From lrw at clear.net.nz Sun Nov 2 12:51:51 2008 From: lrw at clear.net.nz (Lesley Walker) Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:51:51 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Perl Mongers in 1 week! In-Reply-To: <1225150812.26883.12.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> References: <1225150812.26883.12.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Message-ID: <490E12E7.9050804@clear.net.nz> Grant McLean wrote: > The next meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers is 1 week from today on > November 4th. If that surprises you then it's possible you haven't been > paying attention :-) Sorry, I won't be able to make it this time, too much going on. If anyone needs the Perl Best Practices book that I still have on loan, let me know and I'll drop it off. From grant at mclean.net.nz Sun Nov 2 19:22:10 2008 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:22:10 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Perl Mongers tomorrow! Message-ID: <1225682531.19820.7.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Hi Mongers The next meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers is tomorrow evening (November 4th). Usual place and time ... 6:00pm Tuesday 4 November 2008 Level 3, The building soon to be known as Catalyst House 150 Willis Street Wellington http://wellington.pm.org/ We have three talks lined up: * Chris Cormack - Multi-national Perl Programming * Douglas Bagnall - Review: Beautiful Code * Srdjan Jankovic - Introducing Apache::Test Chris is having to forsake his volleyball match in order to prepare so the least you can do is come along and heckle him :-) *** December Meeting *** The last meeting of the year will be on Tuesday the 9th of December. This is traditionally a social meeting rather than a technical one and by popular vote we've selected JJ Murphy's in Cuba Mall as the meeting place. The start time is nominally 6:00pm but I'm sure some people will want to arrive early. Cheers Grant From enkidu at cliffp.com Mon Nov 3 01:47:47 2008 From: enkidu at cliffp.com (Cliff Pratt) Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:47:47 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] File tests Message-ID: <490EC8C3.3080909@cliffp.com> If $dir = Y is a directory and exists then the following snippet prints nothing (as desired and expected). If $dir = Y/ZZ exists and is a link I get 'File or directory "Y/ZZ" does not exist'. I'd rather it prints nothing. Obviously I'm missing something. But what? Cheers, Cliff if ( ! -e "$dir" ) { $self->{error_msg} = "File or directory \"$dir\" does not exist." ; $self->{error} = 'true' ; print "$self->{error_msg}\n" ; return 1 ; } From martyn at catalyst.net.nz Mon Nov 3 02:05:50 2008 From: martyn at catalyst.net.nz (Martyn Smith) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 23:05:50 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] File tests In-Reply-To: <490EC8C3.3080909@cliffp.com> References: <490EC8C3.3080909@cliffp.com> Message-ID: <20081103100550.GA8096@sear.dollyfish.net.nz> Hmm, it certainly seems to work for me :-) (i.e. the -e test returns true for a valid link). Are you sure the link Y/ZZ isn't pointing to a file that doesn't exist? (i.e. are you sure it's not a broken symlink?) On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:47:47PM +1300, Cliff Pratt wrote: > > If $dir = Y is a directory and exists then the following snippet prints > nothing (as desired and expected). If $dir = Y/ZZ exists and is a link > I get 'File or directory "Y/ZZ" does not exist'. I'd rather it prints > nothing. > > Obviously I'm missing something. But what? > > Cheers, > > Cliff > > if ( ! -e "$dir" ) > { > $self->{error_msg} = "File or directory \"$dir\" does not exist." ; > $self->{error} = 'true' ; > print "$self->{error_msg}\n" ; > return 1 ; > } > _______________________________________________ > Wellington-pm mailing list > Wellington-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/wellington-pm > From enkidu at cliffp.com Tue Nov 4 01:43:20 2008 From: enkidu at cliffp.com (Cliff Pratt) Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:43:20 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] File tests In-Reply-To: <20081103100550.GA8096@sear.dollyfish.net.nz> References: <490EC8C3.3080909@cliffp.com> <20081103100550.GA8096@sear.dollyfish.net.nz> Message-ID: <49101938.2010508@cliffp.com> Duh! That's exactly what it was. I created the link as follows: ln -s Y/C.file Y/ZZ I ran this in the directory *above* Y of course and what it creates in Y is: lrwxrwxrwx 1 cliffp cliffp 15 2008-11-04 22:30 ZZ -> Y/C.file And in the Y directory there is no Y directory with a file called C.file. Cheers, Cliff Martyn Smith wrote: > Hmm, it certainly seems to work for me :-) (i.e. the -e test returns true > for a valid link). > > Are you sure the link Y/ZZ isn't pointing to a file that doesn't exist? > (i.e. are you sure it's not a broken symlink?) > > On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:47:47PM +1300, Cliff Pratt wrote: >> If $dir = Y is a directory and exists then the following snippet prints >> nothing (as desired and expected). If $dir = Y/ZZ exists and is a link >> I get 'File or directory "Y/ZZ" does not exist'. I'd rather it prints >> nothing. >> >> Obviously I'm missing something. But what? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Cliff >> >> if ( ! -e "$dir" ) >> { >> $self->{error_msg} = "File or directory \"$dir\" does not exist." ; >> $self->{error} = 'true' ; >> print "$self->{error_msg}\n" ; >> return 1 ; >> } From grant at mclean.net.nz Tue Nov 4 15:37:24 2008 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:37:24 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Slides and stuff Message-ID: <1225841844.32183.5.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Hi Mongers It sounds like it was a good meeting last night - I'm sorry I wasn't able to make it myself. The speakers' slides are up on the web site now: http://wellington.pm.org/archive/ The last meeting of the year will be a social meet-up on December 9th at J J Murphy's pub in Cuba Mall. The start time is nominally 6:00pm but you're welcome to start earlier. Come along. Drink beer. Talk Rubbish. Wear a silly hat, if you want to. Cheers Grant From grant at mclean.net.nz Wed Nov 5 18:07:31 2008 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:07:31 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] [Fwd: [pm_groups] Fwd: IMPORTANT - help us estimate the size of the Catalyst user base] Message-ID: <1225937252.4771.9.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> If you use the Catalyst web application framework, please consider responding to the following survey: Replies ... mailto:zarquon at cpan.org Cheers Grant -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Kieren Diment > Date: November 5, 2008 7:51:35 PM CST > > Hi All, > > Apologies for the cross-posting, I'm trying to representatives of as > many organisations as possible who use Catalyst as possible to reply > to this email. > > We need your assistance to help estimate the number of users of > Catalyst. Matt Trout and I have written a proposal for a Catalyst > book, and while we have a well known, credible publisher interested, > they want the assurance that the market for the book is large enough > to make it worth their while. > > If you could take the time to provide the following information (I've > set reply-to to me for your confidentiality, and so that we don't > pollute the list with this stuff) this would be really useful. I'll > also let you know the results of this survey when I have them. > > I will treat this information in confidence, and will only use > aggregated data so that you or your organisation will not be > identifiable in the report I make on this data. > > There are about 1000 subscribers on the catalyst mailing list, and I'd > hope for a response rate of about 10% (i.e. about 100 replies). The > information I'm collecting is likely to result in an outcome that is > useful to you in a commercial way, so your participation would be much > appreciated. > > Please try to ensure that only one person from your organisation > answers these questions. > > 1. What country are you in? > > 2. How many people are on your team? > > 3. How many of those people are writing code with Catalyst? > > 3a. If there are non Catalyst coders on your team, how many of the > whole team would you like to be writing Catalyst code? > > 4. How many people using Catalyst on your team are subscribers to the > Catalyst mailing list? > > 5. How many people writing Catalyst code on your team use the > #catalyst irc channel on irc.perl.org? > > 6. These two questions are about the potential for the growth of > Catalyst usage in your organisation. > > 6a. How many people do you think will be using Catalyst in your > organisation in 12 months time? > > 6b. How many people do you think will be using Catalyst in your > organisation in 2 years time? > > Thanks for your cooperation. If you know of any teams who are users > of Catalyst but that do not subscribe to the Catalyst mailing list, or > are on the IRC channel, please forward this email to them. > > Thanks. > > Kieren Diment > > -- > Request pm.org Technical Support via support at pm.org > > pm_groups mailing list > pm_groups at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pm_groups From lev at nupfel.de Mon Nov 17 16:36:14 2008 From: lev at nupfel.de (Tobias Kirschstein) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:36:14 +1300 Subject: [Wellington-pm] intro Message-ID: <20081118133614.772c92c2@lain> hi there, just landed about a week ago in new zealand and want to introduce myself a bit. i came from germany where i used to work for a greater domain registrar mainly developing daemons and stuff in perl and i already heard that there shall be some quite good perl mongers around in wellington, so here i am :) as i'm planning to stay a "little" bit longer in NZ i hope to get in touch with some interesting people and new ideas. see you soon maybe at the next social meet-up -- ciao, lev -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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