it, 2 faq's would be good.
1) London.pm - the FAQs
2) General - like where to buy books online / hardware etc
So maybe there are two people out there who want to write these.
Leo
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 02:42:30PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
I think we need a FAQ, I'm sure this has come up
Leo Lapworth sent the following bits through the ether:
And yes it DOES need a faq, I have the start of one, but would very much
love someone else to finish it off.
google++ # london.pm faq
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg02436.html
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Leon
, contact me and you can do it! :)
Infact now I think about it, 2 faq's would be good.
1) London.pm - the FAQs
2) General - like where to buy books online / hardware etc
So maybe there are two people out there who want to write these.
er, i'll go for the general one...
struan
I'm having a clear-out of my bookshelves, and wonder if any of you lot
want any of the following:
Programming Perl (2nd ed)
Learning Perl (1st ed)
Photoshop in a nutshell
and the less relevant ones:
Amiga Workbench, and A500+ manual
Autocad 12 for beginners
Starting MS-DOS Assembler
DataEase
Wanderering around Charing Cross Road last night I picked up a couple of new
Perl books, "Writing CGI Applications with Perl" by Kevin Meltzer Brent
Michalski and "Instant Perl Modules" by Doug Sparling and Frank Wiles.
Hopefully I'll have both of them with me on Thursday
At 09:26 AM 4.4.2001 +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
Wanderering around Charing Cross Road last night I picked up a couple of
new Perl books, "Writing CGI Applications with Perl" by Kevin Meltzer
Brent Michalski and "Instant Perl Modules" by Doug Sparling and Frank
Wiles.
Heh,
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:26:02AM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote:
Wanderering around Charing Cross Road last night I picked up a couple of new
Perl books, "Writing CGI Applications with Perl" by Kevin Meltzer Brent
Michalski and "Instant Perl Modules" by Doug Spar
At 19:01 04/04/2001, David H. Adler wrote:
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:26:02AM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote:
Wanderering around Charing Cross Road last night I picked up a couple
of new
Perl books, "Writing CGI Applications with Perl" by Kevin Meltzer Brent
Michalski an
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:15:04PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
Dave...
[wondering how he gets to be a technical editor]
My experience suggests it may have something to do with being in the
right place at the right time... :)
dha
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David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Dave...
[wondering how he gets to be a technical editor]
My experience suggests it may have something to do with being in the
right place at the right time... :)
Same goes for authoring -:)
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 01:58:22PM -0500, Doug Sparling wrote:
Dave...
[wondering how he gets to be a technical editor]
My experience suggests it may have something to do with being in the
right place at the right time... :)
Same goes for authoring -:)
Oh, and about the editing - The
At 19:58 04/04/2001, Doug Sparling wrote:
Dave...
[wondering how he gets to be a technical editor]
My experience suggests it may have something to do with being in the
right place at the right time... :)
Same goes for authoring -:)
Oh, I know that :)
Dave...
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* Benjamin Holzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
True, but there aren't many people who will assume that they can perform
brain surgery just because they successfully applied a band-aid to a paper
cut the week before.
www.trepanation.com ;-) [1]
Greg
[1] i haven't checked the URL so dont
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:21:57AM -0600, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
:) I think you are missing my point here. The plumber who is skilled in a
trade probably thinks you are an idiot when you manage to mangle your own
pipes and have to call him to fix it for you.
Yeah... I always forget to
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
Aaron Trevena wrote:
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
No, there wasn't even something I could buy for it sadly. It's a simple
CGI, I would have paid $15 for a quickie 'here's your simple cgi just plug
in your variables here' code.
Been there - more often than not, the
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:21:57AM -0600, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
:) I think you are missing my point here. The plumber who is skilled in a
trade probably thinks you are an idiot when you manage to mangle your own
pipes and have to call him to fix it for you.
However, I don't question
However, I don't question the plumber's competence, or indeed pretend to
anyone including myself that I can do a good job of it. The same should
apply to programming. If I were to try my hand at re-plumbing my kitchen,
know I'd make a god-awful mess, and I am intelligent enough to not
attempt
Benjamin Holzman [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:57:20AM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote:
* Meaning, nobody's really a complete idiot and we'd seem just as dumb
* if we called brain surgery tech support, new mother tech support, or
* even gardening tech support.
*
*True, but
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 11:16:06AM -0600, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
Benjamin Holzman [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:57:20AM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote:
* Meaning, nobody's really a complete idiot and we'd seem just as dumb
* if we called brain surgery tech
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Greg Cope wrote:
Aaron Trevena wrote:
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
No, there wasn't even something I could buy for it sadly. It's a simple
CGI, I would have paid $15 for a quickie 'here's your simple cgi just plug
in your variables here' code.
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, David Cantrell wrote:
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:21:57AM -0600, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
:) I think you are missing my point here. The plumber who is skilled in a
trade probably thinks you are an idiot when you manage to mangle your own
pipes and have to call him
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.
I concur. I was lucky enough to get a look at the copy that Dave Cross had
at
On Thu, 01 Feb 2001, you wrote:
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
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:39:24AM +, Robin Szemeti wrote:
[big snip]
no .. its not (for want of a better word) rocket science, but to do it
correctly does require a broad range of knowledge about several different
systems and really what Ms Castro attempts to do is give a bit of all of
At 12:34 PM 2/1/01 +, jp wrote:
[snip]
Totally unrelated, I wish they'd open a PC Bookshop in Farringdon.
But it's only a 10-15 minute stroll to the one in Southampton Row from
Farringdon.
Rob
Those 15 minutes (each way, probably about 20 from where I am)
come out of my pay packet! And it doesn't stay open late enough
in the evening.
I've been spoilt, I used to work at Tower 42 (was natwest tower)
and the city branch was a well lobbed copy of an o'reilly book
(preferably mysql msql)
Robin Szemeti [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*
*But what you say above proves my point dunnit ... these guys are nobel
*laureates and they enjoy a challenge.. out there in the real world a
*large percentage of the population finds adding up the money for the bus a
*challenge ... the pasics of CGI are
On Thu, 01 Feb 2001, you wrote:
Well, this particular one was 65 years old, a consultant to world leaders
in Economic affairs and was completely baffled by the advent of a new
laptop. He had better things to worry about than learning something as
trivial and insignificant to life on the
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
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:57:20AM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote:
[...] brain surgery tech support [...]
Have you got the number?
I'm having a spot of bother with my hypothalamus.
.robin.
week. Lots of tube books too.)
--
:: paul
:: they don't come at you with guns
:: they come at you with smiles
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:57:20AM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote:
Meaning, nobody's really a complete idiot and we'd seem just as dumb
if we called brain surgery tech support, new mother tech support, or
even gardening tech support.
True, but there aren't many people who will assume that
-Original Message-
From: Elaine -HFB- Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
anyone other than Webheads have better things to do than learn CGI.
It
doesn't make them stupid, in fact, I'd almost argue that they are the
bright ones.
Amen.
Which is probably about 95% of the planet. Why should they
-Original Message-
From: Benjamin Holzman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
True, but there aren't many people who will assume that they can
perform
brain surgery just because they successfully applied a band-aid to a
paper
cut the week before.
You haven't been to the NHS recently have you... ;)
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
No, there wasn't even something I could buy for it sadly. It's a simple
CGI, I would have paid $15 for a quickie 'here's your simple cgi just plug
in your variables here' code.
Been there - more often than not, the cookbook fills any holes. I
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
* 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
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.
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
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
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
. There is precious little in
the way of good CGI books with a practical slant to them out there so out
of the lot of them, this is probably one of the best. The same principle
applies to Matt's famous archive...lots of people bitching and not much
else.
Hasnt the Castro book been around almost
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
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
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
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
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
I was having a look at the perl book reviews on Amazon (Yes boycott,
yes they have good reviews) when I came across this
Proceedings of the Perl Conference 4.0
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596000138/qid=980264576/sr=1
-62/202-4272860-9199824
I didn't get to go to that conference so
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
From: Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 08 January 2001 14:53
David Hodgkinson wrote:
Kieran Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And anyway, computing by publisher is getting a lot
better. You just
browse O'Reilly, Addison Wesley and Prentice Hall.
Heretic. Manning publish
Kieran Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, David H. Adler wrote:
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:59:05PM +, David Hodgkinson wrote:
Struan Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
er, what's wrong with foyles if it's not a silly question?
Insane filing system
It took me three bookshops on Charing Cross Road to get a perl library
together for the guys I'm working with, but I managed it without
having to go into Foyle's. Yeah!
The bonus was a second edition of Jon Bentley's "Programming
Pearls". A classic.
* at 04/01 13:26 + David Hodgkinson said:
It took me three bookshops on Charing Cross Road to get a perl library
together for the guys I'm working with, but I managed it without
having to go into Foyle's. Yeah!
er, what's wrong with foyles if it's not a silly question?
s
--
Struan
David Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Struan Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* at 04/01 13:26 + David Hodgkinson said:
It took me three bookshops on Charing Cross Road to get a perl
library together for the guys I'm working with, but I managed it
without having to go
* Michael Stevens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:59:05PM +, David Hodgkinson wrote:
er, what's wrong with foyles if it's not a silly question?
Insane filing system
Legendarily unhelpful staff
It smells funny
I spent several minutes once trying to
!
er, what's wrong with foyles if it's not a silly question?
Typical customer enquiry in Foyles:
Customer: Can you tell me where your books on [insert random subject] are?
Foyles Bod: Who are they published by?
C: Huh?
FB: All of our books are classified by publisher. We find that's easier
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 03:10:24PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
That was Sili of you
On the plus side, They Have Lots Of Books, which makes up for almost
all their faults.
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:26:25PM +, David Hodgkinson wrote:
It took me three bookshops on Charing Cross Road to get a perl library
together for the guys I'm working with, but I managed it without
having to go into Foyle's. Yeah!
The bonus was a second edition of Jon Bentley's
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:59:05PM +, David Hodgkinson wrote:
Struan Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
er, what's wrong with foyles if it's not a silly question?
Insane filing system
They (used to, at least) file their Science Fiction (and some other
sections) by publisher rather
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