Re: [Boston.pm] schwag for next meeting

2009-06-20 Thread James Eshelman
POSIX classes lame and outdated?Am I the only left still using them? - Original Message - From: Andy Oram an...@oreilly.com To: boston-pm@mail.pm.org Sent: 06/19/2009 11:00 PM Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] schwag for next meeting Just a little about these two books. I played a small

Re: [Boston.pm] schwag for next meeting

2009-06-20 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Matthew J Brooks mjbro...@users.sourceforge.net Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:23:42 -0700 Bob Rogers wrote: snip Camel book? We don't need no stinking camel book! Real Programmers learn languages by reading the man pages! In lieu of a book, you are welcome to toss your

Re: [Boston.pm] schwag for next meeting

2009-06-20 Thread John Macdonald
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:53:01PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: MJB But then that got me thinking... How about a Camel Book Toss? ;) MJB Basically, whoever can toss their copy of Programming Perl the farthest MJB wins. Modifications to increase distance (as long as it's not motorized)

Re: [Boston.pm] schwag for next meeting

2009-06-20 Thread John Macdonald
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 01:10:21AM -0400, Steve Scaffidi wrote: I actually *do* own a copy of Programming Python which I'd be *happy* to sacrifice, um, *offer* for this worthy cause! That book weighs a ton, and it was next to useless to me when I learned and worked with Python last year. I

Re: [Boston.pm] schwag for next meeting

2009-06-20 Thread Federico Lucifredi
Matthew J Brooks wrote: But then that got me thinking... How about a Camel Book Toss? ;) Basically, whoever can toss their copy of Programming Perl the farthest [...] Heathen! Best-F -- _ -- 'Problem' is a bleak word for challenge - Richard Fish

Re: [Boston.pm] schwag for next meeting

2009-06-20 Thread Federico Lucifredi
Steve Scaffidi wrote: [...] I actually *do* own a copy of Programming Python which I'd be *happy* to sacrifice, um, *offer* for this worthy cause! That book weighs a ton, and it was next to useless to me when I learned and worked with Python last year. I actually had the same thought

Re: [Boston.pm] schwag for next meeting

2009-06-20 Thread rob levy
Dive into Python was not bad though... On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 11:07 AM, John Macdonald j...@perlwolf.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 01:10:21AM -0400, Steve Scaffidi wrote: I actually *do* own a copy of Programming Python which I'd be *happy* to sacrifice, um, *offer* for this worthy

Re: [Boston.pm] schwag for next meeting

2009-06-20 Thread Federico Lucifredi
As one of the reviewers for Automating System Administration with Perl, I can only rabidly recommend the work as some of the best I have seen lately on both subjects (Perl and System Administration). Best-F Uri Guttman wrote: hi all, o'reilly sent me some new books to give out at our next

Re: [Boston.pm] schwag for next meeting

2009-06-20 Thread Adam Russell
How about a programming contest of some sort? Announce a problem to the mailing list before the meeting. 1 book goes to the most obfuscated. Another book goes to the shortest(perl golf-wise) Another book goes to the *mumble*. You get the idea. The meeting could be brief show tell's of individual

[Boston.pm] Quantum Books (was: schwag for next meeting)

2009-06-20 Thread Steve Revilak
From: Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com anyone heard if Quantum reopened under a new name? Well, http://www.quantumbk.com/ still reads Bookpool storefront placeholder, and http://www.bookpool.com is now parked, courtesy of GoDaddy. I also came across this Google Ad Looking for Bookpool?

Re: [Boston.pm] schwag for next meeting

2009-06-20 Thread Andy Oram
Sorry, Regexp::Common is not in the Regular Expressions Cookbook. I don't believe the authors could seek out and cover every useful enhancement to the many languages; they committed themselves to covering the core features of the languages/libraries. They claim to cover Perl 5.10. Andy