RE: [JOB] I Need One

2002-11-07 Thread Gareth Kirwan
Is there anyone that IS happy with their job :p Without trying to rub it in anyone's faces - don't you find it ironic how, when you have a job, you get offers left right and center? I've had a few offers come through in the past without looking for them. However I'm happy as I am here. If I get

RE: [JOB] I Need One

2002-11-07 Thread Gareth Kirwan
;london.pm.org]On Behalf Of Peter Haworth Sent: 07 November 2002 11:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [JOB] I Need One On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 09:47:53 -, Gareth Kirwan wrote: Is there anyone that IS happy with their job :p I am. Without trying to rub it in anyone's faces - don't you find it ironic how

RE: Perl is someone else's bitch

2002-11-07 Thread Gareth Kirwan
Didn't anyone warn you that being on this list means they already have no reputation ;-) Gareth -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:london.pm-admin;london.pm.org]On Behalf Of the hatter Sent: 07 November 2002 16:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Perl is someone else's

RE: Perl is someone else's bitch

2002-11-07 Thread Gareth Kirwan
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:london.pm-admin;london.pm.org]On Behalf Of Lusercop Sent: 08 November 2002 00:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Perl is someone else's bitch On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:00:29PM -, Gareth Kirwan wrote: Didn't anyone warn you that being on this list means

RE: (no sanity)

2002-11-08 Thread Gareth Kirwan
Out of interest - what are you trying to compare about them? The size, the order ? Would it matter if they contained the same values in a different order? Is it multi-dimensional? Just a few buckets of gasoline to add to the discussion ;-) Gareth -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: (no sanity)

2002-11-08 Thread Gareth Kirwan
Sorry about that - I expected it to check the subject of the Original Message section to see how to append it... It obviously didn't :D Gareth -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:london.pm-admin;london.pm.org]On Behalf Of Gareth Kirwan Sent: 08 November 2002 17:45

RE: (no sanity)

2002-11-08 Thread Gareth Kirwan
Sod it - I'm completely loosing it. I thought it was *this* list that took my replies and appended them in the normal format. It obviously isn't! lol :D Gareth -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:london.pm-admin;london.pm.org]On Behalf Of Gareth Kirwan Sent: 08 November

RE: book

2002-11-08 Thread Gareth Kirwan
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:london.pm-admin;london.pm.org]On Behalf Of David Cantrell Sent: 08 November 2002 19:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: book O'Reilly have Building Secure Servers with Linux available, anyone want to review it? -- David Cantrell

RE: Book: Best of the Perl Journal

2002-11-19 Thread Gareth Kirwan
Completely off the point - Guildford's right next to me - ( I'm in Gatwick ) What a small world it really is... Strange - considering when anyone asks me what languages I write - and I mention perl as one of them - it never gets an I've heard of that ... unlike c++ / Java etc Gareth

RE: Book: Best of the Perl Journal

2002-11-19 Thread Gareth Kirwan
You have GOT to be joking?! There's me surprised at Guildford - where do all you lot hide? Where abouts in Horley? I'm actually in Charlwood - our office is at the top of Russ HIll over-looking Gatwick airport Gareth -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Book: Best of the Perl Journal

2002-11-19 Thread Gareth Kirwan
minutes away from Gatwick airport on a train :-) Small tiny little place. Go to Gatwick whenever I woke late as it's the only way home :-) Neil -Original Message- From: Gareth Kirwan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 11:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Book: Best

RE: re IRC

2002-11-24 Thread Gareth Kirwan
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 02:30:42PM -0500, Chris Devers wrote: Q: Does anyone care what message posting style you prefer? A: Doubtful. Which is why you wrote: What AM i doing here? On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Gareth Kirwan topquoted thusly: ? Just glad to know you practice that which you

RE: re IRC

2002-11-24 Thread Gareth Kirwan
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 07:52:56PM -, Gareth Kirwan wrote: On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 02:30:42PM -0500, Chris Devers wrote: Q: Does anyone care what message posting style you prefer? A: Doubtful. Which is why you wrote: What AM i doing here? On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Gareth Kirwan

RE: 5.8.0

2002-11-27 Thread Gareth Kirwan
The latest, most-tested-ever, stable version of Perl, version 5.8.0 was released on 18th July 2002, which is a while ago. We use it at work for development and on the new production servers. I don't use it on my personal colo box (it has so much stuff running it'd be a pain to update).

RE: Perl Vacancy in Watford

2002-12-04 Thread Gareth Kirwan
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 06:09:15PM -, Gavin Young wrote: I am looking for Perl programmers to work for Tuskerdirect Ltd (www.tuskerdirect.com). I have reason to believe that, unlike some job postings, this is a genuine vacancy. Roger This is genuine :-) Gareth

RE: [OT] RH Perl 5.8.0

2003-01-08 Thread Gareth Kirwan
Nicholas Clark said: You might want to build your own 6.8.0 for /usr/local without threads hehe, i see we've jumped just a _little_ bit into the future here ;) Jody OOH - Pre-anticipated releases - Is perl being written by Apple inc? lol :D - Gareth

RE: Buffy/Angel (No Spoilers)

2003-01-24 Thread Gareth Kirwan
-Original Message- From: Dave Cross Yeah. It was the first episode of season 4. So it's a pretty crucial episode by all accounts :) Dave... I don't even want a *hint* of what happens :p Anyone know how long it will be until the release of dvds ?

RE: Buffy/Angel (No Spoilers)

2003-01-24 Thread Gareth Kirwan
-Original Message- From: Dave Cross Angel Season 3 isn't out on DVD until the start of March. I'd guess you'll have at least another six months to wait after that. Dave... Don't know what's wrong with me today - I meant VHS ( I've got all 1-3 on VHS )

RE: Learning regular expressions

2003-03-18 Thread Gareth Kirwan
Hey - I didn't realise there was a second edition. Mastering Regular expressions is what I learnt from, found it great. Gareth -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Fowler You'd be better off with the 2nd Edition. O'Reilly: 0-596-00289-0

RE: Alternatives to CGI.pm

2003-03-31 Thread Gareth Kirwan
There - SEE - people DO use Mason. :D .oO( Now I just have to find someone using my whacky nesting style, eh ? ) Gareth -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jon Reades Sent: 31 March 2003 10:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

RE: Alternatives to CGI.pm

2003-03-31 Thread Gareth Kirwan
Do you compress your output after Mason ? If so - whatcha use ? Gareth -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dirk Koopman Sent: 31 March 2003 11:48 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Alternatives to CGI.pm I didn't know it was something

RE: irc server

2003-06-10 Thread Gareth Kirwan
I knew it would be Magnus - everything's his fault! :D Gareth -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Leon Brocard Sent: 10 June 2003 16:03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: irc server dabox, the current london.pm irc server, has gone boom.

IRC

2003-06-12 Thread Gareth Kirwan
Is it my client, or has IRC gone down ? ( I was using someone's kindly donated temporary geekflat.org host to connect to ) Gareth KirwanProgramming Development,Thermeon Europe Ltd,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 (0) 1293 864 303Thermeon Europe e-Card: gbjk

RE: Surrey.pm

2003-09-17 Thread Gareth Kirwan
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 09:21:31AM +0100, Piers Cawley said: One wonders if there's any nearby town in Surrey whose name begins with D. If there is then Leon could come along to the first meet and get one more notch on his 'alphabet of mongers groups of which Leon is a founder member'

RE: [ANNOUNCE] Surrey.pm Social, Thursday 25 Sep

2003-09-25 Thread Gareth Kirwan
Due to lack of anyone else suitably brave to decide on a Pub location for Surrey.pm, the one suggestion that was seconded will hereby be the designated location for the first (to my knowledge) Surrey.pm meet. Urgh. Would love to make it but my car is with the tuners right now :o( G

Apple Xserve for sale

2009-02-13 Thread Gareth Kirwan
We have an Apple Xserve for sale. Twin 3.0GHz Dual-Core intel xenon 4GB RAM 80GB 7200rpm sata 750GB 7200rpm sata 750GB 7200rpm sata DVD-Rom/CD-RW ATI Raedon x1300 64MB Dual channel gigabit Ethernet Dual 650W power Rack mounting kit OSX 10.5 It cost £5k originally and we've had it for about a

Re: Looking for a secondhand Datahand Pro II

2009-10-20 Thread Gareth Kirwan
On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 10:12 +0100, James Laver wrote: What is it about the Datahand that you're interested in? RSI avoidance? Or do you think it will increase your typing speed? If it's the RSI avoidance, there are a number of other recommendable keyboards. Or for the typing speed thing,

Re: Looking for a secondhand Datahand Pro II

2009-10-20 Thread Gareth Kirwan
On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 10:44 +0100, James Laver wrote: I would just get a unicomp. It's shaped like a keyboard, it feels like a very good keyboard (springs, they bounce back at your fingers!) and my typing speed is improved using one overall. Of course you'll want to keep a correct typing

Re: Looking for a secondhand Datahand Pro II

2009-10-20 Thread Gareth Kirwan
On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 11:43 +0100, Jasper wrote: It sounds to me like you just need to stop deviating your wrists and force yourself to use your arm. A pair of those spiffy bowling glove things would be just the trick. (There is a good Get Fuzzy strip about this, but I can't find it) Whilst

Re: Scotch!

2010-05-31 Thread Gareth Kirwan
What a magical kingdom! On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 12:03 +0100, Peter Corlett wrote: Hi, fellow drinkers, Here's what you all missed by not coming to the emergency social at the Britannia: http://abuse.mooli.org.uk/dscf3859.jpg http://abuse.mooli.org.uk/dscf3861.jpg

Re: a good tool for planning projects/resources/holidays at high level rather than per task?

2010-06-17 Thread Gareth Kirwan
Fogbugz has holidays built into it's evidence based scheduling, which you can enter for users or sites, as well as working schedules, velocity, etc. We've been using it for a while, having migrated from Trac, and I'm very happy with it. On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 10:16 +0100, Aaron Trevena wrote:

Re: iPhone programming

2011-05-28 Thread Gareth Kirwan
On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 00:12 +0100, David Cantrell wrote: Can anyone recommend a good book on iPhone programming and Objective C? Assume that I know *nothing* about Obj C or XCode. I've found this to be starting from a similar position:

Re: Gatwick

2011-07-25 Thread Gareth Kirwan
It's split between two terminals, connected by a mono-rail. The station is in the south terminal. You can walk anywhere in the south terminal pre-checkin inside 10 minutes, but leave 15 just in case. No wisdom about touch-down to station time - it's so dependent on things going smoothly. Best

Re: Gatwick

2011-07-25 Thread Gareth Kirwan
I don't use anything else, personally. Though, living on a hill above gatwick, I'm always using it the other way - too and from London. On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 15:17 +0100, Michael Stevens wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 03:12:20PM +0100, Dirk Koopman wrote: On 25/07/11 14:34, Smylers wrote:

Re: 5 minimums for any perl script?

2012-01-30 Thread Gareth Kirwan
On 30/01/12 13:46, Dominic Thoreau wrote: The issue I have with perltidy, nice as it is, is that just making it a rule can be problematic with existing untidy code bases. Untidy code + small change = unrelated blame attaches to unfortunate developer. If you were writing new code, yes perl tidy

Re: LPW2012 slides and videos ?

2012-12-13 Thread Gareth Kirwan
On 13/12/12 11:33, pierre masci wrote: Hi all, i was told that videos of the LPW2012 would be available online in the near future, is this still true? Has it happened already? Steady on, we're still waiting for YAPC::Eu videos, aren't we?

Re: Scope of variables in a function

2013-06-01 Thread Gareth Kirwan
On 13-06-01 05:43 PM, Andrew Beverley wrote: Could somebody explain why the following code prints barbar rather than bar please? I am trying to understand why the $result variable in the search function retains its value the second time the function is called. ... sub search($) { ... my

Re: OT: Cheapo vps hosting

2013-06-21 Thread Gareth Kirwan
On 13-06-21 04:43 PM, Martin A. Brooks wrote: Happy to recommend both bitfolk and bytemark. I have VPSs with both of them and get excellent service. +1 for bytemark. Particularly: http://www.bigv.io/

Re: info on eligo

2014-05-23 Thread Gareth Kirwan
On 23/05/2014 04:27, Uri Guttman wrote: tell me what you know about eligo recruitment. what kind of rep do they have among this list? they regularly post UK jobs to the perl jobs list and i see some US postings as well. i am interested in contacting them to see if they would do some joint

Re: info on eligo

2014-05-23 Thread Gareth Kirwan
On 23/05/2014 10:06, Mark Keating wrote: I recommend you talk to Rick Deller at Eligo. He is keen to be as ethical a recruiter as possible, has a keen interest in the community and has sponsored a number of events to help enhance the community. He understands the importance of community and