off emergency thing, anyway.
Works fine in my experience in the US, which on balance has a shittier
On Feb 25, 2014 7:16 AM, James Laver james.la...@gmail.com wrote:
On 25 Feb 2014, at 11:31, Matt Lawrence matt.lawre...@virgin.net wrote:
On 25/02/14 11:18, James Laver wrote:
But I probably already have List::MoreUtils imported (because Perl).
sub pairwise_sum ($a1, $a2) {
zip
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Steve Mynott steve.myn...@gmail.com wrote:
http://perltricks.com/article/72/2014/2/24/Perl-levels-up-with-native-subroutine-signatures
Finally. But don't believe the python/perl comparison troll, as
python, for once, actually outguns perl on a character chomping
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
...or the IRC channels for the thing you're having problems with.
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think I know, I'll ask
on IRC. Now they have two problems.
:)
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk wrote:
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:18:14AM -, Andrew wrote:
Looking to try using an Integrated Development Environment.
Why? What problem are you having that you expect an IDE to solve?
He wants to *try* it.
The features I
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Kent Fredric kentfred...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm curious what the definition of Integrated means in this context.
Think of it as already integrated :)
Sure you could make your editor do stuff like an IDE but the IDE
*already does it*.
The scripting IDEs from
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Mark Fowler m...@twoshortplanks.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Paul Makepeace pa...@paulm.com wrote:
$ perl -le '($a = aabbb) =~ s/b*$/c/g; print $a'
This is where tools like Regexp::Debugger shine. Running
perl -le 'use Regexp::Debugger
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Kent Fredric kentfred...@gmail.com wrote:
I would just like to convey my disappointment that mauve.bikeshed.org
renders as blue.
Wait 'til you see http://cream.bikeshed.org/
I think we should table a meeting to discuss a revised painting review
process going
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote:
Dear knowledgeable hive mind,
1) I can mount NTFS read/write on Linux. But is there any good way on Linux
to correctly copy files from one NTFS file system to another, preserving
everything? (specifically Alternate
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk wrote:
Much of the blog post can be basically summed up by the languages I use are
too verbose, error-prone and inflexible that an ORM does not win me
anything[0]. Which is something I quite agree with.
In case anyone was
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
philippe.bru...@free.fr wrote:
Some of the secret ops are actually awesome, used in production code,
and deserve to be better known. From the top of my head: 0+ !! @{[]} ()x!!
Seriously. Perl's lack of a string eval interpolation
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk wrote:
If somebody new discovers Perl and uses it, that's great. If they don't, I'm
cool with that too.
Well if perl doesn't attract new developers, and the existing user
base is a diminishing set, perl will eventually run out
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 8:39 AM, gvim gvi...@gmail.com wrote:
The problematic mail file doesn't display any non-ASCII characters when
opened in Vim. Here's the Ruby 2.0 error message:
How about when you hexdump it?
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 9:15 AM, gvim gvi...@gmail.com wrote:
On 22/08/2013 17:05, Paul Makepeace wrote:
How about when you hexdump it?
I wouldn't know but here's the result of hexdump -C (literal text removed
from line end):
You're looking for high bits in the characters, as a first
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Diana Donca diana.do...@evozon.com wrote:
I'm Diana Donca, member of cluj.pm.
I read this quickly and thought that was one of those non-geographic cute
.pm's referring to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kludge but actually it's a
place in Romania. Welcome (soon)
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Avishalom Shalit avisha...@gmail.com wrote:
wait, aren't $a and $b special ?
(they magically live for {$a=$b} etc. )
IIRC, they're local'ised within the sort block.
You can try it yourself,
$ perl -wle 'print a=$a (pre init); $a = 5; @f = sort {print a=$a
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Andrew Beverley a...@andybev.com wrote:
my $select_fields = $fields ? join(',', map { 'users.' . $_ } @fields)
: '*';
my $select_fields = @fields ? join(',', map { 'users.' . $_ } @fields)
: '*';
?
Maybe a lesson in variable naming there ;-)
Paul
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Andrew Beverley a...@andybev.com wrote:
get();
sub get($)
(You probably know this but calling get() like that, i.e. before it's
declared, is denying perl the chance to enforce the subroutine
prototype.)
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk wrote:
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 01:04:11PM -0300, Hernan Lopes top-posted:
it should be the same size to do what he wants... otherwise it wont work.
Why should? Perl doesn't require the LHS of an array assignment have the
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Mark Fowler m...@twoshortplanks.com wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 July 2013 at 11:10, Daniel de Oliveira Mantovani wrote:
in #perl at freenode
freenode is…well, freenode. Most people on this list would not consider
it the 'home' of Perl on irc.
irc.perl.org
Wow, and I thought Oakland (California) was permissive allowing us, in
a large (~1M pop.) city, to keep cows and horses. You need an acre
minimum for a horse, but so long as you can demonstrate adequate
manure processing capacity, cows are a go.
Where is this fabulous discussion happening? Is
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Dirk Koopman d...@tobit.co.uk wrote:
An URL in English:
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2013/06/new_official_rules_you_can_kee.php
The approved list contains animals such as dogs, cats, hamsters, mink
and water buffalo.
I'm sorry but one of these animals
http://modulecounts.com/
... with Rubygems screaming ahead since overtaking CPAN a couple of years
ago. And the hugeness of Maven Central.
I'm sure there's plenty of caveats etc but the gradients is probably what's
most interesting here; CPAN is relatively static compared with, well, all
the
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote:
The IP address 2001:1850:1:0:107:0:0:d of nameserver fns1.dnspark.net is
missing its PTR record or has an incorrect PTR record.
$ host 2001:1850:1:0:107:0:0:d
Host
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Sam Kington s...@illuminated.co.uk wrote:
I'm slightly concerned that the specific questions are susceptible to being
googled. Does anyone have any good examples of non-googlable interview
questions that could be answered (or not) over IRC or a similar medium?
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 4:09 AM, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote:
I think the best programmers don't stick with the language they know. I
think they see a new language as largely a case of learning new syntax and
enjoy having a number of languages to choose from so they can use the best
one
On Jan 24, 2013 8:48 AM, Greg McCarroll g...@mccarroll.org.uk wrote:
No no no, lets just use any language that our process analyst consultant
decides - they can come up with a long winded approach to software
development that will ensure the lack of any possible security holes by
providing
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:23 PM, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
$ true echo it was true
This makes sense. Think of true as thing that succeeded rather
than OMG it's 0 so must be false!!1!
Ruby treats everything as true unless it's nil or false (so yes, 0 and
'' are true). Bit
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Dirk Koopman d...@tobit.co.uk wrote:
It isn't that perl isn't fashionable any more, it is that it is actively
being promoted as unfashionable. People will get fired for buying perl.
Or (yet another analogy): perl is to programming what smoking is to
workplaces
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:01 AM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote:
On 11/23/2012 02:43 AM, Andrew Savige wrote:
Live Perl Golf Apocalypse 2000 at TPC 4, aka uri's triumph.
wow. that was a painful event. saved by damian's fill in talk and forgiven
by gnat. it was a team failure, so i
I'd agree with you on python but I can say the Ruby community is packed
full of nutballs and is very entertaining. Probably not too surprising
considering ruby's perlish origins. So perhaps chalk that up to perl too ;)
Written on my phone
On Nov 23, 2012 6:57 PM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Sam Kington s...@illuminated.co.uk wrote:
Some mention should be made also of the attempt to rewrite the entire Unix
support structure in Perl - things like ls, find, head etc. I don't think
this ever went very far, and it appears to be very difficult to Google
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:03 PM, andrew-per...@mail.black1.org.uk wrote:
1995 Economist 1 JulyThe..servers that make up the most
popular part of the Internet are often written in Perl, and
virtually all Web-based information exchanges are handled with the
language.
How the
A niche perl-based language is having its first UK-wide conference
http://2013.britruby.com/cfp (with an all-star cast mostly from the
US, afaict)
:)
Paul
Do you shout your name because some recruiters shout PERL?
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote:
maybe i overstepped in calling that a serious coder filter. i would never
just use that determining a skilled coder. it could be useful to filter out
the total losers. i speak to hiring managers all the time and they give
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 2:49 PM, David Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
I like the FizzBuzz test. Not far removed from what I was hit with today.
Talking of which, here's a fizzbuzz solution that's one of the most
amazing presentations I've seen. It's Ruby but if you understand
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Abigail abig...@abigail.be wrote:
Your first instinct should be Is there a generating function I can use?.
Try not to blow your cache pipeline with all that silly branching,
sub fib {
my $n = shift;
int(0.5 + (0.5+0.5*sqrt 5) ** $n / sqrt 5);
}
High five!
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:18 AM, David Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
When was the last time you recursed in day to day web type code?
A few weeks ago.
It's a flawed premise in any case. There's plenty of techniques and
ideas professionals don't make routine use of but you'd be pretty
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Chris Jack chris_j...@msn.com wrote:
I haven't yet had a problem which I felt was worthwhile of a memo-ized
solution - but that might just be indicative of the sort of perl work I do.
While memoization is a perfect fit for this solution a) the ability to
spot
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 4:16 AM, Rick Deller r...@eligo.co.uk wrote:
Hi all,
I have brought a couple of books on the subject which I'm reading through
I'm very keen to learn more and how to do it
Can anyone suggest more books or another way of doing it ?
You don't say specifically Perl so
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote:
You don't say specifically Perl so I'm going to suggest a similar
language:
check the subject! :)
Oops!
Well the rest of ya can learn from the wonder of tryruby.org :)
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote:
i also did it way back and didn't like it then. multiple choice tests in
general suck for actual testing of real world skills and programming ones
suck even more. no candidate i have reviewed in ages has ever mentioned
The charge is to attempt to mitigate the Tragedy of the Commons which would
affect everyone else so just fork over the cash already ;)
In practice that all said I've never run into any restrictions with T
Mobile but I also don't take the piss so who knows...
Written on my phone
On Aug 22, 2012
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:43, Sue Spence s...@pennine.com wrote:
On 1 May 2012 20:09, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
The renewal notice I just got made my eyes water. Two things:
1. When you're not working for the BBC, what levels do you set it at?
2. Are Caunce O'Hara still the
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 06:41, Adam Witney awit...@sgul.ac.uk wrote:
Some of these courses may be of interest to the people here
https://www.coursera.org/
.. and they're free!
I'm most of the way through
https://class.coursera.org/nlp/auth/welcome Natural Language
Processing and it's been
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 08:20, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote:
in years (and decades) past, i did some coding on source printouts. i could
do it anywhere including outside which i enjoyed immensely. my coding on
paper was scribbles, crossed out code, arrows moving things around, very
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 15:43, Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com wrote:
Hello folks
I'm hacking together a quick script to parse the output from the 'ip'
command on Linux, e.g.
$ ip a s
1: lo: LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 03:48, Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk wrote:
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:33:10AM +, Mike Whitaker wrote:
[...]
Joking aside - I don't think this is the kind of talk one attends because
it will be directly useful in my day to day work, but rather because
it's DC,
I*'ve been an NS for london.pm.org for years and, after slightly fewer
years of noting it's been failing, am finally wondering who's in
charge / can fix the fact that 89.16.178.168 is being denied zone
transfers for london.pm.org. I'm assuming someone at Exonetric, the
other NSs that aren't
know what you find.
Cheers,
Mark
On 15 Feb 2012, at 23:17, Paul Makepeace wrote:
I*'ve been an NS for london.pm.org for years and, after slightly fewer
years of noting it's been failing, am finally wondering who's in
charge / can fix the fact that 89.16.178.168 is being denied zone
On Feb 1, 2012 2:29 PM, Dominic Thoreau domi...@thoreau-online.net
wrote:
On 1 February 2012 13:34, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote:
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes writes:
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:12 AM, David Cantrell
da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 05:03:47PM
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 14:29, Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk wrote:
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 01:42:05PM +, Peter Corlett wrote:
On 31 Jan 2012, at 05:18, Avleen Vig wrote:
[...]
This is the problem with TMTOWTDI.
There should just be one way to do it. Then we wouldn't have this problem.
[ANNOUNCE] London Perl M[ou]ngers October Social - 2012-02-02 - Somers Town
Coffee House, Euston, NW1 1HS
Gives a new interpretation to Template::Manual, heh :)
That night's also my leaving dinner so if anyone fancies popping along
to Wong Kei's beforehand 7pm or after for pints, do drop by:
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 15:00, Sam Kington s...@illuminated.co.uk wrote:
# Checking return values is a good thing. Checking the return value of
# close or print STDERR is downright silly.
You've clearly not done much IPC…
P
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:33, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote:
I hope the slides for the talks will appear online in the not too distant
future.
Here's mine with a few fixes annotations since last night,
http://paulm.com/talks/Cukes%20%20POW.pdf (5.8MB, yay PDF).
The bit I think I didn't
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 17:40, Philip Skinner m...@philip-skinner.co.ukwrote:
Apart from the lack of a # keyoh and a crap enter key.
My solution here was to select the US layout option. It's very similar, but
without those two deficiencies you mention. Con is learning the combo for
£.
Wowzas: http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/01/craigslist-charitable-fund-don.html
The Perl Foundation is proud to announce that the craigslist
Charitable Fund is supporting the Perl community with a generous
donation of $100,000 toward Perl5 maintenance and for general use by
the Perl
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:41, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote:
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:19:19PM +, Peter Sergeant wrote:
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Ian Knopke ian.kno...@gmail.com wrote:
I need to test some DBIx::Class code where the database may not be
available. I can set
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 06:25, Toby Wintermute t...@wintrmute.net wrote:
and hiring has been at a low rate due to the general global economic
situation.
Not so in the US - unemployment in tech is about 0% as far as I've heard.
The H1-B work visa hit its cap in about 6-7 weeks this (fiscal)
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 16:54, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
At current exchange rate it's expensive with a
main course at my fave Irish pub coming in at €14 or so.
Not any more!
}:-)
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 13:50, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote:
Nicholas Clark writes:
I was also amused by the (current) second comment, which is actually
spam:
Thanks for taking the time to discuss about this, I feel strongly
about it and love learning more on this topic.
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 14:19, Ash Berlin ash_c...@firemirror.com wrote:
One my blog got hit with (if 300 counts as a hit) was a series of
short comments like that but with exact one misspelling consisting of
a letter transposition. No link associated with it. Quite weird -
wasn't sure
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 12:46, Steve Mynott st...@gruntling.com wrote:
Until you realise that it's pretty much a wash.
What does the final line mean?
Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/english-idioms-sayings/25582-call-wash.html
Paul
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:53, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote:
My worst recruitment experience ...
This is a pretty entertaining story,
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3990329/20-exec-axed-after-telling-jobseeker-off.html
Paul
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 14:11, Avleen Vig avl...@gmail.com wrote:
The true answer, of course, depends on your definition of half.
US salaries (use payroll expense) is much higher than in the UK.
Where in London I would pay a programmer or sysadmin about £45k - £55k, in
New York I would pay at
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 14:04, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote:
Well that seemed to go well. The AFNIC .pm pre-registrations were
processed this morning and I am now the proud owner of the domain
london.pm. It's only taken me 13 years to get it.
Nice thing about this is that Gmail
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 14:49, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
A more enlightening error would be nice.
Wait, what, you want a language with exceptions?? Madness
, 2011 at 02:38:43AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
My 3-supplied UK HTC Desire isn't picking up 3G in the US so I'm stuck
with
Edge (as, say GPRS would be). Not horrible, but still. By comparison my
US
Nexus One picks up 3G on both sides of the Atlantic.
I wouldn't touch 3, precisely because
On Oct 4, 2011 12:46 AM, James Laver james.la...@gmail.com wrote:
On 3 Oct 2011, at 22:04, David H. Adler wrote:
More importantly, I would like to have a mobile phone while I'm over. My
understanding is that I can pick up an inexpensive pay-as-you-go phone
for the duration. Is there any
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 04:12, David Precious dav...@preshweb.co.uk wrote:
I don't know if it'll be the cause, but you can switch between what type of
networks it should connect to.
If I switch mine to GSM/WCDMA auto then I get 3G (HSPDA) in supported areas,
but often with a slightly weaker
Interesting - my reflexive response to the first would be
apt-get install sudo
..and take it from there
Sent from Android
On Sep 27, 2011 10:00 AM, David Alban exta...@extasia.org wrote:
i typed the third command quite naturally. then i remembered:
$ sudo -l
-bash: sudo: command not
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:47, Andrew Suffield
asuffi...@suffields.me.uk wrote:
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:36:23PM +0100, Peter Edwards wrote:
That's why PHP is used
PHP is a thorough and effective solution to the following problem,
which is also its main design goal:
How can stupid people
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 13:59, Pete Smith p...@cubabit.net wrote:
Hey, don't take it so literally. My point was that being easy to get up and
running is what made RoR so popular.
As it did PHP before that...
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 00:17, Merijn Broeren meri...@iloquent.com wrote:
[1] Private planes only, not really targetting the .pm audience :-)
Some of us are pilots and at least in the US it's pretty
cost-effective (and massively more fun, and massive less hassle) with
a full plane for journeys
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 11:35, Andrew Black andrew-per...@mail.black1.org.uk
wrote:
K-9 on anroid allows you to bottom post - no doubt that was becuase
Jesse is the major light in that.
(So does the native Android Gmail app.)
Yeah, but you have PHP self-listed as a skill :-)
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:21, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
Your quoting is broken.
On 3 Aug 2011, at 11:33, Ruud H.G. van Tol wrote:
On 2011-08-01 19:11, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
please let me know off list
Did you also mean
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 13:55, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote:
Isn't there some quote, roughly you don't program PHP, you ??? it until it
works, possibly attributed to Randal Schwartz?
There's a little-known Google search trick: * can be used as a word substitute.
Try,
you don't code PHP
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 14:06, ian.doche...@nomura.com wrote:
I agree with that, and the moronic email client that is forced upon me, but
there is little I can do about it!
You can use a different email address... I hear there are some free
ones still available.
P
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 15:18, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote:
p.s. I've just been browsing some list archives from 1998 - where I was
top-posting from Outlook because it was the only mail client I was allowed
to use. No-one objected then.
1998? Email clients? In them days we was glad to
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 18:33, Andrew Beattie and...@tug.com wrote:
Ok. Who stole all my whitespace?
Python programmers?
P (two in one day?!)
On Jul 25, 2011 6:31 AM, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote:
On 07/24/2011 11:00 PM, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Gmail DTRT IMO by treating a subject line change as a new thread.
But that's not the right thing. For example, this discussion has changed
subject but it's still all the same thread
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:55, Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk wrote:
The iOS mail client is best described as adequate. It's arguably better
than Outlook, which seems to be the standard MUA these days.
Looking through my address book I'd say Gmail is the standard MUA these days.
Paul
Fun fact: Gatwick is the world's busiest single (operational) runway airport.
Yes, only one strip.
Makes it nice 'n easy to get around
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 14:34, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote:
Hello. How big is Gatwick Airport? More specifically, about how long do
I need to allow for
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 15:49, Andy Wardley a...@wardley.org wrote:
On 25/07/2011 14:53, Ash Berlin wrote:
Curiously I've arrived at gatwick far more often than I've left from there
OK, I'll bite. My curiosity is piqued. How can this be?
Leave the UK from say Stansted, arrive back through
Sent from Android
On Jul 24, 2011 10:46 PM, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote:
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 11:23:08PM +0200, Joel Bernstein wrote:
On 24 July 2011 23:14, Mallory van Achterberg stommep...@stommepoes.nl
wrote:
So what is this # key for mutt?
Breaks the thread and creates a
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 16:59, ian.doche...@nomura.com wrote:
[Ian replied.] Perhaps it should be Croyd[oe]n.pm ?
Then surely just Croydön.pm?
A metal umlaut if ever there were one...
Paul
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_umlaut)
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 02:29, Kieren Diment dim...@gmail.com wrote:
gmail seems to understand top posting, versus bottom posting. They do
struggle with inline posting mind you,
Not IME; there's even a bottom posting Lab (IIRC)
Even better, there's a Lab that'll only quote the selected
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:56, Adrian Lai p...@loathe.me.uk wrote:
On 14 June 2011 10:42, Dirk Koopman d...@tobit.co.uk wrote:
Anyone had a go with: http://www.phenona.com/ a perl cloud?
Featured on el reg today:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/14/activestate_buys_teen_programmer/
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:10, James Laver london...@jameslaver.com wrote:
I'm actually liking it more than CPAN for publishing and installing stuff.
The only weak area is lack of search.cpan.org.
Why is search.cpan.org code (still) not open source?
P
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:21, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
Of course, it's possible that the Comprehensive Python Archive Network
or similar for ruby/javascript/java/C/whatever does exist but I just
can't find it. But then, if I can't find it, it's not much use.
(If you were a
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 13:17, Tom Hukins t...@eborcom.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 02:00:41PM +0200, Abigail wrote:
I'd rather go for sacking people that don't know the difference
between
if (something) { ... }
and
unless (!something) { ... }
It's sunny outside and pubs
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 14:15, Kaoru ka...@slackwise.net wrote:
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Paul Makepeace pa...@paulm.com wrote:
$ perl -le 'print $_ == !!$_ ? , $_ == !!$_ ? yes : no for (-1,
0, 1, 2, undef)'
-1 == !!-1 ? no
0 == !!0 ? yes
1 == !!1 ? yes
2 == !!2 ? no
== !! ? yes
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 09:37, Steve Mynott st...@gruntling.com wrote:
Install Virtualbox or Vmware and use a linux perl.
Yes.
I wish I could reclaim the time wasted between me thinking ooh, cool,
I can do unix dev on my Mac directly (problems start here) to screw
all this, I'm running a VM
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