Re: Kevin Smith Film Fest
Hamlet D'Arcy wrote: Long story short... I won advance tickets, a mallrats CD, Mallrats baseball hat, mallrats stickers, and... A FULL SET OF MALLRATS TRADING CARDS! (which I still have). Must. Resist. Urge. To Burgle. House.
Re: DJ jabbers on the O'Reilly Network
At Fri, 9 Mar 2001 09:24:10 -, "Robert Shiels" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.oreillynet.com/ DJ Adams, yet another famous London Perl Monger! With a photo as well no less. Not just _any_ photo, but one of him drinking beer at a london.pm meeting. http://london.pm.org/MeetPics3.html Well done DJ. Seconded. Dave...
Re: RPC stuff
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 02:54:23PM -, Jonathan Peterson wrote: What's the best way forward for RPC / distributed Perl stuff? I don't need anything super complicated, but RPC::Simple seems to want to use Tk ?! I've just been doing stuff in PlRPC and it works quite well. It's based on sockets and Storable.pm, so it's quite lightweight. It also plays nicely with OO, so it's pretty easy to retrofit onto an existing class library, with a small amount of effort. The docs aren't up to much, though. And you'll need something else if you want to have non-perl solutions calling your servers. As was mentioned elsewhere, the SOAP::Lite module appears to be very popular for this purpose, although if you really want to, you could take the heavyweight route and use something like CORBA::ORBit. -Dom
Strange Request
Does any one here have any smallish programs (around the 50 lines mark) that are badly written and need a tidy up? (I've seen the 12 steps, i know your hiding the good stuff) I'm looking for a few bits of code (Not Obfuscated contest level though :)) that i can use as examples of bad coding style. If all else fails I'll be raiding Matts script archive ;) Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon
Re: Strange Request
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Dean wrote: code (Not Obfuscated contest level though :)) that i can use as examples of bad coding style. If all else fails I'll be raiding Matts script archive ;) This is probably your best bet :) MBM (runs away very fast from ever having to touch a piece of code by the now infamous Matt Wright ever again...) -- Matthew Byng-Maddick Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 20 8980 5714 (Home) http://colondot.net/ Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 7956 613942 (Mobile) VMS, n.: The world's foremost multi-user adventure game.
Dimsum today
Heya folks, Piers and I just realised that we hadn't done dimsum at the New World for a while, so we're doing it today at 1pm. New World is at 1 Gerrard Place in Chinatown, opposite the fire station. Hope to see you there! Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... ASCII and ye shall receive
Re: DJ jabbers on the O'Reilly Network
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 04:30:39AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: Not just _any_ photo, but one of him drinking beer at a london.pm meeting. http://london.pm.org/MeetPics3.html I wonder if O'Reilly approached the copyright holder ... -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ This is a signature. There are many like it but this one is mine. ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature
Re: RPC stuff
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote: I've used Frontier::Client in production FWIW. Cheers, paul On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 02:54:23PM -, Jonathan Peterson wrote: What's the best way forward for RPC / distributed Perl stuff? I don't need anything super complicated, but RPC::Simple seems to want to use Tk ?! I've just been doing stuff in PlRPC and it works quite well. It's based on sockets and Storable.pm, so it's quite lightweight. It also plays nicely with OO, so it's pretty easy to retrofit onto an existing class library, with a small amount of effort. The docs aren't up to much, though. And you'll need something else if you want to have non-perl solutions calling your servers. As was mentioned elsewhere, the SOAP::Lite module appears to be very popular for this purpose, although if you really want to, you could take the heavyweight route and use something like CORBA::ORBit. -Dom -- Paul Sharpe Tel: +44 (20) 7407 5557 Miraclefish Ltd. Fax: +44 (20) 7378 8711 Studio 12 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 37 Tanner Street London SE1 3LF UNITED KINGDOM
Re: Scraping news feeds?
I run http://10.am and do this on a largish scale. For aggregating RSS feeds I use RSSLite [1] rather than XML::RSS. RSSLite avoids using expat and is a little naughty in parsing XML that would make expat barf ( Alot of RSS feeds unfortunatly contain bad XML ). For actual scaping of sites I basically use meaty regexps or HTML::Parser. 10.am also supplys feeds [2] in RSS if you want to use them. I hope to Open Source 10.am in the near future when I sort out some contractual obligations. mallum [1] http://industrial-linux.org/RSSLite/ [2] http://10.am/docs/feeds.htm (eg http://10.am/Development/Perl-rss ) 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 moreover for the intranet... -- 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: DJ jabbers on the O'Reilly Network
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:56:30AM +, David Cantrell wrote: I can't remember, but I *think* I took that picture. Not that I actually give a shit. Oops, sorry! I thought it was Robert that took it. Mea culpa :-( At least we (London PM) get some publicity from the article (I couldn't find a URL for Squackers). dj
Re: Scraping news feeds?
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:50:17PM -0500, mallum wrote: I run http://10.am and do this on a largish scale. Mallum - greetings! I didn't know you were on this list - then again, I am crap at keeping up anyway... dj
Re: Scraping news feeds?
At Fri, 9 Mar 2001 12:00:19 +, Michael Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:50:17PM -0500, mallum wrote: For aggregating RSS feeds I use RSSLite [1] rather than XML::RSS. RSSLite avoids using expat and is a little naughty in parsing XML that would make expat barf ( Alot of RSS feeds unfortunatly contain bad XML ). That way lies madness. Which is what I said - but more succinct :)
Re: Kevin Smith Film Fest
I'll also draw a map at some point
Details at http://www.twoshortplanks.com/simon/filmfest/
In order to try and finish at a vaguely reasonable hour I'm going to
start early. So, my house, 2pm for a 2:30 start on Saturday.
Want us to bring anything?
Later.
Mark.
--
print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} (
Name = 'Mark Fowler',Title = 'Technology Developer' ,
Firm = 'Profero Ltd',Web = 'http://www.profero.com/' ,
Email = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', Phone = '+44 (0) 20 7700 9960' )
Fwd: [lmug-talk] Drool time!
Thought this might be of interest to some. Neil. To: "lmug talk yahoogroups.com" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 04:42:43 -0800 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [lmug-talk] Drool time! Being sick, I should be asleep but I couldn't so I got up and did a little computer work. Just a short while ago, I finished installing OS X (Golden Master) on my new PowerBook G4. From the time I started the installation process until the "Finder" appeared was exactly 20 minutes. All you do is click a few buttons, type in some answers to questions and sit back while the installer does its thing. VERY painless and no more difficult to install than was OS 8 or 9. As a matter of fact, easier. If you installed the Public Beta, I suggest that you reformat the drive and install OS 9.1 (which will come with OS X when it's released). Apple doesn't require removing the PB, but it's a safe bet that with TWO new OSes on the drive, it's a good idea. You'll be surprised at how complete OS X is in spite of being incomplete (some components such as DVD play didn't make the final release but are promised in an update which should arrive shortly after the ship date). There are a lot of utilities with which you're familiar (Disk First Aid and Drive Setup combined into Drive Utility) but with new looks and capabilities, as well as some new ones which you used to get from third-party developers (Grab for screen captures, Preview for viewing PDF and other file types). There are also many new applications which are "required" for OS X's plumbing but which the average user isn't "required" to use. Out of the box, OS X will recognize that it's connected to a DHCP server if you're on a LAN or have a DSL setup. It has built-in drivers for FireWire and USB drives (although you cannot install OS X to them) and Apple, Epson and Hewlett Packard printers. Some one said that they hooked up a Brother All-in-One and OS X recognized it. Protected memory is one of the most important new features. Having Internet Explorer 5.1 Preview Edition (included on the CD) crash (oh, it will!) and not have to worry about it (just restart it) is worth the price of admission. I'm currently typing this in Microsoft Entourage 2001 which is running in the Classic environment. I won't go into the differences between OS 9 and Classic (it will be covered by others) but I don't notice any difference in speed for most tasks under either environment. Switching between the two is seamless and transparent (if set up properly). Contrary to the pre-Public Beta fears, there is almost nothing to worry about with OS X. Once the top apps are available in Carbon form, this should be a killer product for Apple. I don't know if it will ever gain the huge market share that Apple hopes for, but it should, ultimately, at least outsell Linux. Once OS X Server is released (shortly after March 24, 2001), Apple will finally have an Enterprise product line. Unfortunately, it still doesn't have an Enterprise strategy! Bruce -- Neil C. Ford Managing Director, Yet Another Computer Solutions Company [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Technical Meeting
Just a quick reminder that there will be _no_ technical meeting next Thursday. We've seen far too much of each other and it wouldn't be healthy :) The next meeting is on Thursday 5th April and the next technical meeting is Thursday 19th April. Suggestions for venues for both are welcomed. The web site is, as usual, wrong. I'll correct it over the weekend. Dave...
Re: DJ jabbers on the O'Reilly Network
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 06:48:16AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: I wonder if O'Reilly approached the copyright holder ... Heh! "The use of the beer glass image in association with the Perl language is a trademark of the London Perl Mongers". I'm pretty sure NY.pm can claim prior art here... :) dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ "Anybody's apt to trip." "Not over a sofa!" - The Lady Eve
