Mentioned this briefly last night...
Registration has opened for this year's Perl conference in San Diego.
Full details at http://conferences.oreilly.com/perl5/.
Dave...
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From: Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 11:37 AM
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Robin Houston wrote:
You want to take arbitrary languages, and execute them as if they
were Perl. I want to take Perl and execute it as if it were an
arbitrary language :-)
Here be dragons.
From: Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 4:54 PM
Um, just to make this not a one-liner: davorg, are you going to post
the decision of the emergency meeting meeting?
There was a decision? Oh, wait. I remember.
I'll be out of the country at the end of next week so I
I got this from someone called Raphael Mankin
[EMAIL PROTECTED], but I don't really know how he fits into
the picture :(
Perl progger required to work in Golders Green. Permanent/contract as you
will.
Tasks:
1. To nursemaid a new, Mason based, web app through its initial period
2. To maintain
From: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 10:58 AM
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:29:03AM +0100, Jon Galliers wrote:
I know you're all probably bored with this, but I was even more bored
and
checked out the site further
(Although "Chris"'s website
From: Ian Brayshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 11:19 AM
Dave Cantrell wrote:
Hmmm ... if 'not working at all' is the same as 'not bad'. All I
get is the title image.
Got to love badly formed HTML (probably a missing /table tag or two).
...
And I thought he was an
From: Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 11:34 AM
Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Remember the Liz Castro BBS that I was talking about a few weeks ago.
Simon mentioned that a couple of the natives were getting restless and
seemed uncomfortable with me
This is for people who don't have a problem working in a bank.
Note: It's MSB, so normal caveats apply.
Dave...
=
Dave,
The following is a full spec, Please distribute as widely as possible as I
am very keen to find the right candidate.
Spec :
Opportunity has
Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 1:05 PM
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:53:09AM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote:
This is for people who don't have a problem working in a bank.
Would it be worth forking london-pm-jobs?
We're creating a london.pm jobs database. Jo
From: Rob Partington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 2:22 PM
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:03:33PM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote:
Obviously, from the bottom line this is a bit of a no-brainer. But this
leaves us having to copy files over to a PC, unencrypt them, and copy
From: Jonathan Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 10:10 AM
It's just occured to me that today is the day that I have to move all my
belongings out of my desk and back home. That's about half a bookshelf, a
complete change of clothes and a bottle of tequila (and that's
From: Mike Wyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 4:40 PM
Camels are quite hard to see at London Zoo at the moment, owing to the
foot 'n mouth situation. I was there a couple of weeks back, and the
heffalump house was shut. The penguins ain't bad, though.
Ooh. Thanks. I think
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?
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From: Robin Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 2:25 PM
Do we yet know if there's going to be a data projector for
the tech meeting? If not, will there be _any_ kind of mechanism
for showing things to people? (OHP, blackboard, whatever)
Richard had volunteered to go and
From: Mike Jarvis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 4:30 PM
CNN reports that BtVS's SMG will wed Freddie Prinz.
Why would that bother us? Remember, we're all Willow fans here.
Dave...
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From: Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 5:39 PM
Mike Jarvis wrote:
CNN reports that BtVS's SMG will wed Freddie Prinz.
Who's he? Is he that Wesley bloke that I haven't seen yet?
Nah. He's a nobody who's been dating SMG for a while. Apparently they're
going to
I'm painfully aware that not everyone on this list has the same amount of
experience and knowledge and that therefore some discussions may well go
over the head of some of the newbies. It's therefore nice to be able to find
ways to help out beginners.
For that reason, I'm happy to point out the
Sorry to drag the list off-topic, but I've a Perl question!
I'm having trouble building HTML::Parser on an AIX box. It's the first time
I've tried to build and install an XS module, so it's quite possible that
it's a wider issue.
The 'make' seems to go ok, but when I run 'make test' I get the
From: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 2:26 PM
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 02:12:14PM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote:
I'm having trouble building HTML::Parser on an AIX box. It's the first
time
I've tried to build and install an XS module, so it's quite
Here's the agenda(!) for the technical meeting on 19th April (a week today)
at State 51.
Committee Reports:
T-Shirt Committee
Server Committee
Canel Visitation Committee
Lightning Talks:
Not Matt's Scripts/TT Views - Mark
Why Perl Advocacy is Bad - Dave
Talks:
"101 fun things to do with
Those of you embarking on the invasion of New York in a couple of weeks time
will no doubt be pleased to know that I've established contact with the
leader of the New York Perl Mongers (one David H Adler) and we've
tentatively pencilled in Thursday 26th April as a good date for us to show
them
From: Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 10:20 AM
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 10:15:13AM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote:
Committee Reports:
Canel Visitation Committee
^
God we're going down market... ;)
You didn't think I'd actually have anything to report
From: Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 1:00 PM
The social meeting last week was a lot of fun, if a little
crazy. However, we really need to start organising the meetings (hey,
even Lonix is more organised!), as it was too loud and crowded:
Not sure I like the
From: Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 2:39 PM
dcross - David Cross sent the following bits through the ether:
Not sure I like the idea of 'organised' social meetings. Sounds a bit
too
'SPUG' to me. However, I'm quite happy to listen to any alternative
Excellent news from Jon Orwant at
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=01/04/11/1533244
Dave...
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From: Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 9:17 AM
Dave Cross wrote:
I understood that you had delegated the actual work to someone else.
Can you ensure that your vice-chair is able to speak in your place.
Umm. Ok.
Somebody give me the designs and I'll
From: Robert Shiels [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 10:19 AM
might be nice to have status reports from:
* The t-shirt committee
What is the design that you have agreed on? I will probably want one.
There are five. So you'll probably want somewhere between one and five
From: Robert Shiels [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 11:28 AM
From: "David Cantrell" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 09:58:41AM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote:
Anything I release always has the following copyright a
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 to State 51 will appear on the web site... er...
soon.
Last Thursday I bullied^Wasked some people to consider doing
From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 06 April 2001 10:00
I nominate last night as the 2nd best social meeting of all time, just
behind the TVR train and toilet seat nicking of a previous meeting.
It _was_ a lot of fun. Thanks everyone for coming.
The stolen wine by the thames at 1am
From: Janet Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 05 April 2001 10:15
Dean:
Ah the one at the uni near Angel tube. Those weren't w4r3z d00dz
they were far far worse... Students ;)
Dean, it happens to the best of us. =)
Happened to some of us for a bloody long time.
Dave...
[seven years a
Well, it's on their website, so it must be official.
http://www.linux.com/live/calendar.phtml?item_id=30
Event: "Author Talks" Series - Data Munging with Perl
Tue Apr 17th, 2001 (12:00 pm US/Pacific)
Location: #live on irc.openprojects.net
We will have Dave Cross, the author of Data Munging
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 Perl Modules" by Doug Sparling and Frank Wiles.
Hopefully I'll have both of them with me on Thursday so anyone interested
From: Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 04 April 2001 09:32
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:20:25AM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote:
Tell all your friends. No heckling.
Does that mean we can heckle but they can't? :-)
That would be "Tell all your friends, no heckling."
From: Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 04 April 2001 10:17
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:04:45AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
Funnily, enough, no. I was born in 1974, I've never been taught english
grammar and I know of nobody who has. It's actually quite annoying as
Me too, ('74
From: Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 04 April 2001 10:32
I guess 3 months experience in Perl programming would mean working for a
newmedia agency...
ITYM "working for a newmedia agency would give you three months experience
in Perl programming (before it goes bust).
HTH, HAND.
Dave...
From: Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 04 April 2001 10:46
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote:
Tue Apr 17th, 2001 (12:00 pm US/Pacific)
In english?
8pm
Dave...
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From: Matthew Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 04 April 2001 12:24
I had to unlearn the reading I knew before I went to school in favour
of some stupid phonetic system (anyone remember ITA?)
Nope, never heard of it. I learned to read proper english, as did everyone
else I know who was
From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 03 April 2001 08:04
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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
From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 03 April 2001 13:56
So, should we start baiting Scientologists through the archive?
Where do I start?
* L Ron Hubbard is on record as saying the best way to make money is to
start a religion. A few years later he founded the church of scientology.
From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 03 April 2001 15:29
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
From: Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 03 April 2001 16:48
dcross - David Cross 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
^^^
Hmmm. Do the words "
From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 03 April 2001 16:53
* Simon Wistow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
dcross - David Cross 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
From: Lucy McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 03 April 2001 16:40
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Dean wrote:
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:29:04PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
How would people in London.pm like a one night camp out
I'll come if we can have marshmallows ;)
Mmm. I shall bring Mr
From: Rob Partington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 03 April 2001 17:24
In message D3AF8264E04FD311A18200508B12B1D5037C84AA@SRVLON20,
dcross - David Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dave...
[thing are getting strange, i'm starting to worry...]
Should I call Mulder and Scully?
Was trying
From: jo walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 03 April 2001 16:15
can we go now that it is spring? some sunday afternoon soon?
davorg? can we davorg?
Er... yes... I suppose so.
/me makes a mental note to work out who is entitled to camel tickets.
I anyone thinks they owe for a slice, plesae let me
From: Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 02 April 2001 09:50
Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Robin Szemeti sent the following bits through the ether:
was there not a recent thread regarding a module on CPAN and someone
said
somehting along the lines of ' we need review of
On 2001, 21, Mar, Wed, Cross, Dave wrote:
At Wed, 21 Mar 2001 16:19:57 + (GMT), Mark Fowler wrote:
One of my collegues asked me about Perl training courses in the
U.K.
As far as I can see, none of the scheduled courses in the UK are
much cop.
What do you need? If
From: Elaine -HFB- Ashton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 26 February 2001 14:23
Dave Cross [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*
*The page for voting is at http://www.activestate.com/Awards/.
Wow, it's a good thing there aren't any women nominated...someone could
get hurt with those 'trophies'.
(this is dangerously close to spam, but I know there's a certain amount of
interest here :)
Just spoke to the local distributors about the availability of DMP in
Europe. Here are the bullet points:
* There are currently 100 copies in Europe.
* Another (larger) shipment from Manning ended up in
From: Michael Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 22 February 2001 10:46
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 10:34:06AM -, dcross - David Cross wrote:
* There are currently 100 copies in Europe.
* Another (larger) shipment from Manning ended up in Singapore somehow!
They
will return at some point
From: Robert Shiels [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 22 February 2001 11:59
I want to buy a book "Code" by Charles Petzold.
streetsonline - not available
whsmith 12.45 + 2.74 = 15.19 delivery 1-2 weeks
bol.com 12.59 + 2.95 = 15.54 delivery 3-7 days
pcbooks 13.99 + 3.50 = 17.49 next day delivery
From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 22 February 2001 14:38
* Jonathan Peterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Any suggestions please send my way or talk to me this evening.
is there a meeting this evening?
This is a troll, right? You wouldn't really waste the list's time asking
From: Jonathan Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 22 February 2001 13:46
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Greg McCarroll
is there a meeting this evening?
http://penderel.state51.co.uk/
AKA http://london.pm.org (probably easier
From: Struan Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 20 February 2001 11:01
* at 20/02 10:35 + Mark Fowler said:
Micheal claimed that:
amazon uk have started shipping data munging with perl. I have my
copy.
Indeed they have. I've got mine now. They're also
shipping the mod_perl
From: Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 18 January 2001 11:05
I have Deep Purple at the Montreux jazz festival 2000... ;-)
That all sounds a bit Spinal Tap.
"We hope you like our new direction" :)
Dave...
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From: Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 18 January 2001 11:42
What sort of hourly/daily rate does an average PM perl programmer get
anyway?
Anything from 30 upwards to the sky depending on the client. And the
programmer. And the task.
Sounds a tad low to me. I've never contracted
From: Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 18 January 2001 13:46
Dave Cross wrote:
OK. So we're now a speaker down. Anyone want to save the
day by stepping in to give a 20 min talk - or do I have to
talk about Symbol::Approx::Sub _again_?
I could give a talk on either Flash stuff
From: Peter Corlett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 11 January 2001 13:12
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
Nah, mailman on penderel - you know you want to! ;-)
Yeah, we want our own mailing list server.
Mmph, it's not that hard to install Majordomo is it? If need
be, just give me the
From: Andy Wardley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 11 January 2001 13:57
Is anyone here responsible for www.fnord.demon.co.uk, or know
someone who is?
I used to hang around with the MTCP groupies, but haven't spoken to any of
them for some time. You might get more information from the
From: DJ Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 10 January 2001 14:33
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
From: Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 08 January 2001 14:53
David Hodgkinson wrote:
Kieran Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And anyway, computing by publisher is getting a lot
better. You just
browse O'Reilly, Addison Wesley and Prentice Hall.
Heretic. Manning publish
From: Barbie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 05 January 2001 16:17
D'oh!
Still suffering the jetlag of the train home last night and
getting 3 hours sleep (well that's my excuse).
So Dave do you need me to send this to dave [at] dave.org now?
Nope. It's already gone there (and to another 150
From: Piers Cawley
Sent: 04 January 2001 09:37
[stuff about a job at Ft.com (oops! promised I'd keep the client's name a
secret :)
Thought that sounded familiar, they phoned me about it. But want
references before they'll put me up for an interview and I'm damned if
I'm going to give 'em
From: Simon Batistoni [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 04 January 2001 12:21
Are you all mad?
Wendy's. Obviously.
Dave...
They're dead and gone. All their locations in London are now McD's.
But this is terrible news. When did it happen?
Actually it happened once before. There were loads
From: Struan Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 04 January 2001 14:50
* at 04/01 13:26 + David Hodgkinson said:
It took me three bookshops on Charing Cross Road to get a
perl library together for the guys I'm working with, but
I managed it without having to go into Foyle's. Yeah!
From: Simon Wistow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 02 January 2001 17:26
Simon Wistow wrote:
Mark Fowler wrote:
Right, that's it. I'm going to have to compile a list of films
6. Hudson Hawk. # ditto
7. UHF
And, how can I forget
8. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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