This is the seventh of hopefully many weekly summaries of the London
Perl Mongers mailing list. Many thanks to Simon Wistow for doing the
summary last week! For the somewhat quiet week starting 2001-03-05:
Don't forget the London.pm website for meetings etc. There is an
unofficial London.pm heretic meeting tonight in the cozy bar with the
open fire in the Anchor, Bankside, from 6.30ish:
http://london.pm.org/
Marcel Grunauer, DJ Adams, Piers Harding and I went to the German Perl
Workshop in Bonn, which was excellent. DJ took some piccies. I won a
prize:
http://www.pipetree.com/~dj/perlworkshop2001/
http://www.perl-workshop.de/2001/
http://use.perl.org/articles/01/03/06/0258251.shtml
Hamlet D'Arcy is organising a trip to Bletchley Park, possibly on
Sunday March 18th, to see things like the 'bombe' rebuild project, a
history of computing exhibit, and hopefully lots of crypto
stuff. Should be fun!
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg02603.html
Mark Fowler asked about programs to produce graphical documentation,
and got sucked into GraphViz stuff, although dia was also
mentioned. Marcel produced GraphViz::DBI. Everyone enjoyed the pretty
pictures:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg02608.html
http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office/dia.shtml
http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=GraphViz-DBI
http://www.codewerk.f2s.com/images/mydb.gif
Jonathan Peterson asked about the thesis generator that Damian Conway
mentioned in his talk. Robin Houston and I pointed out links to the
original Sokal hoax, the Dada Engine, and the postmodernism generator:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg02620.html
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/
http://dev.null.org/dadaengine/
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au:80/publications/1996/tr-cs96-264.ps.gz
http://www.elsewhere.org/cgi-bin/postmodern/
I passed on the announcement of HAL2001, a hacking and security
conference in The Netherlands this summer, and realised that this
makes three consecutive weeks with conferences this summer that I
want to go to: O'Reilly's Open Source Convention, yapc::Europe, and
HAL2001. Eeek:
http://www.hal2001.org/
Dave Hodgkinson asked about scraping newsfeeds. Everybody pointed him
at RSS:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg02658.html
http://purl.org/rss/1.0/
http://www.xmltree.com/
Simon Wistow is organising a Kevin Smith Film Fest on Saturday, where
he'll try to fit in Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma and the
Clerks animated series. Some people unlurked. Some people discussed
which films they liked:
http://www.twoshortplanks.com/simon/filmfest/
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Smith,+Kevin
http://www.viewaskew.com/
And finally, Simon Batistoni posted a small Perl script (shock,
horror) that descrambled CSS (the DVD protection wotsit). It's cute
Perl, but he tried to optimise it, whereas I tried to make it clearer
(with perltidy). It's currently being made smaller on the
fun-with-perl list:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg02644.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg02647.html
http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/
http://www.technofile.org/depts/mlists/fwp.html
Leon
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yapc::Europe............................http://yapc.org/Europe/
... I've got a mind like a.. a.. what's that thing called?
