Re: Technical Meeting
On or about Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 12:07:01AM +, alex typed: [better instructions soon, but it takes up most of rhoda street, bethnal green, nearest tubes are old street, shoreditch, liverpool street and bethnal green, or closest of all, bus route number 8] Oh dear oh dear oh dear... that's about five minutes' walk from where I'm working... expect a large Torrington contingent if I can persuade them. Roger
Re: FOOD
* Alex Page ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 02:55:09PM -0500, David H. Adler wrote: I drink badly too. I'm sorry, but that parsing of Jonathan's comment indicates that he *needs* badly. His drinking skills are indeterminate at this point. Erm, how does one need badly? "God, I need a cigarette." "Here you go, you can scab one of mine." "No thanks, I'm fine." Alex, stalking dha around the 'net dha : Say, whats up Doc? alex : be verry verry quiet, i'm hunting adlers dha : Adlers you say, how can you spot them? alex : well they know too much about monty python dha : you mean things like ``the how to recognise body parts'' sketch from series 2 took 18 takes, as palin and cleese couldn't stop laughing at each other alex : yeah thats right, say .. -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
RE: Fwd: SPUG: ActivePerl 623
my vote the one, the only ... Charlie's Angels That was a fun film and entertaining but I need more that kung fu and breasts to make a good 90 mins... Why would anyopne need more than kung fu to enjoy a fillum? "Crouching Tiger - Hidden Dragon" is best film of 2000 for my money. Breasts are an optional bonus. Am I going to get slapped down for saying that? Other thread. ActiveState Perl. I have that on my smoke-spouting station wagon, but I tend to do most of my actual monkeying using the slightly gimpy version on my sedan. The perennial problem of wanky memory management is a huge pain with MacPerl, however. I get to use a proper sparcstation at werg, though. -- sun-earther matthew boogieboy jones of HUDDERSFIELD
RE: new years eve
This could be the ideal opportunity for that drunken Paranoia game we've been promising ourselves for so long. Yes, it *definitely* has to be drunken. It's been literally years since I played paranoia! It's by far the best RPG *ever*. It neatly sidesteps the whole "take the whole thing too seriously/powergamers" problem, and I love the BOFHly role the GM has to take on. Beautiful -- Maff-U-Jones stay alert. trust no-one. keep your laser handy. catch up.
RE: Fwd: SPUG: ActivePerl 623
On 05/01/2001 at 09:34 +, Matthew Jones wrote: Why would anyopne need more than kung fu to enjoy a fillum? I dunno. Plot? shrug/ "Crouching Tiger - Hidden Dragon" is best film of 2000 for my money. Breasts are an optional bonus. Am I going to get slapped down for saying that? Hey, it's that fun American release/UK release argument again (since CTHD isn't out here until... well, actually it's today. The Guardian like it too, fwiw. No-one mentioned Titus (they dropped the Andronicus bit for some reason for the film version). I liked it. I thought they'd added the grim bits and was a bit shocked to find that they were all Will's fault. Wins the Romeo And Juliet Production Design award too. -- :: paul :: and if you refuse to believe :: you will be cast into the void
Re: Fwd: SPUG: ActivePerl 623
Matthew Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: my vote the one, the only ... Charlie's Angels That was a fun film and entertaining but I need more that kung fu and breasts to make a good 90 mins... Why would anyopne need more than kung fu to enjoy a fillum? "Crouching Tiger - Hidden Dragon" is best film of 2000 for my money. Breasts are an optional bonus. Am I going to get slapped down for saying that? Yes. They're not optional. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire -
Re: not-paranoia
ill stick more details about this here http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net/ including a method for generating a character * Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: there has been some talk, of playing a one off (ish) rpg, the night is probably next thursday night and the game is open to all london.pm'ers (even if they have been to less than 3 meetings this year ;-) ) the game is likely to use the original traveller rules but be set in a cyberpunk/1984 world from my feevered mind, min. players is 3 maximum players i 8, and the game will be held in sydenham alchohol will be kept to a minimal level ;-) (because i'm the BGMFH) if people could mail me offlist if they are interested, alternatively we can create yet another non-perl related thread here greg -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
RE: Fwd: SPUG: ActivePerl 623
Why would anyopne need more than kung fu to enjoy a fillum? I dunno. Plot? shrug/ Here's my idea of a good plot: Wang Hoo: "Eight Castle-Smasher Fists! Feet on Seven Stars!" (sticks rigidly to form) Tsing Wa: "Left Hand Buddha Palm! Right Hand Buddha Fist!" (also sticks rigidly to form) A fight ensues. Wang Hoo: "Drunken Buddha Style!" Tsing Wa: "Watch out for my hidden attack!" (eh? -ed) "Crouching Tiger - Hidden Dragon" is best film of 2000 for my money. Hey, it's that fun American release/UK release argument again (since CTHD isn't out here until... well, actually it's today. The Guardian like it too, fwiw. Never mind what country it was released in and when. If you saw it in 2000, they you're entitled to include it in your personal best of the year, I reckon. -- sun-earther matthew boogieboy jones of HUDDERSFIELD -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- GAT/IT/L d--@ s+: a- C++ UL P++ L+++ E- W+++$ N !o K- w !O M+++ V- PS+++ PE-- Y+ PGP-+ t@ 5+(++) !X R tv- b+++ DI++ D++ G e++ h(+) r y? --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Re: Technical Meeting
On Jan 4, 10:18pm, Dave Cross wrote: As always I'm looking for volunteers to speak at the meeting. If you've got anything really cool[1] to tell us about then please let me know. Take your pick: Template Toolkit Views A new and icy cold metaphor for the Template Toolkit which makes hard things easy and defrosted things frozen solid. Assumes (but probably doesn't rely on) some TT knowledge. Camelot An experimental Web Application Framework which makes (most) other so-called "Web Application Frameworks" look like a really silly idea. Br! That's chilly. Pod::POM The POD Object Model. This makes translation of POD to other formats so simple that even your grandmother could do it, and we all know how much trouble she has working the toaster. Yowser, it's cold in here! Did someone leave the freezer door open? XML::Schema XML::Schema will rule the world! This is still in the planning / development phase, but it promises to kick bottom really hard. Create a schema to describe your data and then sit back and let the camel take over. The XML::Schema module should allow you to build schema-specific parsers, (de-)marshalling code to convert XML schema instances to/from objects, XML/SQL interfaces, and other cool stuff like that. Hey, is that frost on the keyboard? Dear Santa How to write your christmas thank-you letters using the Template Toolkit. Silly, but chilly lighting talk. A -- Andy Wardley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signature regenerating. Please remain seated. [EMAIL PROTECTED] For a good time: http://www.kfs.org/~abw/
Re: Technical Meeting
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: As always I'm looking for volunteers to speak at the meeting. If you've got anything really cool[1] to tell us about then please let me know. i can do 20 minutes on SOAP (not 20 mins squeezed into 5) ;-) -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: Technical Meeting
On Jan 4, 10:18pm, Dave Cross wrote: As always I'm looking for volunteers to speak at the meeting. If you've got anything really cool[1] to tell us about then please let me know. Take your pick: Template Toolkit Views A new and icy cold metaphor for the Template Toolkit which makes hard things easy and defrosted things frozen solid. Assumes (but probably doesn't rely on) some TT knowledge. Camelot An experimental Web Application Framework which makes (most) other so-called "Web Application Frameworks" look like a really silly idea. Br! That's chilly. Pod::POM The POD Object Model. This makes translation of POD to other formats so simple that even your grandmother could do it, and we all know how much trouble she has working the toaster. Yowser, it's cold in here! Did someone leave the freezer door open? XML::Schema XML::Schema will rule the world! This is still in the planning / development phase, but it promises to kick bottom really hard. Create a schema to describe your data and then sit back and let the camel take over. The XML::Schema module should allow you to build schema-specific parsers, (de-)marshalling code to convert XML schema instances to/from objects, XML/SQL interfaces, and other cool stuff like that. Hey, is that frost on the keyboard? Dear Santa How to write your christmas thank-you letters using the Template Toolkit. Silly, but chilly lighting talk. A Ummm. the lot :-) Save having to swap laptops with the projector and Dave wouldn't have to time the lightening talks. Top it off with another 12 steps session from Piers and were sorted. Neil. -- Neil C. Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.binky.ourshack.org
Re: Damian's Visit
Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As you'll have seen from his web site http://www.yetanother.org/damian/, Damian will be in London on 25th and 26th Feb. I've exchanged emails with him and here are a few more details. He flies in at 11:30am on Sunday 25th and is teaching all day Monday and most of Tuesday, before flying out again at 6:20pm on Tuesday. Where's he teaching? Can a major sponsor blag a seat in there? He's happy to give us a talk on one of those nights (he suggests Quantum::Superpositions, but will do another if requested) and would like to come and eat/drink with us on the other (jetlag permitting). I *need* the Q::S talk. I'd suggest that we should entertain him on Sunday Dim sum! and that he should entertain us on Monday. We'll probably need somewhere _really_ big for his talk[1]. Any suggestions? Conway Hall? -- Piers
Re: Technical Meeting
On Jan 5, 11:46am, Neil Ford wrote: Save having to swap laptops with the projector and Dave wouldn't have to time the lightening talks. But then when would I get to drink cold beer? :-) A -- Andy Wardley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signature regenerating. Please remain seated. [EMAIL PROTECTED] For a good time: http://www.kfs.org/~abw/
Re: Technical Meeting
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 12:21:14PM -, Dean S Wilson wrote: -Original Message- XML::Schema XML::Schema will rule the world XML::Schema gets my vote Mine too. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david The voices said it's a good day to clean my weapons.
Re: Technical Meeting
Neil Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Jan 4, 10:18pm, Dave Cross wrote: As always I'm looking for volunteers to speak at the meeting. If you've got anything really cool[1] to tell us about then please let me know. Take your pick: [... Frosty Stuff ...] Ummm. the lot :-) Save having to swap laptops with the projector and Dave wouldn't have to time the lightening talks. One wonders if we shouldn't arrange a special 'Andy Wardley *really* shows off' evening. Top it off with another 12 steps session from Piers and were sorted. You say the nicest things. I want to see someone do a lightning talk on musical interpretations of common Compsci algorithms. -- Piers
Re: Technical Meeting
* Piers Cawley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I want to see someone do a lightning talk on musical interpretations of common Compsci algorithms. i could clean up Devel::MIDI if you really waned Piers -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
copious free time
Well it's now official, and if I didn't tart around you last night then I'm available for work due to the unfortunate explodingness of oven. 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) module in the CPAN. -- Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Technical Meeting
Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Piers Cawley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I want to see someone do a lightning talk on musical interpretations of common Compsci algorithms. i could clean up Devel::MIDI if you really waned Piers Err. That wasn't *quite* what I meant. -- Piers
Re: copious free time
Natalie Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 12:54 05/01/01, you wrote: Well it's now official, and if I didn't tart around you last night then I'm available for work due to the unfortunate explodingness of oven. Oops - oven too[1]? Is it something in the water? Natalie [1] EmapOnline, h2g2, ... What happened to h2g2? -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire -
Re: Technical Meeting
On Jan 5, 2:39pm, Natalie Ford wrote: BTW, have you found a job, Andy? Erm, I don't really know. On one hand CRE say they're going to make me redundant at the end of November^WDecember^WJanuary... and on the other hand, they say I'm now funded 3 times over for the next 2 years, they're going to promote me[1] and give me a pay rise. I think there are more exciting things on the horizon that I should probably be doing in the long term, but for now I've still got a desk and they're still paying me to write Perl code. A [1] Senior Perl Wanker -- Andy Wardley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signature regenerating. Please remain seated. [EMAIL PROTECTED] For a good time: http://www.kfs.org/~abw/
Re: Forthcoming Meetings - Summary
Sun 25th Feb Emergency Social Meeting (Damian Conway) Mon 26th Feb Emergency Technical Meeting (Damian Conway) This could be worth having a holiday for. See you there :) Barbie
Birmingham Perl Mongers
If anyone is ever in Birmingham on the second Wednesday of every month, the Birmingham Perl Mongers (there are a few at the moment) will be glad to indulge in a few pints with you. For those interested, the next meeting (10th January) will be after 5.30pm in The Hogshead on Newhall Street (just round the corner from St Phillips Cathedral on Colmore Row). Have fun! Barbie
Re: Technical Meeting
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 02:37:43PM +, Natalie Ford wrote: At 12:35 05/01/01, David Cantrell wrote: Mine too. AOL Me too ! ;-) /AOL I should point out that there was no exclamation mark in my reply, and so it doesn't count as an AOL/. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david The voices said it's a good day to clean my weapons.
RE: Stuff
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 another 150 or so addresses g) 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 the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please re-send this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system.
Re: Technical Meeting
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... :-) dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ All the study in the world doesn't make it science - Paul Weller
