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Neither of these jobs have anything to do with the web. Some of you
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On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:38:40 +, Simon Cozens wrote:
http://www.dev411.com/blog/2009/01/14/perl-5-for-the-future-the-enlightened-perl-organization
Umm, this:
The goal is to modernize Perl 5 and make it competitive with new
developments in programming languages, given that it's unknown
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:05:28 +0100, James Laver wrote:
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Chris Jack chris_j...@msn.com wrote:
Before you switch keyboards, I think there is an important question
about how often you are obliged to use a standard qwerty keyboard. I
worked all over Europe for a
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:32:46 -0400, jesse wrote:
Problem then comes with people who need to help you on your computer. I
often help a tester here who has a Natural split keyboard, and find
it tough, but doable (I used to use a natural years ago, the problem is
using a Natural from a
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:32:15 +0100, James Laver wrote:
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Matt Sergeant
mserge...@messagelabs.com wrote:
True-ish. If you occasionally glance at the keys it really screws you
over though :)
Well unless you're buying labels to stick on the keys you aren't
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:24:12 +, Chris Jack wrote:
1) Without running it to check, what does the following program output?
my %a = (3,2,1,0);
for my $b (sort values %a) {
$b += 4;
}
print $a{1} . \n;
Bizarrely enough, on both my Snow Leopard machines (default perl
On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 11:23:09 -0500, Matt Sergeant wrote:
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:24:12 +, Chris Jack wrote:
1) Without running it to check, what does the following program output?
my %a = (3,2,1,0);
for my $b (sort values %a) {
$b += 4;
}
print $a{1} . \n;
Bizarrely
On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:47:55 -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Lemme guess. You did this:
$ perl
... type program in here ...
^D (control D)
The D is from your control D.
Common misconception.
Yes. Though oddly enough it doesn't show up in the same terminal when
ssh'd into a Linux
Jurgen Pletinckx wrote:
Hm. But that really only holds for domains you're actually using, or have
plans for, right? Can I actually find out which other domains the
proprietors hold? A reverse whois, so to say.
There are some services which can do this - they do it by downloading
the .com zone
Ash Berlin wrote:
Use your OS's package management system.
Which is pretty much guaranteed to not have the exact versions they currently
have installed if they've been using `cpan` et al. to install it .
I don't mean get them from the OS distributor. I mean build RPMs (or
debs or
Nicholas Clark wrote:
It does if you have a second machine to test on.
It doesn't if you have a shared development server, and the installed packages
are common to all developers.
Then the owners of those boxes need to learn about xen. And fast.
James Laver wrote:
As I shall shortly be leaving london for somewhere with no PM group, I
thought it might be nice to create one.
How do I go about it?
http://www.pm.org/start/index.html
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Toby Wintermute wrote:
Hi,
I wondered if anyone else running Perl 5.12.1 (and 12.0 would be
interesting too) could quickly check if they can build DateTime 0.5x
and pass the unit tests?
I have them failing on two machines, but they're very similar and I am
worried I might have screwed something
Eden Cardim wrote:
Simon == Simon Wistowsi...@thegestalt.org writes:
Simon In short - I don't really need the CRUD stuff from a
Simon framework, I really just need the url based dispatch. I
Simon played around with Catalyst (which I'm familiar with from 6A)
Simon but
Abigail wrote:
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 06:43:48PM +0200, Lars Thegler wrote:
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Dave Hodgkinsondaveh...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/04/a-badge-for-the-software-industrys-failures/
Or does he have a point?
No, code reuse is a
Nicholas Clark wrote:
Would they care more if they got lots of polite bug reports from registered
developers who care about Apple's SNAFU, encouraging Apple to re-instate the
PPC assembler for XCode 4? Is XCode 4*supposed* to support the PPC-enabled
OS X versions? Or is it Lion only?
It's
Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
My BBC sandbox is sane at least:
$ uname -p
x86_64
Shouldn't a BBC report 6502? ;-)
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Simon Cozens wrote:
On 02/06/2011 21:50, gvim wrote:
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?
Yes and no. I've moved from being more of a developer to
Hakim Cassimally wrote:
While Javascript-the-language is lovely (as you say, better in some
respects, worse in others, than Perl), that's only one part of the
story. I've not followed Javascript-the-platform that closely (i.e.
anything much beyond jQuery) - what's your experience been like,
David Cantrell wrote:
It's the lack of a CPAN-a-like for any other language that keeps me
coming back to perl.
Of course, it's possible that the Comprehensive Python Archive Network
or similar for ruby/javascript/java/C/whatever does exist but I just
can't find it. But then, if I can't find
Simon Wistow wrote:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 10:57:56AM -0400, Matt Sergeant said:
I'm actually liking it more than CPAN for publishing and installing stuff.
The only weak area is lack of search.cpan.org.
My problem with npm is that it either tries to install stuff in some
random
Peter Corlett mailto:ab...@cabal.org.uk
July 25, 2011 5:55 AM
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 11:00:13PM +0100, James Laver wrote:
[...]
It's quite shameful for RIM, given their devices are basically designed as
email terminals with a few other features added on as an afterthought.
The iOS
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