Redvers Davies writes:
About that flyer... FMD presents no risks to humans but is a serious
threat to animal health.
That is not strictly true... FMD is not a threat to animal health,
the MAFF slaughters are.
I'm not taking sides about whether the slaughters are justified.
Here, though,
Nobody noticed that in my article's code examples I revealed my pick
for sexiest slayer on Buffy. Pout.
Nat
Robin Houston writes:
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 11:30:28PM +0100, Barry Pretsell wrote:
It sounds like a good idea (must be better than having 3 editions
of Programming Perl) and I'm tempted to give it a go, so any Safari
subscribers out there with an opinion?
Don't forget the
Dave Cross writes:
It's been so long, I have to ask: what was my article in the most
recent TPJ? :-)
It was a beginners guide to Arrays. Complete with examples drawing heavily
on the world of Buffy.
Oh I remember now. In fact, I specifically remember rolling my eyes :-)
Nat
Speaking of vampires, you've got a treat coming up with Angel. After
the exploitative tv show there was a lull of a week, and then
... Boobapalooza! You boys will be capturing plenty of stills from
the season-ending shows.
Think Princess Leia only funny and jaw-droppingly gorgeous.
Nat
Cross David - dcross writes:
Having read Nat's article in the new TPJ, I think we should also have:
The use of Buffy the Vampiure Slayer in association with the Perl language
is a trademark of the London Perl Mongers
It's been so long, I have to ask: what was my article in the most
recent
Leon Brocard writes:
Coo, coo, see the fabled perl6, remark how it looks just like perl5,
wonder if anything's different and if there's a point to all this ;-)
Jihad on Leon, anyone? :-)
perl6 is supposed to look a lot like perl5. If it didn't, we'd call
it Python or something like that.
Terry Gilliam signed to it.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010514/re/cannes_deals_dc_2.html
Nat
Dave Cross writes:
Some names there that I don't know, but will be checking out. I bet the
Green Linnet compilation is good.
Oh yes. That's what I used to decide which artists to buy. Another
CD arrived yesterday, a Rounder compilation of 1920s recordings of
trad. Irish musicians. I was
David H. Adler writes:
1) Charisma isn't really minor anymore, being second lead in Angel.
True. And after the bikini scene, she's a bigtime star. BIG time.
BIG. If you know what I mean. Yowzers.
2) Get Willow. Dammit.
I'll see what they cost. It might be prohibitively expensive to get
Dean writes:
Does any one know if ORA will be selling a compilation of the papers again
after this conference?
We will.
Nat
Piers Cawley writes:
I'm trying to work out if I was bowled over by
'Go to sleep pretty baby' because of the song or the visuals...
Ob Porn: You can see a nipple and curve of a breast through a wet
shirt if you look in the right place.
Nat
Greg McCarroll writes:
And while we are on the old films chestnut, my current recommendation
is 'O Brother, where art thou?', excellent film.
I loved it. I've seen it twice. Of course, I'm a bluegrass music
nut.
Nat
Greg McCarroll writes:
I think `man of sorrow' will be a good ambassador for bluegrass
Yup, it is. I'd just like to add that I saw it performed by the real
band (i.e., not George Clooney lipsynching) one week ago. It was
bloody brilliant. I think I even have a photo on the digital camera
of
Cross David - dcross writes:
Well, I prefer stuff with lyrics, but enjoy almost any kind of Irish (and
English) folk music.
The CDs on high rotation right now are:
Brendan Begley, We Won't Go Home 'Til Morning
Green Linnet Artists, Green Linnet Records: The 20th Anniversary
... I wonder how hard it would be to get Faith or Charisma Carpenter
or one of those other minor characters to do a meet'n'greet at TPC.
I suspect they're hard to dislodge from LA, but it might still be
worth a try[1]. I'm tracking down their agents now.
Nat
[1] or it's the NyQuil talking
Neil Ford writes:
I can now confirm this is at The Pizzaexpress Jazz Club, 10 Dean
Street, Soho, London W1 - Reservations: 020 7439 8722 (the new
listings arrived this morning!).
Of course, this being the evening the tube strike starts, getting
there and back could be fun.
I saw them play
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
Dave Hodgkinson writes:
Norman Watt Roy ?
Clive off of (void) told me to mention Billy Sheehan, Stu Hamm and
Jaco Pastorius and see what happened :-)
I'll see your Jaco and raise you Dave la Rue.
All good, but if you haven't seen Victor Wooten, you should. He's
terrifying.
Nat
Damian Conway writes:
Ate was the goddess of folly, strife, discord, and mischief.
She was a daughter of Zeus, banished to Earth for her wickness
in leading men astray.
^^
[...]
(or worse!) for garters if they catch you confusing Her with
that bitch Ate ;-)
That's my
dcross - David Cross wrote:
Damian's been busy over the last couple of weeks and has produced a load of
documentation on what he thinks Perl 6 _might_ be like. It's at
http://www.yetanother.org/damian/Perl5+i/.
Also, Larry's released the first part (Apocalypse) of his perl6 plans.
Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
Also, since the font comment made someone other than myself bristle
a bit I would like to point out that ORA is not CPAN in any way,
shape or form save the exception of the /doc directory tchrist has on
perl.com.
And I'd like to say that I hope O'Reilly has done
Simon Wistow wrote:
You use the RPC::Automagic module and pass it a RPC server/port/user
name/password/whatever. From that point on it overloads the use keyword
and anything you try and use it will actually connect to the RPC server
and pass it all the parameters. Any modules you didn't want
Greg McCarroll wrote:
sure it makes sense, but it still is CiP and trust me this isn't
the only bit of CiP in here and much kudos to Paul for it ;-)
I'm unsure what CiP is, but if it has anything to do with gnarliness,
I know that Paul wrote a 1k regexp to parse XML correctly. It only
fails
David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I should confess that I recently installed python on one of my boxen.
Excuse: something else needed it. However, I'd like to take a look at
it sometime. Same goes for Ruby. More things for the to-do queue.
I found Ruby much closer to Perl in
Mark Fowler wrote:
One of my collegues asked me about Perl training courses in the U.K. To
be honest, we have no idea what is good, what is bad, etc, and so I
suggested asking you lot.
The London Open Source Convention will have Perl tutorials. If only I could
say precisely when it would
Alex Page writes:
Yeah... I always forget to flush when forking, and I've done some
horrible things with IPC::Open3 before...
I'm shuddering at the thought of the human equivalent of atomic writes.
"The largest nugget that will pass through a pipe intact ..."
Nat
Robin Szemeti writes:
WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS SAYING ... (in big letters just to make sure
:) stunningly bright but experience in a different field .. understood.
but still one of the (very) bright ones.
When I worked at an ISP, our motto was:
The customer is an expert in their own
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
Elaine -HFB- Ashton writes:
It's a copy of all the refereed papers as I recall, not the tutorials.
It's tape bound and has Conway's Perligata Talk among others.
What Elaine said. It's the book we handed out to TPC attendees in
2000, containing the refereed papers.
Nat
Andrew Bowman writes:
You mean apart from the traditional British summer hols[1]? August is, in
some quarters at least, considered a non-month for the purposes of all sorts
of events - possibly even for an Open Source Convention :-)
Bugger, we were afraid of that. It's more than just Perl,
David Cantrell writes:
Linuxbierwanderung 2001. To be held in Belgium but with a large UK
contingent. Date to be confirmed within the next couple of weeks, but
will almost certainly be a week somewhere between 19 Aug and 8 Sept. It
would be *really* great - especially for intercontinental
David Hodgkinson writes:
If we can get past Larry, I imagine we'll make really rapid
progress.
Is a coup out of the question?
The emergency backup plan of airlifting him from California to
Colorado and chaining him to the keyboard remains a backup plan.
Will advise HQ when time is ripe.
Piers Cawley writes:
As Piers said, we are blocked on Larry. We're working on some
interpreter design now, but some language issues really need to be
nailed down before we know what we're going to be writing.
Any idea how long we're going to stay blocked?
None whatsoever. Many phone
Michael Stevens writes:
I'm sure there are reasonable number of online manuals we'd all like
printed copies of.
Yeah, but if O'Reilly were to print them, you'd complain that the
book was nothing more than the online manual :-)
Nat
I wrote:
I'm shit-scared of talking about books in progress, in case I jinx
them.
We also have another Perl/Tk book coming out. It's more advanced than
"Learning ..." and, we hope, learns from the criticism levelled at
that book. In particular, look for examples.
Nat
Simon Wistow writes:
Bizarre how threads come togther innit ...
http://www.psycomic.com/columns/2000/ksmith/
I want to kill Kevin Smith and live his life. He's the luckiest
fat fuck in the world.
Nat
(bottom lip is quivering at the injustice of it all)
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