This is the eighteenth weekly summary of the London Perl Mongers
mailing list. For the random week starting 2001-05-21:
Don't forget the London.pm website for meetings etc. The next meeting
is an social meeting apparently on Thursday 7th June which clashes
with elections, although there is also an unofficial technical meet
for practicing TPC talks on Saturday from noon at state51:
http://london.pm.org/
Paul Makepeace asked about a Perl interface to paypal. Jonathan Peterson
found a command line program to do so:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg05837.html
http://members01.chello.se/hampasfirma/ppsend/
Marcel Grunauer has been beavering away producing lots of Perl modules
along with some cool attribute ones, stealing all of Damian's ideas
for the next three months:
http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=author&query=marcel
Barry Pretsell asked for opinions on reading O'Reilly books online
using Safari. Robin Houston mentioned a book warez site. Nathan
Torkington was disgusted that Perlmongers were advocating pirating the
Camel. The conversation descended into a discussion about fair use,
whether people write books for money, whether Napster is evil, the
definition of stealing, and the whole idea of copyright being
outdated:
http://safari1.oreilly.com/tablhom.asp?home
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg05857.html
Jonathan Peterson asked for a good Windows IMAP mail
client. Responses: Outlook Express, Netscape Mail, PC-pine, Eudora,
and The Bat. Some flamage ensued.
Simon Wistow started a huge election manifesto thread, the
fool. People flamed. It turned into a thread about webmail, open
source development, and software licenses. People flamed. People
flamed about references headers. People flamed about word
wrapping. People mentioned just how easy it is to get Text::Autoformat
to work automagically eg:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg06054.html
It's been one of those weeks with lots of little threads. Here we go:
Damian Conway threatened to write Lingua::TokPisin::Perlpela, what to
do during the p5p drinking game during an Ilya spree, Dave Cross
apparently not being treated like a sex object, amIwroxornot.com, that
Angel episode with the hands, Neil Ford dancing around to Sara Cox,
perl harbour, a thesis on typographical errors to be presented at the
ICA, Canada allowed to use the "Icewine" name, the encryption dance,
TPJ #20 mentioning Buffy, MIME, file magic, delurking with "Eh up!
Abysinnia!", food exporting, Tie::Hash::Rank, Hacksploitation at Simon
Wistow's on Sunday, locale problems, and Lucy unsubscribing because of
free beer:
http://www.maff.gov.uk/animalh/int-trde/misc/foot/flyer.pdf
http://www.twoshortplanks.com/simon/filmfest/
In other news, you'll all be happy to know that I now have my own
eponymous top-level CPAN namespace. Well, maybe:
http://use.perl.org/journal.pl?op=display&uid=189
Must stop volunteering for things, Leon
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Leon Brocard.............................http://www.astray.com/
Iterative Software...........http://www.iterative-software.com/
... My other computer is a 500-node Beowulf cluster
