From r.t.c.norfor at open.ac.uk Fri Dec 1 00:52:35 2006 From: r.t.c.norfor at open.ac.uk (Rod Norfor) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 08:52:35 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Lunch In-Reply-To: <15a34214bc2696a50e48f38bb4eef624@sanger.ac.uk> References: <019d01c712c8$82febc00$6e01a8c0@DRAGON1> <15a34214bc2696a50e48f38bb4eef624@sanger.ac.uk> Message-ID: On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Paul Mooney wrote: > > On 28 Nov 2006, at 08:37, Peter Edwards wrote: > > > I can't make tonight's social meeting - have fun guys - but would be > > up for > > a lunch. > > Robinson's in Newport Pagnell sounds good and time wouldn't be an > > issue for > > me. > > Any preferred dates - how about Tues 12th December? (I can make 5/6/7, > > 12/13/14 December). > > I can make all those dates since its not a Tuesday evening (its the one > night a week the wife has booked for college :) > > Newport Pagnell is actually a lot closer to my house (I work from home) > and I'm more than happy with a long lunch ;) > > Anyone else? Sorry won't be able to make it, cheers. Rod > > > > > > Regards, Peter > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: miltonkeynes-pm-bounces+peter=dragonstaff.com at pm.org > > [mailto:miltonkeynes-pm-bounces+peter=dragonstaff.com at pm.org] On > > Behalf Of > > Nik Clayton > > Sent: 24 November 2006 14:31 > > To: Milton Keynes Perl Mongers > > Subject: Re: Lunch > > > > Tom Hukins wrote: > >> We've not been for lunch in ages. Who wants to volunteer to organise > >> something before I start victimising people? > >> > >> The best part about volunteering is that you get to choose where we > >> go. > > > > How about an mk.pm Xmas lunch? Note that I'm emphatically not > > volunteering > > to organise it (at least, not at the moment). > > > > Anyone got a preferred venue? And how much time do people think they > > could > > get off? > > > > It's a bit out of the way, but there's a very nice restaurant in > > Newport > > Pagnell called Robinsons that does an *excellent* 2 course lunch for a > > fiver. But once you factor in travel time lunch is going to be 90-120 > > minutes. > > > > N > > _______________________________________________ > > MiltonKeynes-pm mailing list > > MiltonKeynes-pm at pm.org > > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/miltonkeynes-pm > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MiltonKeynes-pm mailing list > > MiltonKeynes-pm at pm.org > > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/miltonkeynes-pm > > _______________________________________________ > MiltonKeynes-pm mailing list > MiltonKeynes-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/miltonkeynes-pm > From tom at eborcom.com Tue Dec 5 08:42:29 2006 From: tom at eborcom.com (Tom Hukins) Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 16:42:29 +0000 Subject: London Perl Workshop: Saturday 9th December 2006 In-Reply-To: <20061116144514.GA87486@eborcom.com> References: <20061109120813.GA585@eborcom.com> <20061116144514.GA87486@eborcom.com> Message-ID: <20061205164229.GA39892@eborcom.com> The organisers have just announced the final schedule for this Saturday's London Perl Workshop: http://london.pm.org/lpw/talks.html I hope to see some of you there, Tom From wckennedy74 at gmail.com Thu Dec 14 02:17:50 2006 From: wckennedy74 at gmail.com (will kennedy) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:17:50 +0000 Subject: Hello Message-ID: <911717220612140217j32ff8b07l5f5cb9e635d39b99@mail.gmail.com> Hi Everyone My name is Will Kennedy and i have just subscribed to the list! I have been programming in perl for around a year and love it :o) I currently work as a UNIX/Database analyst for Sybase based in Maidenhead Regards Will -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/miltonkeynes-pm/attachments/20061214/f6134db9/attachment.html From tom at eborcom.com Thu Dec 14 08:54:11 2006 From: tom at eborcom.com (Tom Hukins) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:54:11 +0000 Subject: Hello In-Reply-To: <911717220612140217j32ff8b07l5f5cb9e635d39b99@mail.gmail.com> References: <911717220612140217j32ff8b07l5f5cb9e635d39b99@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20061214165410.GA57771@eborcom.com> Hi, Will. It's good to hear from you - thanks for introducing yourself. We will hold our next meeting on 30th January (see the Web site for details), please come along and say hello. Also, I'm in the early stages of planning another evening of technical talks some time in the first few months of next year. Tom From pjm at sanger.ac.uk Thu Dec 14 10:24:12 2006 From: pjm at sanger.ac.uk (Paul Mooney) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:24:12 +0000 Subject: Hello In-Reply-To: <20061214165410.GA57771@eborcom.com> References: <911717220612140217j32ff8b07l5f5cb9e635d39b99@mail.gmail.com> <20061214165410.GA57771@eborcom.com> Message-ID: Hi all, Any chance the meeting after the 30th Jan could be on the 3rd or 10th April? The wife's college course doesn't run then as its the school holidays. If I don't ask I won't get :) Paul. On 14 Dec 2006, at 16:54, Tom Hukins wrote: > Hi, Will. > > It's good to hear from you - thanks for introducing yourself. > > We will hold our next meeting on 30th January (see the Web site for > details), please come along and say hello. > > Also, I'm in the early stages of planning another evening of technical > talks some time in the first few months of next year. > > Tom > _______________________________________________ > MiltonKeynes-pm mailing list > MiltonKeynes-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/miltonkeynes-pm From jns at gellyfish.com Thu Dec 14 10:54:03 2006 From: jns at gellyfish.com (Jonathan Stowe) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:54:03 +0000 Subject: Hello In-Reply-To: <911717220612140217j32ff8b07l5f5cb9e635d39b99@mail.gmail.com> References: <911717220612140217j32ff8b07l5f5cb9e635d39b99@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1166122443.13954.6.camel@coriolanus.gellyfish.com> On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 10:17 +0000, will kennedy wrote: > Hi Everyone > > My name is Will Kennedy and i have just subscribed to the list! > > I have been programming in perl for around a year and love it :o) > > I currently work as a UNIX/Database analyst for Sybase based in > Maidenhead Hello, My name is Jonathan and I eat programmers. Tell us why you decided to use Perl, rather than say FORTRAN or RPG/III /J\ From tom at eborcom.com Fri Dec 15 02:55:44 2006 From: tom at eborcom.com (Tom Hukins) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:55:44 +0000 Subject: Hello In-Reply-To: <1166122443.13954.6.camel@coriolanus.gellyfish.com> References: <911717220612140217j32ff8b07l5f5cb9e635d39b99@mail.gmail.com> <1166122443.13954.6.camel@coriolanus.gellyfish.com> Message-ID: <20061215105544.GA2716@eborcom.com> On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 06:54:03PM +0000, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > My name is Jonathan and I eat programmers. Do you make them out of tofu first or have you repented your vegetarian ways? Tom From jns at gellyfish.com Fri Dec 15 03:06:34 2006 From: jns at gellyfish.com (Jonathan Stowe) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:06:34 +0000 Subject: Hello In-Reply-To: <20061215105544.GA2716@eborcom.com> References: <911717220612140217j32ff8b07l5f5cb9e635d39b99@mail.gmail.com> <1166122443.13954.6.camel@coriolanus.gellyfish.com> <20061215105544.GA2716@eborcom.com> Message-ID: <1166180795.12060.0.camel@coriolanus.gellyfish.com> On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 10:55 +0000, Tom Hukins wrote: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 06:54:03PM +0000, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > > My name is Jonathan and I eat programmers. > > Do you make them out of tofu first or have you repented your > vegetarian ways? Oh I thought they *were* vegetables. From tom at eborcom.com Mon Dec 18 05:58:32 2006 From: tom at eborcom.com (Tom Hukins) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:58:32 +0000 Subject: Search CPAN with Google Message-ID: <20061218135832.GB38147@eborcom.com> This just showed up on the London.pm mailing list. I remember us discussing problems with searching CPAN at some point, probably in the pub, so I thought I'd forward it: ----- Forwarded message from Andy Armstrong ----- To: Module Authors , "London.pm Perl M\[ou\]ngers" From: Andy Armstrong Subject: Search CPAN with Google Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:05:01 +0000 I've just been playing with a Google Co-op search of CPAN: http://www.hexten.net/2006/12/18/search-cpan-with-google It certainly doesn't beat search.cpan.org all the time - but for some queries the fact that the Google search goes deeper pays off. CPAN's big enough that the quality of the search interface is critical - for most people it's the primary interface. I've certainly had cases where the search has missed modules that I've subsequently discovered indirectly - mentioned on a mailing list or in someone else's code. I imagine it might be politically sensitive to add a Google powered search to search.cpan.org - but I'd certainly have found it useful in the past. -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net ----- End forwarded message ----- From michael at galton.ucl.ac.uk Mon Dec 18 06:13:01 2006 From: michael at galton.ucl.ac.uk (michael) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:13:01 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Search CPAN with Google In-Reply-To: <20061218135832.GB38147@eborcom.com> References: <20061218135832.GB38147@eborcom.com> Message-ID: <20061218140525.E2877@diamond.gene.ucl.ac.uk> I do a site specific search through google (fx, site:search.cpan.org foo bar). The advantage of doing it this way is you can simply click through to the advanced search form for the extra specificity (unlike hexten!) -- Michael On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Tom Hukins wrote: > This just showed up on the London.pm mailing list. I remember us > discussing problems with searching CPAN at some point, probably in the > pub, so I thought I'd forward it: > > ----- Forwarded message from Andy Armstrong ----- > > To: Module Authors , > "London.pm Perl M\[ou\]ngers" > From: Andy Armstrong > Subject: Search CPAN with Google > Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:05:01 +0000 > > I've just been playing with a Google Co-op search of CPAN: > > http://www.hexten.net/2006/12/18/search-cpan-with-google > > It certainly doesn't beat search.cpan.org all the time - but for some > queries the fact that the Google search goes deeper pays off. > > CPAN's big enough that the quality of the search interface is > critical - for most people it's the primary interface. I've certainly > had cases where the search has missed modules that I've subsequently > discovered indirectly - mentioned on a mailing list or in someone > else's code. > > I imagine it might be politically sensitive to add a Google powered > search to search.cpan.org - but I'd certainly have found it useful in > the past. > > -- > Andy Armstrong, hexten.net > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > _______________________________________________ > MiltonKeynes-pm mailing list > MiltonKeynes-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/miltonkeynes-pm >