Re: 33 mails

2001-01-29 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 12:23:43AM +, Greg McCarroll >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > if i can have 2 teams of 3 before tomorow (tuesday) night > > i'll come up with a drinking game/quiz based around > > perl/london.pm/computing trivia > > > > how

Re: Meeting Reminder

2001-01-29 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Greg's obviously started drinking again a couple of days too early. He > knows full well that official london.pm social meetings are on the first > Thursday of the month. This has _always_ been the case and I have no > intention of changing it now. >

Re: Fwd: [uri@sysarch.com: free copy of data munging with perl]

2001-01-29 Thread Greg McCarroll
* David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:03:19PM +, Dave Cross wrote: > > > It's starting to sound like I@m the only bugger who _hasn't_ got a copy > > of my book yet :( > > I got a copy in the mail yesterday when I got home :-) > the bloke who works in the

Re: Fwd: [uri@sysarch.com: free copy of data munging with perl]

2001-01-29 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:03:19PM +, Dave Cross wrote: > It's starting to sound like I@m the only bugger who _hasn't_ got a copy > of my book yet :( I got a copy in the mail yesterday when I got home :-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any tec

Re: Meeting Reminder

2001-01-29 Thread Dave Cross
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 12:09:01AM +, Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > There's a social meeting on Thursday 1st Feb (that's this coming > > Thursday). > > > > It will be in the Barrowboay & Banker at the southern end of London > > B

Re: 33 mails

2001-01-29 Thread Dave Cross
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 12:23:43AM +, Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > if i can have 2 teams of 3 before tomorow (tuesday) night > i'll come up with a drinking game/quiz based around > perl/london.pm/computing trivia > > how about Dave Cross and MJD as team captains? I thought

Re: 33 mails

2001-01-29 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Mark Fowler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > grep complained: > > > > > how the f*** did you lot send 33 mails to this list between when i > > left work and now? > > > > sheesh > > Practice? We learn quickly, o wise teacher. > its ok, i figured out why, some dum-shee (scottish word, ask Dave

Re: 33 mails

2001-01-29 Thread Mark Fowler
grep complained: > > how the f*** did you lot send 33 mails to this list between when i > left work and now? > > sheesh Practice? We learn quickly, o wise teacher. Later. Mark. -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_>6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} ( Name => 'Mark Fowler',Ti

Re: Meeting Reminder

2001-01-29 Thread Greg McCarroll
i'd like to point out that this is an EXCEPTIONAL social meeting of London.pm due to MJD, the real meeting of course will be on the day after the first wednesday of the month * Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > There's a social meeting on Thursday 1st Feb (that's this coming > Thursday)

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Jonathan Stowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote: > > > From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: 29 January 2001 15:34 > > > > > just think of the sitcom possibilities if i lived above you > > > Dave? heh? heh? ;-) ;-) > > > > Bit tricky that

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Mark Fowler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > As I skuttled off to Nottingham[1] this morning, Philip Newton wrote: > > > that I wrote: > > > > > [2] Bath.pm roots showing. We used to discuss a fair amount > > > of technical (but not necessary perl related) stuff. From > > > this, I quickly progr

33 mails

2001-01-29 Thread Greg McCarroll
how the f*** did you lot send 33 mails to this list between when i left work and now? sheesh -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net

Re: Fwd: [uri@sysarch.com: free copy of data munging with perl]

2001-01-29 Thread Mark Fowler
> It's starting to sound like I@m the only bugger who _hasn't_ got a copy > of my book yet :( Fret not, fearless nominal leader. Mine hasn't arrived yet either. Later. Mark. -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_>6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} ( Name => 'Mark Fowler',Title

Re: Fwd: [uri@sysarch.com: free copy of data munging with perl]

2001-01-29 Thread Dave Cross
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:15:31PM +, Leon Brocard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dave Cross sent the following bits through the ether: > > > I'd be failing in my duty as group leader if I didn't pass on this > > announcement from the Perl Mongers Group Leaders mailing list :) > > Yes. I've ac

Re: Fwd: [mengerin@deja.com: [?] Template Toolkit]

2001-01-29 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Leon Brocard wrote: > Dave Cross sent the following bits through the ether: > > > I got the following email in response to my TT2 article. I know nothing > > about EmbPerl so I can't really answer these points. Does anyone who has > > used EmbPerl have any ammo that I can use

Re: .emacs

2001-01-29 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Mark Fowler wrote: > > P.S. All other editor comments >/dev/null or to sender as I think we've > had quite enough holy wars on this list this month. > Tsk, tsk - you shouldnt have brought it up then had you :) /J\ -- Jonathan Stowe | http://www.gellyfish.c

RE: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote: > From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: 29 January 2001 15:34 > > > just think of the sitcom possibilities if i lived above you > > Dave? heh? heh? ;-) ;-) > > Bit tricky that. What with us living in a house and all that. > We have seag

Re: Another Template Toolkit Q

2001-01-29 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So TT nicely allows a filename, a filehandle or blank for STDOUT. > > So how to I capture the output to "some variable" so I could, say, > manipulate that output > without having to read the file I've outputted? > $tt->process($template,$variables

Re: .emacs

2001-01-29 Thread Richard Clamp
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 08:26:32PM +, Robin Houston wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 08:13:11PM +, Mark Fowler wrote: > > > > Hmm. Can you do something to save directly via scp? > > http://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/~grossjoh/emacs/tramp.html See, that's what you get for posting

Re: .emacs

2001-01-29 Thread Richard Clamp
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 08:13:11PM +, Mark Fowler wrote: > Hmm. Can you do something to save directly via scp? Yup, in 2 expressions (require 'tramp) (setq tramp-default-method "scp") tramp is here: http://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/~grossjoh/emacs/tramp.html scp, well that'll p

Re: Fwd: [mengerin@deja.com: [?] Template Toolkit]

2001-01-29 Thread Michael Stevens
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:31:30PM +, Leon Brocard wrote: > > I got the following email in response to my TT2 article. I know nothing > > about EmbPerl so I can't really answer these points. Does anyone who has > > used EmbPerl have any ammo that I can use in my reply? > Embperl is entirely Ap

Re: Fwd: [mengerin@deja.com: [?] Template Toolkit]

2001-01-29 Thread Leon Brocard
Dave Cross sent the following bits through the ether: > I got the following email in response to my TT2 article. I know nothing > about EmbPerl so I can't really answer these points. Does anyone who has > used EmbPerl have any ammo that I can use in my reply? Embperl is entirely Apache and web b

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 08:57:00PM +, Chris Benson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:48:33PM +, Richard Clamp wrote: > > > > I'm from Birmingham damnit[0], which though north of the M25, is nowhere near > > as grim as proper up north. > > Oi! where you calling grim http://www.cantrell

Re: Fwd: [uri@sysarch.com: free copy of data munging with perl]

2001-01-29 Thread Leon Brocard
Dave Cross sent the following bits through the ether: > I'd be failing in my duty as group leader if I didn't pass on this > announcement from the Perl Mongers Group Leaders mailing list :) Yes. I've actually got a copy of this fine book lying in my bedroom right now. An actual book! Hardcopy! N

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Chris Benson
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:48:33PM +, Richard Clamp wrote: > > I'm from Birmingham damnit[0], which though north of the M25, is nowhere near > as grim as proper up north. Oi! where you calling grim ... though 5-7 hour GNER magical mystery tours instead of the usual 3h is pretty grim. It m

Re: .emacs

2001-01-29 Thread Robin Houston
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 08:13:11PM +, Mark Fowler wrote: > > Hmm. Can you do something to save directly via scp? http://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/~grossjoh/emacs/tramp.html .robin. -- A man, a plan, a cat, a ham, a yak, a yam, a hat, a canal--Panama!

Re: .emacs

2001-01-29 Thread Michael Stevens
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 07:53:00PM +, Mark Fowler wrote: > I like my .emacs file. It sets nice fonts and colours, and sets the > editing mode and wrapping mode of choice ;-) > I'm sure it can do more... > 1) Where do I find handy things to put into my .emacs file on the web? > 2) Got any ni

Re: .emacs

2001-01-29 Thread Mark Fowler
Robin said: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 07:53:00PM +, Mark Fowler wrote: > > 2) Got any nice bits of your .emacs file to share? > > Hmm, well this: > > (add-hook 'ange-ftp-process-startup-hook > '(lambda () > (ange-ftp-raw-send-cmd proc "passive on"))) > > enables ange

.emacs

2001-01-29 Thread Mark Fowler
I like my .emacs file. It sets nice fonts and colours, and sets the editing mode and wrapping mode of choice ;-) I'm sure it can do more... 1) Where do I find handy things to put into my .emacs file on the web? 2) Got any nice bits of your .emacs file to share? Note that (shock, horror) I ca

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Mark Fowler
As I skuttled off to Nottingham[1] this morning, Philip Newton wrote: > that I wrote: > > > [2] Bath.pm roots showing. We used to discuss a fair amount > > of technical (but not necessary perl related) stuff. From > > this, I quickly progressed into the well rounded perl programmer > > I am to

Fwd: [mengerin@deja.com: [?] Template Toolkit]

2001-01-29 Thread Dave Cross
I got the following email in response to my TT2 article. I know nothing about EmbPerl so I can't really answer these points. Does anyone who has used EmbPerl have any ammo that I can use in my reply? Dave... - Forwarded message from [snip] - Howdy, I'm curious why you prefer the TT to

Re: OT: joke

2001-01-29 Thread Mark Fowler
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Simon Wistow wrote: > One day Dracula is walking down the street when suddenly 10 tons of > smoked salmon sandwiches, bread rolls, pitted olives, chicken wings, > chipolatas, tomato salad, pizza slices and crisps descends on him from a > great height and knocks him to the gro

RE: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Mark Fowler
Dave wrote, while probably stroking a gold plated cat, in response to grep talking about living above him: > Bit tricky that. What with us living in a house and all that. Wot, you've seen shallow grave haven't you? -- print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_>6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} (

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:28:07PM +, David Cantrell wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:27:41PM -, Matthew Jones wrote: > > > So how do That.pm feel about some northern tyke scuttling down to join you > > for the odd beer and tech meeting on a sort of semi-regular basis? > > You will, o

Re: template toolkit .. one more kwestion solved

2001-01-29 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:31:52PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: > Reminds me of fits I had when doing Vignette/Tcl with lists of lists that I > passed to another template with HTTP POST. When the list of lists contained > only one element, it didn't wrap that list in extra {} so the foreach say a >

Meeting Reminder

2001-01-29 Thread Dave Cross
There's a social meeting on Thursday 1st Feb (that's this coming Thursday). It will be in the Barrowboay & Banker at the southern end of London Bridge. There's a map on the web site. Mark-Jason Dominus will be joining us and I think that Simon Cozens is thinking of coming along too. Dave...

RE: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 29 January 2001 15:34 > just think of the sitcom possibilities if i lived above you > Dave? heh? heh? ;-) ;-) Bit tricky that. What with us living in a house and all that. Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is confidenti

Re: template toolkit .. one more kwestion solved

2001-01-29 Thread Philip Newton
Robin Szemeti wrote: > It seem T::T automagically assumes that if you pass it a reference to > something then you probably didn;t want that, you prolly > wanted the thingy itself so it dereferences it for you.. it will > only do this down one level. > > so by passing it a list of references it s

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Simon Wistow
Matthew Jones wrote: > Dave is sitting in his living room, leafing through his back issues of > "Canned Food and Preserved Rations Monthly". Wrong Dave. More like "Dave is lounging casually in his Chippendale, stroking his gold plated cat and having his feet massaged by a minion. Another lackey

RE: Video Tips

2001-01-29 Thread Matthew Jones
>Not at all... I've always found tlog so boring and crap >I wouldn't ever have bought the CD... What do people >find so funny about it? Nobody likes it unless they've seen it from the start. It's essential that you see the first one as it establishes an only slightly weird groundstate and is (IM

RE: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Matthew Jones
>just think of the sitcom possibilities if i lived above you >Dave? heh? heh? ;-) ;-) THE LEAGUE OF CAMELMEN Dave is sitting in his living room, leafing through his back issues of "Canned Food and Preserved Rations Monthly". There is a knock at the door. Dave sighs, gets up and removes the lead

RE: Another Template Toolkit Q

2001-01-29 Thread Neil Ford
>> >>Hang on, isn't there an actual Template Toolkit mailing list. >> >>-- >>Richard Clamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> There is? Well I know when I'm not wanted then :-) Mark k. Check http://www.tt2.org/info.html#lists for details. And it's not that you're not wanted :-) it's more that you're likel

Re: Video Tips

2001-01-29 Thread Redvers Davies
> > If you click "No" it switches off :) > thereby robert demonstrates joke spoiling techinque 27 :) Not at all... I've always found tlog so boring and crap I wouldn't ever have bought the CD... What do people find so funny about it?

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At Mon, 29 Jan 2001 14:54:26 +, Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > > the minute i cross the river, i can feel grimness coming upon me > > One of the big plus points for this jobs was that it was on the > right (i.e. south) side of the

Re: Another Template Toolkit Q

2001-01-29 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, you wrote: > > > So TT nicely allows a filename, a filehandle or blank for STDOUT. > > So how to I capture the output to "some variable" so I could, say, > manipulate that output > without having to read the file I've outputted? you just pass it a scalar ref my ($stuff);

Re: Another Template Toolkit Q

2001-01-29 Thread Struan Donald
* at 29/01 15:29 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >>mmm, this should be a FAQ... > >> > >>perldoc Template: > >>struan > >> > >>(sho missed this fisrt time round too :) > >> > > Thanks for the pointers, call me lazy, isn't that supposed to be a trait > of a good programmer? ;-) only for c

RE: Another Template Toolkit Q

2001-01-29 Thread Mark . Kitching
Title: RE: Another Template Toolkit Q >>mmm, this should be a FAQ... >> >>perldoc Template: >>struan >> >>(sho missed this fisrt time round too :) >> Thanks for the pointers, call me lazy, isn't that supposed to be a trait of a good programmer? ;-) Mark K.

RE: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Matthew Jones
>> the minute i cross the river, i can feel grimness coming upon me > >And they all talk funny. North of the river they're all called Hamish >and Angus, and they wear flat caps and have whippets. Eeeh, lad, 'appen tha's f'gottent' pigeon-fancying[1] and breakfasts consisting entirely of clotted

RE: Another Template Toolkit Q

2001-01-29 Thread Mark . Kitching
Title: RE: Another Template Toolkit Q >> >>Hang on, isn't there an actual Template Toolkit mailing list. >> >>-- >>Richard Clamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> There is? Well I know when I'm not wanted then :-) Mark k.

Re: Another Template Toolkit Q

2001-01-29 Thread Struan Donald
* at 29/01 15:17 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > So TT nicely allows a filename, a filehandle or blank for STDOUT. > > So how to I capture the output to "some variable" so I could, say, > manipulate that output > without having to read the file I've outputted? > > Is that possible? mmm,

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Rob Partington
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And they all talk funny. North of the river they're all called Hamish > and Angus, and they wear flat caps and have whippets. 'eyup! My uncle used to race greyhounds and whippets (and pigeons!) and I have a flat cap.

Re: Another Template Toolkit Q

2001-01-29 Thread Richard Clamp
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 03:17:10PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So TT nicely allows a filename, a filehandle or blank for STDOUT. > > So how to I capture the output to "some variable" so I could, say, > manipulate that output > without having to read the file I've outputted? > > Is that

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:54:26PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: > the minute i cross the river, i can feel grimness coming upon me And they all talk funny. North of the river they're all called Hamish and Angus, and they wear flat caps and have whippets. > Greg (who was surfing for flats in ba

Another Template Toolkit Q

2001-01-29 Thread Mark . Kitching
Title: Another Template Toolkit Q So TT nicely allows a filename, a filehandle or blank for STDOUT. So how to I capture the output to "some variable" so I could, say, manipulate that output without having to read the file I've outputted? Is that possible? Mark K.

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Dave Cross
At Mon, 29 Jan 2001 14:54:26 +, Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the minute i cross the river, i can feel grimness coming upon me One of the big plus points for this jobs was that it was on the right (i.e. south) side of the river. > Greg (who was surfing for flats in balham th

Re: template toolkit .. one more kwestion solved

2001-01-29 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, you wrote: > > Sounds like your dereferencing function may be returning a SCALAR instead > > of an ARRAY when there's only one result? > > could be ... I had : > > my($data)=$sth->fetchall_arrayref; > return @{$data}; > > which I thought should return a flat list of refere

Re: Passwords

2001-01-29 Thread Michael Stevens
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:55:08PM -, Robert Shiels wrote: > > Not that I necessarily agree with what this says, it's definately > interesting > > and worth thinking about: > > Security and Human Factors > > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20001126.html > Basically a lot of password restrictions

Re: fspi

2001-01-29 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At Mon, 29 Jan 2001 14:46:40 +, Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > * James Powell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:12:01PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > > > > > > i got a shiny copy of Dave's book in the po

Re: Passwords

2001-01-29 Thread Robert Shiels
> > My question is, Why is automatic password expiry a good idea? > > It's a pain, and encourages bad password management. I'll probably log onto > > each system every 60 days and set them all to the same one. > > Not that I necessarily agree with what this says, it's definately interesting > and

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Richard Clamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:28:07PM +, David Cantrell wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:27:41PM -, Matthew Jones wrote: > > > > > So how do That.pm feel about some northern tyke scuttling down to join you > > > for the odd beer and tech meet

Re: fspi

2001-01-29 Thread Dave Cross
At Mon, 29 Jan 2001 14:46:40 +, Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * James Powell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:12:01PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > > > > i got a shiny copy of Dave's book in the post on saturday, very > > > nice indeed > > > > Whe

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Richard Clamp
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:28:07PM +, David Cantrell wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:27:41PM -, Matthew Jones wrote: > > > So how do That.pm feel about some northern tyke scuttling down to join you > > for the odd beer and tech meeting on a sort of semi-regular basis? > > You will, o

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Michael Stevens
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:41:38PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: > i assume odd beer is a typo and you mean't odd beers, i.e. an odd number > of beers ( i've also decided that 1 is not an odd number ) > seriously, i'm sure everyone would welcome you with open arms We are perl. you will be assimil

Re: fspi

2001-01-29 Thread Greg McCarroll
* James Powell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:12:01PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > > > i got a shiny copy of Dave's book in the post on saturday, very nice > > indeed > > > > Where did you get it from so quickly? Direct from Manning? > i'm assuming so, i never act

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Matthew Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > So how do That.pm feel about some northern tyke scuttling down to join you > for the odd beer and tech meeting on a sort of semi-regular basis? > i assume odd beer is a typo and you mean't odd beers, i.e. an odd number of beers ( i've also decided

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:27:41PM -, Matthew Jones wrote: > So how do That.pm feel about some northern tyke scuttling down to join you > for the odd beer and tech meeting on a sort of semi-regular basis? You will, of course, be assimilated and ultimately move to That London. Just like that

Re: fspi

2001-01-29 Thread James Powell
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:12:01PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > i got a shiny copy of Dave's book in the post on saturday, very nice > indeed > > -- > Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net Where did you get it from so quickly? Direct from Manning? jp

RE: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Dave Cross
At Mon, 29 Jan 2001 14:27:41 -, Matthew Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So how do That.pm feel about some northern tyke scuttling down to > join you for the odd beer and tech meeting on a sort of semi-regular > basis? We'd be very happy for you to come along whenever you wanted to. Da

Re: Passwords

2001-01-29 Thread Michael Stevens
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:30:07PM -, Robert Shiels wrote: > I just wanted to ask a brief question about passwords. > I have access to about 10 SAP systems in my work at the moment, and all of > them require a password, and these passwords all expire after 60 days. This > will happen at random

RE: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Matthew Jones
>Speaking from a personal standpoint, I really enjoy the >technical meetings and think more of them would be really beneficial[2]. >I think they represent a lot of what we are us to and show that we're >all not just talk 'n booze. Hence I'm anxious to see them succeed. I'd like to be able to

Passwords

2001-01-29 Thread Robert Shiels
I just wanted to ask a brief question about passwords. I have access to about 10 SAP systems in my work at the moment, and all of them require a password, and these passwords all expire after 60 days. This will happen at random times depending on when I actually try to logon. So I have the poten

Re: LAMP Stuff

2001-01-29 Thread Dave Cross
At Mon, 29 Jan 2001 14:12:41 -, "Robert Shiels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Dave... > > > > /me wonders if Dave's article on the main page is at all relevant to > this thread :-) Purely coincidental I assure you :) Dave...

Re: fspi

2001-01-29 Thread Dave Cross
At Mon, 29 Jan 2001 14:12:01 +, Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i got a shiny copy of Dave's book in the post on saturday, very nice > indeed *blush* Thanks. Dave... [who hasn't actually got a copy yet!]

Re: HTML::Parser

2001-01-29 Thread Philip Newton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in ugly HTML: > my $h = $parser->parse_file("/export/home/gharper/0,10225,1_1547_2168,00.htm"); This smells of the "V" word :-) > $h->traverse(\&expand_urls, 1); [snip] > The output I get from this is > Can't locate auto/HTML/Parser/traverse.al in @INC (@INC contains

Re: HTML:Parser

2001-01-29 Thread Dave Cross
At Mon, 29 Jan 2001 14:07:27 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've just installed HTML::Parser on a machine here. It passed all of > make, make test and make install fine. (output from make test pasted) [snip] > Then when I try to use it in the following file (which is a quick > paste from

Re: LAMP Stuff

2001-01-29 Thread Robert Shiels
> > > > Dave... > /me wonders if Dave's article on the main page is at all relevant to this thread :-) /Robert

fspi

2001-01-29 Thread Greg McCarroll
i got a shiny copy of Dave's book in the post on saturday, very nice indeed -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net

HTML:Parser

2001-01-29 Thread Gareth . Harper
Title: HTML:Parser I've just installed HTML::Parser on a machine here.  It passed all of make, make test and make install fine. (output from make test pasted) bash-2.02$ make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl -Iblib/arch -Iblib/lib -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/sun4-solaris -I/usr/local/l

Re: LAMP Stuff

2001-01-29 Thread Robin Houston
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:58:44PM +, Michael Stevens wrote: > And the url is? > > (I had a quick look at ora.com but I couldn't see anything obvious) I had a slightly slower look, and found http://www.onlamp.com/ I suppose that's probably it. .robin. -- "do not assume that you are i

Re: LAMP Stuff

2001-01-29 Thread Dave Cross
At Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:58:44 +, Michael Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 08:52:37AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: > > O'Reilly have launched a new site discussing LAMP (Linux, Apache, > > MySQL, Perl/Python/PHP) web development. Most of the current content > > seems to b

Re: LAMP Stuff

2001-01-29 Thread Michael Stevens
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 08:52:37AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: > O'Reilly have launched a new site discussing LAMP (Linux, Apache, > MySQL, Perl/Python/PHP) web development. Most of the current content > seems to be links to existing O'Reilly Network content (e.g. perl.com), > but it's a interesting

LAMP Stuff

2001-01-29 Thread Dave Cross
O'Reilly have launched a new site discussing LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/Python/PHP) web development. Most of the current content seems to be links to existing O'Reilly Network content (e.g. perl.com), but it's a interesting start. And good to see the term being given credence by someone like

OT: joke

2001-01-29 Thread Simon Wistow
One day Dracula is walking down the street when suddenly 10 tons of smoked salmon sandwiches, bread rolls, pitted olives, chicken wings, chipolatas, tomato salad, pizza slices and crisps descends on him from a great height and knocks him to the ground. "Oh no!" he gasps with his dying breath...

Re: template toolkit .. one more kwestion

2001-01-29 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, you wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Robin Szemeti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > this works fine if the function returns a list with more than one thing > > in it .. if there is only one thing in the array I get a 'dont know how > > to access [ 3 ].0 if for exampl

Re: Video Tips

2001-01-29 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, you wrote: > The DVD starts with a question "Are you Local ?" > > If you click "No" it switches off :) reminds me of some Monty Pyton PC game .. Search for the Holy Grail. after a long intro the opening screen you get two options 'Get the Grail' and summink else .. Get th

Re: Video Tips

2001-01-29 Thread Struan Donald
* at 29/01 11:29 - Robert Shiels said: > Staying resolutely on-topic [1], I've started watching my "League of > Gentlemen" first series DVD. > > This is a very good DVD indeed, with an second audio track by the cast > talking about why they did everything. > > The DVD starts with a question

Re: Video Tips

2001-01-29 Thread Robert Shiels
Staying resolutely on-topic [1], I've started watching my "League of Gentlemen" first series DVD. This is a very good DVD indeed, with an second audio track by the cast talking about why they did everything. The DVD starts with a question "Are you Local ?" If you click "No" it switches off :)

Re: Video Tips

2001-01-29 Thread Dave Cross
At Mon, 29 Jan 2001 11:18:29 +, Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Cross wrote: > > > > Here's a top tip. Don't try to video two hours of programs on an > > hour and a half of video tape. > > > > Does anyone happen to have Friday's Angel taped - I only really > > need the secon

Re: Video Tips

2001-01-29 Thread Simon Wistow
Dave Cross wrote: > > Here's a top tip. Don't try to video two hours of programs on an hour and a > half of video tape. > > Does anyone happen to have Friday's Angel taped - I only really need the > second half :( Anybody got the 1st half of the terrestrial Buffy from this week taped? And the s

Re: template toolkit .. one more kwestion

2001-01-29 Thread Rob Partington
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robin Szemeti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > this works fine if the function returns a list with more than one thing > in it .. if there is only one thing in the array I get a 'dont know how > to access [ 3 ].0 if for example item 3 is returned. > > if I access the

template toolkit .. one more kwestion

2001-01-29 Thread Robin Szemeti
OK .. this ones driving me dippy .. I'm playing with Template::Toolkit with a bit of MySQL and the usual things ... so I wrote a few functions that retreive lists of err stuff. for speed i use dbi's fetchall_arrayref which returns a reference to an array of references to arrays ...uh huh I deref

Re: Technical Meeting Venues

2001-01-29 Thread Philip Newton
Mark Fowler wrote: > [2] Bath.pm roots showing. We used to discuss a fair amount > of technical (but not necessary perl related) stuff. From > this, I quickly progressed into the well rounded perl programmer > I am today Is that "well rounded perl programmer" in the sense that "grep is well ro

Re: TPC5

2001-01-29 Thread DJ Adams
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 12:28:03PM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote: > I want tutorial, paper, and talk proposals. Tutorials are a half- or > full-day. Papers are 25 minutes long, and intended to be high-quality > and academicish. Talks can be more informal and are either 25, 40, or > 90 minutes

Re: Video Tips

2001-01-29 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Robin Szemeti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > [1]philips 2000 format, years ahead of its time, turn the tapes over like > an audio cassette, 8 hours per tape, perfect picture in still frame > (due to video head mounted on a piezo slab) earlies 80's tecnology!.. > ahhh .. and we got vhs instead