Philip Newton wrote:
Simon Wilcox wrote:
I avoided HTML::Embperl, HTML::Mason Apache::ASP because they all
embed perl into the template which is a Bad Thing (tm).
Why is that so evil?
I'm willing to be enlightened here.
A couple of reasons.
Separation of code presentation
Just saw this linked from a hugely obvious banner ad on the Register :
http://training.gbdirect.co.uk/courses/perl/for_the_register.html
Great idea to tie it in to a success story I thought.
Simon.
At 13:27 02/05/2001 +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
If the purpose of this is to make it utterly drool-proof, then why not
re-write File::Find (can't make them install it of course, that would be
expecting too much)
Is there a reason why we can't distribute our own versions of modules with
the
What time is the technical meeting starting tonight ?
Simon.
At 17:37 19/04/2001 +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote:
From: Simon Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 5:38 PM
What time is the technical meeting starting tonight ?
oh. um. well. let's say 7:00pm. how does that sound?
Good. Almost got stuck here but have finally tracked
At 02:38 04/04/2001 +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Simon Wilcox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Count me in. I have a tent and everything !
any you have the ``right'' attitude when it comes to beer and
explosives
I used to use theatrical maroons (explosives with electrical detonators) to
blow
At 11:12 04/04/2001 +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 02:38:44AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
any you have the ``right'' attitude when it comes to beer and
explosives
http://firedrake.org/roger/fireworks/
ooh, ahh !
At 09:50 04/04/2001 +, Robin Szemeti wrote:
1) LeMaitre make some very big marroons for stage use.
The very brand :-)
2) it says they need to be in some form of container when they go off.
Nah. Bury them in sand for realistic WWII FX. Mwahahahaha
3) do NOT use those funny square
At 11:33 04/04/2001 +0100, Chris Heathcote wrote:
on 4/4/01 11:27 am, Simon Wilcox wrote:
Luckily it only did minor damage to the backstage area.
I bought a supply of various flashes and explosions, but did not have a
firing box.
Using the switch on a 4 way extension block (with a number
At 12:39 04/04/2001 +0100, Martin Ling wrote:
I received a 240V shock whilst still in the womb. Various people have
made the obvious comic-book connections about my affinity for all things
electronic
I once got an electric shock off a stage lantern whilst 18ft up a ladder.
The only reason
At 15:29 03/04/2001 +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
How would people in London.pm like a one night camp out, subject
to the FM issue going away. The plan would be - we bundle into
vehicles on a given afternoon (probably saturday), go to a farm
shop and get lots of cider, and then spend the night
Is there list jumping going on ?
I seem to be getting about half the traffic this afternoon.
frinstance, I didn't get the original post this replies to.
At 17:29 03/04/2001 +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote:
From: jo walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 03 April 2001 16:15
can we go now that it
At 11:56 29/03/2001 +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
I think the money aspect is very important. This isn't YAS,
it's supposed to
be a professional qualification for professional programmers.
300 sounds
like a good number for me. "If it only costs a fiver then
what good can it
be"
At 10:31 27/03/2001 +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
Rumour has it that many people are bringing tech in house, which is hitting
conslutancies and agencies harder. I'm still not convinced that there's a
major downturn in the total number of tech jobs.
That's exactly what we're doing. I have a
At 13:29 27/03/2001 +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
my @th=(qw(th st nd rd),("th")x16)x2; $th[31]="st";
That's an evil and gross hack.
[snip]
sub th{(($_[0]-10-$_[0]%10)/10%10)?(qw(th st nd rd),('th')x6)[$_[0]%10]:"th"}
The first one I understood. Not sure about the second but I'll work
At 16:53 27/03/2001 +0100, Robin Houston wrote:
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:40:19PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
Well, remember that the sub effecticaly recalculates (what amounts to) the
array each time. To be fair, you should include the array initialisation
inside the loop and see who wins
At 05:25 23/03/2001 -0500, Dave Cross wrote:
For even more points: What was the first TV show the Lenny Henry
appeared on?
Dave...
Tiswas !
Actually - I think this was where McDoughnut first appeared ?
Simon.
At 17:51 22/03/2001 +0100, Philip Newton wrote:
Simon Wilcox wrote:
Or even better YY-MM-DD which avoids cross-pond confusion.
Oh yeah? Which year, month, and day are represented by the combination
02-03-04? Depends on the side of the pond, and on which pond (MM-DD-YY in
US, DD-MM-YY in UK
At 11:43 20/03/2001 -0500, Dave Cross wrote:
Which is the ISO standard (number 8601) for dates for a very good
reason.
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 casual
At 06:42 21/03/2001 -0500, Dave Cross wrote:
At Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:37:32 + (GMT), AEF [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Useful Summary: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
Standard: ftp://ftp.qsl.net/pub/g1smd/8601v03.pdf
This one seems to be a second edition although the
At 15:40 20/03/2001 +, Gareth Harper wrote:
- Original Message -
From: "Robin Szemeti" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: Matt's Scripts Projects
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, you wrote:
apart from that the benfits of running as a
At 16:29 20/03/2001 +, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
a) a two reasons why this module should never have been written, and
1. It's redundant, other modules do this already.
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
At 12:40 19/03/2001 +, Mark Fowler wrote:
It has occured to us we need a decent name for this. Discussion on IRC
has concluded that:
a) It shouldn't mention Matt in the title.
So "Not the Matt Wright Archive" is out then ;-)
b) That is should have a name that appeals to newbies.
How
At 13:18 19/03/2001 +, Mark Fowler wrote:
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Simon Wilcox wrote:
b) That is should have a name that appeals to newbies.
How about EasyScripts ? the domain name is available, anyway.
Not very perl, but I like it. Something similar though.
EasyPerlScripts or even
At 14:59 19/03/2001 +, Simon Wistow wrote:
Chris Devers wrote:
Probably, as is "The Matt's Wrong Archive", which is probably far
too negative obvious anyway... ;)
But if Matt Sergeant put it up ...
... it would all be in XML ;-)
Thanks everyone.
That exposes my lack of familiarity with the q qq operators ;-)
Another little bit of learning learned.
S.
At 12:54 07/03/2001 -0500, Dave Cross wrote:
[snip]
Chapter 10 isn't it Dave ?
Section 10.4 to be precise. "Specialized parsers - XML::RSS" :)
You've got a bit further since last Thursday then!
Yep, but not quite that far !
Also been reading Rebel Code which has a nice bit about Perl in
At 10:13 20/02/2001 +, you wrote:
amazon uk have started shipping data munging with perl. I have my
copy.
Michael
Must be very popular, it's just dropped back to "On Order; is usually
dispatched within 1-2 weeks" !
Simon
and continue to sub out for developers, and use open
source tech for new development, with commercial backends when we need that
level of sophistication. Anyone have any comment on this ?
Thank you for your attention, all advice gratefully received.
Regards,
Simon Wilcox
At 11:12 13/02/2001 +, you wrote:
This is all fine but there is a big cloud. We have a new IT manager who
wants to bring all development into one team and use a single toolset for
web based applications.
why dont you just track both projects for a while and get some results
about the
At 11:48 13/02/2001 +, you wrote:
[snip]
As one of the requirements listed was content management you can through
in the BBC, especially the interactive telly division. Heck, they even
gave a presentation at YAPC::Europe.
Does anyone know if that presentation is available online anywhere
, it has it's own bar !
I'll check out costs etc if people are interested.
Simon.
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