Re: Perl query

2009-06-08 Thread Johan Vromans
Rajini Naidu writes: > Am i missing anything here. Please advise. It often helps to specify: - perl version - system you're running on - complete source (If your source was complete, you're missing use strict; use warnings; in front of your program.) -- Johan

Re: Editors or IDEs for training

2008-08-19 Thread Johan Vromans
"Gabor Szabo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So I have a new little project called Padre to become an IDE for > Perl. Although I extremely appreciate your work (and I'm very impressed by the results you got in such a short time) I personally would take one of the existing (pluggable, flexible, ext

Re: Perl Instruction at NIH

2007-01-29 Thread Johan Vromans
"Amir E. Aharoni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (also, some people have ideological problems with the licensing of > Java libraries) Windows people? You must be kidding ;-). -- Johan

Re: Hiring training facilities.

2006-10-11 Thread Johan Vromans
"Michael R. Wolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > that any old notepad/cmd.exe or vi/ksh combination will work. One problem I once ran into was that the students on Windows got slightly different results from the students using Linux. Turned out that the Windows editor they used did not provide a f

Re: Advice to Perl Trainers

2004-12-23 Thread Johan Vromans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Scott) writes: > Don't type "my $self = shift" (or shift anything else) without > practice. It is too easy to typo and leave the 'f' out of > 'shift'. I see no harm than that this will cause an occasional laugh. > For some reason I am more prone to making this > mistak

Re: 2nd-Best Perl Publisher?

2002-12-16 Thread Johan Vromans
Tim Maher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm about to submit a proposal for a Perl book to O'Reilly, and I'd > ideally like to have them publish it. That's because the O'Reilly > authors I know tell me they're not only good people to work with, > but their market-leading sales help amplify the roy

Re: Giving my first Perl presentation -- any tips?

2002-11-08 Thread Johan Vromans
Andrew Savige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am soon to give my first Perl presentation to Sydney.pm. > Panic! I have never done this before. Worse, I have never > attended a Perl conference to learn from the masters. Just a few hints. Other people will probably tell you to do the exact opposite

Re: Slide-manufacturing software

2001-12-12 Thread Johan Vromans
Mark-Jason Dominus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, Tom wrote perlpoint, and it's very nice. I've used it for > several hours' worth of material. But I don't think it's as flexible > as txt2slides is now. It is faster, however. I think brian refers to the 'new' perlpoint, not Tom's version:

Re: Slide-manufacturing software

2001-12-12 Thread Johan Vromans
Mark-Jason Dominus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For my conference talks and corporate classes, I make my slides with a > home-grown piece of software, called 'txt2slides'. The software is a > big pile of hacks, but I'm very happy with it. txt2slides takes a > slide file, which is almost plain

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-11 Thread Johan Vromans
Elaine -HFB- Ashton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe trainers could submit their course evaluation results or > something? Good idea. Can you read dutch? -- Johan

Scribble-on PostScript viewer

2000-03-30 Thread Johan Vromans
I remember vaguely that someone mentioned this on this list: a PostScript viewer that allows you to scribble on the image (e.g., with a tablet). If so, please let me know how to get it. -- Johan

Re: Possible Ideas for Presentation

2000-01-19 Thread Johan Vromans
"James J. Gundy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was wondering if anyone else had any other suggestions on the > advantages of Perl. I always show the language comparison that's in the back of "The Java Language Environment", October 1995. Java scores best (surprise?), but the comparison immed