Re: Manning Tk book
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 07:47:27PM -, Dean S Wilson wrote: Was anyone on list involved in the beta reading of this one? http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.asp?theisbn=1884777937 If so did it look promising? It was going in the right direction, but there hasn't seemed to have been much activity on it in the last few months ... dj
Leftover ORA bumpf finds good home
evidence: http://www.pipetree.com/~dj/nr.pm/jan01/ :-) dj
[OT] Putty invocation
Hi folks Am I going mad or is there no way I can start my fav client program PuTTY and specify a saved 'session' directly with a switch? (i.e. I can specify a hostname, but I _want_ to specify a session name - to have my colours / fonts etc) cheers dj
Re: [OT] Putty invocation
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 03:40:48PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "C:\Program Files\Putty\putty.exe" @SessionName wow - excellent. Thanks. I don't think I would have come upon '@' in my guessing ;-) cheers dj
Re: Conslutancy
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 04:26:32PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: reply-to having the address of the sender is the right thing, it means when you reply to a message you reply to author of that message, when you reply-all you reply to all trying...to...resist...AARGH! No no no! You're on a mailing list because you're corresponding with the group as a while so you want ot reply to the group as a whole too. Mailing list parallel in IRC: type something (i.e. path of least resistance) : goes to channel /dcc chat (extra effort) : goes to individual having a reply-to sender as default for a mailing list is very rude as you're presuming the 'default' exclusion of the very collective you're conversing with. If you want to make an aside to the person who actually posted something, then by all means change the To: to their email address. :-) DJ who thinks people who refer to the "...Considered Harmful" doc are guilty of cargo-cult meme-mongering. P.S. nice to come back to the list on a juicy non-Perl (!) topic ;-)
Re: Conslutancy
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 04:33:33PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: war implies a large struggle, this would be more like a 5 second knockout - everyone knows mutt is the one true mail client Now _that_ is something I can agree with g dj happy just to have realised he'll be able to make next week's meet
Re: odd -w effect
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 02:23:57PM -, Bates, Duncan wrote: I wrote my book under Windows - I figured that Word would be the easiest way to produce it. so in retrospect what would be the best format to produce a book in? docbook? markup / WYSINWYG rules dj
Re: odd -w effect
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:47:59PM -, Jonathan Peterson wrote: Jon, who thinks Windows workstation connected to *nix machine running samba is the prefered development environment. I'm with you on that one. That's what I'm doing right now, and with PuTTY being such a great tiny-footprint client, the combo is lowest-common- denominator and extremely portable. I don't get involved with the e.g. Gnome vs KDE or whatever - because I don't have a 'desktop' as such. luvverly. dj '80x25' adams
Re: TPC5
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 02:26:07PM +, Jonathan Stowe wrote: On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Jonathan Peterson wrote: If you're prepared to consider locations a little out of central London there are lots of large hotels around Heathrow that have sizeable conference type facilities (also handy for the airport!). FWIW, I know my mother has booked some largish meetings outside of London. Of course, I don't remember offhand how large, or, for that matter, what kind of numbers you're looking at. Go to Brighton. It's nicer than London, on the sea, easy to get to from Gatwick, and has more pubs per head of population than any other town in Britain (I think, or maybe it was more pubs per square mile). It has conference facilities for all sizes (although I've no idea how booked up they get). And it's 55 minutes from London by train. And its handy for me. And me! dj
Re: TPC5
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 in length. Yay. Piers and I sent a presentation proposal last week. dj
Re: Fwd: [uri@sysarch.com: free copy of data munging with perl]
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:15:31PM +, Leon Brocard wrote: Yes. I've actually got a copy of this fine book lying in my bedroom right now. An actual book! Hardcopy! Not on the screen! Let's buy Dave a drink or two ;-) Yay - got mine too. Three cheers for Dave! Well done that man. dj
German Perl Workshop pics
oh woe, 2000 unread in my london.pm folder :-( Still, I can post this, I guess: "London PM members infiltrate German Perl Workshop - pictures here!" http://www.pipetree.com/~dj/perlworkshop2001/ cheers dj
Re: DJ jabbers on the O'Reilly Network
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:56:30AM +, David Cantrell wrote: I can't remember, but I *think* I took that picture. Not that I actually give a shit. Oops, sorry! I thought it was Robert that took it. Mea culpa :-( At least we (London PM) get some publicity from the article (I couldn't find a URL for Squackers). dj
Re: Scraping news feeds?
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:50:17PM -0500, mallum wrote: I run http://10.am and do this on a largish scale. Mallum - greetings! I didn't know you were on this list - then again, I am crap at keeping up anyway... dj
Re: Perl Training Courses
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 12:45:20PM -, Robert Shiels wrote: [1]slight simplifiction, but pretty much true, if there are any other SAP people here :-) /me just manages to resist going on and on about SAP's debugger dj "eee, it was much better in the 80s"
