This is the fifteenth weekly summary of the London Perl Mongers
mailing list. For the (quiet: some of London.pm were over in NYC - is
anyone going to write a report?) week starting 2001-04-30:
Don't forget the London.pm website for meetings etc. The next meeting
is a social meeting and has been postponed for a week to the Thursday
10th May. It will be at the Penderel's Oak:
http://london.pm.org/
Ian Brayshaw asked about generating modules at runtime with coderefs
in the @INC array. Robin Houston suggested how to make filehandles
that "evaluate to true", and everything got complicated:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg04718.html
Paul Makepeace asked about the bind_param() method in DBDs, and asked
about Real World experiences with speed-up. I pointed him to a recent
post to dbi-dev list which explains the relative speed of fetch,
fetchrow_hashref, fetchrow_arrayref and fetchrow_array:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg04754.html
http://www.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/msg/perl-DBI-dev%3A503109
Dave Cross (who keeps on trying to plug his book) asked who would be
going to the Perl Conference - he may try and get groups discounts
everyone flies together:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg04907.html
http://conferences.oreilly.com/perl/
In Buffy-related news, Chris Devers finds "Charisma Carpenter Guide to
Selected Linux Software".
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.c-cup.com/linux/software-that-works.html
Paul Makepeace has set up a list for "general technically oriented Mac
OS X related banter" to rid london-list of all the OS X talk:
http://www.osxphiles.com/mm/listinfo/osx-talk
There was some talk about Hotspot-like things for Perl, and the Perl
Virtual Machine being a generic runtime environment for every
programming language. More on this in the future:
http://java.sun.com/products/hotspot/
Simon Cozens explains how important London.pm is to Perl development:
http://www.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/msg/perl5-porters%3A527949
And finally, a recipe for stuffed camel:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg04843.html
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Leon
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