Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-12
On 16 Feb 2001 11:31:06 +, Steve Mynott wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > For someone who's never used IRC at all, it's particularly annoying. I'm no > > Luddite though, I was using Cheeseplant's house over a decade ago, and wrote > > my own chat system, but just never got round to IRC. > > I was on Cheeseplant's House as well! > > I recently noticed the source was out > > http://www.cheeseplant.org/~daniel/pages/cph.html > > which chat system did you write? It was a pretty simple local-access-only system, which was only ever used at Bristol University. It did have multiple channels, nicknames, private messages and a man page, though. -- Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] File not found. Should I fake it? (Y/N)
Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-12
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > For someone who's never used IRC at all, it's particularly annoying. I'm no > Luddite though, I was using Cheeseplant's house over a decade ago, and wrote > my own chat system, but just never got round to IRC. I was on Cheeseplant's House as well! I recently noticed the source was out http://www.cheeseplant.org/~daniel/pages/cph.html which chat system did you write? -- 1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott [EMAIL PROTECTED] enosig: this signature file is empty.
Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-12
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 17:02:36 +, Leon Brocard wrote: > And finally, dumrats used naughty words and got attacked by a daemon: > http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg02186.html Finally, due to this and other contextual clues, I've figured out who some of these IRC names apply to. > This london-list weekly summary has been brought to you with IRC > nicknames instead of, err, real names. This is just an experiment - we > reckon it's a bit silly and more confusing. What do you reckon? For someone who's never used IRC at all, it's particularly annoying. I'm no Luddite though, I was using Cheeseplant's house over a decade ago, and wrote my own chat system, but just never got round to IRC. -- Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``Sarathy was concerned by the use of a "whole bit" for this task'' -- Simon Cozens
Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-12
Robin Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:17:42AM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: > > [...] summaries of #london.pm traffic :) > > Now _there's_ an idea :-) > > Is anyone feeling really, really bored? No, but I'm getting hungry... -- 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: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-12
Robin Houston wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:17:42AM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: > > [...] summaries of #london.pm traffic :) > > Now _there's_ an idea :-) > > Is anyone feeling really, really bored? Isn't 30% of the traffic of the type " for cream nauseous disgrace extensibility"? :-) Cheers, Philip
Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-12
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:17:42AM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: > [...] summaries of #london.pm traffic :) Now _there's_ an idea :-) Is anyone feeling really, really bored? .robin.
Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-12
> This london-list weekly summary has been brought to you with IRC > nicknames instead of, err, real names. This is just an experiment - we > reckon it's a bit silly and more confusing. What do you reckon? hmmm .. dunno .. you start off ok with 'blech' but then go on to use the same name spelt the same way on subsequent uses. surely it would make more sense to change one character each time in a humorous fashion. just my GBP 0.02 worth ( ~ 8.67 EUR at current exchange rates ) -- Robin Szemeti The box said "requires windows 95 or better" So I installed Linux!
Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-12
acme wrote: > This london-list weekly summary has been brought to you with IRC > nicknames instead of, err, real names. This is just an experiment - we > reckon it's a bit silly and more confusing. What do you reckon? I didn't know who "dumrats" was but it didn't take long to figure out. Whether IRC names or "real" names are used depends, I suppose, on what you know each other by. However, I imagine if the weekly summaries are intended for the readers of the list, using the names people use on the list might be better. Use IRC names for summaries of #london.pm traffic :) Just my EUR 0.02, Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-12
This is the fourth of hopefully many weekly summaries of the London Perl Mongers mailing list. The list has grown so popular (a hundred messages a day is not uncommon) that I think this is necessary. Comments welcome. For the week starting 2001-02-12: Don't forget the London.pm website for meetings etc. The next meeting is a technical meeting on Thursday, February 22th when Matt Sergeant (baud) will be talking about AxKit (this will be hosted by those nice people at Torrington). http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg02139.html Fine. Fine. Fine. I've been asked to point out the following by dumrats: "london.pm meetings happen on the day after the first wednesday of the month - some misinformed people may have meetings on the 1st of the month occasionally, but what can i say? they are just crazy!". I don't think davorg would quite agree... Briac Pilpre, a fellow Perl Monger from Paris.pm, came over to London and davorg called Yet Another Emergency Meeting in his honour. Lots of Perl was discussed, honest. Emergency meetings are currently one a week or so. One day we might talk about Perl. http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg02136.html blech is now taking over from dumrats and will be organising a trip for around a dozen London.pm-ers to New York city. He's calling it an invasion, but I'm sure he means well. dha and muttley may well help organise. It'll be fun if we carry this off as NY.pm visited London a while back and it was great. http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg02162.html http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg02167.html simonwilcox asked about Perl / LAMP advocacy as he has a new IT director with plans to standardise on ASP. dumrats suggested detailed productivity and cost analysis models instead of an "it's better" argument. All the usual arguments were brought up. http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg02191.html rszemeti brought up the issue of XP unit testing. Testing is one of the corner stones of extreme programming (and one which Perl and CPAN is well known for), and I'd suggest using the Test / Test::Harness modules. It turns out that the Test::Unit module on CPAN is "suboptimal", but luckily pdcawley is working on it. http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg02208.html http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/unittests.html http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Test-Unit daveh asked anyone had any opinion on VA Linux machines. Everyone was very positive (well, they do have blue LEDs) and they apparently have good tech support (unlike Dell). http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg02206.html http://www.valinux.com/ And finally, dumrats used naughty words and got attacked by a daemon: http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg02186.html This london-list weekly summary has been brought to you with IRC nicknames instead of, err, real names. This is just an experiment - we reckon it's a bit silly and more confusing. What do you reckon? Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... A nuclear war can ruin your whole day
