Re: PIMB T-shirts

> Sure, no problem. > > Shall I enquire at NY.pm tomorrow about demand? Forget mine. They guy cried off when he found out they were for real. Pussy. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-p

Re: PIMB T-shirts

s smoking a joint". I guess I'm just surprised that > there are people to whom this fact isn't obvious. > > Dave... > [who was obviously corrupted by his primary school teachers who forced > him to sing that song over 30 years ago] Snopes has this to say: http://www.s

Re: PIMB T-shirts

it seem at all drug induced. It's perfectly good > > childrens song. Down with the conspiracy theories! > > > > damn, this fact is in some comedy film --- ah thats right its meet > the parents, with Robert De Niro as an ex-CIA guy who is equally > surprised at

Re: Feelers for London Open Source Convention

t number >two for weeks, by Another Record. > > Pop quiz: A pint on Thursday night to the first person to tell me what Another >Record was. Agadoo. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-

Re: Feelers for London Open Source Convention

Dave Hodgkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Agadoo. Forget it. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire -

Re: Godzilla

ces Gardens, SW7 [1]) from about 6:30pm onwards (or possibly > > earlier) if anybody wants to buy me a drink. Actually, this could be do-able. How close to South Ken tube is it? -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star

Re: Godzilla

2 ft high flames. I was on the no. 14 bus going past. It was kewl. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire -

[Job] BOFH wanted was: Re: Red Hat worm discovered

27;s only OK, but the toys are great :-) And on the same lines...what with all these perlmongers on the market right now, just bloody band together and start a consultancy. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://

Re: [Job] BOFH wanted was: Re: Red Hat worm discovered

David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, but [caveat] [caveat] [caveat] you're (we're ;-) (almost) all alcoholics with personality disorders? Why keep giving the money to the pimps^H^H^H^H^H agencies? -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.ho

Re: apologies

Neil Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well I have both The Matrix and MIB with me on DVD and a DVD capable > powerbook.. > > Movie intermission anyone? I have Deep Purple at the Montreux jazz festival 2000... ;-) -- Dave Hodgkinson,

Re: [Job] BOFH wanted was: Re: Red Hat worm discovered

ed > > > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 10:31:02AM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > > > > David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Actually I was thinking more along the lines of me being too damned lazy > > to whore myself around, to do the

Re: apologies

tp://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B06Y3Z/thehighwaystar0a/ Dave // Debating going to Tokyo to see them in March... -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire -

Re: [Job] BOFH wanted was: Re: Red Hat worm discovered

dcross - David Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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

[Job] BOFH wanted was: Re: Red Hat worm discovered

In a bad mailbox incident I lost a couple of mails from BOFH inclined people. Would y'all mail me again please? Ta, Dave -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod

Re: Consultancy company was [Job] BOFH wanted was: Re: Red Hat worm discovered

nado/storm/etc-free! You're talking rackspace.com, I take it? ;-) > > On the upside, the US doesn't have BT "engineers" to deal with... Trust me, they have much, much worse... -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief,

Re: Consultancy company was [Job] BOFH wanted was: Re: Red Hat worm discovered

Greg Cope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > > > "Paul Makepeace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > The US has much more to worry about than the UK, like high water tables, > > > vicious weather and ear

Re: Consultancy company was [Job] BOFH wanted was: Re: Red Hat worm discovered

he environment was totally focused to nuturing developers so > that they create (hopefully good, bug-free(TM) code). Sounds like extreme programming to me... -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-pu

Re: Consultancy company was [Job] BOFH wanted was: Re: Red Hat worm discovered

> hear EVERY YEAR of the power going out for large areas of major cities in > .us, something which just doesn't happen in Europe. It should be mandatory for all public servants to be adept at Sim City. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Ed

Re: Consultancy company was [Job] BOFH wanted was: Re: Red Hat worm discovered

he first port of the G400, a TFT on the second? Dave // on his latptop even though there's a 19" right next to it... -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire -

Re: Consultancy company was [Job] BOFH wanted was: Re: Red Hat worm discovered

Neil Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Dave Hodgkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > Big monitors on workstations are *not* rewards. They are essential > >>

Re: Holy War

Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Go for it. Give it your best shot. Mandrake 7.2. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hire

Re: Holy War

Struan Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * at 19/01 14:44 +0000 Dave Hodgkinson said: > > > > Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Go for it. Give it your best shot. > > > > Mandrake 7.2. > > All I'll say abo

Re: Consultancy company

x27;s going on. That's exactly wrong. And the XP book explains why far better than I ever could. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire -

Re: Big Macs v The Naked Chef -- pitfalls of scaling consultancies

gigs (motivational speaker). But he soon realised he'd maxed out. So his blinding flash of the obvious was: "How do I make money while I sleep" Two years ago, the answer was: "build a web site". Wonder how he's doing now? -- Dave Hodgkinson,

Re: Consultancy company

t people get on with things. I'd like to see > it working, but I haven't yet. Which is why you're not selling to people, you're interviewing them for suitability of working with you. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The

Re: Consultancy company

he week all they'd done was write some strange "library" code and even > that doesn;t seem to do anything' Doesn't happen with XP. "Least necessary". You have the scheme of the library in your head, agreed by the team, but you're coding visibly from

Re: Big Macs v The Naked Chef -- pitfalls of scaling consultancies

that. Do a MySQL or an AxKit, and get a couple of companies > interested right from the start or there's no point. Hmmm. Talk to Gunther. This is what Extropia tried to do. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star

Re: Extreme Programming (was: Re: Consultancy company)

e Monday night meeting still on for those of us who can't make > the lunch time one? Oh, yes. Leon, are you acting as scribe? -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire -

Re: Big Macs v The Naked Chef -- pitfalls of scaling consultancies

Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dave Hodgkinson sent the following bits through the ether: > > > Talk to Gunther. This is what Extropia tried to do. > > Hey, Gunther was talking about this kind of thing at Apachecon, He had some very good opinions on this.

Re: TPC5

Greg Cope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Beach. For some values of beach not including sand. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hire

Perl/MySQL based forums

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. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purpl

Re: Perl/MySQL based forums

Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > No, I'm not going to code a forum package by hand. > > > > go on dave, it cant be that hard I'm sure there's a

Re: Perl/MySQL based forums

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 hand. > > go on dave, it cant be that hard

Re: Perl/MySQL based forums

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 c

Re: Perl/MySQL based forums

footers (a containing, constraining table) so I'm in business. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire -

Re: Perl/MySQL based forums

Aaron Trevena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 (f

Re: Consultancy company

Mark Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2. I first heard about building at the end of the day in Brooke's > Mythical Man Month. Continuous integration and smoke testing. Oh yes. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief,

Re: Consultancy company

to me. Not sure about the bleeding edge part, but certainly "using the highest productivity techniques known to man" would certainly rank high up there. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.

Re: Consultancy company

Robin Szemeti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > and this template toolit thing rocks dunnit .. (now I have the hang of it > .. sorta) It is the rockingest thing I've rocked to since the last one. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Edi

Re: Consultancy company- Where do you want to go?

ostbusters theme: boiler suits, handhled nuclear weapons, a disused fire station and an ambulance. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire -

Lunch

Lunch was fabulous if only to hear Cantrell say: "this is nice, what the hell is it?" (or something). -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase

Re: Lunch

Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any chance of someone posting a summary of the discussion? "Three bowls of noodle soup, some of those crab things on a stick, one each of the ho fun..." -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org E

Re: Lunch

Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Cheung fun. The ho fun were the white noodles in my soup. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Syb

Re: Consultancy company

en/2000/04_07_00.shtml I like this one: http://www.waitingforbob.com/index.php/20001130 oooh! h! -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire -

Re: Stupid Email

anagement up against a wall and shooting them (which ICL > > did a short while later). > > Was this simple yet violent process found to be of benefit to the > company? The line I heard was "they decided to line up all the inept middle managers at ICL up aganst a wall but they

Re: Sun's Perl was Re: Application servers and e-commerce platforms

s box has 2 CPUs, 4G or RAM and about 80G of disk. For the same money I could build a clutster of what, 30 linux boxes? Don't tell me programmer time has got that expensive? Or that thinking about what you're doing stopped happening? If it's good enough for Google..

Re: Sun's Perl was Re: Application servers and e-commerce platforms

Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, don't forget that symbolic links originated in BSD, thank you. :-) Don't forget that pretty much everything of any use in Unix came out of Berkely! I spit on your system V IPC, I want my select()...

Re: Fwd: [mengerin@deja.com: [?] Template Toolkit]

> orthogonally to everything else. > > And entirely impossible for a lot of the things that I am using TT for > like creating printed documents and e-mail messages Add to that, generating mails to Nominet and Network (ack!) Solutions, data mapping templates and Oracle table defi

Re: Perl Books

ally hack it apart and rework it to fit my own twisted needs. gimme -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire -

Re: Mailing List Stuff

Jonathan Stowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://www.fly.net/~shiva/complain.txt Spamford Wallace. Those were the days. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache,

Re: Last Night

t rates the service as "legendary". On the upside, it can feed Piers to capacity and you'd still have change from a fiver. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire -

Re: Last Night

Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dave Hodgkinson sent the following bits through the ether: > > > Zagat rates the service as "legendary". > > Really? Mine says "Marvellously hostile staff", "rudest restaurant in > the world"

Perl design patterns

Anyone fancy taking on a "web design patterns in Perl" book? (ref conversation on the mod_perl list...seems like Gunther's broken the back of it ;-) -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star

VA?

Anyone have an opinion on VA? -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire -

Re: VA?

fpfft! Ok, so VA aren't evil incarnate. Anyone want to work with 'em? They're looking for a general purpose Linux gofer to do pre-sales stuff. And Reading Room are still looking for a network/web/sysadmin wookie since the best candidate so far decided to stay p

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-12

Robin Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:17:42AM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: > > [...] summaries of #london.pm traffic :) > > Now _there's_ an idea :-) > > Is anyone feeling really, really bored? No, but I'm g

Re: Alternative to bad perl resources

ate based it isn't really an example of good perl. I'm using mwf, and someone hereabouts threatened to TTify it, I think. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_p

Re: Alternative to bad perl resources

Aaron Trevena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 (so

Re: Alternative to bad perl resources

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 and &printFooter.

Re: Alternative to bad perl resources

Aaron Trevena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 kludg

Re: DMP

Struan Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > why did amazon have to go and do things that make you not want to buy > books from them? it's enormously inconvenient. Didn't B&N get the 1-click thing overturned anyway? -- Dave Hodgkinson,

Re: DMP

lly > dispatched within 1-2 weeks" ! Maybe they sold both copies? -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire -

Re: t-shirts

;order() ; Or something. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire -

Re: No http://london.pm/ :-(

nly two characters :( > > But organisations as diverse as the British Library... Perl users apparently. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire -

Re: The Conway Lecture

;re trying to build shelves into... HTH -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire -

Re: Damian Tonight

Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > See you tonight. Would a small tincture beforehand make proceedings more or less comprehensible? -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-p

Re: Damian Tonight

Matthews Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Would a small tincture beforehand make proceedings more or less > > comprehensible? > > Probably less. I saw the talk at TPC an it gave me a very bad headache. In that case a drink might make it all

Re: Overheard on IRC

Remind me, what channel do we gather in? -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire -

Re: Overheard on IRC

Dave Hodgkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Remind me, what channel do we gather in? never mind, i got it -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQ

Re: SRN (was: lvalue subroutines)

t; http://www.qtc.ecs.soton.ac.uk/lecture1/lecture1d.html > > is interesting. > > My brain just started leaking out of my ears. He may be bright, but he can't do HTML to save his life :-) -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The

Re: New London PM Shirt Designs

"Hamlet D'Arcy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here is the new London PM T-shirt design that some of you asked about at the > last meeting. > > http://www.geocities.com/hamlet_darcy2/lpm_shirt.jpg > > Let me know what you think. Want one. -- Dave Hodgk

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-26

Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Which would make me less peeved if I didn't know someone at work who has > NTL cable TV in the road above me. *thud* Wireless network? -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief,

Re: [grit@DND.UTWENTE.NL: announcement: Hacker's conference "HAL 2001"]

ive weeks with > conferences that I want to go to: oscon, yapc::europe, > hal2001. Eeek. Wonder what I'll do? Go of course. *duh*. I'm off to Tokyo in a couple of weeks. I presume there's a pm group... -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkin

Scraping news feeds?

What's the best way to scrape a variety of news headlines from various sites? Sort of a moreover for the intranet... -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl,

Re: heretics meeting

anyone fancy going early to this - i'm pretty exhausted with > > work and wouldn't mind getting an early pint in > > I'll probably leave work in an hour or so. Would it be Bad Voodoo to start drinking in Soho? ;-) Dave // Has to get a train home tonigh

Re: heretics meeting

Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i should be there from 4:30~5 ish, enjoying a relaxing > pint and explaining why i have a limp limp what? -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star

Re: Strange Request

s to > rewrite them all? I've done his "random text CGI" thingy as a mod_perl/TT drop-in. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy -

Re: Strange Request

"Robert Shiels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - Original Message - > From: "Dave Hodgkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: 13 March 2001 12:49 > Subject: Re: Strange Request > > > > Dave Cross <

Re: Strange Request

; > > > -- > <http://www.dave.org.uk> SMS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Data Munging with Perl <http://www.manning.com/cross/> > -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy -

Re: Strange Request

How about a hackfest one afternoon? A dozen people in a room with machines/laptops, pair programming... -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms

Re: Strange Request

Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > How about a hackfest one afternoon? A dozen people in a room with > > machines/laptops, pair programming... > > > > have you ever tried herding cat

Re: Matt's Scripts

gt; Random Image Displayer daveh > Random Link Generator daveh > Random Textdaveh -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy -

Re: Matt's Scripts

tor daveh > > > Random Textdaveh > > Oops. I just did the Random Text one. Should have put my name down really I > suppose. Here it is if you're interested. I surrender. You did it far better than I would have. And quicker. -- Dave Hodgkinson,

Re: Matt's Scripts

les) and --delete (for true mirroring). -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-12

all. > > (phew) I always forget to take the axe before I go to cross the bridge though. And getting hte plover's egg is a nightmare. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy

Re: Matt's Scripts - Rand image..

uld have done it and I've got my VAT to do before I go to Tokyo. I'll buy whoever _does_ do mine a beer or two at the next pm meeting we're both at. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.de

Re: Perl Training Courses

r. > > c) Get to grips with writing decent objects. E.g. this is how bless > works, etc, etc. This is what OO is about, how @ISA works, etc. With > examples that are relevant. d) Debugging -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in

Re: Debuggers (was Re: Perl Training Courses)

> >free). > > > > > > You have a decent Perl debugger. It's called perl -d. > > > > Eugh. perl -d:ptkdb please. > > Yeah. Now use that when you only have telnet access to your development > system :-/ Not even ssh? > > > Now

Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

h @deity, let's not do that. Consider the mess the WIPO's causing > now, and then think about competition for "good" phone names... Given we can now have kanji URLs, why not just go for logos? -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.o

Re: white wine

ification to beat someone to death > with the arm you've just ripped out of their socket i don't > know what is. I don't like chardonnay in general. White Rioja. M -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highw

Re: Perl MySQL TT DBI/DBD

s it when > I've got it working. > And what part of the Template Toolkit doesn't fulfil your requirements? ;-) -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy

Re: Wavelan

gt; the states ... Should work between the two cards, just make sure you have some crossover aether between the two... -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy

Jedi

I was listening to 5 live in the car today and a caller pointed out that in the census, it takes 20,000 people to make a religion official and rather than use his usual "agnostic" box, he was going to put down "Jedi". This is a Good Thing :-) Spread the word.

Re: Jedi

Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 01:36:55PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > I was listening to 5 live in the car today and a caller pointed out > > that in the census, it takes 20,000 people to make a religion official > > an

Re: Crazy Idea

Richard Clamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Cool, it may even spur me into getting the van a little more habitable > than it currently is. Uh, oh. Locked in a barn with a van, some welding gear and assorted bits of steel... -- Dave Hodgkinson,

Re: going extreme

Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > James Powell wrote: > > http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-5424853.html?tag=lh > > Cool. Where can I get me some Extreme Programming? > > Cheers, > Philip, whose project[1] has a deadline today > > [1] that's been running for at least six months an

Re: Grammar (was: Re: Linux.com Online Chat)

Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ObPerl: So which is harder to parse? Perl or English? Time flies like an arrow Fruit flies like a banana Parse that and stay fashionable... -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, Th

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good Unix folks are surprisingly literate, well read, artisitcally inclined folks? Sorry, I'll stop now. It's a nerve. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy

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Robin Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:00:08AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > > > I'm as liberal as anyone here as far as creativity, expression, > > society and the rest go, but there are certain fundamentals that you > >

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I come from and > don't believe me when I answer. This is a case of using 'Standard English' > instead of the quasi-cockney patois the Lutonians espouse! Innit! That good old Estuary English. Fu'n 'ell. And of course, the best English speak

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