Re: London Community News 30/01/00

2001-01-31 Thread Philip Newton
Dean S Wilson wrote: GLLUG Hm, I wonder whether this acronym reflects what one of their meetings sounds like. Cheers, Philip

Re: Meeting Reminder

2001-01-31 Thread Michael Stevens
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 11:18:24PM +, Leon Brocard wrote: Simon Wistow sent the following bits through the ether: Conveniently close to Cynthia's Cyberbar. No, please god, no! Can't we just try and forget this excuse for a bar?[1] But the mirrors! Don't forget the mirrors!

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2001-01-31 Thread Michael Stevens
It's oh so quiet. After recent activity this is somewhat disconcerting. Michael

RE: the list

2001-01-31 Thread Matthew Jones
It's oh so quiet. After recent activity this is somewhat disconcerting. OK, just in the interests of making traffic, then, here's a picture of me as a baby: http://website.lineone.net/~vineleaf/sands/gfx/mattjones.jpg You see, you have ot get your priorities right at an early age. -- matt

Re: the list

2001-01-31 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Michael Stevens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: It's oh so quiet. After recent activity this is somewhat disconcerting. everyone is probably reading up on ruby in preparation for it taking over the world -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net

Re: the list

2001-01-31 Thread Michael Stevens
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 12:04:54PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: * Michael Stevens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: It's oh so quiet. After recent activity this is somewhat disconcerting. everyone is probably reading up on ruby in preparation for it taking over the world Surely you mean python?

Re: the list

2001-01-31 Thread Richard Clamp
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:50:45AM +, Michael Stevens wrote: It's oh so quiet. After recent activity this is somewhat disconcerting. I don't know, before it was fast as lightning. Which was a little bit frightening. -- Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Perl Books

2001-01-31 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 09:24:20AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: Here's an interesting page[1] Have a URL for that, guv? -Dom

Re: Perl Books

2001-01-31 Thread Struan Donald
* at 31/01 14:28 + Dominic Mitchell said: On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 09:24:20AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: Here's an interesting page[1] Have a URL for that, guv? er... this unweldy thing would seem to be it: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/4045/107-2581489-8245353 struan

Re: Perl Books

2001-01-31 Thread Robin Houston
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 02:32:21PM +, Struan Donald wrote: er... this unweldy thing would seem to be it: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/4045/107-2581489-8245353 A handy hint for amazon URLs: you can knock off the long number on the end, and the thing will still work.

Re: Perl Books

2001-01-31 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, you wrote: It's at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/4045/ Crickey! That book by Ms Castro that's been slated everywhere is at number 5!!! no one ever said the buying public were intelligent ... in fact it has been said (by some famoose newspaper tycoon

Every OS Sucks

2001-01-31 Thread Neil Ford
Check out the latest from Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie (the people who bought you the Internet Helpdesk sketch). http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/37/three_dead_trolls_in_a_bag.html?lang=eng Most entertaining. Neil. -- Neil C. Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.binky.ourshack.org

Fwd: [briant@earthweb.com: RE: New Perl Journal]

2001-01-31 Thread Dave Cross
A... er... 'friend' of mine emailed customer services at TPJ to find out what the official story was on its future. Here's the response I, er, he got. Dave... - Forwarded message from Brian Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Brian Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'Mike Brown'" [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Perl Books

2001-01-31 Thread Nathan Torkington
Elaine -HFB- Ashton writes: On the plus side, Addison-Wesley has a new CGI Perl book coming out in early February that should be a major improvement in this particular genre. Hey, if she's allowed to plug, so am I :-) The 2nd edition of "CGI Programming with Perl" (O'Reilly of course) is

Re: Perl Books

2001-01-31 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: Robin Szemeti [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *no one ever said the buying public were intelligent ... Well, people rise to meet expectations too. There is precious little in the way of good CGI books with a practical slant to them out there so

Re: Perl Books

2001-01-31 Thread Dave Cross
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 07:41:54PM +, Jonathan Stowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: Robin Szemeti [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *no one ever said the buying public were intelligent ... Well, people rise to meet expectations too. There is

Re: Bad Perl

2001-01-31 Thread Jon Nangle
"Elaine" == Elaine -HFB- Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Elaine And speaking of bad books, who is this Martin Brown guy who has Elaine a new book every month these days, certainly he must have a Elaine ghostwriter. AFAIK he writes 'em all himself, forgoing sleep and suchlike. Jon

Re: Perl Books

2001-01-31 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, you wrote: Robin Szemeti [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *no one ever said the buying public were intelligent ... Well, people rise to meet expectations too. There is precious little in the way of good CGI books with a practical slant to them out there so out of the lot

Re: Perl Books

2001-01-31 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Nathan Torkington [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * Also L Steins Network Programming with Perl is a good book. I'm only a * chunk into it buts its a good read on its own and an even better one * if your not from a Unix background. * *Yup, it's a bloody impressive book. And it's an Addison-Wesley

Re: Perl Books

2001-01-31 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Robin Szemeti [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *i think we get a slanted view on what a 'normal level of intelligence' *is, because in general, we work with exceptional people. I spent the last I know at least 2 nobel laureates who wouldn't know jack about CGI or about selecting which book might be

Re: Perl Books

2001-01-31 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Nathan Torkington [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *Hey, if she's allowed to plug, so am I :-) The 2nd edition of "CGI *Programming with Perl" (O'Reilly of course) is pretty bloody good. I *was midway through writing a CGI class when I got a tech-review copy *of the book, and it was what I was going

Re: Perl Books

2001-01-31 Thread Dave Cross
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 09:05:25PM +, Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [Liz Castro's appalling Perl/CGI book] I wrote a very scathing review of Castro's book on amazon.com yesterday. In case it doesn't get published, here's the gist: For a technical book to be worth buying it