This is the twenty-first weekly summary of the London Perl Mongers
mailing list. This is brought to you from yapc::NorthAmerica during
Brian Ingerson's "CPAN, PPM and the Future" talk. For the quiet week
starting 2001-06-04:
Don't forget the London.pm website for meetings etc. The next meeting
is an technical meeting on the 21st, and then a social meeting on
Thursday 5th July. Some pictures were taken of the last meeting:
http://london.pm.org/
http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/london.pm/2001-06-07/
http://husk.org/perl/pics/
Paul Makepeace posted some posting statistics for the list. Greg
posted ny.pm stats. People gave thanks. People complained about the
noise *being* the signal (it's signal, Jim, but not as we know it):
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg06626.html
Jonathan Stowe mentioned www.gateway.gov.uk, the new UK government
portal wotsit, not working on any other platforms other than IE on
Windows. There followed a huge thread - basically, they're being
stupid and we should all complain to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Matthew Robinson asked about changing the default library paths in a
compiled copy of Perl. Iffy solutions: symbolic links, PERL5LIB, doing
a global replace. Best solution: get a compiler.
I wrote a blogging bot for the #london.pm IRC channel on
irc.rhizomatic.net. See what people have been talking about in the
past week and right now:
http://astray.com/scribot/2001-06-11.html
http://astray.com/scribot/
YAPC::Europe registration was announced:
http://yapc.org/Europe/
Simon Wistow asked about a persistent Perl daemon (much like mod_perl)
but in a general case, keeping a bytecode cache and making programs
run faster in the long run. See ByteCache. There was some discussion,
but it's probably too much work for too little gain.
In other news: Microsoft SQL Server sucking (SQueaL), Sun Ultra
Enterprise 10000, google++, the Sony Clie being small and cute,
checking out pubs for the next meet, buffy, search.cpan.org being
hacked (Catalog module apparently), 'back doors' in Linux,
obnoxious sigs: and a geeknic with an inflatable penguin:
http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/h-ttperf.idc
http://www.sonystyle.com/micros/clie/
http://buffy.slayers.co.uk/ShowStrip.asp?CS=1
http://homepage.tinet.ie/~cullenm/2dart/regi.jpg
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg06738.html
http://husk.org/lndn/circ/compat/DSCF0102.jpg
Eh?, leon
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Iterative Software...........http://www.iterative-software.com/
... Have you seen Quasimoto? I have a hunch he's back!
