Philip Newton wrote:
>
> Simon Wilcox wrote:
> > I avoided HTML::Embperl, HTML::Mason & Apache::ASP because they all
> > embed perl into the template which is a Bad Thing (tm).
>
> Why is that so evil?
>
> I'm willing to be enlightened here.
>
Greg McCarroll wrote:
>
> Template Toolkit
> HTML::Mason
> Text::Template
> HTML::Template
> HTML::Embperl
>
Apache::ASP
> First, are there any others that I should look at? Also I'd really like
> any objective input people have about templating with the
Just saw this linked from a hugely obvious banner ad on the Register :
http://training.gbdirect.co.uk/courses/perl/for_the_register.html
Great idea to tie it in to a success story I thought.
Simon.
Just saw this linked from a hugely obvious banner ad on the Register :
http://training.gbdirect.co.uk/courses/perl/for_the_register.html
Great idea to tie it in to a success story I thought.
Simon.
At 13:27 02/05/2001 +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
>If the purpose of this is to make it utterly drool-proof, then why not
>re-write File::Find (can't make them install it of course, that would be
>expecting too much)
Is there a reason why we can't distribute our own versions of modules with
the s
At 17:37 19/04/2001 +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote:
>From: Simon Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 5:38 PM
>
> > What time is the technical meeting starting tonight ?
>
>oh. um. well. let's say 7:00pm. how does that sound?
Good. Almost
What time is the technical meeting starting tonight ?
Simon.
At 12:39 04/04/2001 +0100, Martin Ling wrote:
>I received a 240V shock whilst still in the womb. Various people have
>made the obvious comic-book connections about my affinity for all things
>electronic
I once got an electric shock off a stage lantern whilst 18ft up a ladder.
The only reaso
At 11:33 04/04/2001 +0100, Chris Heathcote wrote:
>on 4/4/01 11:27 am, Simon Wilcox wrote:
>
> > Luckily it only did minor damage to the backstage area.
>
>I bought a supply of various flashes and explosions, but did not have a
>firing box.
>
>Using the switch on a 4
At 09:50 04/04/2001 +, Robin Szemeti wrote:
>1) LeMaitre make some very big marroons for stage use.
The very brand :-)
>2) it says they need to be in some form of container when they go off.
Nah. Bury them in sand for realistic WWII FX. Mwahahahaha
>3) do NOT use those funny square du
At 11:12 04/04/2001 +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 02:38:44AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
>
> >any you have the ``right'' attitude when it comes to beer and
> >explosives
>
>http://firedrake.org/roger/fireworks/
ooh, ahh !
At 02:38 04/04/2001 +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
>* Simon Wilcox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >
> > Count me in. I have a tent and everything !
> >
>
>any you have the ``right'' attitude when it comes to beer and
>explosives
I used to use theatrical maroon
Is there list jumping going on ?
I seem to be getting about half the traffic this afternoon.
frinstance, I didn't get the original post this replies to.
At 17:29 03/04/2001 +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote:
>From: jo walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: 03 April 2001 16:15
>
> > can we go now tha
At 15:29 03/04/2001 +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
>How would people in London.pm like a one night camp out, subject
>to the F&M issue going away. The plan would be - we bundle into
>vehicles on a given afternoon (probably saturday), go to a farm
>shop and get lots of cider, and then spend the nig
At 15:02 03/04/2001 +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:56:27AM -0400, Andy Williams wrote:
>[snip]
> > Hey!!! That took the legal team at Acxiom (US) months to come upt with :)
>
>And what do they know about UK law?
Bugger all if they're like our lot.
Ours still insists t
At 11:56 29/03/2001 +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> > I think the money aspect is very important. This isn't YAS,
> > it's supposed to
> > be a professional qualification for professional programmers.
> > £300 sounds
> > like a good number for me. "If it only costs a fiver then
> > what good can
At 16:53 27/03/2001 +0100, Robin Houston wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:40:19PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> > Well, remember that the sub effecticaly recalculates (what amounts to) the
> > array each time. To be fair, you should include the array initialisation
> > inside the loop and see wh
At 16:48 27/03/2001 +0100, Simon Wilcox wrote:
>Benchmark: timing 10 iterations of Array, Sub, myArray...
> Array: 3 wallclock secs ( 3.37 usr + 0.05 sys = 3.42 CPU)
>Sub: 6 wallclock secs ( 5.30 usr + 0.08 sys = 5.38 CPU)
>myArray: 8 wallclock secs ( 8.39
At 17:40 27/03/2001 +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
>Simon Wilcox wrote:
> > So - Did I get this heinously wrong or is MBM's sub really a
> > lot slower ?
>
>Well, remember that the sub effecticaly recalculates (what amounts to) the
>array each time. To be fair,
At 13:29 27/03/2001 +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
> > my @th=(qw(th st nd rd),("th")x16)x2; $th[31]="st";
>
>That's an evil and gross hack.
[snip]
>sub th{(($_[0]-10-$_[0]%10)/10%10)?(qw(th st nd rd),('th')x6)[$_[0]%10]:"th"}
The first one I understood. Not sure about the second but I'll w
At 10:31 27/03/2001 +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
>Rumour has it that many people are bringing tech in house, which is hitting
>conslutancies and agencies harder. I'm still not convinced that there's a
>major downturn in the total number of tech jobs.
That's exactly what we're doing. I have a
At 05:25 23/03/2001 -0500, Dave Cross wrote:
>For even more points: What was the first TV show the Lenny Henry
>appeared on?
>
>Dave...
Tiswas !
Actually - I think this was where McDoughnut first appeared ?
Simon.
At 10:05 23/03/2001 +, James Powell wrote:
>ps - For an extra point, what show had an impression of Trevor McDonald
>called "Trevor McDoughnut"?
Three of a Kind I think. Lenny Henry created the character anyway.
SImon.
At 17:51 22/03/2001 +0100, Philip Newton wrote:
>Simon Wilcox wrote:
> > Or even better YY-MM-DD which avoids cross-pond confusion.
>
>Oh yeah? Which year, month, and day are represented by the combination
>02-03-04? Depends on the side of the pond, and on which pond (MM-DD-YY i
At 12:33 21/03/2001 +, Piers Cawley wrote:
>Can I commend ISO 11180 to you?
Hah - they think of everything.
Just a shame that, as you have to pay for it, chances are most people won't
use it.
(Can you tell I feel strongly about this ;-)
Simon.
At 06:42 21/03/2001 -0500, Dave Cross wrote:
>At Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:37:32 + (GMT), AEF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
> >
> > Useful Summary: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
> > Standard: ftp://ftp.qsl.net/pub/g1smd/8601v03.pdf
> >
This one seems to be a second edition although
At 11:43 20/03/2001 -0500, Dave Cross wrote:
>Which is the ISO standard (number 8601) for dates for a very good
>reason.
I thought I'd look this up, but the BSI want 50 quid for a copy.
I appreciate this is how they make money to fund the standards work but it
seems a tad steep for the casual
At 16:29 20/03/2001 +, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> > a) a two reasons why this module should never have been written, and
>
>1. It's redundant, other modules do this already.
>2. MM DD YY is an evil date format, and should be abolished in favour of DD
>MM YY which is more sensible.
Or even bet
At 15:40 20/03/2001 +, Gareth Harper wrote:
>- Original Message -
>From: "Robin Szemeti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 3:06 PM
>Subject: Re: Matt's Scripts Projects
>
>
> > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, you wrote:
> > apart from that the benfits of
At 14:59 19/03/2001 +, Simon Wistow wrote:
>Chris Devers wrote:
>
> > Probably, as is "The Matt's Wrong Archive", which is probably far
> > too negative & obvious anyway... ;)
>
>But if Matt Sergeant put it up ...
... it would all be in XML ;-)
At 13:18 19/03/2001 +, Mark Fowler wrote:
>On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Simon Wilcox wrote:
>
> > > b) That is should have a name that appeals to newbies.
> >
> > How about EasyScripts ? the domain name is available, anyway.
>
>Not very perl, but I l
At 12:40 19/03/2001 +, Mark Fowler wrote:
>It has occured to us we need a decent name for this. Discussion on IRC
>has concluded that:
>
> a) It shouldn't mention Matt in the title.
So "Not the Matt Wright Archive" is out then ;-)
> b) That is should have a name that appeals to newbies.
Thanks everyone.
That exposes my lack of familiarity with the q & qq operators ;-)
Another little bit of learning learned.
S.
I feel stupid for even asking but..
For reasons that are too silly to go into here, I want to run this snippet
from the command line:
print unpack('u', ';0FEG($)R;W1H97(@:7,@=V%T8VAI;F<@>6]U'),"\n";
But I just can't seem to get the right combination of single quotes, double
quotes and swi
At 10:58 13/03/2001 +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
[snip]
>all the good classic web problems, with simple ready to run examples.
>forums, guestbooks, counters, voting, etc.
Isn't this what Extropia tried to do ? (www.extropia.com)
Why did this not get picked up, is it just to complicated ?
Sim
At 12:54 07/03/2001 -0500, Dave Cross wrote:
[snip]
> >
> > Chapter 10 isn't it Dave ?
>
>Section 10.4 to be precise. "Specialized parsers - XML::RSS" :)
>
>You've got a bit further since last Thursday then!
Yep, but not quite that far !
Also been reading Rebel Code which has a nice bit about
At 12:43 07/03/2001 -0500, Dave Cross wrote:
>At Wed, 7 Mar 2001 17:37:00 +, Michael Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 04:36:56PM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> > > What's the best way to scrape a variety of news headlines from
> > > various sites? Sort of a moreo
At 10:13 20/02/2001 +, you wrote:
>amazon uk have started shipping data munging with perl. I have my
>copy.
>
>Michael
Must be very popular, it's just dropped back to "On Order; is usually
dispatched within 1-2 weeks" !
Simon
At 11:48 13/02/2001 +, you wrote:
[snip]
>As one of the requirements listed was content management you can through
>in the BBC, especially the interactive telly division. Heck, they even
>gave a presentation at YAPC::Europe.
Does anyone know if that presentation is available online anywhe
At 11:12 13/02/2001 +, you wrote:
> > This is all fine but there is a big cloud. We have a new IT manager who
> > wants to bring all development into one team and use a single toolset for
> > web based applications.
>
>why dont you just track both projects for a while and get some results
>abo
e and continue to sub out for developers, and use open
source tech for new development, with commercial backends when we need that
level of sophistication. Anyone have any comment on this ?
Thank you for your attention, all advice gratefully received.
Regards,
Simon Wilcox
this nice new email address finally working, I have
unsubscribed my work email from the list.
Hopefully that will stop this sort of rubbish.
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a plus point, it has it's own bar !
I'll check out costs etc if people are interested.
Simon.
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