On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
just looking at some old pictures of london.pm meetings and YAPC::Europe
and i came across the classic, London.pm drinking in a hair dressing salon,
http://217.34.97.146/~gem/pics/london.pm/2000/july/DSCF0036.JPG
Toilet seats don't make
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Chris Ball wrote:
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 08:27:19AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
i'm sorry about asking this, but i've purged too many old archives
of london.pm to find this one - someone one once mentioned a domain
name registry with a neat web based management
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Leo Lapworth wrote:
You might want to check out:
Arron's Autodia - http://autodia.cuckoo.org/
It's not quite at the stage I think you are after
but I've lost track of what it can and can't do.
Last I heard they were putting it up to be
an candidate in the elections
*grump*
There is a python plugin to Gnome Dia allowing you to write scripts for
dia. I don't know if it is like GIMPS scripting or more of a macro type
thing but its a little disapointing there isn't a perl one.
Dia 0.88 has an experiemental pyhton plugin capability. I would be
interested in
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, David Cantrell wrote:
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 02:03:59PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
Q: Why is AutoDIAL so rubbish.
A: Because Trelane told me to 'just release it' although blame is
automatically deferred to Muttley because everything is his fault.
HEY!
the new version of autodial - codenamed DiaKiller,
is available at http://droogs.org/autodial/
it no longer kills dia, in fact it works quite well with a few caveats -
it is much easier to test with Dia, rather than parsing the xml in my
head. :)
A.
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On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Robert Shiels wrote:
A lot of you write and distribute free perl code. What do you do about
copyright and disclaimers in the code itself. I've had a look at a few
examples and it seems you don't really bother.
I think it is probably worth doing, and we will need one for
I have uploaded AutoDIAL to my site where it can now be downloaed.
It creates UML class diagrams showing relationshiops, methods, attributes,
etc for a bunch of scripts/modules and lays them out ready for autodial to
use, although I think the relationship line plotting is a little
broken.
It
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Aaron Trevena wrote:
and it can be found at http://droogs.org/autodial/
The download link is b0rked though
fixed
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On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote:
[broken quoting snipped]
You want the GPL for that. Which means that you can't use my copyright
message as it includes the Artisitc License - which doesn't disallow your
point 2.
The GPL
do we still have the pictures from the night of award winning drunkeness?
I'sd d certainly be interested at having another look.
Also the website has a few gaps picture wise.. did nobody bring a camera
on that many times?
btw the trophy cabinet will get done once I have a job again.
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On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, James Powell wrote:
RANDAL SCHWARTZ slams London.pm's "Perl is my bitch"
T-Shirt - odd, considering:
http://www.stonehenge.com/perl/amihooternot/ ...
thats a bit slow for ntk or is squackers lagging behind (void) where all
the action happened yonks ago.
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On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
At Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:44:07 +0100, Robin Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:35:33AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote:
Would this be an appropriate time to point out that my TPC talk
proposes the creation of a
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, alex wrote:
easier said than done - it's a lot easier to hire good people than
convince clients that perl is the way forward - i may be wrong but i think
there are less and less big Perl projects out there available to perl
consultancies. once you get to a particular
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Aaron Trevena ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I think its partially the vendors fault - they are pushing java as a
solution for things it clearly isn't right for.
out of curiousity - such as (i.e. which vendors are pushing java
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Robin Houston wrote:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:23:01PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
I concur. There is simply too much of the important stuff missing from
Java to make it useable for web content delivery as far as I can tell.
I just couldn't do half of what I
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:48:25PM +, Michael Stevens wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:38:09PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
Then they deserve to be hurt. Really. We can't possibly support
dribbling idiots, and frankly, I have no wish to
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Mark Fowler wrote:
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, James Powell wrote:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/dia2sql/
I was looking for some tools to create diagrams with but Ooooh! Anyhow,
now all we need is a GraphViz to dia tool ;-). Which reminds me, how's
things going with your
### warning - creature feep ###
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Aaron Trevena wrote:
this question defines the archive of scripts a little. is the
collection of scripts specifically aimed at the lowest commond
denominator and tackling the MW problem directly, or is that
just its core mission
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
At Fri, 9 Mar 2001 09:24:10 -, "Robert Shiels" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.oreillynet.com/
DJ Adams, yet another famous London Perl Monger!
With a photo as well no less.
Not just _any_ photo, but one of him drinking beer at a
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Dean wrote:
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:39:43AM +, Aaron Trevena wrote:
suggestion for website:
How about a page of our acheivments?
ie CPAN modules, Books, credits, talks and drinking feats?
If you were going to do this shouldn't they just go under
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Mark Fowler wrote:
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Marcel Grunauer wrote:
1. Thingys showing SQL tables.
Have a look at http://www.codewerk.com. On the projects page, download
GraphViz::DBI and dbigraph.pl. See the sample database table graph linked
from that page. I'm
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, James Powell wrote:
Might have ended up like the last programme here
(not for the easily offended)
http://www.tvgohome.com/
cafepress have some aybabtu tees. There is a nice page of reworked
cartoons and images with aybabtu worked in. Also totl.net has an aybabtu
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote:
Since I gave up Amazon, I've found myself going into bookshops more.
Browsing in a bookshop is still _by far_ the best way to buy books.
AOL
And I end up buying more books. Because for each book that I got into the
shop looking for, I find
Following the general feelings of the professional perl mongers on the
list towards certain authors and script archives, I thought the perl
mongers could build their own script recipebook on the net and provide
secure but clear and simple and well explained example and instant cgi
scripts as an
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
the best way to get this started, is simply to do it and then
others will lend in their support, just put up a webpage
with the first few candidates and let others comment
That would make the large assumption that my perl is a good example. I
hope
On 19 Feb 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Aaron Trevena [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That would make the large assumption that my perl is a good example. I
hope that DragonForum (soon to be released, watch this space) will make a
good alternative to wwwthreads and ubbs, but although it is now
On 19 Feb 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Aaron Trevena [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It is indeed, but this tends to require a fair amount of rewriting or be a
horrible horrible kludge.
Hmmm...there was one subroutine that did all the sandwich things...oh,
no two. printHeader
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
There is nothing wrong with bad programming. Sure, don't pay for it, sure
don't use it for anything important or anything that will affect other
people's lives. But lots of people get satisfaction and reward from making
bad programs, just like they get satisfaction from singing badly in the
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 Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Nathan Torkington wrote:
(update on the OScon in Europe thing--London in August seems to be
a bad idea, so we're looking elsewhere and elsewhen ...)
In case anybody is interested the Devon Cornwall LUG will be helping
organise a S/West UK OSS Conference for local
On 21 Jan 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
I know some people here had some experience with wwwthreads, but are
there any alternatives?
No, I'm not going to code a forum package by hand.
With a little work wmforum is quite nice (easy enough to understand and
therefore make more modular and
On 21 Jan 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:33:09PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
No, I'm not going to code a forum package by
On 21 Jan 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Aaron Trevena [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was in the process of converting it to TT when i lost a load of my work
at oven (forgot to follwo symlinks when I tar gzipped home).
Don't you hate it when that happens?
I've managed to hack
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
At 18 Jan 2001 10:09:04 +, Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And on the same lines...what with all these perlmongers on the market
right now, just bloody band together and start a consultancy.
Sounds good to me. Anyone else up for it?
On a tangentially related point - I've just overheard someone in the
office mention the rumour that "Puff, the magic dragon" was "written
by someone who was smoking a joint". I guess I'm just surprised that
there are people to whom this fact isn't obvious.
I thought it was about 'chasing
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Robin Houston wrote:
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 04:25:26PM +, Aaron Trevena wrote:
ingestion has several downsides - lack of control of dosage (assuming you
eat it at a significant lump at a time), longer effects, stronger
effects (making it hard to get dosage
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Mark Fowler wrote:
On the back
use Wutan::Style;
This reminds me of the conversation Case, norm I had after crouching
tiger.. we came to the conclusion that "no, neo, you **don't** know kung
fu.".
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Following the interest in rope/pope, etc perhaps it would be an idea for
some of the more perl / oss oriented companies in london (or wherever) to
agree to take part in the project on a semi official basis - much of what
the work that the london and UK companies do is replicated because of lack
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 08:28:25PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
lynx -source http://go-gnome.com/ | sh
that would rock.
also what would be very valuable would be the ability to install from one
config for a cluster or synchronise config changes
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Simon Wistow wrote:
Simon
[who *lives* fro the 12 minute freebie of the Adult Channel at midnight]
Ah - Myself and a housemate once lived the 'free porn' episode of friends
- when we flicked thru he chennels and there was porn at 1am, I think we
got bored about 1:30am and
erm.. whats the irc channel for london.pm again.
I spose I'll have to download bitchx as well now.
A.
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"As a youngster Fred fought sea battles on the village pond using a
complex system of signals he devised that was later
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, David Cantrell wrote:
DAV-U-CRO wrote:
Twas me. But a) I'm already doing stuff tonight and b) as you point out, I
couldn't organise it at such sort notice.
Yeah, and now that Greg's had to pull out as well it looks like it won't
happen. But let's sort out a date
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