On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:47:29PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
Uri Guttman wrote:
brian d foy autoposts FAQ entries to comp.lang.perl.misc and they get
read and feedback is given to some of them. bdf has updated them as he
can when good stuff is posted about an entry. yes, many FAQs are
On 17/09/2009, at 3:22 AM, abhishek jain wrote:
Hi,
Do perl have a kind of code encoder which hides the readable Perl
code by
encoding like we have in PHP.
I am working on a project and i dont want to give the editing /
viewing
rights to the user, also a right to expire the code after
On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 19:26 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
well that begs the question. i can easily cron this to whatever schedule
people think is fine. the issue with once a week is that it will take a
long time (2+ years!) to cycle through the faqs. maybe 3 times a week
would work if that is ok
Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:47:29PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
Uri Guttman wrote:
brian d foy autoposts FAQ entries to comp.lang.perl.misc and they get
read and feedback is given to some of them. bdf has updated them as he
can when good stuff is posted about an entry.
2009/9/17 Dirk Koopman d...@tobit.co.uk:
So that then suggests that we need another list for any actual perl (code)
related discussion?
I believe that is already considered off-topic on this list.
Beer is on-topic. Especially on a Thursday.
/joel
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 09:31:06AM +0100, Dirk Koopman wrote:
Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:47:29PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
Uri Guttman wrote:
brian d foy autoposts FAQ entries to comp.lang.perl.misc and they get
read and feedback is given to some of them. bdf has
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 06:10:12PM +1000, Kieren Diment wrote:
I came across a codebase the other day where they just obsufucated the
variable names - probably with truncted MD5 checksums or something.
Certainly made it it a pain in the arse to read :), but nothing a
determined
Those nice people at Gumtree[1] are really getting into the idea of
hackdays. Some of you may have already been to TwitterCamp and UXCamp
this year.
Well, they're doing another on this weekend (19/20 September). Charity
Hack '09 is this coming weekend. It's centred around finding ways to
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 20:17, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote:
brian d foy autoposts FAQ entries to comp.lang.perl.misc and they get
read and feedback is given to some of them. bdf has updated them as he
can when good stuff is posted about an entry.
They're also maintained on github,
On Sep 17, 2009, at 00:47 , David Cantrell wrote:
Uri Guttman wrote:
brian d foy autoposts FAQ entries to comp.lang.perl.misc and they get
read and feedback is given to some of them. bdf has updated them as
he
can when good stuff is posted about an entry. yes, many FAQs are
sadly
dated but
2009/9/17 Robin Berjon ro...@berjon.com:
On Sep 17, 2009, at 00:47 , David Cantrell wrote:
Uri Guttman wrote:
brian d foy autoposts FAQ entries to comp.lang.perl.misc and they get
read and feedback is given to some of them. bdf has updated them as he
can when good stuff is posted about an
2009/9/17 Robin Berjon ro...@berjon.com:
It could be FAQ Friday. I like that.
Fridays can FAQ off.
/joel
Off topicly off topic, as it's not even about that 4 letter P word.
So, we have quite a lot of our database queries in config files, with
placeholders, etc
Some of them are only supposed to return 1 row.
However, if our assumptions are wrong, they might return multiple rows.
This isn't a fatal
Hi Nicholas,
Would something like this work?
my $query='select * from table';
$query .= ' limit 1' if $stilltesting;
Ian
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote:
Off topicly off topic, as it's not even about that 4 letter P word.
So, we have quite a lot of our
Dear All,
It is with great pleasure, and with some tardiness and lack of
expedience, that I announce the London Perl Workshop to be held on
Saturday 5^th December at the University of Westminster's New Cavendish
Campus.[1]
The theme for this year is Beginning Perl, which can be taken as
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:14:52AM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
I'm not going to be able to go, but it would be good to have some Perl
hackers involved.
I would be moderately interested but am a bit busy. Is anyone else
going - wd feel more confortable if people I knew were there.
I could prob
I am having a debate about Skype at $work.
I have a gut feeling that I don't like it. Tried to read the TC and got
very confused. Wool eyes over pulling comes to mind.
What are other peoples views on it.
Andrew
2009/9/17 Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org:
Off topicly off topic, as it's not even about that 4 letter P word.
So, we have quite a lot of our database queries in config files, with
placeholders, etc
Some of them are only supposed to return 1 row.
However, if our assumptions are wrong, they
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:34:56 +0100, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote:
Off topicly off topic, as it's not even about that 4 letter P word.
So, we have quite a lot of our database queries in config files, with
placeholders, etc
Some of them are only supposed to return 1 row.
However, if
2009/9/17 Andrew Black andrew-per...@mail.black1.org.uk:
I am having a debate about Skype at $work.
I have a gut feeling that I don't like it. Tried to read the TC and got
very confused. Wool eyes over pulling comes to mind.
What are other peoples views on it.
Those would be the TCs at
Dear All,
It is with great pleasure, and with some tardiness and lack of
expedience, that I announce the London Perl Workshop to be held on
Saturday 5th December at the University of Westminster's New Cavendish
Campus.[1]
The theme for this year is Beginning Perl, which can be taken as Perl
Just after the last message was sent that enormously excellent chap Sean
at New Cavendish campus managed to get confirmation from the Dean. The
venue is booked, arms are appropriately twisted, beer is flowing into
pipes and the rooms are being secured.
Three cheers are in order I think :)
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote:
DC == David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk writes:
DC Uri Guttman wrote:
brian d foy autoposts FAQ entries to comp.lang.perl.misc and they get
read and feedback is given to some of them. bdf has updated them as
My initial thought was that
SELECT ($your_select) IS NOT NULL;
would complain if more than one row is returned.
It does, but it also complains when more than one column returned, so
probably isn't useful.
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Joel Bernstein j...@fysh.org wrote:
2009/9/17 Nicholas
Joel Bernstein wrote:
snipped
My main objection to Skype (which I do use) is that it doesn't
interoperate with users of other VoIP systems. SIP and suchlike
provide an open standard which Skype ignore.
/joel
Seconded.
On 17/09/2009 14:24, Andrew Black wrote:
What is the idea - can you work on somethign that interests you?
Same as any hackday event - hack on anything that you want.
Dave...
lists wrote:
Joel Bernstein wrote:
snipped
My main objection to Skype (which I do use) is that it doesn't
interoperate with users of other VoIP systems. SIP and suchlike
provide an open standard which Skype ignore.
/joel
Seconded.
Another objection that one might have (and the Indian
Joel Bernstein writes:
My main objection to Skype (which I do use) is that it doesn't
interoperate with users of other VoIP systems. SIP and suchlike
provide an open standard which Skype ignore.
Mine is that you have to use Skype's software with it, because they
don't publish the protocol.
2009/9/17 Smylers smyl...@stripey.com:
Joel Bernstein writes:
My main objection to Skype (which I do use) is that it doesn't
interoperate with users of other VoIP systems. SIP and suchlike
provide an open standard which Skype ignore.
Mine is that you have to use Skype's software with it,
Dirk Koopman wrote:
lists wrote:
Joel Bernstein wrote:
snipped
My main objection to Skype (which I do use) is that it doesn't
interoperate with users of other VoIP systems. SIP and suchlike
provide an open standard which Skype ignore.
/joel
Seconded.
Another objection that one might have
Seconded.
I'll third that for a first post :D
Though I do rather prefer iax though it's never managed to attain the
popularity of sip, which is a shame.
Skype has always made me nervous, it has all the making of a service
that might one day change it's pricing model, probably right
I thought Skype tried to set up a direct end to end UDP connection if
possible? Fallback is through some central servers.
That's what it says when you display the technical info. I am not a
network expert though (don't know what UDP is for example!)
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Dirk Koopman
Bob MacCallum wrote:
I thought Skype tried to set up a direct end to end UDP connection if
possible? Fallback is through some central servers.
That's what it says when you display the technical info. I am not a
network expert though (don't know what UDP is for example!)
Having used Skype
2009/9/17 Bob MacCallum uncool...@gmail.com:
I thought Skype tried to set up a direct end to end UDP connection if
possible? Fallback is through some central servers.
That's what it says when you display the technical info. I am not a
network expert though (don't know what UDP is for
Andrew Black wrote:
I am having a debate about Skype at $work.
I have a gut feeling that I don't like it. Tried to read the TC and got
very confused. Wool eyes over pulling comes to mind.
What are other peoples views on it.
I use it because its video services work better than Yahoo!
Nicholas Clark wrote:
Auto-posting a FAQ entry for discussion every $interval is in some sense
make-work - sort of this list isn't busy enough - let's harness it for
another purpose. We don't currently have FAQ discussions on IRC or in real
life.
Agree, I can't see the point of posting
Robert Shiels wrote:
Don't really want my mbox file filling up with them.
I dont mind doing reviews and the idea of a FAQ review
is a good one but trying to push me will not work.
I think the idea would have been shot down if I suggested posting
three or more FAQs to here every week.
Why not
Andrew Black wrote:
What are other peoples views on it.
I'm not that big a fan of it (dodgy client, memories of weirdness when
it first started out, it not being allowed at work to the extent of
being automatically uninstalled if you install it...) but am about to
have a meeting using it.
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Dirk Koopman d...@tobit.co.uk wrote:
Another objection that one might have (and the Indian Government certainly
have) is that all the traffic is routed through two sets of servers, one
located in the US and one in the UK.
It means that we can eavesdrop on
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 6:28 AM, Andrew Black
andrew-per...@mail.black1.org.uk wrote:
I am having a debate about Skype at $work.
I have a gut feeling that I don't like it. Tried to read the TC and got
very confused. Wool eyes over pulling comes to mind.
What are other peoples views on it.
David Alban wrote:
but, giving into paranoia, i'm careful not to skype anything i
wouldn't want my company and/or ebay to see. just in case They're
Watching(TM).
If skype is behaving like a standard voip client (i.e. chit-chatting to
a central directory server, then setting up an
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Dirk Koopman wrote:
Another objection that one might have (and the Indian Government
certainly have) is that all the traffic is routed through two
sets of servers, one located in the US and one in the UK.
Interesting... d'you have any reference
Talking of sip, does anyone have recommendations for consumer voip services?
Ideally I'd like something I can make (direct dial) calls from on my
laptop+headset and it'd appear as a e.g. UK mobile. And take calls on that
number, perhaps ringing another mobile as well as the laptop.
Extra points
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 19:10 +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Talking of sip, does anyone have recommendations for consumer voip services?
I'm using sipgate.co.uk, at a friend's recommendation. I only signed up
last month and I don't use it heavily, so I can't say much beyond 'it
works and it was
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Dirk Koopman d...@tobit.co.uk wrote:
However the Indian Government are/were prepared to ban and filter out skype
(setup?) traffic unless they could get a backdoor. Make what you want out of
that (again El Reg passim).
The Indian Government want to ban Skype
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Andrew Black wrote:
I am having a debate about Skype at $work.
I have a gut feeling that I don't like it. Tried to read the TC and got
very confused. Wool eyes over pulling comes to mind.
What are other peoples views on it.
The TCs don't come off any more scary to me
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