Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-23

2001-04-26 Thread Paul Makepeace 

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 02:17:01PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> Doh!  We entirely missed this:
> 
> http://www.mysql.com/news/article-57.html

That's an amusing read! "'spos it legitimises us, but, but!"

> Which links to (not sure if it's working right now):
> 
> http://technet.oracle.com/tech/migration/index.htm
> 
> Apparently Oracle do have a toolkit for migrating from MySQL.

They indeed do! And no spritely thing is it,

 Omwb_13100.tar.gz (62,918,457 bytes) 

That's so impressively big I guess I'll have to set up a full MySQL
hack just to test it :)

Paul

Re: [london-list-summary] London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-23

2001-04-26 Thread Dave Hodgkinson 

Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Leon Brocard writes:
> > Registration has opened for this year's Perl Conference in San
> > Diego. It's gonna be a great conference - the talks all look excellent
> > (thanks gnat!)
> 
> You're welcome.  I'm going to give a lightning talk at YAPC or TPC
> about just what a clusterfuck it was this year.  Many swearwords.
> 
> If I had more balls I'd do performance art in my lightning talks.
> "My God, cover your eyes Mary!  The angry man's shooting up with
> his own faeces!"

I think there's definitely scope for a "bile" track at any conference.

-- 
Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org
Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star   http://www.deep-purple.com
  Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy

Re: [london-list-summary] London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-23

2001-04-26 Thread Nathan Torkington 

Leon Brocard writes:
> Registration has opened for this year's Perl Conference in San
> Diego. It's gonna be a great conference - the talks all look excellent
> (thanks gnat!)

You're welcome.  I'm going to give a lightning talk at YAPC or TPC
about just what a clusterfuck it was this year.  Many swearwords.

If I had more balls I'd do performance art in my lightning talks.
"My God, cover your eyes Mary!  The angry man's shooting up with
his own faeces!"

Nat

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-23

2001-04-26 Thread Dominic Mitchell 

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 02:05:38PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
> Jon Galliers asked about naming a file correctly when downloading from
> a CGI. Niklas Nordebo and Merijn Broeren provided solutions:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg04654.html

Doh!  We entirely missed this:

http://www.mysql.com/news/article-57.html

Which links to (not sure if it's working right now):

http://technet.oracle.com/tech/migration/index.htm

Apparently Oracle do have a toolkit for migrating from MySQL.

-Dom

London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-23

2001-04-26 Thread Leon Brocard 

This is the fourteenth weekly summary of the London Perl Mongers
mailing list. For the quiet week starting 2001-04-23:

Don't forget the London.pm website for meetings etc. The next meeting
is a social meeting and is on Thursday 3rd May (although it may be
moved if there is a tube strike):
http://london.pm.org/

Registration has opened for this year's Perl Conference in San
Diego. It's gonna be a great conference - the talks all look excellent
(thanks gnat!), and many London.pm-ers will be speaking (and even more
attending). So many, that listing them is our Feature of the Week! For
those scared by the high price of entrance, hotels (Barbie is looking
to share a room or find another hotel), and flights, there's always
YAPC (but I'd say it's well worth it):
http://conferences.oreilly.com/perl5/
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg04691.html
http://yapc.org/America/
http://yapc.org/Europe/

DJ Adams and Piers Harding
  o Transfusing Message Plasma into Business with Perl and Other Magic
Leon Brocard
  o Instant Compilers in Perl
  o Graphing Perl
Simon Cozens
  o 10 Modules I Wouldn't Go Anywhere Without
  o An Introduction to Mail::Audit
  o Calendering Toolkit
  o Inside Perl 5
  o Pretty Printing Perl
  o Unicode: Why, What, and How
  o Use Python
Dave Cross
  o Increasing Perl Use
Andy Wardley
  o Camel Goes Surfing
  o Camelot
  o Web Engineering with Perl and the Template Toolkit
  o XML::Schema
Simon Wistow
  o Flash in the Pan

The technical meeting last week was apparently quite good. Slides for
Robin Houston's "Mutagenic Modules" (quote: "I want to take Perl and
execute it as if it were an arbitrary language"), and Mark Fowler's
"Template Toolkit and XPath" talks are available:
http://london.pm.org/~robin/semantic-talk/0.title.html
http://london.pm.org/~mark/ttxpath/

Jon Galliers asked about naming a file correctly when downloading from
a CGI. Niklas Nordebo and Merijn Broeren provided solutions:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg04654.html

Paul Makepeace wondered if there were some sort of MySQL -> Oracle
wrapper to help migration. There were various helpful posts but
nothing really came out of the discussion:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg04664.html
http://www.mysql.com/
http://www.oracle.com/

The london.pm.org server, penderel, will be upgraded RSN with some
more RAM and a new 40G HD so we can store all our MP3s there :
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg04668.html

In other news, Nathan Torkington tells us to go see his favourite band
in the whole world "Bela Fleck and the Flecktones" next month
(US-style dates, careful), Jonathan Stowe creates Program::Approx, DJ
Adams appears on Byte, perlismybitch.com is about to expire, Robert
Shiels tries to find a name for his company, and www.menzies.co.uk is
apparently a good accountants:
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg04619.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg04663.html
http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20010404S0014

Dizzy dizzy dizzy, Leon
-- 
Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/
Iterative Software..http://yapc.org/Europe/

... C program run. C program crash. C programmer quit