From I.A.Cameron at open.ac.uk Fri Apr 4 08:31:54 2008 From: I.A.Cameron at open.ac.uk (Ian Cameron) Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:31:54 +0100 Subject: [MK-OT] Beer Festival Tonight (fwd) Message-ID: FYI, all welcome. Festival ales only 1.59 UKP a pint :) -- Cheers, Ian. ------- Forwarded Message Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:22:14 +0100 From: "Ross Fenning" To: mk-ot at mailman.lug.org.uk Subject: [MK-OT] Beer Festival Tonight Posting to off-topic, but I've never considered beer ever to be off-topic. To anyone out there who gets this email in time, I declare an EMERGENCY MEETING from about 8pm tonight (Friday 4th April). I have it on good authority that Wetherspoons has too much beer and I have valiantly decided we should embark upon a noble cause to remedy this. Our usual meeting place is running a beer festival as we speak (and while many of us are having to work). Thankfully, the weekend is here and thus beer may be enjoyed with little need for self-control for those of us Monday to Friday monkeys. Email me off list if you want a mobile number to contact. Hope to see some of you there. Ross _______________________________________________ MK-OT mailing list MK-OT at mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mk-ot FAQ: http://www.mk.lug.org.uk/faq.html ------- End of Forwarded Message From andyfrommk at googlemail.com Fri Apr 4 09:37:46 2008 From: andyfrommk at googlemail.com (andy selby) Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 17:37:46 +0100 Subject: [MK-OT] Beer Festival Tonight (fwd) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <27183a390804040937y59fff089k1cd261cd326d4c42@mail.gmail.com> Yeah, I'm in. Sorry, Ian, for sending the first reply just to you instead of the list, seems I'm in not too coherent before alcohol consumption. From Tony.Edwardson at commerzbank.com Mon Apr 21 07:09:40 2008 From: Tony.Edwardson at commerzbank.com (Edwardson, Tony) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:09:40 +0200 Subject: Odd problem Message-ID: We have a perl script which apparently works fine on Solaris 2.8 but fails on Solaris 10 On Solaris 10 a comparison between to seemingly identical numbers thinks thay are different :- Here's a snippet fro the code print Dumper(\@prices, $price, $columns->{$MPSET}); for (my $i = 0; $i < scalar(@{ $columns->{$MPSET} }); $i++) { if ($prices[$i] != $price) { print Dumper("DIFFERENT", $i, $prices[$i], $price); } } And here's what it is outputing $VAR1 = [ '1.6771678', '1.6771678' ]; $VAR2 = '1.6771678'; $VAR3 = [ 'BID', 'ASK' ]; $VAR1 = 'DIFFER'; $VAR2 = 0; $VAR3 = '1.6771678'; $VAR4 = '1.6771678'; $VAR1 = 'DIFFER'; $VAR2 = 1; $VAR3 = '1.6771678'; $VAR4 = '1.6771678'; So, it thinks that '1.6771678' is different from '1.6771678'; Any ideas anyone ? Regards/Mit freundlichen Gr??en, Tony Edwardson Commerzbank AG Commerzbank Corporates & Markets ZIT-A CMA / Murex IT Team London 60 Gracechurch Street London EC3V 0HR United Kingdom +44-207-469-3452 tony.edwardson at commerzbank.com -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/miltonkeynes-pm/attachments/20080421/00303e8f/attachment.html From ant at badmagic.com Mon Apr 21 07:26:46 2008 From: ant at badmagic.com (ant at badmagic.com) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:26:46 +0100 Subject: Odd problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <200804211426.m3LEQk7C026463@magma.bpweb.net> > So, it thinks that '1.6771678' is different from '1.6771678'; Any ideas anyone ? Its been a while since I wrote any perl... But, imho, you are using a numerical comparison of floating point numbers, so all bets are off - it could do anything (in almost any language, not just perl)!. The fact that it differs on each OS is just an indicator, you would probably get the same behaviour on the same OS for different floating point numbers. http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=293402 If you really know the format of the numbers, eg, leading zeros removed etc, you could use string comparison, but its better to use a proper approximation function as per the perl monks node above. Unfortunately it forces you to know about precision that you would probably rather not have to think about. cheers Ant From pm at gavinwestwood.co.uk Tue Apr 22 02:06:02 2008 From: pm at gavinwestwood.co.uk (Gavin Westwood) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:06:02 +0100 Subject: Meeting: Tue 29th April Message-ID: <480DAA7A.3040401@gavinwestwood.co.uk> So, we're approaching that time of the month again when the MKLUG and MK Perl Mongers meet up for a social at Wetherspoon's, near the railway station (not the one in the snow dome): http://miltonkeynes.openguides.org/?J.D_Wetherspoon%2C_Central_Milton_Keynes Anyone planning to bring anything interesting? Gavin From Tony.Edwardson at commerzbank.com Wed Apr 30 01:52:43 2008 From: Tony.Edwardson at commerzbank.com (Edwardson, Tony) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:52:43 +0200 Subject: Coding Collaboration Message-ID: As discussed last night, it's about time we got our act together with our Coding Collaboration, so I've setup a Plone Site which we can use to keep track of things :- http://79.99.43.16/mkpm To register - use the "register" link top right of the main page or (http://79.99.43.16/mkpm/join_form) As people join, I'll add them to the perl mongers group I've set up and you will them be able to contribute to the site. We also need to arrange a get together to kick things off - I suggest we do it at my place in Loughton which is not far from the Station or our usual pub and I've got wired & wireless internet access I live here http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=4+thorwold+Place,+loughton,+Milton+Keynes&sll=52.024772,-0.780201&sspn=0.011804,0.03931&ie=UTF8&ll=52.0253,-0.780072&spn=0.011804,0.03931&z=15 Monday and Wednesday evenings are out for me but I can make any other evening or weekend Please let me know your preferences for a meet up time and I'll arrange something appropriate Regards/Mit freundlichen Gr??en, Tony Edwardson Commerzbank AG Commerzbank Corporates & Markets ZIT-A CMA / Murex IT Team London 60 Gracechurch Street London EC3V 0HR United Kingdom +44-207-469-3628 tony.edwardson at usa.net -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/miltonkeynes-pm/attachments/20080430/ddcb939c/attachment.html From tom at eborcom.com Wed Apr 30 02:08:31 2008 From: tom at eborcom.com (Tom Hukins) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:08:31 +0100 Subject: Coding Collaboration In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20080430090830.GA64031@eborcom.com> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:52:43AM +0200, Edwardson, Tony wrote: > As discussed last night, it's about time we got our act together > with our Coding Collaboration, so I've setup a Plone Site which we > can use to keep track of things :- > http://79.99.43.16/mkpm Thanks, Tony++. I've registered with the site and I'm logged in, but I can't find any "edit this page" or other way to mention my availability and express my interest on there. How does it work? Tom From tom at eborcom.com Wed Apr 30 02:58:16 2008 From: tom at eborcom.com (Tom Hukins) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:58:16 +0100 Subject: Coding Collaboration In-Reply-To: <20080430090830.GA64031@eborcom.com> References: <20080430090830.GA64031@eborcom.com> Message-ID: <20080430095816.GB64661@eborcom.com> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:08:31AM +0100, Tom Hukins wrote: > I've registered with the site and I'm logged in, but I can't find any > "edit this page" or other way to mention my availability and express > my interest on there. How does it work? Once Tony approved my newly created account, I managed to figure everything out fine. So don't let my initial confusion put you off: if you're interested in this, start writing up your thoughts. Tom