Oh... er... it's only three days to the technical meeting and so far I don't
seem to have any talks for it.
I'll write my Perl for the People talk tonight and give that, and I think
that Robin wanted to do something.
There must be others out there who want to practice talks that they'll be
A lot later that originally planned [insert bootsphoto.com rant here] I've
finally got my photos of NYC back and am currently in the process of
uploading them to http://www.dave.org.uk/ny/.
Some semblance of order may well be imposed if I ever get some more spare
time, but currently you'll just
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 09:42:20PM +0100, Leon Brocard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Greg McCarroll sent the following bits through the ether:
It is a very alpha-ish cgi script that simply compiles a
Leader Board of known London.pm people
The modules list is a bit out of date in this
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 10:18:47PM +0100, Leon Brocard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Richard Clamp sent the following bits through the ether:
Yeah but if you did just parse 02packages blindly then Leon would have
a bigger headstart with all of the Graphviz::GraphMyAunt modules.
Family
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:29:27PM +0200, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 10:18:47PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
Family graphs? Good call. What was that ancestry format again?
GEDCOM. I wrote Gedcom.pm and I've actually had a couple of people
asking about
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:53:30PM +0200, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 10:38:44PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
and you've now been associated on the page with us as well ;-)
Thanks. I'll have to be an honourary member since I'm in Switzerland at
the
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:45:32PM +0100, Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
* Jonathan Stowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
It had been my intention for the whole Gellyfish Clan to venture forth to
Amsterdam but it looks like I will be the only representative now as the
leader has
It's all been pretty civilised over on the Cookwook board recently which has
made a nice change. I suspect it might all kick off again tho' when bk sees
my response to his contribution to this thread:
http://www.cookwood.com/cgi-bin/lcastro/perlbbs.pl?read=5205
Dave...
--
Drugs are just
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:55:17PM -0500, Mike Jarvis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Larry speaks in a bit over 9 hours. Yippee!
Actually - he doesn't :)
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/12/2255236
Dave...
--
Drugs are just bad m'kay
.
* Every example uses /usr/bin/perl -wT
* Every example uses strict (and, therefore, my)
* Every example used CGI::param
I consider this a massive improvement.
Dave...
p.s Oh, and the acknowledgements page lists Dave Cross, who not only pointed
out the problems, but also helped me solve them :)
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 12:10:08PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Remember the discussion some months ago about what a horrible book this
was?
Well, I've been exchanging emails with the author since slagging her off
big-time
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 03:34:28PM +0100, Peter Haworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Can someone please remind me about the technical meeting on the 21st? Now
that it looks like I might be in London at the time, I find I've deleted
all the relevant messages and can't remember if there's an
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 04:59:26PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Oki, assuming I don't get stranded in rush hour traffic (I'm only
ickle), can find my way to the the PO (I used to do orienteering)
and can recognise you lot, I shall see you tomorrow. Tho' if
anyone going
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 04:45:45PM +0100, Leo Lapworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Dave, U still need last weeks video ?
Nope. All caught up now thanks.
Dave...
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 07:47:00AM +0100, Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*
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On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:20:04PM -0700, Paul Makepeace
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Why do people say inherits from the Foo::Bar manpage and not Foo::Bar
module/class? I mean, how can something inherit from a lump of
documentation? Is this one of those klutz kult phenomenon or something
I'm
, 29 May 2001 10:02:48 +0200
Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: YAPC::Europe spamrobot :) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: YAPC::Europe conference, August 2-4, 2001, Amsterdam.
To: London.pm - Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You are listed as the contact address for London.pm on
http://www.pm.org
At 14:31 25/05/2001, Leon Brocard wrote:
Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether:
there is also an unofficial technical meet for practicing TPC talks
on Saturday from noon at state51:
Just to confirm, this is still on. state51 is at 8-10 rhoda street,
london e2 7ef:
At 17:57 25/05/2001, David Cantrell wrote:
/me falls off the edge
fxaaa ... SPLAT/fx
goons
He's fallen in the water.
/goons
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Perl Training in the UK
http://www.iterative-software.com/training/
At 23:00 24/05/2001, David Cantrell wrote:
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:28:49PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
So I get a call on my mobile in the middle of the beer fest from a
potential collaborator telling me he can't send me the promised
documentation due to the fact my inbox has exploded
At 23:18 24/05/2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Barbie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I seem to remember an extremely soft porn-ish film with julie andrews
at one stage, all i can remember is giant toy soldiers. I don't think
porn is even the right
At 17:37 22/05/2001, Roger Burton West wrote:
On or about Tue, May 22, 2001 at 05:23:32PM +0100, Cross David - dcross typed:
I've not actually seen the manifesto, but from what I'm told it really means
If you can't be bothered to take a few minutes to look, why the hell are
you posting about
At 19:16 23/05/2001, Dean wrote:
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:18:23PM +0100, Barry Pretsell wrote:
QVC are selling lots of Buffy gear, tune into QVC now, or check out the
wbesite
Charisma Carpenter 'Cordelia' Signed Photo £64...
Now i'm scared...
Far cheaper on Yahoo Auctions:
At 20:18 23/05/2001, you wrote:
Anybody have experience with POSIX localization functions/clients in
Germany?
I've got a client in .de that wants prices to look like this:
DEM 1.234,00
i.e., the thousands sep is a . and the decimal is a ,.
The posix routines return a space for the thousands sep
At 23:30 21/05/2001, David H. Adler wrote:
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 08:28:24AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
Don't think anyone writes technical books for money. If they do, then
they're in for a big shock.
...and you can just imagine how much more true that is for editing
technical books
At 12:12 19/05/2001, Robin Houston wrote:
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
At 01:46 20/05/2001, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 07:20:31AM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
Who here has written a book? Simon and Dave at least. It's not easy,
is it?
You're asking the wrong guy. I don't write books for money, I write
them to contribute information.
Don't
For some reason, on Friday night Sky One, NTL and my VCR all conspired
against me to give me a recording of Buffy and Angel with perfect picture
and no sound. I'm guessing that's not how they were intended to be seen.
If anyone can lend me a recording at some time this week I'd be most
At 17:28 19/05/2001, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Nathan Torkington wrote:
Robin Houston writes:
Don't forget the ever-fabulous http://corvin.spb.ru/
I'd also like to say that I'm pretty disgusted that the Perlmongers,
of all people, would advocate pirating the Camel.
At 00:18 20/05/2001, Dean S Wilson wrote:
I suppose the issue with books as PDF is that it leaves you wide open to
rampant
copying...
A problem we're currently encountering with DMP. Some dickhead in Israel
thinks it's clever to distribute the PDF for free from his website.
Dave...
--
At 00:06 20/05/2001, James Powell wrote:
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:00:38AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
Neil Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just picked up the latest FHM to check out the above mentioned list...
The interesting bits are as follows;
The really interesting bit was Mr
At 10:14 20/05/2001, Barry Pretsell wrote:
A problem we're currently encountering with DMP. Some dickhead in Israel
thinks it's clever to distribute the PDF for free from his website.
Why do Manning sell their books online as pdf files? and do they plan to
stop it now that rampant copying
At 13:27 20/05/2001, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
You can't expect to steal music and then bitch about how someone is
stealing copies of your book on line.
True. But just so as we know where we all stand. I have only ever used
Napster to find copies of unavailable music.
Dave...
--
At 10:52 20/05/2001, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
I'm sure I'm really in the minority here, but I can't be the only one who
finds all this discussion of the FHM list distasteful. I've never really
understood why intelligent men find it acceptable
At 20:50 20/05/2001, Mike Jarvis wrote:
Sunday, May 20, 2001, 3:19:47 AM, Dave Cross wrote:
DC And besides, since when could you work out how sexy a woman (or man) was
DC simply by looking at a photo.
This is really two questions:
1) Can you tell from looking at a photo if this is someone you'd
At 17:20 16/05/2001, Dean wrote:
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 05:08:17PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
http://page.auctions.yahoo.com/uk/auction/51586918
The economy took another downturn today as the few remaining London
based dot-coms utilized the last of their ever diminishing budgets in
an
At 13:45 17/05/2001, you wrote:
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
At 15:27 13/05/2001, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 03:30:31AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/18866.html
Absurd, laughable and bizarre. What *is* wrong with the UK?
Don't ask me, you elected 'em. And it looks like you're all stupid enough
to
At 17:22 13/05/2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 03:45:21PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
But given that the Socialist Alliance are only standing in ~100
constituencies, there doesn't seem to be any credible alternative.
http
At 17:38 13/05/2001, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 05:22:49PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
How can any socialist not feel that when it came to the crunch
socialism was
rejected by intelligent people who understood its principals and benefits
intimitadly because they could
At 22:36 12/05/2001, you wrote:
I prefer trad English. And I really prefer trad. English vocal,
preferably without instruments...
Known amongst many of my friends as The Ballad Of God Knows Who[1]
Dave...
[1] Part of an affectionate classification of folk music into just two
styles: The
FYI, Ann is one of the Y::E committee this year.
Dave...
Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 13:13:49 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ann Barcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: YAPC::Europe reminders, and requests for help (fwd)
You talked about giving
At 16:56 09/05/2001, you wrote:
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:
At 18:10 08/05/2001, Nathan Torkington wrote:
... 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
At 18:26 08/05/2001, Dean wrote:
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 06:20:33PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
Whilst we're (kinda) on the topic, can I have a reminder of
who's going to yapc. I'm still umm-ing and ahh-ing over whther I can
afford it (us phud students suffer for our science).
I'm
At 21:59 08/05/2001, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
At 18:26 08/05/2001, Dean wrote:
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 06:20:33PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
Whilst we're (kinda) on the topic, can I have a reminder of
who's going to yapc. I'm still umm-ing
At 17:56 04/05/2001, Dean wrote:
Does the author of the book take an interest in the web group? I'd hope
she'd be on there correcting him.
She's around occasionally. She's a bit busy at the moment - getting the
next edition finished before her baby is born later this month.
Dave...
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Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 18:15:40 -0400
From: Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: perl jobs page and list
Reply-to: Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pm group leaders:
please forward this to your local pm groups.
as
At 19:53 30/04/2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
I've got someone needing a form to mail script. Where's ours[0]?
Ta,
Dave
[0] Oh, all right, yours since I bottled out.
Current version is at
http://www.dave.org.uk/scripts/notmatt/formmail.pl.txt but it needs some
tightening up and peer review.
From: Jonathan Stowe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 4/26/01 9:30:01 PM
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Niklas Nordebo wrote:
Gets a 9, apparently.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/04/26/1229238mode=thread
For $deities sake dont tell Dave ...
Too late!
Dave...
[feeling smug]
--
At 21:39 18/04/2001, David Cantrell wrote:
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 09:30:56PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
http://www.cookwood.com/cgi-bin/lcastro/perlbbs.pl?read=4453
JS! stop it i'm replying!
LOL at Greg's post.
Greg++
--
http
At 21:39 18/04/2001, David Cantrell wrote:
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 09:30:56PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
http://www.cookwood.com/cgi-bin/lcastro/perlbbs.pl?read=4453
JS! stop it i'm replying!
LOL at Greg's post.
And now this in a new
At 10:25 14/04/2001, Robin Szemeti wrote:
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, you wrote:
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Robin Szemeti wrote:
ooh .. that reminds me .. the Census man has just dropped a form in .. I
didn't reallise it was this year .. excellent .. now dont forget .. your
religion is 'Jedi' ok
At 19:16 09/04/2001, David Cantrell wrote:
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:09:14PM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote:
might be nice to have status reports from:
* The t-shirt committee
There has been movement on this!
I, however, will not be able to attend cos I have a visitor from the
darker
At 22:10 09/04/2001, Neil Ford wrote:
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:09:14PM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote:
If anyone doesn't know (or has forgotten), there will be a technical
meeting
on Thursday 19th April. It will be at State 51[1] and we'll start at about
7pm. Details on how to get
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 and "Instant
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...
--
At 21:12 03/04/2001, you wrote:
Oh, so this list was a bunch of nutters and Buffy fans the whole time
and no-one told me?
Yeah. Sorry. We should probably make that clearer :)
Dave...
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At 20:57 02/04/2001, you wrote:
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 08:35:13PM +0100, Marty Pauley wrote:
On Thu Mar 29 03:13:59 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
Can someone product a set of simple instructions on how to get there.
Could someone please post the directions before Thursday.
http
Does anyone know anything about the configuration of the Zeus web server?
It's the web server that my main web hosts use and it's all getting a bit
confusing.
You may remember last week when I posted the URL of my Not-Matt scripts, in
http://www.dave.org.uk/scripts/notmatt/. Gellyfish pointed
At 22:56 02/04/2001, you wrote:
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 09:45:59PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
As it`s not in my cgi-bin directory I`d expect to be shown the source of
the script when I access this page. Instead the web server tries to run
the
script (and gives an error as the execute flag
At Thu, 29 Mar 2001 11:08:44 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 08:02:39 -0500 (EST), Dave Cross wrote:
At Wed, 28 Mar 2001 12:34:41 +0100, Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:02:48PM +0100, alex wrote
At 29 Mar 2001 11:43:59 +0100, Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://www.tekmetrics.com/ aka brainbench seems to still be going
strong.
And last time I looked, they claimed I was the best Perl programmer
in London. Don't expect
At Thu, 29 Mar 2001 11:07:28 +0100 (BST), Jonathan Stowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
And I realise that my description yesterday was slightly inaccurate.
I said it would parse Perl approximately. A better description
would be that it parses
I'm very happy this afternoon. I've just seen a copy of my book on
a shelf in a bookshop[1]. That's the first time I've seen it in the
wild. Of course, I'd have been happier if someone had been buying it :)
Dave...
[1] It was Books etc. at Monument if anyone wants to rush out and buy
it!
At Wed, 28 Mar 2001 12:34:41 +0100, Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:02:48PM +0100, alex wrote:
ps the big killer is that there is no large corporate generating
tons of noise about Perl - whereas this is not the case for Java.
Wait until TPC.
Sounds
At Wed, 28 Mar 2001 15:38:51 +0200, Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Has anyone else heard anything about yapc::Europe::19101?
Yeah. Dates and venues and stuff have been announced. And there was
a CFP. It's all on http://www.yapc.org/Europe/.
ISTR dimly that last year around this time
At Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:33:16 -0500, "David H. Adler" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:37:14PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
David H. Adler wrote:
What, no CiP rating???
Well, there wasn't any Perl code included. But it should be pretty
straightforward to hack the
At Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:38:16 +0100 (BST), Matthew Byng-Maddick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
Would this be an appropriate time to point out that my TPC talk
proposes the creation of a Parse::Perl::Approx module :)
You are an evil man.
You know I'm
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 Parse::Perl::Approx module :)
What does it do?
It, er
At 18:52 28/03/2001, you wrote:
Ok, I'm useless, but I've just been to talk to the Cittie, and
they say they're booked out next Thursday.
OK. Looks like it's back to the PO next Thursday then people.
Dave...
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that both
NetThink, Iterative and other Perl Consultancies/Trainers want to
make money. I'd also state the assumption that if proposed to the
wider Perl community - Perl certification would go back into
argument state, so I suggest (with Dave Cross' blessing), that we
form the London.pm
At 21:57 28/03/2001, you wrote:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Matthew Byng-Maddick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Simon Cozens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:47:03PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
At 22:19 28/03/2001, Dave Cross wrote:
At 21:24 28/03/2001, Simon wrote:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:58:36PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
Also i think the lack of Perl certification, is one of the biggest
problems with Perl work in london,
http://www.tekmetrics.com/ aka brainbench seems
At 22:44 28/03/2001, you wrote:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:22:37PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
There _was_ a Perl certification mailing list that Skud started a while
back.
Unless we're thinking of different things, wasn't that just perl-trainers?
No. There was definitely a perlcert as well
OK. Bowing to pressure from the heretics - we'll go to the Anchor next
Thursday. Never let it be said that I don't listen to the little
people :)
Can someone product a set of simple instructions on how to get there.
And the only suggestion I've had so far for the technical meeting on the
19th
At Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:08:04 +0100, Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
at cebit, BT devices crashed and burned - why? they had been rushed
out. BT is essentially a good technology if done right, the same is
true for web sites, the industry just needs to slow its self down
'BT' eq
At Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:41:05 +0100, Chris Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sunday morning Perl advocacy at Speaker's Corner
This _really_ should happen.
Dave...
At 00:07 27/03/2001, you wrote:
* Simon Cozens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Ooh good. I got one of them for Christmas and still haven't gotten
around to
drinking it. Not sure I'll like it though, because Italian reds tend to be
very thin, and I like chewy wines. We'll see.
I don't want
At Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:39:34 +0200, Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
The other possibility, I guess, given that it's london.pm is
to make it relate to buffy in some way :)
That reminds me of an idea I had this morning on the way to work --
encode
I've developed this weird habit of hanging around places where less
able Perl programmers congregate and trying to distribute clues.
The latest place I've found is the BBS for readers of Liz Castro's
book. It certainly gives you some perspective[1] on her target
audience.
Here's an example
At Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:20:41 +0100, David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:25:39AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
Thanks for the offer Simon, but I've already postponed this meeting
once and am loathe to do it again.
Shame :-( I was hoping to be able to make
At 22:46 26/03/2001, you wrote:
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
At Sun, 25 Mar 2001 22:21:52 +0100 (BST), Jonathan Stowe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote:
I've had a bit of a go at some of these today and they're up at
http://www.dave.org.uk
The April meetings are approaching and we have no firm plans for them yet.
The social meeting will be on April 5th. Last plan I remember was that
mstevens was going to investigate booking the cellar bar at the Cittie of
Yorke. Did that happen?
The technical meeting is on April 19th. Can
At 22:17 25/03/2001, you wrote:
unless anyone has any arguments, i'll buy a fast, reliable largish hard
drive and lots of memory (i understand it's cheap at the moment) for
penderel (the computer) this week.
i'd like to do it via dabs.com, because their interface is useable and
i've not
At 23:52 25/03/2001, you wrote:
On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 06:44:43PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
Also, we'll need speakers for the technical meeting. If you've got
anything
cool to tell us about, please let me know. It may be a good opportunity to
practice TPC or YAPC talks.
I can always do
At Fri, 23 Mar 2001 05:31:25 -0500 (EST), Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:30:19 -, Matthew Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For even more points: What was the first TV show the Lenny Henry
appeared on?
Ironically for "right-on" Lenny, it was
At Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:37:51 + (GMT), Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
L. said:
World domination is ours. Muahahaha!
Not if we can't come up with a good name for not matt's script
archive it won't be.
Ideas to the usual address.
*Please*
I thought that 'EasyScripts' (or,
At Thu, 22 Mar 2001 07:18:05 +, celia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David H. Adler wrote:
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 10:22:34PM +, celia wrote:
/ me delurks - don't worry, you won't see much of me round here :)
But... why??
Why I delurked, or why you won't see much of me on this
At Thu, 22 Mar 2001 09:37:39 + (GMT), Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2001, Mar, 21, Cross, Dave wrote:
And how about: a decent Perl debugger (that also happens to be
free).
You have a decent Perl debugger. It's called perl -d.
Eugh. perl -d:ptkdb please.
Yeah.
At 22 Mar 2001 09:02:31 +, Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At Thu, 22 Mar 2001 09:37:39 + (GMT), Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2001, Mar, 21, Cross, Dave wrote:
And how about: a decent Perl debugger (that also happens
At Thu, 22 Mar 2001 16:38:48 -, "Clarke, Darren" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
What was that book that Dave criticised on Amazon about 2 months ago?
The one where the author emailed a reply which was passed around at
the February social meeting?
It was "Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web
mailed a reply which was passed around
at the February social meeting?
Dave Cross replied:
It was "Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web (Visual Quickstart
Guide)"
by Elizabeth Castro
I've just rememebered that I put my review on your site as well.
Having exchanged emails with t
At Thu, 22 Mar 2001 17:56:16 +0100, Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Robin Houston wrote:
use POSIX 'strftime';
print "The date is ", strftime("%m-%d-%y", localtime()), "\n";
Or, for those who want to type even less, strftime accepts a '%D'
format specifier on at least some
At 19:01 22/03/2001, you wrote:
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 06:25:40PM +, Leon Brocard wrote:
But we know that respectable publishers don't do that kind of thing, right?
^^
I don't understand.
I think you'll find in it the dictionary as the definition of
At Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:37:32 + (GMT), AEF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Simon Wilcox wrote:
I thought I'd look this up, but the BSI want 50 quid for a copy.
I appreciate this is how they make money to fund the standards work
but it seems a tad steep for the
At Wed, 21 Mar 2001 16:19:57 + (GMT), Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
We've been looking through a Learning Tree
Take a look at this http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Date-MMDDYY.
Now give me:
a) a two reasons why this module should never have been written, and
b) as many flaws as possible in the implementation.
Dave...
[with his nasty, bitchy head on]
At Tue, 20 Mar 2001 11:40:35 -0500, Alex Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 04:40:29PM +, Simon Wilcox wrote:
2. MM DD YY is an evil date format, and should be abolished in favour of DD
MM YY which is more sensible.
Or even better YY-MM-DD which avoids cross-pond
At Tue, 20 Mar 2001 17:01:30 +, Robin Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:40:18AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote:
I really think I should drop the author a polite note offering him a
patch or three.
A patch? It needs taking outside and shooting!
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