Re: [job] same as before

2002-05-29 Thread Tony Bowden
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 10:48:13AM +0100, perl wrote: Opportunity to join this market leader through their bust World Cup period. Is this *really* what it says? ;) Tony

MVC advice..?

2002-05-29 Thread Rafiq Ismail (ADMIN)
Hi, I'm building an MVC architecture site and have hit a design issue. I have varoius Control subclasses which relate to different templates with different behaviour. Now my problem is that I have to assign which Subclass I want to instantiate, based on the script and params. I my last effort

Re: (over)use of london.pm-announce?

2002-05-29 Thread Dave Cross
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 01:34:23PM +0100, Paul Mison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've become a little worried that I may be overusing london.pm-announce, or encouraging others to do so. There seem to be two views at the extremes: I forget meetings if I'm not reminded two weeks before, three

Re: [josette@oreilly.co.uk: Newsletter issue 02-9]

2002-05-29 Thread Barbie
From: Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Observe how Birmingham.pm have reviewed lots of books. Nice ;) I hope Josette has loads of spam filters on her email though. Barbie.

Re: MVC advice..?

2002-05-29 Thread Perrin Harkins
Rafiq Ismail (ADMIN) wrote: Now my problem is that I have to assign which Subclass I want to instantiate, based on the script and params. So, you're asking how to map URLs to perl modules? Is there some reason you aren't simply using httpd.conf or Apache::Dispatch? In my last MVC design,

Re: [josette@oreilly.co.uk: Newsletter issue 02-9]

2002-05-29 Thread Paul Mison
On 29/05/2002 at 14:44 +0100, Barbie wrote: From: Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Observe how Birmingham.pm have reviewed lots of books. Nice ;) London.pm have done lots of reviews too: http://london.pm.org/reviews/ Still, we have quite a lot of outstanding reviews, some of which are really

Re: [josette@oreilly.co.uk: Newsletter issue 02-9]

2002-05-29 Thread Jonathan McKeown
--On Wednesday 29 May 2002 15:33 +0100 Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still, we have quite a lot of outstanding reviews, some of which are really quite old indeed: [snip] Programming Jabber - Robert Shiels (?) No, that's me. It will be done soon. Jonathan -- Jonathan McKeown, System

Reuters Triarch module for Perl

2002-05-29 Thread Martin Bower
Anybody got an idea of how to access Reuters information (snapshot) with Perl ? I know there's a C API, but wondered if anyone had developed a module ? (No results on CPAN) ** The information in this document, including

Re: [josette@oreilly.co.uk: Newsletter issue 02-9]

2002-05-29 Thread Dave Cross
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 03:33:49PM +0100, Paul Mison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Still, we have quite a lot of outstanding reviews, some of which are really quite old indeed: Running Weblogs With Slash - Dave Cross (?) Yep, that's me. Hoping to finish it over the long weekend (but don't

Re: MVC advice..?

2002-05-29 Thread Rafiq Ismail (ADMIN)
Ello, On 29 May 2002, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Rafiq == Rafiq Ismail (ADMIN) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rafiq Is there a neat way of dynamically loading in the appropriate control Rafiq subclass? Something proven and widely used. Load the file with a require, and then just call the

Re: Reuters Triarch module for Perl

2002-05-29 Thread Dominic Mitchell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Bower) writes: Anybody got an idea of how to access Reuters information (snapshot) with Perl ? I know there's a C API, but wondered if anyone had developed a module ? (No results on CPAN) If the C API is not too difficult, it shouldn't be /too/ hard to develop

Re: MVC advice..?

2002-05-29 Thread Perrin Harkins
Rafiq Ismail (ADMIN) wrote: I'm not so keen on loading all the inheriting classes into memory beforehand You really should do that, because it will save overall memory by increasing the amount of memory that's shared. All modules should be loaded during startup in the parent process. It's

Re: MVC advice..?

2002-05-29 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Rafiq Ismail (ADMIN) wrote: I'm already using StatINC so I'm going to have to do a toss between code which I've already written and converging to the Apache::Dispatch interface. Not on a production site I hope ! StatInc does *lot's and lot's* of system calls at every

OT Perl

2002-05-29 Thread nemesis
Hi All, I have a script that gets some pages and it needs to remember the cookies they so generously provide. I have dones this using the cookie jar functionality of the LWP::UserAgent module: my $ua = LWP::UserAgent-new(); $ua-cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies-new(file = /path/to/lwpcookies.txt,

Re: [josette@oreilly.co.uk: Newsletter issue 02-9]

2002-05-29 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 03:33:49PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote: London.pm have done lots of reviews too: http://london.pm.org/reviews/ I would find it useful to have the authors and publishers on the index page. Or at least the authors, if there isn't room for both. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL

Re: Things that suprised me about perl syntax

2002-05-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Mark == Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark As we were discussing on IRC, = (the 'fat comma') doesn't imply array Mark context What the heck is array context? No such beast. And if you mean list context, then arrow has no more context forcing than a comma. Both of them inherit

RE: Reuters Triarch module for Perl

2002-05-29 Thread Martin Bower
thanks for the replies, will look at Inline::C and Swig. ** The information in this document, including any attachments or subsequent correspondence originating from this email address (email), is confidential and

Re: [josette@oreilly.co.uk: Newsletter issue 02-9]

2002-05-29 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Paul Mison wrote: Books that are available for review (or should be soon) are Bioinformatics, the Flying Dutchman of london.pm book reviews, and Web Development with Apache and Perl, by Theo Petersen, which Manning are meant to be sending to me. I actually Tech

Re: Things that suprised me about perl syntax

2002-05-29 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Mark Fowler wrote: Hey, look! A Perl Thread! I'll soon fix that - this is much more fun: IEA100I TIMER IS NOT WORKING IEA218I MOD=50 ASSUMED S360 IEA101A SPECIFY SYSTEM PARAMETERS FOR RELEASE 21.0 MFT HHC901I Enter input for console device 0009 IEA217I SEREP

Re: Things that suprised me about perl syntax

2002-05-29 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On 29 May 2002, Clive Hills wrote: On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 19:22, Jonathan Stowe wrote: ... IEF868I 00E WTR WAITING FOR WORK P00 Ooooh, that looks like MVS or MVT so I'd guess perhaps that's Hercules/360? Yep /J\

Re: Things that suprised me about perl syntax

2002-05-29 Thread Rob Partington
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan Stowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IEF868I 00E WTR WAITING FOR WORK P00 IHNJ, IJLTS WAITING FOR WORK P00 -- rob partington % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://lynx.browser.org/

Re: OT Perl

2002-05-29 Thread nemesis
Paul Makepeace wrote: On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 06:34:07PM +0100, nemesis wrote: Hi All, I have a script that gets some pages and it needs to remember the cookies they so generously provide. I have dones this using the cookie jar functionality of the LWP::UserAgent module: my $ua =

Re: [josette@oreilly.co.uk: Newsletter issue 02-9]

2002-05-29 Thread Richard Clamp
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 07:26:11PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 03:33:49PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote: London.pm have done lots of reviews too: http://london.pm.org/reviews/ I would find it useful to have the authors and publishers on the index page. Or at least the