Re: [Boston.pm] Setting cookies in different browsers

2004-08-31 Thread Ronald J Kimball
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:46:35PM -0500, Alex Brelsfoard wrote: I am currently using the followin code to write the cookie: my $cookie = Set-Cookie: . $COOKIENAME=$userID; . domain=.breltech.com; . expires=+1d; print $cookie; . print Content-type:

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Followup

2004-08-05 Thread Ronald J Kimball
We had about 20 people at Tuesday's tech meeting. We started with a review of notable happenings at OSCON, including Dan Sugalski being hit in the face with a pie, and Jon Orwant receiving a White Camel award. http://www.tamias.net/rjk/photography/oscon_2004_pie/

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki

2004-08-05 Thread Ronald J Kimball
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 09:57:32AM -0400, Ian Langworth wrote: At the meeting, Uri suggested that we turn boston.pm.org into a wiki -- specifically, a Kwiki. I'd be happy to do so. Aye? Nay? I think it's a pretty good idea. Is there a way to limit who has access to edit pages? It would be

Re: [Boston.pm] Re: Uploading a picture with perl

2004-08-03 Thread Ronald J Kimball
I'm not sure why your code isn't working. It's a bit hard to debug, because we're just seeing bits and pieces. Anyway, here's a simple example that does work: #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use strict; use CGI; my $cgi = new CGI; print $cgi-header(); print EndOfHTML; html headtitleFile Upload

[Boston.pm] Reminder: Tech Meeting Tomorrow, Tuesday, August 3

2004-08-02 Thread Ronald J Kimball
Boston.pm will have a tech meeting Tuesday, August 3, at Boston University, Kenmore Classroom Building, 565 Commonwealth Ave, room 106 (directions below), starting at 7:30pm. We'll have two presentations at tomorrow's meeting. Ian Langworth will be giving a talk on Kwiki, a Wiki environment

[ADMIN] Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting w/ Damian Conway, Tuesday, July 13

2004-07-02 Thread Ronald J Kimball
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 12:08:11PM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: On Thursday, Jul 1st 2004 at 23:17 -0400, quoth Chris Devers: =Your wife / SO / etc must be delighted with this treasure... I can only surmise that SO means Supplier of Orgasms. And I think that's enough on this thread, thanks!

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting w/ Damian Conway, Tuesday, July 13

2004-07-01 Thread Ronald J Kimball
Boston.pm will have a tech meeting Tuesday, July 13, at Boston University, Kenmore Classroom Building, 565 Commonwealth Ave, room 106 (directions below), starting at 7pm. I'm pleased to announce that Damian Conway will be giving the presentation at this meeting. To allow him more time, we'll be

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Followup

2004-06-15 Thread Ronald J Kimball
Last night's tech meeting went well. Greg London showed off his new book, Impatient Perl, a Perl training manual for the hyperactive programmer, and gave out review copies. http://www.greglondon.com/ has more info, as well as HTML and PDF versions of the book, and a link to the print-on-demand

[Boston.pm] What to do at tonight's meeting?

2004-06-14 Thread Ronald J Kimball
As I mentioned in the reminder announcement, I haven't found anyone to give a talk at tonight's meeting. What should we do instead? I'll throw out a few ideas: I could do a completely unprepared, off-the-cuff presentation on Data::FormValidator. We could do a communal code review on code that

Re: [Boston.pm] What to do at tonight's meeting?

2004-06-14 Thread Ronald J Kimball
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 04:06:35PM -0400, Timothy Kohl wrote: On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 11:20, Ronald J Kimball wrote: We could do a communal code review on code that people bring to the meeting. This could also be cool. We haven't done anything like this in a long time - I'd

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Monday, June 14

2004-06-02 Thread Ronald J Kimball
Boston.pm will have a tech meeting on Monday, June 14 [*], at Boston University, Kenmore Classroom Building, 565 Commonwealth Ave, room 106 (directions below). Presentations will begin at 7:30. If you would like to give a presentation at this meeting, please let me know. It's an opportunity

Re: [Boston.pm] Completing processing before SIGHUP

2004-06-02 Thread Ronald J Kimball
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 09:34:15PM -0700, Ranga Nathan wrote: Ronald, Could we please set the Reply-To: to the mailing list address please, pretty please? There are arguments on both sides of this issue, and we have tried both approaches on this list. It is impossible to satisfy everybody,

Re: [Boston.pm] list viruses

2004-05-05 Thread Ronald J Kimball
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 09:25:08PM -0400, Chris Devers wrote: Okay, so two viruses have made it to the list today. In both cases, it looks like the mail came from Verizon customers: Received: from pm.org (pool-141-154-212-242.bos.east.verizon.net [141.154.212.242]) by

[Boston.pm] Pizza (and books) at Tech Meeting

2004-04-27 Thread Ronald J Kimball
BTW, I forgot to mention this, but I am planning to have pizza at the tech meeting tonight. However, I need someone to recommend a pizza place in the Kenmore Square area that does delivery. Any suggestions? Also, we'll give away some free review copies obtained by Uri and myself, including two

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tues, April 27

2004-04-21 Thread Ronald J Kimball
Yes, Virginia, there is a tech meeting! Next Tuesday, April 27, we will have a meeting at Boston University. Presentations will begin at 7:30. This will be our first meeting at BU; if it works out we may have future meetings there as well. I'll send a full announcement, including an agenda

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech meeting?

2004-04-13 Thread Ronald J Kimball
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 09:39:31AM -0400, John Saylor wrote: well, mit may be a nice place for meetings, but i don't think parking there is ever a cake walk ... You're wrong, it's just like a cake walk: everyone drives around in circles until the music stops, and then one lucky person gets a

Re: [Boston.pm] meetings at BU

2004-04-13 Thread Ronald J Kimball
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 04:23:18PM -0400, Sean Quinlan wrote: Good afternoon! I have tentative approval for use of a large conference room here at BU (just slightly smaller than Boston.com's). It's room 220 at 44 Cumington St. There should be plenty of street parking by 7ish unless the

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech meeting?

2004-04-12 Thread Ronald J Kimball
On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 10:16:24PM -0400, Chris Devers wrote: On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Ron Newman wrote: On Apr 12, 2004, at 10:40 AM, Sean Quinlan wrote: If Boston.com is not available I do have access to rooms near the T. Why are we no longer able to use Boston.com? Has everyone there

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech meeting?

2004-04-08 Thread Ronald J Kimball
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 02:51:13PM -0400, Mike Burns wrote: Is a tech meeting happening soon? Boston.com hasn't committed yet to hosting a tech meeting this month. If that doesn't work out, I have at least one other possible location, but it's not on the T. :/ Ronald

Re: [Boston.pm] using {3-8} instead of {3, 8} doesn't produce even a warning?

2004-01-27 Thread Ronald J Kimball
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 04:55:28PM -0500, Tolkin, Steve wrote: # run using e.g. echo hello | perl this-file # Why doesn't perl produce a warning from {3-8} ? This seems # to be a syntax error. It surely is not the way to match strings of length 3 - 8. It # should be {3,8} . while () {

Re: [Boston.pm] why no warning about this infinite loop

2004-01-27 Thread Ronald J Kimball
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 05:04:03PM -0500, Tolkin, Steve wrote: # run using e.g. echo hello | perl this-file # Why doesn't perl produce a warning from the following. It is an # infinite loop. If I add a /g modifier to the m// it works fine. while () { while (m/([a-z])/) { # warning

Re: [Boston.pm] Bug/Limitation in DBD::mysql?

2004-01-15 Thread Ronald J Kimball
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 09:59:38AM -0500, Chris Braiotta wrote: $prep = $conn-prepare($get_uptime_sql) or die Can't prepare: $conn-errstr\n; $exec = $prep-execute or die Can't execute: $conn-errstr\n; LOOP: while (my @sql = $prep-fetchrow_array) { my ($host, $state,

[Boston.pm] Reminder: Tech Meeting Tues, Jan 13

2004-01-12 Thread Ronald J Kimball
Boston.pm's next Tech Meeting will be held tomorrow, Tuesday, January 13 at the offices of Boston.com. The presentation will begin at 7pm (note: not the usual 7:30). Dan Sugalski will be presenting a tutorial on Parrot. Here is his description of the talk: The talk is a run-through of an

Re: [Boston.pm] Re: Reminder: Tech Meeting Tues, Jan 13 (Ronald J Kimball)

2004-01-12 Thread Ronald J Kimball
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 01:25:24PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 1:11 PM -0500 1/12/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will be coming for the first time, is Boston.com's office just the Boston Globe or is there an address I can use and office room? The boston.com building's just down the street

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tues, Jan 13

2004-01-08 Thread Ronald J Kimball
Boston.pm's next Tech Meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 13 at the offices of Boston.com. The presentation will begin at 7pm (note: not the usual 7:30). Dan Sugalski will be presenting a tutorial on Parrot. Here is his description of the talk: The talk is a run-through of an

[Boston.pm] Boston.pm Job Posting Policy

2004-01-07 Thread Ronald J Kimball
A quick reminder on the current Job Posting Policy for the Boston.pm mailing list. This is the policy that was discussed and agreed upon by members of the list. While we're on the subject, do people still feel that this policy is relevant? Are there changes that should be made to the policy?

[Boston.pm] boston-pm on GMane

2003-12-03 Thread Ronald J Kimball
It appears that someone has subscribed our list to GMane, which is a mail-news gateway and archive. As our archives are already public, this should be okay. I believe GMane will do address encryption on all email addresses. If you have any concerns about this, please email me.

[Boston.pm] Update: Tech Meeting Tues, Dec 9

2003-12-02 Thread Ronald J Kimball
Boston.pm's next Tech Meeting will be held on Tuesday, December 9 at the offices of Boston.com. The presentations will begin at 7:30. Bill Ricker will discuss solving word puzzles with Perl one-liners, such as the RN puzzle from Nov 23 at http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/puzzle/ . Uri Guttman

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tues, Dec 9

2003-11-24 Thread Ronald J Kimball
Boston.pm's next Tech Meeting will be held on Tuesday, December 9 at the offices of Boston.com. The presentations will begin at 7:30. If you would like to give a presentation at this meeting, please email me. Perhaps you have a neat script you've written, or a favorite CPAN module you want to

[Boston.pm] [job] SysAdmin, Free Software Foundation

2003-09-23 Thread Ronald J Kimball
Senior GNU/Linux Systems Administrator and Programmer http://www.gnu.org/jobs/fsf-sysadmin.html The ideal candidate will be a well-rounded, seasoned, experienced GNU/Linux systems administrator and programmer. (S)he will be intimately familiar with the Free Software community and how it works,

Re: [Boston.pm] Re: Next Meeting w/Damian?

2003-09-12 Thread Ronald J Kimball
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 09:49:36AM -0400, Bob Mariotti wrote: This list has had traffic talking about Damian Conway speaking at your next pm meeting. Can someone please post the actual date that is scheduled for? The exact date has not been confirmed. The meeting will probably be on

[Boston.pm] News updates

2003-09-09 Thread Ronald J Kimball
* Tech Meeting at end of month Remember, there will *not* be a Tech Meeting tonight. Instead, we will be having a Tech Meeting later this month, probably on September 30, when Damian Conway will give his talk on Perligata, writing Perl in Latin. More details will be provided as the date

[Boston.pm] [job] 3-6 month Contract in Portland, ME

2003-08-05 Thread Ronald J Kimball
Cue Data Services is recruiting for the following position in Portland, ME: Client is an international company with huge online catalogue sales. Local candidates strongly preferred 3-6 month contract No third parties - no sponsorship Experience required with Perl/DB2 (must be Perl+DB2) on

Re: [Boston.pm] bogofilter db files

2003-07-27 Thread Ronald J Kimball
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 11:33:46AM -0400, Joel Gwynn wrote: I've been using bogofilter to build up a Berkeley database of spam and non-spam phrases. I'm trying to inspect the files (goodlist.db and spamlist.db) using dbmopen, and basically nothing happens, except that two very small files are

Re: [Boston.pm] Komodo vs. emacs

2003-07-01 Thread Ronald J Kimball
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 06:01:05PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: On Tuesday, July 1, 2003 9:03 -0400 Joel Gwynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: David Cantrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It's a question of what you're used to, I guess. IMO emacs's indentation blows syphilitic goats :-) What

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Host? Tues, June 10

2003-06-06 Thread Ronald J Kimball
Thanks to everyone who responded with possibilities for hosting a tech meeting! Andrew came through for us, and found a Boston.com developer who is not involved in their new release and has volunteered to organize things. So, we will be able to have the meeting there after all! Announcement to

[Boston.pm] Social Meeting Thursday, March 6

2003-03-02 Thread Ronald J Kimball
Boston.pm will be having a social meeting on Thursday, March 6, at Boston Beer Works (Fenway). We'll start at 7pm and end when everybody leaves. Boston Beer Works is at 61 Brookline Avenue in Boston, across from Fenway park.

[Boston.pm] [JOB] Senior Software Developer at WebEvent

2003-01-20 Thread Ronald J Kimball
Senior Software Developer - WebEvent has an opening for a top notch perl programmer to join our small, focused software development team in Andover, Massachusetts. We are seeking someone who's passionate about Perl, and excited by the opportunity work on a 100%

Re: [Boston.pm] environment variables that stick

2003-01-15 Thread Ronald J Kimball
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 11:36:29AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to write a perl script to replace a Unix shell script which does nothing other than create and set environment variables. So the perl script might look something like this: $ENV{GREGSVAR}='Hello'; except that

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tue, Jan 21

2003-01-14 Thread Ronald J Kimball
Boston.pm's Tech Meeting for January will be held next Tuesday, January 21. The meeting will take place at the offices of Boston.com, and will begin at 7:30. Damian Conway will be talking on Life, the Universe, and Everything! Thanks to Uri Guttman for acting as Damian's liaison. Pizza and

[Boston.pm] Reminder: Tech Meeting Tomorrow, Tue, Dec 10

2002-12-09 Thread Ronald J Kimball
Boston.pm is having a tech meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, December 10. The meeting will take place at the offices of Boston.com. The meeting will begin at 7:30. We should be getting a demo of the new Mac::Carbon module from Chris Nandor. After that, we may head to a nearby social environment.

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tue, Dec 10

2002-12-04 Thread Ronald J Kimball
Boston.pm's Tech Meeting for December will be held next Tuesday, October 23. The meeting will take place at the offices of Boston.com. The meeting will begin at 7:30. I do not yet have an agenda for this meeting. If you would like to volunteer a presentation, or suggest a topic for

Re: [Boston.pm] No Meeting Tonight, Other Updates

2002-11-20 Thread Ronald J Kimball
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 01:37:08PM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote: On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 12:51:07AM -0500, Mark J. Dulcey wrote: The date and place sound good to me. But can they cope with a large group? As I recall, parking in the neighborhood is tight but possible. There is a lot at

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting News

2002-10-09 Thread Ronald J Kimball
I sent the below message earlier today, and it's in the archives, but I haven't received it on the list. Has anyone received that email? --- Since today is the second Tuesday of the month, I've received a couple emails off list asking if Boston.pm would have a Tech Meeting tonight. Due to

Re: [Boston.pm] my understanding of tr must be wrong

2002-10-07 Thread Ronald J Kimball
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 08:01:41AM -0700, Erik Price wrote: Here is a snippet of a script I am working on. It doesn't do what I expect, which is simply to remove all of the occurrences of certain characters from a string using the transliteration (tr///) operator. $money =~ tr/''$

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