Re: CGI::Application and recent bash security hole

2014-09-26 Thread gvim
**it Creek after all :( gvim

CGI::Application and recent bash security hole

2014-09-25 Thread gvim
I built a site several years ago with CGI::Application which runs in cgi, not psgi mode. Is it likely to be vulnerable to the recent bash security hole which I understand revolves around setting ENV variables? gvim

Re: CGI::Application and recent bash security hole

2014-09-25 Thread gvim
before passing the user to a list of options which, once one is selected, result in a handful of emails being sent out using MIME::Lite::TT and Email::Address. gvim

Re: CGI::Application and recent bash security hole

2014-09-25 Thread gvim
Updated my bash on CentOS 6.5 this morning so your test fails: # env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c echo this is a test bash: warning: x: ignoring function definition attempt bash: error importing function definition for `x' this is a test gvim

Re: Main general Perl mailing list

2014-02-13 Thread gvim
On 12/02/2014 16:11, Dave Cross wrote: Quoting gvim gvi...@gmail.com: On 12/02/2014 15:38, Chris Devers wrote: Is there a main general Perl mailing list? What's the actual question? What is the main general Perl mailing list, ie. most active for general Perl questions? lists.perl.org has

Main general Perl mailing list

2014-02-12 Thread gvim
What is the main general Perl mailing list, ie. most active for general Perl questions? lists.perl.org has over 200 entries. gvim

Re: Main general Perl mailing list

2014-02-12 Thread gvim
On 12/02/2014 15:38, Chris Devers wrote: Is there a main general Perl mailing list? What's the actual question? What is the main general Perl mailing list, ie. most active for general Perl questions? lists.perl.org has over 200 entries. gvim

Re: Perl publishing and attracting new developers

2013-09-20 Thread gvim
address begins with abuse. Have a nice life. gvim

Re: Perl publishing and attracting new developers

2013-09-19 Thread gvim
books is irrelevant. A lot of new developers look at what's on the (virtual) bookshelves and get a sense of which languages are more active. gvim

Perl publishing and attracting new developers

2013-09-18 Thread gvim
www.pragprog.com Not a single Perl title. Surely Moose, Mojolicious or Dancer would have been a candidate? Something's gone wrong. Is it that publishers are not interested in publishing Perl books or that Perl authors aren't writing about interesting and specific applications of Perl? gvim

Re: Perl publishing and attracting new developers

2013-09-18 Thread gvim
approached to offer them Perl books? /joel None, but what does that have to do with the question/concern I raised? gvim

Re: Perl publishing and attracting new developers

2013-09-18 Thread gvim
On 18/09/2013 14:17, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: This looks like a one-man shop, so I guess the kind of training they offer depend on the sole instructor's bagage. Here are 2 more: http://www.makersacademy.com https://generalassemb.ly/education/web-development-immersive gvim

Re: Perl publishing and attracting new developers

2013-09-18 Thread gvim
On 18/09/2013 14:21, Jérôme Étévé wrote: Probably a book about trolling on London.pm would be most entertaining. I think it reflects badly on our community when any concern raised about something lacking is automatically dismissed as trolling. gvim

Re: Perl publishing and attracting new developers

2013-09-18 Thread gvim
and Python authors but it hasn't stopped them pumping them out by the barrel-load. gvim

Re: Perl publishing and attracting new developers

2013-09-18 Thread gvim
On 18/09/2013 15:15, Tom Hukins wrote: Hi, gvim. I think Jérôme was being silly rather than dismissive. Also, I think your question is quite open-ended and has all sorts of answers, most of which will be hard to validate. This sort of discussion perhaps lends itself better to chat over a few

Re: Perl publishing and attracting new developers

2013-09-18 Thread gvim
Perl Cookbook, Object-Oriented Perl or, better still, some new titles on specific applications of Perl, eg. Perl for Android (ok, ok but you get my drift), Perl REST APIs or Web Development with Dancer/Mojolicious. gvim

Re: Perl publishing and attracting new developers

2013-09-18 Thread gvim
On 18/09/2013 16:10, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: Don't forget Ovid's Beginning Perl, http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781118013847.do :-) More generic Perl books. Exactly what we don't need. gvim

Re: Perl publishing and attracting new developers

2013-09-18 Thread gvim
consulting with Ruby and Python authors and publishers. gvim

Re: Perl publishing and attracting new developers

2013-09-18 Thread gvim
On 18/09/2013 16:35, Hernan Lopes wrote: GVIM what about Sublime ? vim, gvim, emacs, eclipse will be left behind after sublime came out ? :) There have been quite a few new, interesting Vim books published in recent years. Here's one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Practical-Vim-Thought-Pragmatic

Re: Perl publishing and attracting new developers

2013-09-18 Thread gvim
On 18/09/2013 16:45, Peter Corlett wrote: On 18 Sep 2013, at 13:14, gvim gvi...@gmail.com wrote: No, it's because pretty much all of the books that can only be written about Perl have already been written. What's left is of such minor appeal that no sensible publisher will touch it. If you

Re: Perl publishing and attracting new developers

2013-09-18 Thread gvim
post it adds weight to my point that Perl books tend to be generic and we need more diversity of subject matter, particularly applied Perl. gvim

Re: Perl publishing and attracting new developers

2013-09-18 Thread gvim
On 18/09/2013 16:36, Schmoo wrote: Would you care to explain why you think that? See the middle paragraph of my original post. gvim

Re: Perl 5.16 vs Ruby 2.0 UTF-8 support

2013-08-23 Thread gvim
On 22/08/2013 17:26, Dave Cross wrote: There's a pound sign at the end of that line. A3. That's your problem. Dave... Thanks. Appreciated. gvim

Re: Perl 5.16 vs Ruby 2.0 UTF-8 support

2013-08-23 Thread gvim
up normally in code, ie. comments and currency. gvim

Perl 5.16 vs Ruby 2.0 UTF-8 support

2013-08-22 Thread gvim
=1645:2,Sb * Paul ./1.rb:13:in `block in main': invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 (ArgumentError) from ./1.rb:8:in `foreach' from ./1.rb:8:in `main' gvim

Re: Perl 5.16 vs Ruby 2.0 UTF-8 support

2013-08-22 Thread gvim
but I can't locate the problematic char. gvim

Re: Perl 5.16 vs Ruby 2.0 UTF-8 support

2013-08-22 Thread gvim
2a 2a 2a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0640 0a 0641 gvim

Assigning anonymous hash to a list

2013-07-30 Thread gvim
Can anyone explain why this works: my $ref = {a = 1, b = 2, c = 3}; say $ref-{b}; # Result: 2 ... but this doesn't : my ($str, $ref) = 'text', {a = 1, b = 2, c = 3}; say $ref-{b}; # Result: Use of uninitialized value Seems a little inconsistent. gvim

Re: Assigning anonymous hash to a list

2013-07-30 Thread gvim
used parens to create list context. gvim

Re: Assigning anonymous hash to a list

2013-07-30 Thread gvim
On 30/07/2013 20:11, Mark Stringer wrote: Not sure why it's inconsistent. This works as you'd expect. Note the parens. my ($str, $ref) = ('text', {a = 1, b = 2, c = 3}); Mark I'm confusing arg lists with list assignment. gvim

Regex lookahead example not as stated in Camel 4th

2013-06-19 Thread gvim
, and 789. ** Howevery, my test with perl 5.14.2 on Ubuntu 13.04 does not concur: $ perl -E 'say for 0123456789 =~ /(\d{3})/g' 012 345 678 $ perl -E 'say for 0123456789 =~ /(?:(\d{3}))/g' 012 345 678 gvim

Re: Regex lookahead example not as stated in Camel 4th

2013-06-19 Thread gvim
On 19/06/13 14:52, Abigail wrote: That's not a lookahead assertion. This is: $ perl -wE 'say for 0123456789 =~ /(?=(\d{3}))/g' 012 123 234 345 456 567 678 789 $ So there's a typo on p.248 gvim

Living with smart match breakage

2013-06-13 Thread gvim
any definitive list of these edge cases so can anyone point me in the right direction? My approach is to keep it simple and defer upgrading beyond 5.16 until it's fixed. gvim

Re: Living with smart match breakage

2013-06-13 Thread gvim
was for a pointer to any definitive list of edge cases for smart match breakage, not for solutions relating to code examples of my own. gvim

Re: Assign method call to hash value?

2013-01-29 Thread gvim
On 29/01/2013 02:33, Mike Stok wrote: Have you tried reading perldoc -f scalar Hope this helps, Mike Yes, I'm aware of the scalar function but still not clear why assigning $r-method as a hash value doesn't invoke a scalar context in the first place. gvim

Re: Assign method call to hash value?

2013-01-29 Thread gvim
a scalar context, which is what I wanted rather than the array context option for $r-method. In the end I found: $results{missing} = $r-missing if $r-has_missing; return \%results; more useful anyway so problem solved. gvim

Re: Assign method call to hash value?

2013-01-29 Thread gvim
but I mistakenly assumed it meant a list of scalars. gvim

Re: Assign method call to hash value?

2013-01-29 Thread gvim
a list. The hash = list is not where my confusion originated. It came more from the fact that the list is still a list of scalars so I couldn't understand why adding another element to the list did not invoke a scalar context, that's all. Anyway, Dave Cross cleared it up, thanks. gvim

Assign method call to hash value?

2013-01-28 Thread gvim
, invalid = $r-invalid, unknown = $r-unknown }; ... but didn't get the same result. Adding $r-method() didn't make any difference, nor did curly-quoting: {$r-method()}. gvim

PHP community

2013-01-16 Thread gvim
PHP UK (22nd Feb.): £380 London Perl Workshop: £0 'nuff said. gvim

Re: Device for reading perldoc

2013-01-05 Thread gvim
mobile hits the tablets? gvim On 04/01/2013 20:56, Peter Sergeant wrote: On Friday, January 4, 2013, gvim wrote: Is there currently a reader/device which is suitable for reading both PDFs and perldoc, ie. can install Perl + modules? gvim This sounds a bit like an x/y problem. What are you

Device for reading perldoc

2013-01-04 Thread gvim
Is there currently a reader/device which is suitable for reading both PDFs and perldoc, ie. can install Perl + modules? gvim

Re: Perl outreach

2012-11-29 Thread gvim
, or at least production-ready. I know Perl 5 is excellent but Perl needs something new to get noticed again. That something is Perl 6. gvim

Better way to mirror CPAN locally?

2012-05-07 Thread gvim
method and I end up just downloading the whole 2GB every time. gvim *** #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; $|++; my $REMOTE = http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/CPAN/;; ## warning: unknown files below this dir are deleted! my $LOCAL = /Users/gmac/cpmirror

Re: Better way to mirror CPAN locally?

2012-05-07 Thread gvim
indexes and distributions what use is it for keeping non-distribution modules up to date? I may be ignorant of what you mean by distribution. gvim

Re: Better way to mirror CPAN locally?

2012-05-07 Thread gvim
distributions. Got it now and it seems to be what I'm looking for. Thanks. gvim

That simple?

2012-04-24 Thread gvim
I'm trying to serve a large zip file (678MB) in 3MB chunks to which I will add password protection. I found the PHP code listed below but wanted to stick with Perl. My first, potentially naive, solution is listed below but I want to make sure I'm not overlooking some essential checking and

Re: Someone needs to take jwz aside...

2011-06-02 Thread gvim
why I use Drupal these days. Considering the amount of development you've done on Perl web frameworks over the years isn't this tantamount to having given up on Perl, at least for web development? gvim

Perl on a smartphone?

2011-03-22 Thread gvim
Anyone running Perl on a smartphone? Android must be close by now but I haven't ventured into this market yet. Would like bash 4 too. Make that Perl + bash + vim and I'm happy to pay. gvim