Re: Re: freebsd admin skills - free space

2000-12-16 Thread Leon Brocard
at the president of the US is a distant cousin of mine. His ancestors at least (if not himself) know where France is, and hence probably know where the smelly UK is. Leon, not northern irish either -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europe

Re: Donation..

2000-12-18 Thread Leon Brocard
ctors? The answer is NO, is many many ways. We here at Emap Online all have lots of free time now. Dim sum today anyone? Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... All new improved Brocard, now with Template Toolkit!

Re: Donation..

2000-12-18 Thread Leon Brocard
Greg McCarroll sent the following bits through the ether: > > New World? > > very good idea - what is the name of the street that it is off > the one with the cinema on it New World, China Town, 12.30. See you there! Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.a

Re: one liner

2001-01-07 Thread Leon Brocard
ing a GUI language[1]. Discuss. Leon [1] Simon's articles on Perl Gnome are a good step though ps I'm back from Venezuela and only now find out the box has been /.-ed... -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehtt

Re: copious free time

2001-01-08 Thread Leon Brocard
ng techy stuff and it's Windows/Java anyway), and 29 (of 32) staff are under redundancy proposals. Much pub- and interview-going to be had. Permanent jobs != stability, at least in my experience ;-) HTH, Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europe.

Re: Forthcoming Meetings - Summary

2001-01-08 Thread Leon Brocard
more fun, although someone nicked my beautiful prop :-( Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... All new improved Brocard, now with Template Toolkit!

Re: Perl 6

2001-01-09 Thread Leon Brocard
e at http://dev.perl.org/ and a wonderful way to try out the ideas is to implement them in Perl 5. lathos's stuff is getting way scary though: http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=B-Generate Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europe..

Re: Perl commandments

2001-01-09 Thread Leon Brocard
Greg McCarroll sent the following bits through the ether: > nope daves was a bad example Benchmark.pm - hard facts are better than guesses (hmm, I could do a talk on this...) Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europeh

Re: Perl commandments

2001-01-09 Thread Leon Brocard
d someone mentioned another bit of code being faster, *without benchmarking it*. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... All new improved Brocard, now with Template Toolkit!

Re: Perl commandments

2001-01-09 Thread Leon Brocard
esults. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... All new improved Brocard, now with Template Toolkit!

Re: Directory to Data Structure

2001-01-10 Thread Leon Brocard
Andy Williams sent the following bits through the ether: > While we're at it (and not to mention the mismatched tags): not well-formed (invalid token) at line 6, column 15, byte 65 at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.7.0/i686-linux/XML/Parser.pm line 185 ;-) Leon ps sorry -- Leon

Re: Directory to Data Structure

2001-01-10 Thread Leon Brocard
Philip Newton sent the following bits through the ether: > One of the avant-garde, I see :-) Moi? > (Which build?) It's perl-current, of course (as of 10am). Doesn't everyone do this? Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.c

Re: the list is dead, long live the list

2001-01-11 Thread Leon Brocard
Jo Walsh sent the following bits through the ether: > lets kill off the old list before the two get too far out of sync Nah, mailman on penderel - you know you want to! ;-) Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europeh

Re: Technical Meeting Agenda

2001-01-12 Thread Leon Brocard
Map Lightning Talk at yapc::Europe should have been". Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... All new improved Brocard, now with Template Toolkit!

Re: Access Control Lists and Functions

2001-01-15 Thread Leon Brocard
Marcel Grunauer sent the following bits through the ether: > Do it like Memoize.pm (i.e., generalize the wrapper mechanism or just nick ... http://search.cpan.org/doc/JDPORTER/Hook-WrapSub-0.03/lib/Hook/WrapSub.pm Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ y

Re: Feelers for London Open Source Convention

2001-01-17 Thread Leon Brocard
g like early august, but as you know still a little unorganised, not much. I'm getting a bit worried as to the large number of conferences I want to go to this summer... Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.

Re: Feelers for London Open Source Convention

2001-01-17 Thread Leon Brocard
Philip Newton sent the following bits through the ether: > Is there any info at all at this stage (e.g. venue, rough dates)? Once a venue has been found, things will start to happen. Give it a couple of weeks. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ y

Re: Penderel query

2001-01-19 Thread Leon Brocard
other.org) would be better if you really wished to further the Perl Cause[1]. That way they'll have some more conferences and pay for Damian to fly all over the world parsing stuff in crazy ways. Leon [1] Insert "I didn't know Perl" "The Coors" joke here -- Leon B

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

2001-01-19 Thread Leon Brocard
is invited. People with business sense needed too, though: offices, computers and bandwidth don't come cheap. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... All new improved Brocard, now with Template Toolkit!

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

2001-01-19 Thread Leon Brocard
Dave Cross sent the following bits through the ether: > I'd love to come along, but probably wouldn't have time to get there > and back during lunch. Can we do it one evening? OK, Penderel's Oak 6.30pm for those who can't make it to lunch. I'll go to both and tak

Re: AUTOLOAD speed

2001-01-19 Thread Leon Brocard
ot;Introduction to Testing with Perl and the Test module". Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... All new improved Brocard, now with Template Toolkit!

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

2001-01-20 Thread Leon Brocard
e thinking of doing something similar we'd need to build a product, or concentrate on a product or something like that. Do a MySQL or an AxKit, and get a couple of companies interested right from the start or there's no point. Hmmm. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http:/

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

2001-01-20 Thread Leon Brocard
Dave Hodgkinson sent the following bits through the ether: > Leon, are you acting as scribe? Yes. Don't expect a masterpiece though. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... All new

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

2001-01-20 Thread Leon Brocard
com/ExtropiaObjects/ Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... All new improved Brocard, now with Template Toolkit!

Re: Perl/MySQL based forums

2001-01-21 Thread Leon Brocard
at oven (forgot to follwo symlinks when I tar gzipped home). > > > I always had that problem until I stuffed everything in CVS :) > > it's a sign of how we have not moved away from the current computing > > metaphor to something else - boo to filesystems bring on object stor

Re: Perl/MySQL based forums

2001-01-21 Thread Leon Brocard
ter. You'd be wanting the string ref as above, matie. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... Don't thank me for insulting you. It was my pleasure...

Re: Consultancy company

2001-01-22 Thread Leon Brocard
the client again. This way the client really understands what he really wants. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... (This tagline in Stereo where available)

Re: Consultancy company

2001-01-22 Thread Leon Brocard
Mark Fowler sent the following bits through the ether: > Two points: Picky, picky. Fine. I'd say that of the bits I've tested, I've found that continuous testing is a very important part. Writing the tests before the code is cool too. But you know this already ;-) Leo

Re: Dream weaver

2001-01-25 Thread Leon Brocard
h made it into the main wvware distribution, and if not why not? ;-) Have you found wvware stable enough to do this properly everytime, or do you force your users to use standard templates? Leon ps would make a good talk for tpc ;-) -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.

Re: Mailing List Archive

2001-01-25 Thread Leon Brocard
e then: o grow up o conversations in the pub are not the same as a mailing list o people are leaky in real life - it pays to be honest all the time I'm proud of everything google finds out about me. Why shouldn't you be? Leon -- Leon Brocard.http:/

Re: Fwd: [uri@sysarch.com: free copy of data munging with perl]

2001-01-29 Thread Leon Brocard
actual book! Hardcopy! Not on the screen! Let's buy Dave a drink or two ;-) Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... And tomorrow will be like today, only more so

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

2001-01-29 Thread Leon Brocard
is doesn't save you much as mostly you only compile templates once. While I'm at it, I looked at the TT2 compiler last week and it generates pretty damn good code pretty quickly indeed. Writing compilers to Perl rocks. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http:/

Re: Meeting Reminder

2001-01-30 Thread Leon Brocard
e way, how about a robotic barmaid too?" sense -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... Don't try to outweird me, three-eyes!

Dimsum today!

2001-02-02 Thread Leon Brocard
For all those recovering from the TVRs last night, Piers and I are going for dimsum at the New World (Gerrard Place, iirc) at 12.30. You are all invited, but only if you speak softly and don't shine bright lights... Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/

Re: Last Night

2001-02-03 Thread Leon Brocard
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", "madhouse", "the abuse gimmick&quo

London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-05

2001-02-09 Thread Leon Brocard
ndon-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg01982.html http://bbspot.com/News/2001/01/perl_god.html Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... 3 out of 4 Americans make up 75% of the population

Re: Conway Hall

2001-02-12 Thread Leon Brocard
aguely remembering blech volunteering for this... [1] Strong word. You just collected email addresses didn't you? -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... Wanted: Volcano. Average size. Must be active

London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-12

2001-02-14 Thread Leon Brocard
en brought to you with IRC nicknames instead of, err, real names. This is just an experiment - we reckon it's a bit silly and more confusing. What do you reckon? Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... A nuclear war can ruin your whole day

Re: The Conway Lecture

2001-02-15 Thread Leon Brocard
Andy Mendelsohn sent the following bits through the ether: > Mind you, does anyone need encouraging to go and see Damian Conway > talk? No. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... Sucks Syntax

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

2001-02-22 Thread Leon Brocard
Philip Newton sent the following bits through the ether: > Someone brought up the possibility of the domain name london.pm. On a... related... topic: http://paris.mongueurs.net/ Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Eur

Re: Greetings

2001-02-23 Thread Leon Brocard
S. This may have happened before we were all made redundant and after Aaron was hired. Way to go Leo! Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... Oh goody! Another Muranium Explosive Space Modulator!

London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-02-19

2001-02-24 Thread Leon Brocard
st of the world and every other mailing list: "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US": http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg02319.html Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... Oh goody! Another Muranium Explosive Space Modulator!

Re: Ruby

2001-03-03 Thread Leon Brocard
onvinced, but get the best of both worlds with Inline::Ruby ;-) Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... Always remember no matter where you go, there you are

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

2001-03-03 Thread Leon Brocard
More soon. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... You are in a twisty little maze of Unix versions, all different

Re: Ruby

2001-03-05 Thread Leon Brocard
rongly untyped language like Perl[1] wouldn't run that much faster... Leon [1] which is why Java->JVM and Java->.NET CLR are hard and slow -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... A liv

Re: Ruby

2001-03-05 Thread Leon Brocard
Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether: > [1] which is why Java->JVM and Java->.NET CLR are hard and slow > ... A living example of Artificial Intelligence Hmmm, I obviously meant Perl instead of Java there. How bizarre. Leon -- Leon Brocard.

Re: Graphical Documentation

2001-03-05 Thread Leon Brocard
" prize at the German Perl Workshop! [2] A new version of which is winging it's way to CPAN. I fear I need to learn some more MakeMaker skills, though... -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/

Re: That thesis generator

2001-03-06 Thread Leon Brocard
/ HTH, Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... Always proofread carefully to see if you any words out

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

2001-03-06 Thread Leon Brocard
AL-staff: Gerrit Hiddink Eric Slachmuylders Contact Information: URL: http://www.hal2001.org Gerrit Hiddink [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: (+31) (0)53-4892425 (please observe Dutch office hours) fax: (+31) (0)53-4892452 - End forwarded message - -- Leon Brocard.http://www

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

2001-03-06 Thread Leon Brocard
Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether: > Jamie and I went to HIP97 and had a blast. Yet Another Cool Conference > to go to guys ;-) Oh no! I've just realised that this makes three consecutive weeks with conferences that I want to go to: oscon, yapc::europe, ha

Re: Descrambling CSS w/ 7 Lines Of Perl

2001-03-07 Thread Leon Brocard
$t ^= ( 72, @z = ( 64, 72, $a ^= 12 * ( $_ % 16 - 2 ? 0 : $m & 17 ) ), $b ^= $_ % 64 ? 12 : 0, @z )[ $_ % 8 ]; } ( 16 .. 271 ) )[$_] ^ ( ( $h >>= 8 ) += $f + ( ~$g & $t ) ) for @a[ 128 .. $#a ]; } print +pac

London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-05

2001-03-08 Thread Leon Brocard
ith perltidy). It's currently being made smaller on the fun-with-perl list: http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg02644.html http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg02647.html http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/ http://www.technofile.org

Dimsum today

2001-03-09 Thread Leon Brocard
Heya folks, Piers and I just realised that we hadn't done dimsum at the New World for a while, so we're doing it today at 1pm. New World is at 1 Gerrard Place in Chinatown, opposite the fire station. Hope to see you there! Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.

Re: Talking about xs...

2001-03-12 Thread Leon Brocard
dy on CPAN[1]. H. I still don't really see what advantages having this in Perl would give you. What kind of applications were you thinking of? Leon [1] A wrapper: http://dev.perl.org/archive/13/045 -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.

Re: Version control

2001-03-12 Thread Leon Brocard
VS is Good Enough, and I hate RCS. Leon [1] http://www.pcug.org.au/~millerp/aegis/aegis.html [2] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aegis-users/message/764 -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... We're not worthy! We're not worthy!

London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-12

2001-03-14 Thread Leon Brocard
McCarroll [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > i should be there from 4:30~5 ish, enjoying a relaxing > pint and explaining why i have a limp A limp what? Your message seems to have been truncated Greg ;-) Andrew. Phew! Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.c

Dimsum Announcement Service

2001-03-16 Thread Leon Brocard
faster. This call has cost you fourty squillion quid. Please call again! Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... And now for something completely the same...

Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

2001-03-20 Thread Leon Brocard
Robin Houston sent the following bits through the ether: > Should we also do a series of drop-in replacements for crappy CPAN > modules? ;-) This isn't such a crazy idea. People keep on complaining about the quality of modules on CPAN. So pick a random one and make it better ;-P Le

Re: That book

2001-03-22 Thread Leon Brocard
Robin Szemeti sent the following bits through the ether: > bet he got his mate to write it :) I noticed that. For a moment I thought it was a rigged review by the author / his friend / the publisher. But we know that respectable publishers don't do that kind of thing, right? Leon

London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-19

2001-03-22 Thread Leon Brocard
ng some training: http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg03112.html And finally, it appears that Schwern, Michael is an Alien Drag Queen: http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg03105.html http://us.imdb.com/Title?0103645 Leon -- Leon Brocard.

Re: "That book"

2001-03-23 Thread Leon Brocard
Dave Cross sent the following bits through the ether: > I thought that 'EasyScripts' (or, even, 'EZScripts') had most people's > approval. Well, if anything, we should choose a name which isn't already taken with some bad scripts. Google

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

2001-03-23 Thread Leon Brocard
AEF sent the following bits through the ether: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > > > Love and fruit flies, > > I only really want /one/ of those things... Really? How many flies do you have? Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray

Re: Job: I'm looking for one..

2001-03-28 Thread Leon Brocard
e work. There's no point writing everything in one language or environment any more. Microsoft may have understood this with .NET. Discuss. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... With a rubber duck, one's never alone

Re: yapc::Europe::19101?

2001-03-28 Thread Leon Brocard
pc.org/Europe/list.html -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... I'm not afraid of clouds in the daytime

Re: Social Meeting (fwd)

2001-03-28 Thread Leon Brocard
use of you being so useless. It has nothing to do with the fact that I just got Zone of the Enders (fun) that happen to come with a Metal Gear Solid 2 demo (fab). Oh no. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Eur

London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-03-26

2001-03-29 Thread Leon Brocard
: Terrazaz Chardonnay, Pendulum Zinfandel, Lachryma Christi del Vesuvio, Tokai), random MacOS X mumblings (with Leo Lapwoth being the first to log into the IRC channel from MacOS X), and parsing approximate Perl: http://sdb.bio.purdue.edu/fly/aimain/1aahome.htm http://www.dave.org.uk/scripts/notmatt/ http://

Re: Perl Auto-RPC

2001-03-29 Thread Leon Brocard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] sent the following bits through the ether: > Here's what I use, which probably isn't what most people would think > of when they hear "XML parser" Indeed. This is because it doesn't parse XML. Leon -- Leon Brocard.

Re: from ntk

2001-03-30 Thread Leon Brocard
Aaron Trevena sent the following bits through the ether: > thats a bit slow for ntk Indeed. Thankfully I've removed all pimb talk from my mail archives. Ten months is pretty slow for meme transfer. I declare NTK too slow and hence dead. What's next? ;-) Leon --

Buffy

2001-04-01 Thread Leon Brocard
http://www.astray.com/Buffy/ Leon ps if only PAUSE weren't down, this'd be on CPAN already... -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other t

Re: Buffy

2001-04-01 Thread Leon Brocard
gory, into which silly things such as Q::S, Bleach, Buffy, and Symbol::Aprox::Sub would go... Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... A pessimist is never disappointed

[schwern@pobox.com: DNA.pm]

2001-04-01 Thread Leon Brocard
GA TAGA TAGA CAGA TAGA CAGA TAGA TAGA CAGA TAGA ACGA ACGA TAGA CAGA TAGA GAGT TACA AGTT CGCT CACA GCGA CCAA CCAA ... - End forwarded message - Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... I totally paused!

Re: Buffy

2001-04-01 Thread Leon Brocard
Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether: > Buffy - An encryption scheme for Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans Attached is the Buffy-ized decss Perl script from http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/qrpff.pl With any luck, this will get our favourite vampire slayer mentio

Re: Social Meeting (fwd)

2001-04-02 Thread Leon Brocard
Lucy McWilliam sent the following bits through the ether: > Gah. I see I shall have to drag(?!) you all along to upcoming beer > festivals. Nooo. You just gave me a mental image of London Perl Mongers in drag! Arrghghghgghgh Leon -- Leon Brocard...

Re: Question

2001-04-04 Thread Leon Brocard
ency... HTH, Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... Duh! It's like a totally famous quote!

London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-02

2001-04-04 Thread Leon Brocard
tly, thanks to Damian), is making appearances in "Black & White", a new god game, everywhere: http://freebs23.iserver.net/jarkko.jpg http://www.bwgame.com/ http://archive.develooper.com/perl5-porters%40perl.org/msg24544.html Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... AAaaeee wizzaaardsah staaafff has a knobontheend, knobontheend

Re: sub BEGIN {}

2001-04-04 Thread Leon Brocard
Neil Ford sent the following bits through the ether: > Details? Location? URL? http://gllug.linux.co.uk/ Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... "Suicide Hotline... please hold"

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

2001-04-04 Thread Leon Brocard
erse like the above normally, you must understand. I am attempting to inject some humour into the situation. -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all

Re: sub BEGIN {}

2001-04-04 Thread Leon Brocard
eading: http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html Any chance you could use a decent one? I suggest mutt. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... All programmers are optimists

Re: sub BEGIN {}

2001-04-04 Thread Leon Brocard
Simon Wistow sent the following bits through the ether: > I'm not threading. I order my mail by date. Ptt. No wonder you're getting confused! :-P Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://ya

Re: Test

2001-04-04 Thread Leon Brocard
Robin Houston sent the following bits through the ether: > .robin. (reads london-pm with the 'D' key) Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... I'm sure it's in the manual somewhere...

Re: Test from uuencode boy

2001-04-04 Thread Leon Brocard
u must contain at least 17 lines of Perl/Buffy-related discussion or you'll get killfiled ;-) Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... How much wood did Peter Piper pick.. no, wait..

Re: Backslash

2001-04-05 Thread Leon Brocard
ow about the Big Picture, but you can still get RDF: http://www.slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf http://use.perl.org/useperl.rdf Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... BREAKFAST.COM Halted... Cereal Port Not Responding.

Re: Certing

2001-04-06 Thread Leon Brocard
Greg McCarroll sent the following bits through the ether: > I seem to remember Leon looking over the plan and thinking it was > jolly good Yes. The plan of actually was remarkable in its shortness and sweetness and I agree with it whoheartedly. Leon -- Leon B

Re: [HELP] Quick question about Red Hat and gb keyboards

2001-04-06 Thread Leon Brocard
Merijn Broeren sent the following bits through the ether: > Anybody got an easy answer? One of the more annoying RH bugs. Just do: xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = BackSpace" in a relevant startup script (.bashrc will do). HTH, Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://w

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary (list!)

2001-04-09 Thread Leon Brocard
Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether: > This is the eleventh of hopefully many weekly summaries of the London > Perl Mongers mailing list. For the week starting 2001-04-02: I've been asked repeatedly (mostly by Pete Berlin ;-) to set up a seperate list for the

Re: Disclaimer

2001-04-10 Thread Leon Brocard
y going. [insert rant about Australians stealing your GPL / AL webmail program, changing the logo, and selling it...] Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Iterative Software..http://yapc.org/Europe/ ... Quick! Act as if nothing has happened!

Re: Technical Meeting - 19th April

2001-04-10 Thread Leon Brocard
hnical meet[2] ;-) [1] read this as "hurting" [2] although you're welcome to steal the bottom two and do them without me, sniff -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Iterative Software..http://yapc.org/Europe/ ... A flashligh

Re: OT: parsing xml

2001-04-11 Thread Leon Brocard
I find XML::Simple very useful (and simple!) for dealing with XML data structures. If you need anything more fancy, look into XML::XPath. Always remember to cache aggressively whenever you use XML. HTH, Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Iterative Software...

London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-09

2001-04-11 Thread Leon Brocard
t to keep up: http://www.astray.com/mailman/listinfo/london-list-summary I'm away snowboarding next week (well, okay, hurting myself trying out all those moves I pulled off in SSX) so Simon Wistow will take over the summary and hopefully do another wonderful job ;-), Leon -- Leon Brocard..

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-09

2001-04-11 Thread Leon Brocard
blame mstevens ;-) Where will the next social be? Book the room now! Leon ps apologies, I'm still jumpy from a hot thai curry -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Iterative Software..http://yapc.org/Europe/ ... "Luke... Luke... Use the MOUSE, Luke" - Obi Wan Gates

Re: TPJ Reborn

2001-04-11 Thread Leon Brocard
Paul Mison sent the following bits through the ether: > If you're going to do IRC style karma-ing, at least make sure there's a > bot present ... and before someone magically has enough time to link dipsy to email, no email bots please! ;-) Leon

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-16 (Attempt 2)

2001-04-22 Thread Leon Brocard
't get as many points snowboarding than he does in SSX. Somehow falling hurts more... -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Iterative Software..http://yapc.org/Europe/ ... To err is human, to forgive... $5.00

Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-16 (Attempt 2)

2001-04-23 Thread Leon Brocard
Simon Wistow sent the following bits through the ether: > Deja-Angst : http://www.inktank.com/index.cfm?toon=02-26-01 Hmmm, that came out on my birthday. I think it's a Sign... Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Iterative Software..

Re: MySQL -> Oracle wrapper/compat. libs

2001-04-25 Thread Leon Brocard
t there are so many standards to choose from. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Iterative Software..http://yapc.org/Europe/ ... Acoustic - What you play pool with

London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-04-23

2001-04-26 Thread Leon Brocard
/msg04691.html http://yapc.org/America/ http://yapc.org/Europe/ DJ Adams and Piers Harding o Transfusing Message Plasma into Business with Perl and Other Magic Leon Brocard o Instant Compilers in Perl o Graphing Perl Simon Cozens o 10 Modules I Wouldn't Go Anywhere Without o An Introduc

Re: MySQL -> Oracle wrapper/compat. libs

2001-04-27 Thread Leon Brocard
, and have moved onto many different DBI abstraction layers to cope with all databases at the same time. The OO-DB persistence modules all have their own way of doing it too... Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Iterative Software..http://yapc

Re: DBD::*->bind_param() ?

2001-04-27 Thread Leon Brocard
27;m particularly interested in. It helps a lot (and is also blindingly easy to benchmark yourself ;-). Using bind_columns also helps to speed up DBI, see: http://www.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/msg/perl-DBI-dev%3A503109 Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ I

Re: MySQL -> Oracle wrapper/compat. libs

2001-04-27 Thread Leon Brocard
erl, the Perl debugger, and B::Generate. First one to optimise Perl code (maybe replacing bits of Perl with XS on the fly?) gets a pat on the back. Leon, sleeep -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Iterative Software..http://yapc.org/Europe/ ... I

Re: Mailbox power ..

2001-04-28 Thread Leon Brocard
ue to a UPS. However, not many UPS's last six hours. Bad Mailbox! Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Iterative Software..http://yapc.org/Europe/ ... DOC files? We don't need NO STINKIN' DOC FILES!

Stuffed camel

2001-04-29 Thread Leon Brocard
camel? Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Iterative Software..http://yapc.org/Europe/ ... Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, know what I mean?

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