[Melbourne-pm] Assorted follow-ups from Melbourne Pub Mongers

Stephen Edmonds melbourne-pm at popcorn.cx
Thu Mar 13 03:26:10 PDT 2008


A couple more follow-ups...

The photos that came out ok are up on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/popcorncx/sets/72157604110674781/

 From the conversation about bad presentations, is this one titled 'Life 
after Death by Powerpoint':
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=4341801

Thanks,
Stephen

Paul Fenwick wrote:
> G'day Everyone,
> 
> I have assorted follow-ups from our meeting tonight from Melbourne Pub Mongers.
> 
> * The evil, evil trick I showed off with regards to Fatal can be found at:
> 
> http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2008-03/msg00338.html
> 
> Please do *NOT* use this in production. It will be fixed in 5.10.1.
> 
> * Seriously, don't.  It's a bug, even if it is like PHP in reverse.
> 
> * The best TV right now is "Sarah Conner Chronicles".  It helps if you like 
> Terminator.  It helps even more if you liked Terminator so much that you 
> thought Terminator 3 was awful.
> 
> * Other best TV is "Big Bang Theory", which I discovered thanks to Nat 
> Torkington and Skud.  First episode I thought was average, later episodes 
> are great.
> 
> * Frets on Fire can be found at http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/
> 
> * The standard Frets on Fire client is rubbish.  Use the RF-mod at 
> http://fretsonfire.wikidot.com/rf-mod instead.  Seriously, it rocks hard.
> 
> * My Frets on Fire high-scores can be found at 
> http://www.prison.net/worldcharts/charts/playersFull/PJF/ .  If you beat my 
> scores, let me know.
> 
> * Spoilers to the C-64 game "The Hobbit" can be found at 
> http://bbc.nvg.org/doc/games/Hobbit-solution2.txt .  A window should be no 
> obstacle to a thief with friends.
> 
> * Yes, I'm really doing a lexical Fatal.  Yes, it's much harder than it 
> should be.
> 
> * Our Perl Tips (including What's New in Perl 5.10) can be found at 
> http://perltraining.com.au/tips/ .  You can subscribe both by e-mail and by 
> Atom feed.
> 
> * Our training manuals can be found at http://perltraining.com.au/notes.html 
> .  If you find any mistakes I'll give you chocolate.
> 
> * My bookmarks in general can be found at http://del.icio.us/pfenwick . 
> They provide a dark and twisted view into my mind.
> 
> * My blog can be found at http://pjf.id.au/blog/ .  Yes, the dance mat is 
> real.  The half-a-joystick is real.  It really does work.
> 
> * The greasemonkey talk can be found at http://pjf.id.au/blog/?position=525 
> and elsewhere.
> 
> * I use jaiku and twitter under the name of 'pjf' on both.  I'm not hard to 
> find.  Let me know if you need invites.
> 
> * I'll be at Brisbane.pm next week if we can organise a meeting.
> 
> * I'll be at Sydney.pm in three weeks time.
> 
> * I'll be at Melbourne.pm in four weeks time!  See you there!
> 
> All the best,
> 
> 	Paul
> 

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