Re: [Boston.pm] copying a bigint into an array of "normal" bits

Have you tried explcitly calling Math::Bignit's numify() method on the values you are passing to the legacy code? ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@pm.org https://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm-announce] Tech meeting TONIGHT - Mark Fowler - in WALTHAM

I should be there. ___ Boston-pm-announce mailing list Boston-pm-announce@pm.org https://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm-announce

Re: [Boston.pm-announce] Tech Meeting - Tuesday Jan 8th, 2019 (tonight) - Perl Advent Calendar Review

I will be there. ___ Boston-pm-announce mailing list Boston-pm-announce@pm.org https://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm-announce

Re: [Boston.pm] Is there a modifier on m or s that says the argument is not a regex

You can wrap your expression to match in \Q \E to auto-escape things. ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@pm.org https://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] 25 years of Perl OO Evolution in one Hour

I'll be there. ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@pm.org https://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Getopt:: module question

>for very simple command line stuff it is good and i have used it. but >the flags can't have args and it has issues with declaring vars and Untrue! the syntax is just different, to set option foo to value bar when running script baz with -s % baz -foo=bar --

Re: [Boston.pm] OS X Perl Dev

> Actually, I'd love to know how well apache/mod_perl works > on Mac OSX. By chance, has anyone worked with Apache::Template > on that platform? I don't understand why you would expect to be appreciably different from BSD. In other words, it should be fine. --

Re: [Boston.pm] kill with parameter

Because that's not how kill works in UN*X. Kill sends a numbered signal (try kill(1) or kill -1). The process then reacts (or not) accordingly. End of story. It's not a general purpose interprocess communication mechanism. Maybe you want to read perlipc(1). --

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: hard drive recovery strategies?

Well, that really depends on the OS and filesystem doesn't it? GetDataBack works quite well for FAT under windows. -- H4sICNoBwDoAA3NpZwA9jbsNwDAIRHumuC4NklvXTOD0KSJEnwU8fHz4Q8M9i3sGzkS7BBrm OkCTwsycb4S3DloZuMIYeXpLFqw5LaMhXC2ymhreVXNWMw9YGuAYdfmAbwomoPSyFJuFn2x8 Opr8bBBidcc= -- MOTD on

Re: [Boston.pm] generic file system?

File::Spec is your friend -- H4sICNoBwDoAA3NpZwA9jbsNwDAIRHumuC4NklvXTOD0KSJEnwU8fHz4Q8M9i3sGzkS7BBrm OkCTwsycb4S3DloZuMIYeXpLFqw5LaMhXC2ymhreVXNWMw9YGuAYdfmAbwomoPSyFJuFn2x8 Opr8bBBidcc= -- MOTD on Sweetmorn, the 18th of Discord, in the YOLD 3169: ...and let me make this perfectly clear I AM

Re: [Boston.pm] mangled: perllocal.pod

I believe perllocal.pod is updated when installing modules with CPAN. I would then assume that no, there is no aoutmated way to clean perllocal.pod (although it sounds like the script you used should have, you could always provide the author with a patch... it might also have been useful to give

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech meeting?

I'm sure we could also find someplace at MIT. -- H4sICNoBwDoAA3NpZwA9jbsNwDAIRHumuC4NklvXTOD0KSJEnwU8fHz4Q8M9i3sGzkS7BBrm OkCTwsycb4S3DloZuMIYeXpLFqw5LaMhXC2ymhreVXNWMw9YGuAYdfmAbwomoPSyFJuFn2x8 Opr8bBBidcc= -- MOTD on Boomtime, the 29th of Discord, in the YOLD 3170: This statement is false.

Re: [Boston.pm] Net::Server::Generic

Umm, I'd say that it's acting as advertised. Clients should not keep the sockets open any longer than necessary. -- H4sICNoBwDoAA3NpZwA9jbsNwDAIRHumuC4NklvXTOD0KSJEnwU8fHz4Q8M9i3sGzkS7BBrm OkCTwsycb4S3DloZuMIYeXpLFqw5LaMhXC2ymhreVXNWMw9YGuAYdfmAbwomoPSyFJuFn2x8 Opr8bBBidcc= -- MOTD on

Re: [Boston.pm] package name itself a variable?

You mean print ${$x.'::hash'}{key} It's generally not the best thing to do and should be avoided if possible. At a minimum you probably should do print ${__PACKAGE__'::hash'}{key} -- H4sICNoBwDoAA3NpZwA9jbsNwDAIRHumuC4NklvXTOD0KSJEnwU8fHz4Q8M9i3sGzkS7BBrm

Re: [Boston.pm] academic use of Perl

>To be effective at growing the pool of Perl programmers I think Perl >needs to be used in a general course that isn't specifically about Perl >or some specialty that is already well entrenched with Perl. Exactly. The wolf book would make an excellent text-book for a beginner's guide to algorythms

Re: [Boston.pm] we can meet at mit

Hooray! Meeting at my alma-mater Maps of MIT are at http://whereis.mit.edu If a specific room is set I could also produce a custom map (I have all the data) -- H4sICNoBwDoAA3NpZwA9jbsNwDAIRHumuC4NklvXTOD0KSJEnwU8fHz4Q8M9i3sGzkS7BBrm

Re: [Boston.pm] we can meet at mit

I know trekking out to BC was a major disincentive for me :-P But there are all sorts of interesting things, for example overlap between Perl Monks and Perl Mongers or size of PMs. I was in Paris for the past six months and Paris.PM is about 8 people; only two of which are monks and one's not

[Boston.pm] Junction performance

In case anyone is interested: ANY: s/iterQSP6 QS 1.22-- -98% P6 2.04e-002 5889%-- ALL: RateQSP6 QS 1.44/s-- -98% P6 78.0/s 5318%-- __CODE__ package Bob; use Perl6::Junction; use Quantum::Superpositions; package main; use Benchmark; sub ANY{

Re: [Boston.pm] Junction performance

Exactly, but being greased lightning I didn't feel it was necessary to substitute teflon for grease :-P Your code reports: ANY: s/iterQSP6 QS 1.20-- -98% P6 2.10e-002 5611%-- ALL: RateQSP6 QS 1.46/s-- -98% P6 79.2/s 5337%-- --

Re: [Boston.pm] Brainbench Perl test

This can be said of many such tests. I'd just like to point out that your last example, isn't. there is, *strictly speaking* only one correct answer. > Which one of the following regular expressions matches lines beginning > with an integer followed by a period and a space? > Choice 1

Re: [Boston.pm] Brainbench Perl test

Touche on the negative, the foo on the other hand is open to interpretation. I personally don't the question as "matches only" although I suppose this may be inferred from the use of ^ -- H4sICNoBwDoAA3NpZwA9jbsNwDAIRHumuC4NklvXTOD0KSJEnwU8fHz4Q8M9i3sGzkS7BBrm

Re: [Boston.pm] Making strict, possibly other use declarations global.

Ugliness: Instead of using the modules, your pluggable system could read the module into a scalar, prepended with 'use strict;' and eval that. Of course you'd have to scan the code for and remove 'no strict;' as well, and be sure that the author didn't really need it. But what if they: 'no strict

Re: [Boston.pm] Combinatorics

You want permutations, not combinations. -- H4sICNoBwDoAA3NpZwA9jbsNwDAIRHumuC4NklvXTOD0KSJEnwU8fHz4Q8M9i3sGzkS7BBrm OkCTwsycb4S3DloZuMIYeXpLFqw5LaMhXC2ymhreVXNWMw9YGuAYdfmAbwomoPSyFJuFn2x8 Opr8bBBidcc= -- MOTD on Setting Orange, the 33rd of The Aftermath, in the YOLD 3171: "But we'll never

[Boston.pm] No Advent for you!

In case you hadn't noticed, there's no perl advent calendar this year. I've already emailed Matt and am considering taking it on but was wondering if any other Boston.PM folks are up for it (too); especially since my art-fu sucks. Come on, let's show London.PM a thing or two ;-) I've already got

[Boston.pm] Advent Calendar

Well, I've gone and done it anyhow http://web.mit.edu/belg4mit/www/ -- H4sICNoBwDoAA3NpZwA9jbsNwDAIRHumuC4NklvXTOD0KSJEnwU8fHz4Q8M9i3sGzkS7BBrm OkCTwsycb4S3DloZuMIYeXpLFqw5LaMhXC2ymhreVXNWMw9YGuAYdfmAbwomoPSyFJuFn2x8 Opr8bBBidcc= -- MOTD on Prickle-Prickle, the 47th of The Aftermath, in the

Re: [Boston.pm] This example from "Perl Best Practices" is confusing me

It's not a test, in perl 6 parlance that's a pair... it's for creating a hash form a list. PS> You'd have had your answer sooner if fucking Comcast would stop dropping packets like crzy and breaking connections >-| -- H4sICNoBwDoAA3NpZwA9jbsNwDAIRHumuC4NklvXTOD0KSJEnwU8fHz4Q8M9i3sGzkS7BBrm

[Boston.pm] Advent OR Damn, Ian beat me

Ronald said: >This message was deferred because it's over the size limit. There were 2800 lines of re debug output (blame Uri ;-) On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 10:26:31PM -0500, Jerrad Pierce wrote: > Daily module reviews/recommendations until X-mas. > > http://web.mit.edu/belg4mit/

Re: [Boston.pm] UPDATE: Tech Meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, April 11, at MIT

Ach! The meeting completely slipped my mind! Will you guys be posting slides/notes somewhere soon? Thanks! -- H4sICNoBwDoAA3NpZwA9jbsNwDAIRHumuC4NklvXTOD0KSJEnwU8fHz4Q8M9i3sGzkS7BBrm OkCTwsycb4S3DloZuMIYeXpLFqw5LaMhXC2ymhreVXNWMw9YGuAYdfmAbwomoPSyFJuFn2x8 Opr8bBBidcc= -- MOTD on Boomtime,

Re: [Boston.pm] Win32::OLE Do you want to save changes? popup.

Presumably you need to explicitly save? It's worth noting that Excel has odd conceptions of change--resizing the columns in the display of a CSV will provoke this message--however you are legitimately being posed this quesiton IMHO. --

Re: [Boston.pm] O'Reilly increases user group discount

Great! How many of us weren't aware this existed in the first place? {raises hand} Also, is it such a good idea to broadcast it on a public/archived list? (Although lists.perl.org points at bad archives, but last I checked the conact email address given was bogus) --

Re: [Boston.pm] version of perl that can use scalar filehandles

Note that 5.6 says *auto-vivification*, you could actually use scalar file handles prior to this but you had to use Symbol::gensym (which is the proper way to do the work-around given). perl -MModule::CoreList -e 'print Module::CoreList->first_release('Symbol');' prints 5.002 --

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl Curses?

CLI, or terminal? Curses is a terminal interface, in which case you want Curses::UI -- H4sICNoBwDoAA3NpZwA9jbsNwDAIRHumuC4NklvXTOD0KSJEnwU8fHz4Q8M9i3sGzkS7BBrm OkCTwsycb4S3DloZuMIYeXpLFqw5LaMhXC2ymhreVXNWMw9YGuAYdfmAbwomoPSyFJuFn2x8 Opr8bBBidcc= -- MOTD on Boomtime, the 6th of Confusion, in

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl Curses clarification

Why not use a console-based spreadsheet? It sounds like a lot of this could be done with shell scripts (grep for users to show, etc.) -- H4sICNoBwDoAA3NpZwA9jbsNwDAIRHumuC4NklvXTOD0KSJEnwU8fHz4Q8M9i3sGzkS7BBrm OkCTwsycb4S3DloZuMIYeXpLFqw5LaMhXC2ymhreVXNWMw9YGuAYdfmAbwomoPSyFJuFn2x8

[Boston.pm] OT Talk

Here's a talk about computer disposal (recycling and security) I thought might interest some of you: http://bgd.jconserv.net/viewtopic.php?t=20=2 -- Free map of local environmental resources: http://CambridgeMA.GreenMap.org -- MOTD on Setting Orange, the 69th of Confusion, in the YOLD 3172:

Re: [Boston.pm] Tabby Perltidy

Normalizing to tabs by adding -t (1 tab per level of indentation) to the existing command ought to work too. 'tis a shame it does not DWIM. -- Free map of local environmental resources: http://CambridgeMA.GreenMap.org -- MOTD on Setting Orange, the 66th of Bureaucracy, in the YOLD 3172: Think of

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Followup

I brought up Ken's experiences with Moose at PerlSemNY on Tuesday and somebody (Dave Golden or David Adler) mentioned that there's supposed to be some magic to tell Moose you're "final" and it solidifies things for a performance boost. -- Free map of local environmental resources:

[Boston.pm] Advent calendar 2006

We're looking for people to help continue the tradition of the Perl Advent Calendar. Since 2000, the calendar has been produced as a fun way of (re-)introducing the wonders of CPAN to the community through ~four weeks of daily module reviews. For an example see last year's calendar currently

Re: [Boston.pm] Advent calendar 2006

Great! Again though, please keep module names off the boston-pm list (send them to me for now) It's widely read and we don't want to ruin the surprise. Don't worry about having something to write about if you want to write, that's why we're asking for suggestions to pass along if you get stumped.

[Boston.pm] prev. calendar clarification

I had said that I reviewd Math::BigInt as a little used module, whereas the review was actually of the bignum pragma http://web/belg4mit/www/8/ -- Free map of local environmental resources: http://CambridgeMA.GreenMap.org -- MOTD on Prickle-Prickle, the 27th of The Aftermath, in the YOLD 3172:

Re: [Boston.pm] Advent calendar 2006

>Sorry for the late response. Ditto. I'm out of town for the holiday and currently on dialup. >> authors: >I can do that as well. Great! >> +editor (I have no problem doing this): >I can do that too. Okay, we'll see how much there is to do. >> ++ domain name: Uri? >I cannot

[Boston.pm] Calendar Reminder

The calendar is now up, and the first entry was posted last night. http://advent.pm.org/ -- Free map of local environmental resources: http://CambridgeMA.GreenMap.org -- MOTD on Setting Orange, the 43rd of The Aftermath, in the YOLD 3172: reality.sys corrupted. universe halted. reboot (y/n)?

Re: [Boston.pm] Calendar Reminder

>It seems to redirect me on to www.perladvent.org which in turn does not >resolve to an IP address at the moment. At least not here at work. >Anyone having trouble with it? your local DNS is pretty damn slow to refresh then, as www.perladvent.org has been resolving since early Sunday morning.

[Boston.pm] Uri's Old Fogie Reminder

pick is an MH (maildir) savvy grep -l. You can get it as a part of nmh, the modern replacment for Rand MH, from http://www.nongnu.org/nmh/ My typical invocation is using, the following, is: pscan --from bob +inbox alias pick 'pick -list `echo !* | sed s/--/-/`' alias pscan 'scan `pick !:*`'

Re: [Boston.pm] Uri's Old Fogie Reminder

pick man page http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/pick.1.html -- Free map of local environmental resources: http://CambridgeMA.GreenMap.org -- MOTD on Sweetmorn, the 54th of The Aftermath, in the YOLD 3172: You are asking wrong/unnecessary questions, and getting wrong answers. --John Porter

Re: [Boston.pm] meeting this week?

You may want to check your spam filters, Ronald sent out an announcement on the 5th -- Free map of local environmental resources: http://CambridgeMA.GreenMap.org -- MOTD on Boomtime, the 7th of Chaos, in the YOLD 3173: Spoon! ___ Boston-pm mailing

Re: [Boston.pm] Fwd: Tech Meeting Followup

Here's the (discontinued) Goth Cthulhu I mentioned: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en=goth+cthulhu -- Free map of local environmental resources: http://CambridgeMA.GreenMap.org -- MOTD on Boomtime, the 17th of Chaos, in the YOLD 3173: The only good Smurf is a dead Smurf.

[Boston.pm] Bar Camp

Hey guys, I just got this a little awhile ago, there's going to be another (more convenient) BarCamp coming up soon... It's something to consider participating in, and could also be a chance to gain some experience in event planning for thse interested. --- Forwarded Message From: "Shimon

[Boston.pm] BarCamp2 reminder

I mentioned this awhile back, but if you're looking for something to do this wintery weekend (before you go out drinking) you might consider http://barcamp.org/BarCampBoston2 It could certainly use more Perly presentations (Jifty maybe? Or Moose?) -- Free map of local environmental resources:

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Followup

And I mentioned CGI::Ajax for those not wanting to touch JavaScript. (Somebody mentioned CGI::Prototype which seems to be altogether unrelated) -- Free map of local environmental resources: http://CambridgeMA.GreenMap.org -- MOTD on Boomtime, the 4th of Discord, in the YOLD 3173: You don't need a

[Boston.pm] [OT] xkcd, commit bit

In case anyone is interested, there'll be a lecture by the author of xkcd at MIT in mid-May Also, in case anybody missed it but might be interested Free commit bits for Data::JavaScript available

Re: [Boston.pm] Extract text from html preserving newlines

lynx -dump -- Free map of local environmental resources: http://CambridgeMA.GreenMap.org -- MOTD on Boomtime, the 49th of Discord, in the YOLD 3173: It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion.

Re: [Boston.pm] Extract text from html preserving newlines

NTLM is bad, 'm-k? -- Free map of local environmental resources: http://CambridgeMA.GreenMap.org -- MOTD on Boomtime, the 49th of Discord, in the YOLD 3173: It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion.

[Boston.pm] apropos OT

In case anybody missed this floating across del.icio.us today http://www.spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants.html And not to start any holy wars, but just some food for thought: There's also an interesting Frontline being shown on 'GBH about how juvenile criminals are sentenced that for

Re: [Boston.pm] Social Meeting in August

I vote for 8/21, but the weekend could also work. Are we defaulting to CBC, or are there other preferences? They do have a usable patio this time of year (though they won't reserve it. For some reason, nobody seems to accept patio reservations anymore... >-| ) I have a bunch of tech books for

Re: [Boston.pm] Social Meeting in August

If CBC I recommend the patio. If BBW why Fenway? Canal Street is a stone's throw from North Station, and pretty nice from what I saw when I unsuccessfully tried to make patio reservations awhile back. Another "brew pub" in the area is John Harvard's in Harvard Square. It's a but yuppity, but has

Re: [Boston.pm] social meeting discussions

It's not a bug (popped up on deli.cio.us today) http://blogs.pcworld.com/tipsandtweaks/archives/feature.jpg Utility Bicycles http://www.christianiabikes.com/ http://www.xtracycle.com/models.php -- Free map of local environmental resources: http://CambridgeMA.GreenMap.org -- MOTD on

Re: [Boston.pm] perl vs. MIT

There are people at/from MIT who use perl (Small Languages conferences anyone?) Myself and Alex V. included. Not so long ago, SIPB used to be home to some perl folk too. IME though, there aren't really that many coders at MIT, though I've recently soeen some folks working ona meebo-like thing in

[Boston.pm] Advent Calendar

(copied from use.perl/perlmonks posting) I've finally managed to transfer perladvent.org from Mark Fowler, so historic links now work however, the modern monger address will continue to work as well. While it may seem a little early to begin thinking about the calendar, it's very stressful to

Re: [Boston.pm] pizza for meeting

They sell somewhat pricey soda, so Ron brings a bag of ice, and essentially whatever soda's on sale (leaning toward a particuler flavor distribution). I suggest everyone bring their own mug :-P -- Free map of local environmental resources: http://CambridgeMA.GreenMap.org -- MOTD on Setting

[Boston.pm] OT: Catan

I may have asked this before, but does anyone play Settlers of Catan, or might be interested in learning? It's a relatively popular Risk-like board game, but it can be tough finding people willing to put effort into fun ;-) If you're interested, let me know, we might even get a game together this

[Boston.pm] Old computer mags

Hey all, I cam across a handful of Timex and Sinclair ZX magazines while cleaning my basement this afternoon, and I was wondering if anybody might be interested in them? -- Free map of local environmental resources: http://CambridgeMA.GreenMap.org -- MOTD on Prickle-Prickle, the 48th of

Re: [Boston.pm] Old computer mags

Okay, I can bring them to the meeting on Tuesday, unless you want to arrange to pick them up in Porter Square. -- Free map of local environmental resources: http://CambridgeMA.GreenMap.org -- MOTD on Prickle-Prickle, the 48th of Confusion, in the YOLD 3174: Act kind of random and practice less

Re: [Boston.pm] Boston Perl Mongers technical meeting 7/15 @ MIT - Open mike night ?

I'll run a brief Advent.PM recruting session by going over some of the modules on our super secret list of candidates, and perhaps pass out a bit of schwag to volunteer contributors. I can also offer up a module in need of a little TLC for a mini-hackathon. -Jerrad -- Free map of local

[Boston.pm] Tech meeting Data::JavaScript Fix-a-thon brief

BACKGROUND Created by Ariel Brosh (SCHOP) a few years before JSON (in 2000), Data::JavaScript might be better named Data::Dumper::JavaScript. I created Data::JavaScript::LiteObject a few months later as a liter exporter for special forms of data. Ariel passed away in early 2003, and I took on the

Re: [Boston.pm] Next Technical Meeting August 12, 7:15pm @ MIT E51-376

To clarify, it probably qualifies as a hack-a-thon as much as a "fix-a-thon." I also have some schwag I may distribute for significant contributions. -- Free map of local environmental resources: http://CambridgeMA.GreenMap.org -- MOTD on Prickle-Prickle, the 5th of Bureaucracy, in the YOLD 3174.

Re: [Boston.pm] Is "set" a perl keyword?

I don't see how it could be, given the "need" for get/set accessors in OOP. -- Free map of local environmental resources: http://CambridgeMA.GreenMap.org -- MOTD on Pungenday, the 69th of Bureaucracy, in the YOLD 3174: The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

Re: [Boston.pm] Votes? Tech Meeting or Social ? December 9 - MIT or Redbones ?

RedBones++ -- Free map of local environmental resources: http://CambridgeMA.GreenMap.org -- MOTD on Setting Orange, the 48th of The Aftermath, in the YOLD 3174: Five to one against and falling ... four to one against and falling ... three to one ... two ... one ... probability factor one to one

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

I was also there, as was lurking member Alex Vandiver. -- Free map of local environmental resources: http://CambridgeMA.GreenMap.org -- MOTD on Boomtime, the 19th of Discord, in the YOLD 3175: You don't need a Swiss Army knife to cut yourself, a piece of paper will do just fine. --JP

Re: [Boston.pm] Discount for O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON)

>any other largish duplicate cities you can think of in the states? Kansas City? :-P -- Free map of local environmental resources: http://CambridgeMA.GreenMap.org -- MOTD on Boomtime, the 19th of Discord, in the YOLD 3175: You don't need a Swiss Army knife to cut yourself, a piece of paper will

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

>At the MIT talk I almost asked a question "can you talk a little about the >macro system" but it seemed like kind of an unrealistic request for the QA >section so I chickened out. Well, it would have been better than the drawn-out query about Fortress, and wouldn't have prompted me to leave ;-)

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

>Surely the perl community can help him come up with a good marketing term >that puts perl6 on the map regulexpressions? In a similar vein, a new mascot for perl isn't very easy to come up with. Nevertheless, an anime butterfly doesn't do it for me, even if the wings do include the characters

Re: [Boston.pm] not so regular expressions

No, but according to "Mastering RE" you want Robert L. Constable's "The Role of Finite Automata in the Development of Modern Computing Theory" (1980). -- Free map of local environmental resources: http://CambridgeMA.GreenMap.org -- MOTD on Pungenday, the 20th of Discord, in the YOLD 3175:

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

>I think the Chameleon surely is a qualified candidate for the Perl6 Mascot job Indeed, and it keeps the "camel" root. A case could also be made for its mouth harboring a natural whip. Perhaps difficult to make cuddly/effeminate though, which seems to be one of his main goals. There's also the

[Boston.pm] Logos (still) WAS Re: Larry's MIT talk

Actually, brookesia are pretty cute: http://www.wildmadagascar.org/wildlife/brookesia.html -- Free map of local environmental resources: http://CambridgeMA.GreenMap.org -- MOTD on Pungenday, the 20th of Discord, in the YOLD 3175: Ginsberg's Restatement of the Three Laws of Thermodynamics: You

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

I dunno about platypus versatility so much as contentder for "designed by committee," but I opted not to proffer it earlier because it's the mascot of DarwinOS (OSS OSX core). http://www.gnu-darwin.org/ Definitely cute though. -- Free map of local environmental resources:

Re: [Boston.pm] meeting topic?

>lemme know what you think. yes, there aren't too many emacs users in >boston.pm but who knows? this could convert a few of you. You lie sir! Surely any Bob-fearing coder on the true path of hackish virtue uses the one true editor. -- Free map of local environmental resources:

Re: [Boston.pm] boston.pm.org unreachable, unnamed

>i forwarded such a report to Sean, who has provided our hosting, moments ago. >(we are not actually hosted by pm.org for web, only for mailing list, >and it appears not for dns either.) I don't think DNS works like that? However, a few weeks back they did move the pm.org servers, so something

Re: [Boston.pm] git vs. Bazaar

>Having suffered wth ClearCase may have helped me .:-) The software sucks, but the model is wonderful IMHO. Instant access to everything, use native versions of your usual userland UNIX tools such as diff, etc. If there were a nice FLOSS implementation (as katie fs once promised to be), I might

Re: [Boston.pm] Fwd: Perl e-books bargain / $9.99 Learning Perl and Mastering Perl e-books from O'Reilly

>Um, anyone remember our discount code? ;) Mailman is your friend: List-Archive: Of course MHonArc would be a better one :-P -- Free map of local environmental resources: http://CambridgeMA.GreenMap.org -- MOTD on Pungenday, the 19th of

Re: [Boston.pm] Fwd: Perl e-books bargain / $9.99 Learning Perl and Mastering Perl e-books from O'Reilly

Oh, wait: http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MongerLists -- Free map of local environmental resources: http://CambridgeMA.GreenMap.org -- MOTD on Pungenday, the 19th of Bureaucracy, in the YOLD 3175: The only good Smurf is a dead Smurf. ___ Boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] please take me off this list

To be fair, Majordomo is very old. It's design and functionality does not necessarily relate to the language of implementation. For instance, compare sendmail and, well, anything else :-P As for the gp's inquiry: the true hacker uses the best tool for the job. -- Free map of local environmental

Re: [Boston.pm] Speakers wanted

>2. Bending RT to your will - making sense of Scrips, Templates, Overlays etc. As the author of many extensions and local tweaks to RT, I could contribute to a discussion on that... -- Free map of local environmental resources: http://CambridgeMA.GreenMap.org -- MOTD on Sweetmorn, the 62nd of

Re: [Boston.pm] local::lib

>Seems like the module author went to a lot of effort for a rather >marginal benefit. That's my take on it too, others seem to disagree. However, it's worth pointing out that the docs suck, and do a poor job of distinguishing between what appear to be the two goals of the package: 1) this

Re: [Boston.pm] Meeting recap

{mumbles about lists that don't default to reply-to list} Re: I want to turn RT into Bugzilla If the plethora of notification forms in base RT are inadequate, it is certainly possible to build anything else one desires wth scrips (must be developed by the sysadmin). For instance, if your boss

Re: [Boston.pm] YAPC::NA 2011

If funding would help someone devote time to proposal logisitics, I'd like to reiterate a previous proposal: that people chip in a few bucks to that end. Times are tight of course, but then someone might be able to really use the odd job. Even a fraction of the money that you would otherwise have

Re: [Boston.pm] YAPC::NA 2011

>funding isn't the primary mit issue. it is finding a school >sponsor. they would be responsible for all potential expenses which is a >big risk unless they are doing their own conference. so we have to sell >them on the history of yapc always breaking even, the benefits of >hosting it,

Re: [Boston.pm] YAPC::NA 2011

>I don't think it's that they're worried about the money; we could do >fundraising and front necessary money if needed. (Even if the space is We're not talking about the same thing. I'm not speaking of money for the event itself, but to fund someone to put in the time and effort to compose a

Re: [Boston.pm] YAPC::NA 2011

>ok, i get your point now. but do we need that. composing a letter isn't >something that money can buy. I don't know what the flow is. I always assumed many of the ducks needed to be lined up, or evidence given that could be, as a part of the bid. >as i said, i have old drafts. want me to >post

Re: [Boston.pm] Text to slides

Pod::S5 -- Free map of local environmental resources: http://CambridgeMA.GreenMap.org -- MOTD on Sweetmorn, the 58th of Discord, in the YOLD 3176: We could do that, but it would be wrong, that's for sure. ___ Boston-pm mailing list

Re: [Boston.pm] Hi all, new to programming/perl

Check the archives, there was just a thread about this a week or so ago. Personally, I started off by taking an existing piece of software (a signature randomizer) and trying to add some features I wanted. If you decide to go that route, check out NMS (aka Not Matt's Scripts) or maybe PPT (Perl

Re: [Boston.pm] Social Meeting for Boston.pm with Alias this week, probably Thursday?

Depending on the expected turnout and price range, there are some places in Porter that are probably not as likely to be crowded e.g; Christoper's, Toad's, or even Tavern in the Square. For a not large (and unhungry?) group The Field, in Central, is nice. But I too am fine with CBC. -- Free map

Re: [Boston.pm] Social Meeting for Boston.pm with Alias this week, probably Thursday?

>We're going to have some degree of this problem anywhere near a red >line stop, though I agree that the Central Tavern is particularly bad. Porter locales seem to be relatively off the beaten path while still being accesible, and away from major schools, which is why I suggested them. For some

Re: [Boston.pm] Social Meeting for Boston.pm with Alias this week, probably Thursday?

FYI, Summer Shack is also a proper restaurant, but has a sports bar. This along with the type of food, would seem to indicate a wide selection of EtOH solutions. http://summershackrestaurant.com/Frankies_Sports_Bar.asp Although CBC seems to be the choice this round, it's probably worth keeping

Re: [Boston.pm] interpolate methods in a string

Other than some abstract fear of tie, what's wrong with Interpolation? As implemented, you could easily Memoize the subroutine you bind as your handler. You can even easily bind two versions, one that memoizes and another that does not. -- Free map of local environmental resources:

Re: [Boston.pm] interpolate methods in a string

Uri, >i am confused by your statement. i have no abstract fear of tied. I was referring to the OP's earlier statements. Tie may be 'overkill', but arguments have been made that a full templating system is too. >when simpler ones exist? and where did i say not to use interpolation? Not

Re: [Boston.pm] tech events in and around Boston

http://www.barcampboston.org/ Just missed #5, #6 is the weekend before tax day. Interestingly, O'Reilly was a "Media partner" for #5. I say interesting because I was under theimpression Bar was created in response to Foo's invitation-onlyness rubbing some hackers the wrong way. -- Free map of

Re: [Boston.pm] RSVP: Tech meeting TONIGHT

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Re: [Boston.pm] Composable External Processes in Perl

Your second version seems more perlish to me, although I'd probably fiddle with some of the names and it's not clear why you have the array-ref brackets. I'd suggest: my($read, $write) = kpipe(...); #korn (cob) pipe! #... is a string that is parsed a la ksh syntax, or a pre-decomposed list: #

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting - Perl Data Language - Tuesday 11th MIT 7pm

Count me as 1/2. I have a bit of a sore throat, am not sure if I'll be up to coming, but was looking forward to some coverage of PDL! ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] talk blurb for tomorrow night (tuesday)

I'll be there ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

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