Next Social Meeting

2001-04-20 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Paul Mison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 4:54 PM > Um, just to make this not a one-liner: davorg, are you going to post > the decision of the emergency meeting meeting? There was a decision? Oh, wait. I remember. I'll be out of the country at the end of next week so I w

RE: Mutagenic modules: online slides

2001-04-20 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Mark Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 11:37 AM > On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Robin Houston wrote: > > > You want to take arbitrary languages, and execute them as if they > > were Perl. I want to take Perl and execute it as if it were an > > arbitrary language :-) > > Here

RE: Mutagenic modules: online slides

2001-04-20 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Robin Houston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 11:04 AM > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:57:01PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: > > > > Funny. You've come across the same idea I did. > > http://simon-cozens.org/pg.pdf > > Having now read your paper, I think that in some way

The Perl Conference

2001-04-20 Thread dcross - David Cross
Mentioned this briefly last night... Registration has opened for this year's Perl conference in San Diego. Full details at . Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient name

RE: What time tonight ?

2001-04-19 Thread dcross - David Cross
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? -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the r

RE: next social meeting vs tube strike

2001-04-19 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Mike Wyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 4:40 PM > Camels are quite hard to see at London Zoo at the moment, owing to the > foot 'n mouth situation. I was there a couple of weeks back, and the > heffalump house was shut. The penguins ain't bad, though. Ooh. Thanks. I th

RE: next social meeting vs tube strike

2001-04-19 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Struan Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 2:30 PM > Noticed on my way past the news stands last night that the next tube > strike is pencilled in for May the 3rd, as is the next social > meeting. OK, so the strike might not happen but if it does is this > not going

RE: next social meeting vs tube strike

2001-04-19 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Steve Mynott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 2:48 PM > Struan Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Noticed on my way past the news stands last night that the next tube > > strike is pencilled in for May the 3rd, as is the next social > > meeting. OK, so the strike m

RE: Tech mtg - AAarrrgghh

2001-04-19 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Jonathan Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 10:10 AM > It's just occured to me that today is the day that I have to move all my > belongings out of my desk and back home. That's about half a bookshelf, a > complete change of clothes and a bottle of tequila (and that

RE: (Don't Laugh) Buying PGP

2001-04-19 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Rob Partington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 2:22 PM > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:03:33PM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: > > Obviously, from the bottom line this is a bit of a no-brainer. But this > > leaves us having to copy files over to a PC

(Don't Laugh) Buying PGP

2001-04-19 Thread dcross - David Cross
PGP isn't free for commerical use. You're supposed to buy a license. When our purchasing department here approached NAI to buy one, they were told the the Unix (server) version was £27,000 and the Windows version was £657. Obviously, from the bottom line this is a bit of a no-brainer. But this l

RE: JOB: Another one (Banking)

2001-04-19 Thread dcross - David Cross
Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 1:05 PM > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:53:09AM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: > > This is for people who don't have a problem working in a bank. > > Would it be worth forking london-pm-jobs? We&#x

JOB: Another one (Banking)

2001-04-19 Thread dcross - David Cross
This is for people who don't have a problem working in a bank. Note: It's MSB, so normal caveats apply. Dave... = Dave, The following is a full spec, Please distribute as widely as possible as I am very keen to find the right candidate. Spec : Opportunity has ari

RE: The Natives are Revolting

2001-04-19 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 11:34 AM > Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Remember the Liz Castro BBS that I was talking about a few weeks ago. > > Simon mentioned that a couple of the natives were getting restless and > > seemed uncomfortable

RE: The Natives are Revolting

2001-04-19 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Ian Brayshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 11:19 AM > Dave Cantrell wrote: > > >Hmmm ... if 'not working at all' is the same as 'not bad'. All I > >get is the title image. > > Got to love badly formed HTML (probably a missing tag or two). ... > And I thought he was

RE: The Natives are Revolting

2001-04-19 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 10:58 AM > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:29:03AM +0100, Jon Galliers wrote: > > I know you're all probably bored with this, but I was even more bored and > > checked out the site further > > > > >(Although "Chris"'s website ht

RE: JOB: Anyone still looking?

2001-04-19 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Paul Makepeace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 10:28 AM > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 09:17:22AM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: > > Rate ca. ?22k or equivalent for contract > > Is that really the going rate for Perl proggers in London? Doesn&#x

JOB: Anyone still looking?

2001-04-19 Thread dcross - David Cross
I got this from someone called Raphael Mankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, but I don't really know how he fits into the picture :( Perl progger required to work in Golders Green. Permanent/contract as you will. Tasks: 1. To nursemaid a new, Mason based, web app through its initial period 2. To maintain

RE: Mourning clothes for London.pm

2001-04-18 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 5:39 PM > Mike Jarvis wrote: > > CNN reports that BtVS's SMG will wed Freddie Prinz. > > Who's he? Is he that Wesley bloke that I haven't seen yet? Nah. He's a nobody who's been dating SMG for a while. Apparently they're go

RE: Mourning clothes for London.pm

2001-04-18 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Mike Jarvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 4:30 PM > CNN reports that BtVS's SMG will wed Freddie Prinz. Why would that bother us? Remember, we're all Willow fans here. Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only fo

RE: Tech mtg?

2001-04-18 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Ian Brayshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 2:41 PM > Speaking of this meeting, will details be available on the web (such as > directions)? Or did I just miss that thread... Arrgh. Something I forgot to do over the weekend. Could someone at State51, please put somet

Mentioned in Dispatches

2001-04-18 Thread dcross - David Cross
Maybe Robin would care to comment on this :) Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be l

RE: Tech mtg?

2001-04-18 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Robin Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 2:25 PM > Do we yet know if there's going to be a data projector for > the tech meeting? If not, will there be _any_ kind of mechanism > for showing things to people? (OHP, blackboard, whatever) Richard had volunteered to go

RE: Errors Building HTML::Parser on AIX

2001-04-17 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 2:26 PM > On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 02:12:14PM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: > > > I'm having trouble building HTML::Parser on an AIX box. It's the first time > > I've tried to

Errors Building HTML::Parser on AIX

2001-04-17 Thread dcross - David Cross
Sorry to drag the list off-topic, but I've a Perl question! I'm having trouble building HTML::Parser on an AIX box. It's the first time I've tried to build and install an XS module, so it's quite possible that it's a wider issue. The 'make' seems to go ok, but when I run 'make test' I get the sa

Beginners Guide

2001-04-17 Thread dcross - David Cross
I'm painfully aware that not everyone on this list has the same amount of experience and knowledge and that therefore some discussions may well go over the head of some of the newbies. It's therefore nice to be able to find ways to help out beginners. For that reason, I'm happy to point out the

RE: Technical Meeting Agenda

2001-04-12 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 10:20 AM > On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 10:15:13AM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: > > > Committee Reports: > > Canel Visitation Committee > ^ > > God we're going down market... ;) You didn

NY Invasion

2001-04-12 Thread dcross - David Cross
Those of you embarking on the invasion of New York in a couple of weeks time will no doubt be pleased to know that I've established contact with the leader of the New York Perl Mongers (one David H Adler) and we've tentatively pencilled in Thursday 26th April as a good date for us to show them ho

Technical Meeting Agenda

2001-04-12 Thread dcross - David Cross
Here's the agenda(!) for the technical meeting on 19th April (a week today) at State 51. Committee Reports: T-Shirt Committee Server Committee Canel Visitation Committee Lightning Talks: Not Matt's Scripts/TT Views - Mark Why Perl Advocacy is Bad - Dave Talks: "101 fun things to do with Tangra

TPJ Reborn

2001-04-11 Thread dcross - David Cross
Excellent news from Jon Orwant at Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not

RE: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-09

2001-04-11 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 2:39 PM > dcross - David Cross sent the following bits through the ether: > > > Not sure I like the idea of 'organised' social meetings. Sounds a bit too > > 'SPUG' to m

RE: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-09

2001-04-11 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 1:00 PM > The social meeting last week was a lot of fun, if a little > crazy. However, we really need to start organising the meetings (hey, > even Lonix is more organised!), as it was too loud and crowded: Not sure I like th

RE: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Robert Shiels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 11:28 AM > From: "David Cantrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 09:58:41AM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: > > > > > A

RE: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-10 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Robert Shiels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 10:19 AM > > > might be nice to have status reports from: > > > > > * The t-shirt committee > > What is the design that you have agreed on? I will probably want one. There are five. So you'll probably want somewhere between on

RE: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Robert Shiels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 1:10 PM > A lot of you write and distribute free perl code. What do you do about > copyright and disclaimers in the code itself. I've had a look at a few > examples and it seems you don't really bother. > > I think it is probab

RE: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-10 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 9:17 AM > Dave Cross wrote: > > > I understood that you had delegated the actual work to someone else. > > > > Can you ensure that your vice-chair is able to speak in your place. > > Umm. Ok. > > Somebody give me the design

Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-09 Thread dcross - David Cross
If anyone doesn't know (or has forgotten), there will be a technical meeting on Thursday 19th April. It will be at State 51[1] and we'll start at about 7pm. Details on how to get to State 51 will appear on the web site... er... soon. Last Thursday I bullied^Wasked some people to consider doing t

RE: Ummm... Perl not professional??

2001-04-06 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Andy Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 06 April 2001 12:13 > Just looking for a good book on Email I can across the review for > Programming Internet Email (Oreilly) by [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565924797/o/qid=986555353/sr=8-1/0 26-4687583-3140411 >

RE:

2001-04-06 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Natalie Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 06 April 2001 11:55 > At 11:34 06/04/01, Natalie Ford wrote: > >At 22:42 04/04/01, David Cantrell wrote: > > >They should run, not walk, to sourceforge, and get mutt for Win32. > > > >I have tried www.sourceforge.net and i get a server / dns error. > >

RE: the 2nd best london.pm meeting of all time

2001-04-06 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 06 April 2001 10:00 > I nominate last night as the 2nd best social meeting of all time, just > behind the TVR train and toilet seat nicking of a previous meeting. It _was_ a lot of fun. Thanks everyone for coming. > The stolen wine by the thames at

RE: sub BEGIN {}

2001-04-05 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Janet Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 05 April 2001 10:15 > > Dean: > > Ah the one at the uni near Angel tube. Those weren't w4r3z d00dz > > they were far far worse... Students ;) > > Dean, it happens to the best of us. =) Happened to some of us for a bloody long time. Dave... [seven ye

RE: Grammar (was: Re: Linux.com Online Chat)

2001-04-04 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Matthew Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 04 April 2001 12:24 > > I had to unlearn the reading I knew before I went to school in favour > > of some stupid phonetic system (anyone remember ITA?) > > Nope, never heard of it. I learned to read proper english, as did everyone > else I know who w

RE: Linux.com Online Chat

2001-04-04 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Mark Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 04 April 2001 10:46 > On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote: > > > Tue Apr 17th, 2001 (12:00 pm US/Pacific) > > In english? 8pm Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is inte

RE: Question

2001-04-04 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 04 April 2001 10:32 > I guess 3 months experience in Perl programming would mean working for a > newmedia agency... ITYM "working for a newmedia agency would give you three months experience in Perl programming (before it goes bust). HTH, HAND. Dave

RE: Grammar (was: Re: Linux.com Online Chat)

2001-04-04 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Paul Makepeace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 04 April 2001 10:17 > On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:04:45AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > > Funnily, enough, no. I was born in 1974, I've never been taught english > > grammar and I know of nobody who has. It's actually quite annoying as > > Me to

RE: Linux.com Online Chat

2001-04-04 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 04 April 2001 09:32 > On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:20:25AM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: > > Tell all your friends. No heckling. > > Does that mean we can heckle but they can't? :-) That would be "Tel

Books

2001-04-04 Thread dcross - David Cross
Wanderering around Charing Cross Road last night I picked up a couple of new Perl books, "Writing CGI Applications with Perl" by Kevin Meltzer & Brent Michalski and "Instant Perl Modules" by Doug Sparling and Frank Wiles. Hopefully I'll have both of them with me on Thursday so anyone interested

Linux.com Online Chat

2001-04-04 Thread dcross - David Cross
Well, it's on their website, so it must be official. Event: "Author Talks" Series - Data Munging with Perl Tue Apr 17th, 2001 (12:00 pm US/Pacific) Location: #live on irc.openprojects.net We will have Dave Cross, the author of Data Mungin

RE: when are we going to see the caaaamels

2001-04-03 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: jo walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 03 April 2001 16:15 > can we go now that it is spring? some sunday afternoon soon? > davorg? can we davorg? Er... yes... I suppose so. /me makes a mental note to work out who is entitled to camel tickets. I anyone thinks they owe for a slice, plesae let

RE: Crazy Idea

2001-04-03 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Rob Partington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 03 April 2001 17:24 > In message <D3AF8264E04FD311A18200508B12B1D5037C84AA@SRVLON20>, > dcross - David Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dave... > > [thing are getting strange, i'm starting to worry...] &

RE: Crazy Idea

2001-04-03 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Lucy McWilliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 03 April 2001 16:40 > On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Dean wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:29:04PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > How would people in London.pm like a one night camp out > > > > I'll come if we can have marshmallows ;) > > Mmm. I s

RE: Crazy Idea

2001-04-03 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 03 April 2001 16:53 > * Simon Wistow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > dcross - David Cross wrote: > > > > > > How would people in London.pm like a one night camp out, subject > > > > to the F&M iss

RE: Crazy Idea

2001-04-03 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 03 April 2001 16:48 > dcross - David Cross 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 > ^^

RE: Crazy Idea

2001-04-03 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 03 April 2001 15:29 > 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, a

RE: archiving

2001-04-03 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 03 April 2001 13:56 > So, should we start baiting Scientologists through the archive? Where do I start? * L Ron Hubbard is on record as saying the best way to make money is to start a religion. A few years later he founded the church of scientolog

RE: Social Meeting

2001-04-03 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 03 April 2001 08:04 > * Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > At 20:57 02/04/2001, you wrote: > > >On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 08:35:13PM +0100, Marty Pauley wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu Mar 29 03:13:59 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > > > > > > > > > Can so

Madness! It's Madness!!

2001-04-03 Thread dcross - David Cross
Damian's been busy over the last couple of weeks and has produced a load of documentation on what he thinks Perl 6 _might_ be like. It's at . Certain members of the list might be interested in w

RE: Buffy

2001-04-02 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 02 April 2001 09:50 > Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Robin Szemeti sent the following bits through the ether: > > > > > was there not a recent thread regarding a module on CPAN and someone said > > > somehting along the lines of ' we

RE: Perl Training Courses

2001-03-21 Thread dcross - David Cross
> On 2001, 21, Mar, Wed, Cross, Dave wrote: > > > At Wed, 21 Mar 2001 16:19:57 + (GMT), Mark Fowler wrote: > > > One of my collegues asked me about Perl training courses in the > > > U.K. > > > > As far as I can see, none of the scheduled courses in the UK are > > much cop. > > > > What

RE: ActiveState Awards

2001-02-26 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Elaine -HFB- Ashton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 26 February 2001 14:23 > Dave Cross [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: > *> > *>The page for voting is at . > > Wow, it's a good thing there aren't any women nominated...someone could > get hurt with those 'tr

RE: Class::DBI + job posting

2001-02-22 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 22 February 2001 14:03 > On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 02:55:50PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > of course, i just thought today was a thursday between the 22nd and the 1st > > Eh? Is there something special about the first? Nothing - other than it

RE: Class::DBI + job posting

2001-02-22 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Jonathan Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 22 February 2001 13:46 > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Greg McCarroll > > > > is there a meeting this evening? > > http://penderel.state51.co.uk/ AKA (

RE: Class::DBI + job posting

2001-02-22 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 22 February 2001 14:38 > * Jonathan Peterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Any suggestions please send my way or talk to me this evening. > > is there a meeting this evening? This is a troll, right? You wouldn't really waste the list's time ask

Amazon (was: RE: DMP Availability)

2001-02-22 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Robert Shiels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 22 February 2001 11:59 > I want to buy a book "Code" by Charles Petzold. > > streetsonline - not available > whsmith 12.45 + 2.74 = 15.19 delivery 1-2 weeks > bol.com 12.59 + 2.95 = 15.54 delivery 3-7 days > pcbooks 13.99 + 3.50 = 17.49 next day del

RE: DMP Availability

2001-02-22 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Michael Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 February 2001 10:46 > On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 10:34:06AM -, dcross - David Cross wrote: > > * There are currently 100 copies in Europe. > > * Another (larger) shipment from Manning ended up in Singapore somehow! They >

DMP Availability

2001-02-22 Thread dcross - David Cross
(this is dangerously close to spam, but I know there's a certain amount of interest here :) Just spoke to the local distributors about the availability of DMP in Europe. Here are the bullet points: * There are currently 100 copies in Europe. * Another (larger) shipment from Manning ended up in S

RE: Sunday's emergency social meeting?

2001-02-21 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Roger Burton West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 February 2001 20:00 > ...is it still happening? When? Where? I decided that we'd go for dinner with Damian on Sunday night and that the best way to keep it to a manageable number was to invite all of Damian's london.pm to the meal. If

RE: DMP

2001-02-20 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Simon Wilcox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 February 2001 11:28 > 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

RE: DMP

2001-02-20 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Struan Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 20 February 2001 11:01 > > * at 20/02 10:35 + Mark Fowler said: > > Micheal claimed that: > > > > > amazon uk have started shipping data munging with perl. I have my > > > copy. > > > > Indeed they have. I've got mine now. They're also > ship

RE: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 29 January 2001 15:34 > just think of the sitcom possibilities if i lived above you > Dave? heh? heh? ;-) ;-) Bit tricky that. What with us living in a house and all that. Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is confidenti

RE: [Job] BOFH wanted was: Re: Red Hat worm discovered

2001-01-18 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Dave Hodgkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 18 January 2001 11:42 > > What sort of hourly/daily rate does an average PM perl programmer get > > anyway? > > Anything from 30 upwards to the sky depending on the client. And the > programmer. And the task. Sounds a tad low to me. I've never co

RE: apologies

2001-01-18 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 18 January 2001 13:46 > Dave Cross wrote: > > > OK. So we're now a speaker down. Anyone want to save the > > day by stepping in to give a 20 min talk - or do I have to > > talk about Symbol::Approx::Sub _again_? > > I could give a talk on either F

RE: apologies

2001-01-18 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Dave Hodgkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 18 January 2001 11:05 > I have Deep Purple at the Montreux jazz festival 2000... ;-) That all sounds a bit Spinal Tap. "We hope you like our new direction" :) Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is int

RE: Super Perl Sites

2001-01-15 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 15 January 2001 14:24 > James Royan wrote: > > Just so that I get my facts straight, could the list suggest > > maybe 4 or 5 really well known sites that I could point to > > which are definitely known to use Perl in a big way? > > Besides Blackstar

RE: Forthcoming Meetings - Summary

2001-01-15 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Jonathan Stowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 15 January 2001 08:20 > Get Pine for windows - it can read exchange mail just fine. > Though I'm sure we've been here before. Yeah, we have. But I've never succeeded in getting in configured to work with Exchange. Any pointers to info would be gra

RE: Technical Meeting Agenda

2001-01-12 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 12 January 2001 15:58 > Dave Cross sent the following bits through the ether: > > > We'll start with four or five lightning talks. Currently > > I've only got Robin talking about Oulipo, but I'm sure we > > can come up with a couple more between us

RE: Technical Meeting Agenda

2001-01-12 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Jo Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 12 January 2001 12:18 > > Venue: State 51 (full details - and a map? - to follow) > > State51 is in a disused foam factory at 8-10 rhoda street, > bethnal green,near the junction of brick lane and bethnal > green road. > > http://www.streetmap.co.uk/st

RE: From whence cometh www.fnord.demon.co.uk?

2001-01-11 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 11 January 2001 13:57 > Is anyone here responsible for www.fnord.demon.co.uk, or know > someone who is? I used to hang around with the MTCP groupies, but haven't spoken to any of them for some time. You might get more information from the slightly-mor

Pubs! (was: RE: Forthcoming Meetings - Summary)

2001-01-11 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: dcross - David Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 08 January 2001 11:03 > From: Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: 08 January 2001 11:00 > > > dcross - David Cross wrote: > > > > > If I don't hear any objections by the end of tomorrow, I&

RE: the list is dead, long live the list

2001-01-11 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Peter Corlett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 11 January 2001 13:12 > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >> Nah, mailman on penderel - you know you want to! ;-) > > Yeah, we want our own mailing list server. > > Mmph, it's not that hard to install Majordomo is it? If need > be, just gi

RE: Technical Meeting

2001-01-11 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 11 January 2001 13:28 > On Jan 8, Andy Wardley, thricefold decorated in the Winky Wars wrote: > > How about I do a 20 minute session on Pod::POM and TT > > views, take a break while Alex talks, and then do another 20 minutes > > on XML::Schema? > >

RE: Manning Tk book

2001-01-10 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: DJ Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 10 January 2001 14:33 > On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 07:47:27PM -, Dean S Wilson wrote: > > Was anyone on list involved in the beta reading of this one? > > > > > http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.asp?theisbn=1884777937 > > > > If so did it

RE: Books

2001-01-08 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 08 January 2001 14:53 > David Hodgkinson wrote: > > Kieran Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > And anyway, computing by publisher is getting a lot > better. You just > > > browse O'Reilly, Addison Wesley and Prentice Hall. > > > > Heretic.

RE: German Perl Workshop

2001-01-08 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]? Sent: 08 January 2001 15:32 > * Philip Newton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > oh well i've just got another 4.5 days (ish) of drinking > > > left before its dry january - apart from time during the > > > month of january spent

RE: Forthcoming Meetings - Summary

2001-01-08 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 08 January 2001 11:00 > dcross - David Cross wrote: > > > If I don't hear any objections by the end of tomorrow, I'm > > going to appoint Simon as official pub organiser and suggest > > we try the BB&B

RE: Forthcoming Meetings - Summary

2001-01-08 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 08 January 2001 11:57 > * dcross - David Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > I like this idea. A lot. And not just because the BB&B is > about three > > minutes walk from where I'm now working - it'

RE: Forthcoming Meetings - Summary

2001-01-08 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 08 January 2001 10:42 > dcross - David Cross wrote: > > Thu 1st Feb Social Meeting - Penderels Oak (unless I get a better > > suggestion) > > I keep suggesting the Barrowboy and Banker but nobody listens > ... sob :(

RE: Technical Meeting

2001-01-05 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: David H. Adler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 05 January 2001 17:14 > On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 11:38:50AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > > i can do 20 minutes on SOAP (not 20 mins squeezed into 5) ;-) > > Important distinction... :-) He's having a pop at me. I made him change his 20 min ta

RE: Stuff

2001-01-05 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Barbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 05 January 2001 16:17 > D'oh! > > Still suffering the jetlag of the train home last night and > getting < 3 hours sleep (well that's my excuse). > > So Dave do you need me to send this to dave [at] dave.org now? Nope. It's already gone there (and to ano

RE: copious free time

2001-01-05 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Dean S Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 05 January 2001 13:27 > -Original Message- > From: Richard Clamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Reach me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you've got anything for a > > senior programmer, with 2-3 years Perl, a bag of unix/sql hammers, > > and a (silly) mo

Forthcoming Meetings - Summary

2001-01-05 Thread dcross - David Cross
Lest we get confuse, can I just summarise the forthcoming meetings - as there are rather a lot of them :) Palms at the ready... Thu 11th Jan Emergency RPG Meeting - Greg's Flat Thu 18th Jan Technical Meeting - State 51 Thu 1st Feb Social Meeting - Penderels Oak (unless I get a better suggestion)

RE: Books

2001-01-04 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Struan Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 04 January 2001 14:50 > * at 04/01 13:26 + David Hodgkinson said: > > > > It took me three bookshops on Charing Cross Road to get a > > perl library together for the guys I'm working with, but > > I managed it without having to go into Foyle's

RE: Books

2001-01-04 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: David Hodgkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 04 January 2001 13:26 > It took me three bookshops on Charing Cross Road to get a perl library > together for the guys I'm working with, but I managed it without > having to go into Foyle's. Yeah! I generally find that Blackwell's computer section

RE: FOOD

2001-01-04 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Simon Batistoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 04 January 2001 12:21 > > Are you all mad? > > > > Wendy's. Obviously. > > > > Dave... > > They're dead and gone. All their locations in London are now McD's. But this is terrible news. When did it happen? Actually it happened once before. The

RE: FOOD

2001-01-04 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Paul Mison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 04 January 2001 12:13 > On 04/01/2001 at 11:10 +, David Hodgkinson wrote: > >Chris Heathcote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> on 4/1/01 11:03 am, David Hodgkinson wrote: > >> > >> > Anyone fancy dim sum shortly? > >> > >> What, when McDonalds are

RE: JOB: At A Very Well-Known Company

2001-01-04 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Piers Cawley Sent: 04 January 2001 09:37 [stuff about a job at Ft.com (oops! promised I'd keep the client's name a secret :) > Thought that sounded familiar, they phoned me about it. But want > references before they'll put me up for an interview and I'm damned if > I'm going to give 'em

RE: Fwd: SPUG: ActivePerl 623

2001-01-02 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Mark Fowler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 02 January 2001 17:30 > Must watch Buffy. Has anyone got > > a) the original film Yes. Much to my dismay :( > b) episodes of the current series on BBC I've got the first 11 episodes - which is about as far as the BBC have got on series 4

RE: Fwd: SPUG: ActivePerl 623

2001-01-02 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Simon Wistow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 02 January 2001 17:26 > Simon Wistow wrote: > > > > Mark Fowler wrote: > > > > > Right, that's it. I'm going to have to compile a list of films > > > > > 6. Hudson Hawk. # ditto > > > > 7. UHF > > And, how can I forget > > 8. Buff

RE: Fwd: SPUG: ActivePerl 623

2001-01-02 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Richard Clamp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 02 January 2001 17:05 > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 05:00:54PM +, Roger Burton West wrote: > > On or about Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 04:44:20PM +, Mark > Fowler typed: > > > > >4. Mission Impossible. > > > > Only if you don't know or didn't