From simon at netcetera.org Sun Mar 11 02:48:27 2001 From: simon at netcetera.org (Simon Whitaker) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:08:31 2004 Subject: OxPM: Hello Message-ID: <20010311083401.0E8C.SIMON@netcetera.org> I subscribed to this list a month or so ago, and thought I'd drop a line to say hi... I'm a pharamcist by day, and recently moved from Cardiff to Bicester. At the moment I'm working 2 days a week in the Horton hospital in Banbury and 2 days a week in a community pharmacy in Kidlington. By night and on my days off I'm a dyed in the wool anorak. I run a website for pharmacists called Private-Rx (http://www.private-rx.co.uk/) and it was as a result of a desire to make the site more dynamic that I started learning Perl a few years ago. I followed the traditional route of the trainee Perl Jedi - the Llama, then the Camel and the Bighorn Sheep - all great books. I strayed outside the O'Reilly zoo a while back and bought Effective Perl Programming by Joseph Hall and Randal Schwartz (ISBN 0-201-41975-0) - a superb book. I read it over and over, and learn something new each time. At the back there's a section of interesting one liners. I particularly like this, which returns the lesser of $a and $b: [ $a => $b ] -> [ $b <= $a ] As the book points out, it can be written with less wasted technology, but then it isn't nearly as pretty. I do web design and development for a number of other organisations, and a lot of my current work involves use of MySQL via the Perl DBI. If any of you are doing DBI stuff (esp. DBI stuff in CGI scripts) you might be interested to read an article at perl.com on the DBIx::Recordset module: http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/02/dbix.html?wwwrrr_20010227.txt Sounds like a great time-saver, I'll just have to find the time to get my head around it. Well, that's all from me for now. Tell me a little about yourselves if you have a minute. All the best, Simon -- Simon Whitaker http://netcetera.org/ ------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to majordomo@hfb.pm.org, with the following in the body: unsubscribe oxford-pm-list From pete_sergeant at hotmail.com Tue Mar 13 03:53:27 2001 From: pete_sergeant at hotmail.com (Pete Sergeant) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:08:31 2004 Subject: OxPM: Hello Message-ID: Well, in the current trend of everyone saying a few short words about each other... I'm a student at St. Edward's in Oxford. I learnt perl when I was told to write a script for a site I was interested in working for at then tender age of 14. I spoke at last year's YAPC and am intending to speak next year too when it takes place in Amsterdam (anyone else intending to go?). I've written a couple of modules, my favourite being URI::Sequin - a module for interpreting Search Engine URLs. I'm currently juggling time between A-Levels, learning BIND, writing an article for perl.com and beer drinking, and thus suffering serious sleep deprivation. It would be nice if we could arrange a get together as a group sometime, perhaps in a couple of weeks time. Anyone got any ideas on this? _pete _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to majordomo@hfb.pm.org, with the following in the body: unsubscribe oxford-pm-list