The CPAN is widely regarded as one of Perl's best assets, and it needs
maintenance to help keep it wonderful. Neil Bowers has set up a challenge
to encourage people to contribute updates to CPAN modules:
http://neilb.org/2014/11/29/pr-challenge-2015.html
This looks like a good thing to work on
I hope everyone is having a relaxing and enjoyable holiday time. Instead of
a New Year card, you're all getting a newsletter this year. Hurray!
January Socials
The next social is on 8th January at the Melton Mowbray, 18 Holborn EC1N
2LE . Chancery Lane (Central line) is the nearest tube. Why not
The people working on Perl 6 are getting to a point where they may release
a 1.0 version in 2015. Larry Wall is going to talk about it at FOSDEM in
2015 (that's just a month away). Steve jocularly provided a link to his RSS
aggregator site for Perl 6 news, because this is also modern perl, and
I swear I'm going to stop using gmail. Sorry Richard. I thought you'd
read the entire thread, because I often fail to click the tiny ... that
shows me the correct amount of context. :-)
On 22 December 2014 at 12:19, Sue Spence virtually...@gmail.com wrote:
The people working on Perl 6
On 21 December 2014 at 16:36, Martin A. Brooks mar...@antibodymx.net
wrote:
From: Andrew Solomon and...@geekuni.com
To: london pm london.pm@london.pm.org
Sent: Saturday, 20 December, 2014 6:36:54 PM
Subject: New Year's Resolution - Learn Modern Perl
Start with 'Hello World' then
On 15 December 2014 at 00:50, Dirk Koopman d...@tobit.co.uk wrote:
What has happened to: http://search.metacpan.org/ ?
I think the most straightforward guess is that the nginx configuration for
that convenience has probably just temporarily disappeared. I didn't know
it existed, and have
I think it's fine. Go for it.
On 26 Nov 2014 14:55, Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com wrote:
Does this still seem like the best spot?
Approach Tavern
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/13/1310/Approach_Tavern/Bethnal_Green
If so, I'll announce it on today's FLOSS Weekly as
Hi all,
Randal Schwartz is going to be in London this weekend so we are going to
have a social this Saturday evening 29th November at 7pm at
The Approach Tavern
47 Approach Road
Bethnal Green
E2 9LY
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/13/1310/Approach_Tavern/Bethnal_Green
Looking forward to
On 21 November 2014 00:29, Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com wrote:
Schmoo == Schmoo schmoos...@gmail.com writes:
8 Patriot Square, Bethnal Green
London E2 9NF
Schmoo Approach Tavern
Schmoo (
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/13/1310/Approach_Tavern/Bethnal_Green
),
From: Roger Bell_West ro...@firedrake.org
To: london.pm-annou...@london.pm.org
Cc:
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 09:03:08 +
Subject: Interactive graphics
What are the cool kids using for interactive graphical stuff these
days (not just dialogues, but changing graphics), assuming the
underlying
Hurrah - less than 10 minutes this time.
On 15 October 2014 19:52, Steve Mynott steve.myn...@gmail.com wrote:
On 15 October 2014 15:09, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote:
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 08:44:54AM +0100, Sue Spence wrote:
This message took an hour to arrive, as opposed to 3-4
This message took an hour to arrive, as opposed to 3-4 hours. So some
progress has been made.
On 13 October 2014 21:04, Steve Mynott steve.myn...@gmail.com wrote:
or not?
--
4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott steve.myn...@gmail.com
That's great news.
Not to bring the mood down, but please drink to my poor old cat, who is a
good old guy but may be about to ride off to Cat Valhalla.
On 2 October 2014 10:34, Tom Hukins t...@eborcom.com wrote:
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 02:54:51PM +0100, Sue Spence wrote:
I do. I suspect
Hi Rick,
I probably won't be able to come this month as I'm pretty busy with work
and moving. Thanks for organising and sponsoring the social, I only hope
everyone who attends appreciates that as much as Tom and I do. I suspect
Tom is still on holiday so he might not make it either.
-sue
On
Is your system shell bash? Does your application have any code which shells
out to that (system(), ``, qx() etc)? If so, then probably yes.
On 25 September 2014 14:52, gvim gvi...@gmail.com wrote:
I built a site several years ago with CGI::Application which runs in cgi,
not psgi mode. Is it
First sight of the wiki we will put on the new london.pm.org!
Hackday participants are encouraged to document what they do here.
On 19 September 2014 22:58, Steve Mynott steve.myn...@gmail.com wrote:
http://pl6anet.org/hackday/
--
4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott steve.myn...@gmail.com
Tomorrow is our first Perl hackday and I'm looking forward to seeing some
of you there. Check the meetup page for more information:
http://www.meetup.com/London-Perl-Mongers/events/194285872/ including some
hacking ideas. I should be able to let people in starting around 11:30 in
the morning.
Kake has pointed out that Hoxton overground station will be closed tomorrow
due to engineering works, so please don't plan to come via that route.
On 19 September 2014 14:03, Sue Spence virtually...@gmail.com wrote:
Tomorrow is our first Perl hackday and I'm looking forward to seeing some
Here is the official Perl5 todo list:
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob/HEAD:/Porting/todo.pod
You could also:
- compile Perl5 blead and install modules
- look on CPAN for modules that have test failures on blead, then work on
fixes
- learn to use perlbrew, cpanm, and other parts of the
On 11 August 2014 03:56, Toby Wintermute t...@wintrmute.net wrote:
Hi,
I took over Test::PostgreSQL a while back.
I still get a lot of test failures from OpenBSD and FreeBSD users on
CPANTS, and I think it's simply down to the postgres binaries being
installed in different locations.
If
Hello everyone,
After two years of stellar service to the London Perl Mongers, Tom Hukins
will be taking a break and has asked me to take over the reins for awhile.
I am happy to oblige, and thank Tom and his predecessors for the work
they've done for LPM over the years.
I hope the organisation
On 8 August 2014 15:25, Mark Keating m.keat...@shadowcat.co.uk wrote:
On 08/08/2014 14:55, Sue Spence wrote:
Hello everyone,
After two years of stellar service to the London Perl Mongers, Tom Hukins
will be taking a break and has asked me to take over the reins for awhile.
I am happy
On 31 July 2014 16:07, Michael Jemmeson michael.jemme...@gmail.com wrote:
The Old Fountain
3 Baldwin Street
EC1V 9NU
The August social is a week today. Space has been reserved downstairs
from 6:30pm at this pub near Old Street tube. It usually has a fine
selection of ales, plus serves some
On 25 July 2014 17:59, Joel Bernstein j...@fysh.org wrote:
On 25 July 2014 18:22, Tom Hukins t...@eborcom.com wrote:
We invite anyone who would like to work on anything
Perl-related to attend. Everyone from complete Perl beginners to
experts is welcome.
How do you define
, there are quite a few of us coming from
southampton.pm, hence it's much cheaper option..
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 11:46 PM, Sue Spence virtually...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi Vytas,
There is a car park at Bloomsbury Square for £££, but I would not
recommend
driving to this event.
-sue
to another.
After the meeting I suggest that we head over to The Enterprise for
post-meet socialising:
The Enterprise
38 Red Lion Street
WC1R 4PN
On 20 July 2014 15:23, Sue Spence virtually...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Just a reminder that we're having a technical meeting
Hi all,
Just a reminder that we're having a technical meeting this Thursday evening
in the Brockway room at Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square WC1R 4RL. The
closest underground station is Holborn (Central and Piccadilly lines). The
doors will be open from 18:30 with talks starting at 19:00.
head over to The Enterprise for
post-meet socialising:
The Enterprise
38 Red Lion Street
WC1R 4PN
On 20 July 2014 15:23, Sue Spence virtually...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Just a reminder that we're having a technical meeting this Thursday
evening in the Brockway room at Conway Hall, 25 Red
I opened this message expecting to see spam, and there wasn't any. UNFAIR.
On 17 July 2014 11:49, Schmoo schmoos...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I have picked Thursday, July 24, 2014 12:00 PM (Time zone: London)
for the London Perl Mongers Friends Lunch. poll
Follow this link to open the
Hi everyone,
Based on conversations with various people, I thought it might be a good
idea to schedule an event in which people interested in Perl programming
could get together with our laptops and maybe even write some code. I have
a venue and a date and time, so now what we need are some
Hi all,
I have 4 talk proposals now, thank you to everyone who has kindly agreed to
give us a presentation. Here is the list we have so far:
- Thomas Klausner (domm) from Vienna.pm is going to talk about OX
AngularJS
- Alex Balhatchet is going to talk about his rewrite of Ovid's Test::Kit
that one of our members
has kindly put it there already. Cool!
Thanks,
-sue
On 27 June 2014 14:35, Chris Jack chris_j...@msn.com wrote:
Sue Spence virtually...@gmail.com wrote
London Perl Mongers will hold its next technical meeting in the Brockway
room at Conway Hall on Thursday 24th
On 25 June 2014 23:41, Andrew Beverley a...@andybev.com wrote:
Ah, peer pressure ;-)
Hmmm. Anybody interested in either of these?
1. 5 things I wish I'd known as a Perl beginner.
I think this one would make a good first talk at our next tech meet. It
could be very low stress with a
Hi everyone,
London Perl Mongers will hold its next technical meeting in the Brockway
room at Conway Hall on Thursday 24th July, doors opening at 18:30 for a
19:00 start.
Please submit talk proposals to me (off-list), any length from 5 - 30
minutes will be cheerfully considered. Topic
On 25 June 2014 16:45, Joel Bernstein j...@fysh.org wrote:
On 25 June 2014 16:21, Tom Hukins t...@eborcom.com wrote:
It's INTERESTING to hear Perl experts talk about the advanced details
of how Perl works, but it's dull TO ONLY hear about this.
My experience of Perl events is that while
For those who might not know, YAPC::NA 2014 in Orlando had its first day
yesterday, and they are live streaming all of the talks via YouTube. All of
the talks are here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/yapcna
The quality is very good and the streaming works very well. I watched
several live talks
Hi all,
We are hoping to be able to hold a technical meeting fairly soon, the
details are still being ironed out. Do we have any speakers out there who
would like to share what they are doing with Perl? There are a lot of
things we'd like to hear about, such as:
- Today I Learned (something
, Thomas Klausner d...@cpan.org wrote:
Hi!
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 12:53:48PM +0100, Sue Spence wrote:
We are hoping to be able to hold a technical meeting fairly soon, the
details are still being ironed out. Do we have any speakers out there
who
would like to share what they are doing
On 10 June 2014 10:35, Andrew Beverley a...@andybev.com wrote:
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 10:05 +0100, James Laver wrote:
I was sort of hoping that the not too subtle hints that using eval is a
bad idea would pay off. Apparently not.
D'oh, I thought someone might say that... But it's so easy
The June social is going to be in Hackney. I love this pub. It has loads
of real ale and delicious food, free broadband and board games. It also
takes payment in bitcoin, if you're into that.
Pembury Tavern
90 Amhurst Rd
E8 1JH
http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Pembury_Tavern,_E8_1JH
On 15 May 2014 12:32, Chris Jack chris_j...@msn.com wrote:
Sue Spence wrote
It's been a month or so since the last Thursday dim sum, so I would like
to
propose meeting up for some dumplings, steamed buns and other tasty
treats.
FYI: I'm on the digest form of the list and it turned up
It's been a month or so since the last Thursday dim sum, so I would like to
propose meeting up for some dumplings, steamed buns and other tasty treats.
Where: Joy King Lau
3 Leicester St,
London WC2H 7BL
Time:12:30
If you plan to attend please contact me in irc or
It's been a month or so since the last Thursday dim sum, so I would like to
propose meeting up for some dumplings, steamed buns and other tasty treats.
Where: Joy King Lau
3 Leicester St,
London WC2H 7BL
Time:12:30
If you plan to attend please contact me in irc or
London Perl Mongers and Broadbean cordially invite you to enjoy sponsored
drinks tonight.
Come to The Shooting Star Middlesex St, London E1 7JF, across from
Liverpool St station, around the corner from Dirty Dicks from 6pm. Peter
Sergeant has reserved some tables and is putting £200 behind the
Sorry about that. I only announced what we'd been told by Pete. I found
out tonight that they had gone to some other work related do before coming
to the social!
On 8 May 2014 18:36, Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk wrote:
On 8 May 2014, at 11:37, Sue Spence virtually...@gmail.com wrote
I'd like to invite you all for dim sum at the Royal China tomorrow.
When: 12:30 Thursday 10th April
Where: Royal China 30 Westferry Circus, London E14 8RR
Let's meet outside just before 12:30 and go in together.
If you can let me know if you plan to come that will help me adjust the
On 6 March 2014 09:00, Tom Hukins t...@eborcom.com wrote:
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 07:56:28PM +, mascip wrote:
I can't make it.
Hi, Pierre, that's a shame. I would be grateful if anyone who can't
attend frees up their space on meetup:
On 6 March 2014 12:02, Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk wrote:
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 11:09:34AM +, Dominic Humphries wrote:
I'd buy DVDs! :)
You perhaps underestimate how expensive such DVDs would be. This is not a
mass-market BBC Worldwide release selling a million copies at ten quid
On 4 Mar 2014 00:59, Paul LeoNerd Evans leon...@leonerd.org.uk wrote:
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 21:45:53 +
Tom Hukins t...@eborcom.com wrote:
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] London.pm Dim Sum, Wednesday 3rd March, Docklands
Shome mishtake shurely?
Perhaps you mean Wednesday 5th?
Why do you ask? You
Just tell us where you're going to hold the training and we will be
incredibly happy to make recommendations.
I believe the list to which you refer went away some time ago during
website refurbishment. The pubs we use does tend to change a bit over time,
and there are new places which have
On 4 March 2014 16:24, Kevin Falcone ke...@jibsheet.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 03:38:54PM +, Sue Spence wrote:
Just tell us where you're going to hold the training and we will be
incredibly happy to make recommendations.
For those who are willing to offer personalized
On 4 March 2014 16:43, Mark Fowler m...@twoshortplanks.com wrote:
On Tuesday, March 4, 2014, Sue Spence
virtually...@gmail.comjavascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','
virtually...@gmail.com');
Wrote:
my $dt = DateTime-new(
year = $year,
month = 03,
day
On 4 March 2014 17:07, Sue Spence virtually...@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 March 2014 16:43, Mark Fowler m...@twoshortplanks.com wrote:
On Tuesday, March 4, 2014, Sue Spence
virtually...@gmail.comjavascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','
virtually...@gmail.com');
Wrote:
my $dt = DateTime-new
On 4 March 2014 21:33, DAVID HODGKINSON daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
Does something exist?
https://www.google.com/search?q=perl+web+scraping
3rd hit mentions the cpan module Dave Cross mentioned. If you were to
describe what you want to accomplish that might be useful.
I suspect you're probably right about the 3G/4G, assuming that there is
good coverage where they spend their time (really needs to be checked). If
they don't have decent 3G at one location maybe they could consider getting
cheap DSL installed there. If they don't have good 3G at either place
Hurrah. This is a welcome revival.
On 3 Mar 2014 21:47, Tom Hukins t...@eborcom.com wrote:
Hi all,
London Perl Mongers will meet for lunchtime Dim Sum this Wednesday at
the Lotus Floating Chinese Restaurant:
http://www.lotusfloating.co.uk/
Dim Sum involves sharing a selection of small
On 13 Feb 2014 07:02, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote:
hi all,
i am sure the subject got your attention. i read an article about the
beatles sense of humor (50th year since they invaded the states is big
here). it mentioned a line from penny lane:
a four of fish and finger
On 13 Feb 2014 09:55, Dominic Thoreau domi...@thoreau-online.net wrote:
On 13 February 2014 08:26, Kieren Diment dim...@gmail.com wrote:
On 13/02/2014, at 7:00 PM, Sue Spence wrote:
I wish I could get fish for 4p now.
Six pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. [...]
Ford
On 13 February 2014 17:55, Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com wrote:
gvim == gvim gvi...@gmail.com writes:
gvim I asked because I wanted to know which mailing list, outside of
gvim the PM lists, is considered to be the main mailing list for
gvim general Perl questions. When I looked
Try stackoverflow or perl monks rather than a list.
On 12 Feb 2014 15:28, gvim gvi...@gmail.com wrote:
What is the main general Perl mailing list, ie. most active for general
Perl questions? lists.perl.org has over 200 entries.
gvim
On 12 February 2014 19:15, Paul Makepeace pa...@paulm.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com
wrote:
...or the IRC channels for the thing you're having problems with.
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think I know, I'll ask
on IRC. Now
Unfortunately not. The audio quality is absymal, which is a shame because
the talk was very good.
On 10 February 2014 06:34, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes sthoe...@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 6:18 AM, Tom Hukins t...@eborcom.com wrote:
It looks like other videos from Fosdem's Perl room
There are a large number of hotels in Brussels, and I don't see any
evidence that the rates have been heavily jacked up for the weekend of
FOSDEM. Accommodation is easily available under £50 per night, according to
booking.com. We're going via eurostar, which is rather more expensive.
Looking
On 17 January 2014 10:18, Andrew london...@unitedgames.co.uk wrote:
Looking to try using an Integrated Development Environment.
Is there an industry standard everyone uses and I should get familiar with,
or will any do?
You've already received some recommendations. Do you mind sharing what
On 18 January 2014 10:31, Simon Cozens si...@simon-cozens.org wrote:
Windows
He doesn't like you.
I don't like you.
You just watch yourself. We're wanted men. I have the death sentence on 12
systems.
I'll be careful
You'll be dead!
If you're trying to develop software in such a
On 4 July 2012 22:18, James Denness scaryro...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Guys,
Just so you know, the company I develop for give free use of their
auditorium / event space / cafe for technical meet-ups.
http://forwardtechnology.co.uk/venue
It's in Camden, near the Mornington Crescent tube.
Let
On 4 July 2012 22:43, James Denness scaryro...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm surprised to hear that - what did they say?
Thanks for your email, we have had a lot of interest in hosting
meetups recently.
For the time being we want to focus on meetups that are relavent to
our team and business and at the
On 4 July 2012 23:03, James Denness scaryro...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm surprised to hear that - what did they say?
Thanks for your email, we have had a lot of interest in hosting
meetups recently.
For the time being we want to focus on meetups that are relavent to
our team and business
On 5 July 2012 00:11, Dirk Koopman d...@tobit.co.uk wrote:
On 04/07/12 23:26, Sue Spence wrote:
On 4 July 2012 23:03, James Denness scaryro...@gmail.com wrote:
August is YAPC Europe so there will no doubt be plenty of lead time.
Can I have a gentle rant about the fact that the early bird
On 3 May 2012 00:30, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes sthoe...@gmail.com wrote:
Err, is the BBC in the habit of suing their past employees?
The main topic of this conversation has been business insurance. I'm
sure Lloyd's could sort out some cover for a truly worried person
working under a normal
On 1 May 2012 20:09, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
The renewal notice I just got made my eyes water. Two things:
1. When you're not working for the BBC, what levels do you set it at?
2. Are Caunce O'Hara still the go to people for this?
How are you defining 'go to' ? I haven't
On 1 May 2012 20:52, Paul Makepeace pa...@paulm.com wrote:
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:43, Sue Spence s...@pennine.com wrote:
On 1 May 2012 20:09, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
The renewal notice I just got made my eyes water. Two things:
1. When you're not working for the BBC
On 28 February 2012 21:55, Paul londonpm90...@rainslide.net wrote:
On Thursday, 23 February, 2012 at 14:27:17 GMT, L?on Brocard wrote:
Damian will be presenting:
[...snipped a load of [REDACTED]...]
What is this meeting actually about?
You snipped a rather lengthy description of the
On 29 February 2012 11:04, Paul londonpm90...@rainslide.net wrote:
There are a number of us who live in the home counties, so getting into
London requires a bit of planning and is quite a hassle. I have seen Damian
talk before, and while he is interesting, I'd just like to know beforehand
how
On 14 Jan 2012, at 07:58, Mallory van Achterberg stommep...@stommepoes.nl
wrote:
Fedex uses Perl?
Odds are that they do in some capacity but that isn't directly relevant here.
With or without formal APIs it is possible to have a lot of fun with a website
in
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at
On 9 January 2012 17:24, Steve Purkis st...@purkis.ca wrote:
On 27 Dec 2011, at 13:38, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Any recs for Agile PM courses that can rubber stamp what I've been
doing for the last 2-3 years?
I realise you may already have been stamped on by now :), but: last year we
worked
On 23 December 2011 18:15, Rudolf Lippan rlip...@remotelinux.com wrote:
On Friday, December 23, 2011 at 10:53:40 AM, Sue Spence wrote:
So far it's just one person. I believe you mentioned that you were
One person, who accused them of being 'spamming f-tards'. I have not seen any
On 22 December 2011 19:42, Rudolf Lippan rlip...@remotelinux.com wrote:
On Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 04:17:00 AM, Jacqui Caren wrote:
Anyone else getting large volumes of UBE from lovefilm with the excuse
None here. Do you know if it were an authorized mailing?
that it comes from a
2011/11/8 Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker ilm...@ilmari.org:
Hi all,
... Friday evening 11 Nov 2011
So come one, come all, to:
The Gunmakers
13 Eyre Street Hill
Clerkenwell EC1R 5ET
Thanks for taking the time to set that up, Ilmari.
On 8 November 2011 15:36, Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I am arriving in London on Thursday 12:30, unfortunately
missing the Sichuan TianFu lunch.
I wonder if there is going to be a pre-conf social gathering?
I might have missed it but I have not seen anything
mentioned on the
On 14 September 2011 10:11, Mallory van Achterberg
stommep...@stommepoes.nl wrote:
Hello all,
I was looking around at popular e-commerce setups like Magento
and Zend Cart. And I realised most of these are PHP based, for
whatever reason.
Is there a (decent, maintained) Perl-based e-commerce
On 14 September 2011 19:47, Andrew Suffield asuffi...@suffields.me.uk wrote:
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:36:23PM +0100, Peter Edwards wrote:
That's why PHP is used
PHP is a thorough and effective solution to the following problem,
which is also its main design goal:
How can stupid people
While we're on this topic, I have a small US$ gift certificate for
iTunes which I'll gladly give to anyone who can use it.
On 27 August 2011 13:15, Andy Armstrong a...@hexten.net wrote:
Does anyone have a) a PayPal account and b) a US based iTunes account from
which they'd be prepared to send
This was a simple tit-for-tat, it's nothing at all even resembling an
annoy the nerds free for all. Not yet, at any rate.
On 3 August 2011 14:57, Kieren Diment dim...@gmail.com wrote:
Personally I think that playing a game of annoy the nerds with broken defacto
standards is amusing, and I
On 3 August 2011 15:27, Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk wrote:
On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 01:30:26PM +, ian.doche...@nomura.com wrote:
Indeed, except that they are blocked by corporate firewalls and I would
not wish to incur the wrath of the powers-that-be by trying to bypass
them! Back to
On 4 July 2011 11:27, Joel Bernstein j...@fysh.org wrote:
On 4 July 2011 12:03, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote:
On 07/03/2011 06:54 PM, Andrew Beattie wrote:
In-Reply-To: 4e0f887c.6040...@blackperl.com
It wasn't really, was it? :-(
Judging by the References: header, yes it was. I never
This distaste is not really limited to Germans or C programmers in my
experience. Anything more complicated than
holiday.picnic() unless raining;
will ideally not appear in any code that I am required to
inspect/support/maintain.
On Wednesday, 8 June 2011, Richard Foley richard.fo...@rfi.net
On 1 June 2011 15:02, Mallory van Achterberg stommep...@stommepoes.nl wrote:
Hallo mongers,
I'm Mallory and I don't really do any Perl. But my husband does, and
we'll be in London (a first for me) on the weekend of the 24th of
June and was wondering if there'd be a possibility to just drink
On 28 April 2011 11:15, Victoria Conlan vi...@comps.org wrote:
I was just thinking that surely a Bloody Mary is 1 of your 5-a-day.
How about sloe gin?
If you make sloe gin you can use the gin-soaked sloes later as an ice-cream
topping, apparently. :-)
(We did it with vodka raspberries,
On 28 April 2011 08:45, James Laver london...@jameslaver.com wrote:
Their tobacco old fashioned[2] is quite an impressive concoction and
frankly their entire cocktail menu looks delicious. I've been there
since to drink cocktails and not eat.
[1]
On 27 April 2011 23:19, Victoria Conlan vi...@comps.org wrote:
Vegan shortbread? WTH.
The short(ening) agent in Short Bread = fat.
Specifically, it must be butter. No butter, no shortbread.
I've found that vegan buttery-style margarine is acceptable. Especially if
you replace half of
On 26 April 2011 13:24, Simon Cozens si...@simon-cozens.org wrote:
On 23/04/2011 13:46, Sue Spence wrote:
Beyond installing my own Perl
Do this. Best to ignore the system Perl IMO.
I don't get it. I've never used anything other than system Perl all the time
I've been using OS X, and I
On 27 April 2011 11:15, Victoria Conlan vi...@comps.org wrote:
There's enough of a demand for Perl devs in London that a lot of companies
that are looking to hire in that space are willing to hire people with
OO-PHP/Python experience.
That's good to hear. I'm alternating between excitement
On 27 April 2011 16:18, Paul Makepeace pa...@paulm.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:30, Sue Spence s...@pennine.com wrote:
On 27 April 2011 11:15, Victoria Conlan vi...@comps.org wrote:
I still favour getting the hell out of IT and setting up a tea shop, though.
(tea and cakes at my
On 27 April 2011 19:54, Dirk Koopman d...@tobit.co.uk wrote:
On 27/04/11 13:00, Sue Spence wrote:
On 27 April 2011 12:49, Victoria Conlanvi...@comps.org wrote:
I still favour getting the hell out of IT and setting up a tea shop,
though.
(tea and cakes at my place when I do so!)
Victoria
On 22 April 2011 22:20, Simon Wistow si...@thegestalt.org wrote:
Apple, evil bastards that they are, don't ship with GCC installed. You
have to install Xcode to get it. And now, because apparently raping
puppies to death with nuns or whatever it is they do for fun, isn't
sufficiently evil you
On 20 April 2011 10:03, Paul Makepeace pa...@paulm.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 09:40, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/04/a-badge-for-the-software-industrys-failures/
Or does he have a point?
Key is
On 1 March 2011 11:03, Peter Edwards pe...@dragonstaff.co.uk wrote:
Do it in 6 lines of Python using an Android phone?
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/android-barcode-scanner/
You can pick up a second-hand Hero for £60.
Interesting! I think I'll give that a try.
In that vein, I'd like to hear from Alan J Perlis.
On 8 February 2011 08:35, Paul Makepeace pa...@paulm.com wrote:
Alan Turing
On Feb 7, 2011 5:05 PM, Piers Cawley pdcawley-london.0dd...@bofh.org.uk
wrote:
Alan Kay
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Mark Keating m.keat...@shadowcat.co.uk
2011/2/7 Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker ilm...@ilmari.org:
Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com writes:
On 7 Feb 2011, at 15:47, Piers Cawley wrote:
Alan Kay
Brian Stroustrup and make him apoligise.
ITYM Bjarne.
We used to refer to him as Barney Shoestrap. It wasn't affectionate either.
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