From tom at eborcom.com Mon Aug 11 08:14:32 2008 From: tom at eborcom.com (Tom Hukins) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:14:32 +0100 Subject: Free Books Message-ID: <20080811151432.GA95876@eborcom.com> Hi all, Due to a recent tidying up session, the following O'Reilly books need homes: - Apache The Definitive Guide (2nd Edition) - Apache Pocket Reference (First Edition, Covers Apache 1.3.12) - CGI Programming with Perl (2nd Edition) - Programming Perl (2nd Edition, Covers Perl 5) All books are old editions, but they're all in good condition and might make an interesting read for someone here. If you'd like any, let me know which ones off-list and I'll bring them along to our next meeting (or we'll sort something else out if you can't make it). Tom From andyfrommk at googlemail.com Mon Aug 11 12:17:18 2008 From: andyfrommk at googlemail.com (Andy Selby) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:17:18 +0100 Subject: Free Books In-Reply-To: <20080811151432.GA95876@eborcom.com> References: <20080811151432.GA95876@eborcom.com> Message-ID: <27183a390808111217nb50daa7v337b4d619fb5d162@mail.gmail.com> 2008/8/11 Tom Hukins : > Hi all, > > Due to a recent tidying up session, the following O'Reilly books need > homes: > - CGI Programming with Perl (2nd Edition) I'll take the CGI book, thanks > - Programming Perl (2nd Edition, Covers Perl 5) AKA the camel book, I got that one from Tony a while ago, I recommend it highly. Surely its best to request the books on-list so you don't have to reply "sorry, that one's gone" several times? Thanks Tom, I've recently been buying computer books off Ebay, how did you want to be payed? money or beer? Andy From tom at eborcom.com Mon Aug 11 12:41:25 2008 From: tom at eborcom.com (Tom Hukins) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:41:25 +0100 Subject: Free Books In-Reply-To: <27183a390808111217nb50daa7v337b4d619fb5d162@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080811151432.GA95876@eborcom.com> <27183a390808111217nb50daa7v337b4d619fb5d162@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20080811194125.GC97010@eborcom.com> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 08:17:18PM +0100, Andy Selby wrote: > 2008/8/11 Tom Hukins : > > Due to a recent tidying up session, the following O'Reilly books need > > homes: > > - CGI Programming with Perl (2nd Edition) > > I'll take the CGI book, thanks It's yours, and there's another copy still spare. > > - Programming Perl (2nd Edition, Covers Perl 5) > > AKA the camel book, I got that one from Tony a while ago, I recommend > it highly. I agree, although I'd strongly recommend the latest edition. Perl has changed lots since the release of Perl 5. This one's already gone, anyway. > Surely its best to request the books on-list so you don't have to > reply "sorry, that one's gone" several times? We're a small group, so I don't mind. I thought I'd keep replies off-list because things could easily get dull. But I don't care much either way. > Thanks Tom, I've recently been buying computer books off Ebay, how did > you want to be payed? money or beer? You're welcome. They're not mine, I just rescued them from the bin. If you'd like to offer money, please donate a little to a good cause of your choice. Tom From oliver.gorwits at oucs.ox.ac.uk Wed Aug 13 02:15:38 2008 From: oliver.gorwits at oucs.ox.ac.uk (Oliver Gorwits) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:15:38 +0100 Subject: Job Vacancy: Wireless Network Installation and Development Officer Message-ID: <48A2A63A.6050004@oucs.ox.ac.uk> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, We currently have a vacancy within my team, which runs the backbone IP data network and related services for the University of Oxford. If you have a keen interest in (802.11) wireless, and some experience, then we'd love to hear from you. This role has been created as part of a project to increase significantly the wireless provision in the University. You will be required to provide advice, support and problem resolution for wireless operation issues and to contribute to the day-to-day running of the wireless systems. Perl, of course, plays an essential role in all this. Further details and an application form are available here: ~ http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/jobs/wireless.xml Salary will be 27,466 - 33,780. regards, oliver. - -- Oliver Gorwits, Network and Telecommunications Group, Oxford University Computing Services -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIoqY62NPq7pwWBt4RAuf2AKCz0uP2Vawutqjz5/wCeF6U63XH3ACfYCtC scSyJ+X0/xwexXxNZSC52kE= =t7He -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From tom at eborcom.com Fri Aug 15 02:36:22 2008 From: tom at eborcom.com (Tom Hukins) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:36:22 +0100 Subject: London Perl Workshop 2008 Message-ID: <20080815093621.GA43478@eborcom.com> This year's London Perl Workshop has just been announced for the 29th of November. While that's some time away, we've had some good technical talks lately, so potential speakers should think about things they might like to present. The LPW always has a good selection of talks for people with various levels of experience and expertise. It's easy to get to Westimster Universtiy from Euston and it costs nothing to attend. Tom ----- Forwarded message from Mark Keating ----- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:52:17 +0100 From: "Mark Keating" To: london.pm at london.pm.org Subject: London Perl Workshop 2008 Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Hear Ye. To all Mongers Perl; Londoners olde and newly fresh; to ye lords, ladies and gentlefolk of the realm; to the colonies, principalities and regions most common in wealth; to the fellows whom inhabit lands removed from faire and succulent Blighty, I ask you pause and heed with becalmed heart to my call.... I anounceth the most glorious workshoppe, new of London, to the fair grace of our Queen in the year of our Lord two thousand and eight with the following most auspicious arrangement: Whence? Saturday 29th of November (currently betwixt 10:00 and 17:00 - tbc) Whereforth? Westminster University, London (grateful thanks once again) http://www.wmin.ac.uk/page-7679-smhp=4459 Whither? This year the theme is "Perl 10". Speakers are invited to talk on any subject that relates to this theme, but there are these 3 facts to consider: this is the tenth anniversary of LPW; we are currently using perl 5.10; perl 5 is 10 years old; This should not constrain you in any way as you might also want to look at what is the next ten years of perl? Or, what project will I still be maintaining or supporting in ten years time? Whometh? All persons far and wide are invited to attend. The registration system (the most excellent ACT ? thanks to the guys who built-support-maintain this) should be online at: http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2008/ If you'd like to speak, please use the above website or send a mail with following details, * Title of talk. * Your name and a brief bio if possible. * A brief outline of the talk. * Any URL's you'd like us to link to (e.g. your homepage or company). * How long you'd like, to keep this simple please choose either 5 minutes (a lightning talk ? always popular!), 20 minutes or 40 minutes. to: m.keating at shadowcat.co.uk The deadline for proposals is Friday 10 October 2008, and all speakers will be notified on, or before, Monday 3 November 2008 If you feel like helping out on the day with any of the many odd jobs that need going please also email Mark at the above address and offer to volunteer. Costeth: Simply your time and your ability to consume vast amounts of Perl information, random verbiage and general good will. One would imagine that there will be a certain level of pre- post and perhaps during- Workshop drinking and eating to consider in your accounts as well :) ...for your elucidation: The London Perl Workshop is intended to allow all members of the Perl community to interact, we encourage Perl beginners to learn from long-standing members of the community, while also giving the experts a chance to make easy tasks seem trivial, and hard tasks seem easy. We'd specifically like to encourage people who wouldn't normally speak at, or even come to, Perl events to turn up and to submit talk proposals. We promise we're a lovely bunch of people and we want to hear from people outside the usual circle of Perl mongers. Lastly: Your kind attention and listening prowess is well reported and proveth well to your demeanour and good countenance. I thank you all. The LPW 2008 Organisers. Post Scriptum It reacheth the ears, so scolded and abused, that some noxy na?ve whence seeing lines of script most special and under hidden vexing mayhappenhath spoken in foulest tongue before this gentle chronicle did reach thine ears. Some perhaps have said upon Yapcee day the secondth in talks of lightning hence and hithertoo. Pray, cast it from your mind and the noxious scourge will once again repenteth as on the fields of Agincourt or beneath the heel of fair and loved Charlemaigne. ----- End forwarded message ----- From pm at gavinwestwood.co.uk Tue Aug 19 12:29:49 2008 From: pm at gavinwestwood.co.uk (Gavin Westwood) Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:29:49 +0100 Subject: Meeting: Tuesday 26th August Message-ID: <48AB1F2D.9020902@gavinwestwood.co.uk> It's that time again! The Milton Keynes Linux User Group (MKLUG) and Milton Keynes Perl Mongers social meet up will be held at the Wetherspoons pub, near the railway station (not the one in the snow dome), next door to Chiquitos: http://miltonkeynes.openguides.org/?J.D_Wetherspoon%2C_Central_Milton_Keynes Starting from 8pm, and going on till the last people stumble off home. Feel free to bring your laptop/Linux device along if you want a hand/to show off, but be aware we've had problems with using their Wifi on a couple of occasions... Hope to see you there! Gavin From peter at dragonstaff.com Tue Aug 19 15:00:05 2008 From: peter at dragonstaff.com (Peter Edwards) Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:00:05 +0100 Subject: Meeting: Tuesday 26th August In-Reply-To: <48AB1F2D.9020902@gavinwestwood.co.uk> References: <48AB1F2D.9020902@gavinwestwood.co.uk> Message-ID: <01d901c90247$0538c570$6401a8c0@DRAGON1> I'm on hols but have a good one guys! 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 Gavin Westwood Sent: 19 August 2008 20:30 To: miltonkeynes-pm at pm.org Subject: Meeting: Tuesday 26th August It's that time again! The Milton Keynes Linux User Group (MKLUG) and Milton Keynes Perl Mongers social meet up will be held at the Wetherspoons pub, near the railway station (not the one in the snow dome), next door to Chiquitos: http://miltonkeynes.openguides.org/?J.D_Wetherspoon%2C_Central_Milton_Keynes Starting from 8pm, and going on till the last people stumble off home. Feel free to bring your laptop/Linux device along if you want a hand/to show off, but be aware we've had problems with using their Wifi on a couple of occasions... Hope to see you there! Gavin _______________________________________________ MiltonKeynes-pm mailing list MiltonKeynes-pm at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/miltonkeynes-pm From oliver.gorwits at oucs.ox.ac.uk Wed Aug 20 01:50:55 2008 From: oliver.gorwits at oucs.ox.ac.uk (Oliver Gorwits) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:50:55 +0100 Subject: Follow-up to my tech meet talk - the AJAX CRUD thing in Catalyst/DBIC Message-ID: <48ABDAEF.9000300@oucs.ox.ac.uk> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, At the last tech meet I showed a Catalyst application I'd been working on which generates web front-ends for databases, on the fly. It's now on CPAN and in a pretty usable state, and a few people did seem pretty interested, so here are some details: The ListFramework Builder (LFB) takes your DBIx::Class Schema definition and produces an AJAX CRUD web interface, on the fly. The specific goals are minimal configuration and very quick deployment. LFB doesn't use scaffolding - the interface is dynamically generated from files in the distribution. Table relationships are well supported (belongs_to, has_one, might_have, and has_many), as are auto incrementing primary keys, and many data types. You can see a live demo of the current release of LFB, here[1]: ~ http://dragonstaff.co.uk/oliverg/album Feedback and early adopters are welcome! Drop me a line if you have any questions or comments. Here it is, on CPAN: ~ http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?CatalystX::ListFramework::Builder regards, oliver. [1] Thanks to Peter Edwards / Dragonstaff, for the hosting. - -- Oliver Gorwits, Network and Telecommunications Group, Oxford University Computing Services -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIq9rv2NPq7pwWBt4RArmJAJ4pAwc1ANkQbLZ4K6F/fk0vIpbUDQCgkNfp wEM9ZjAaDne98jGODLkVAxE= =7YiG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From dave at dave.org.uk Fri Aug 22 04:44:53 2008 From: dave at dave.org.uk (Dave Cross) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:44:53 +0100 Subject: Pick A Talk Message-ID: <48AEA6B5.7050501@dave.org.uk> Hello chaps. Tom has very kindly invited me to come and speak to you in a couple of weeks time and I'd like to make up my mind what to talk about. The obvious suggestion is to let you choose one of the talks that I gave in Copenhagen last week. Perhaps someone else who was there would like to share their opinions on the talks. The options are: * Proud to Use Perl http://www.yapceurope2008.org/ye2008/talk/1175 * Perl in RPM-Land http://www.yapceurope2008.org/ye2008/talk/1314 (This is really the only one with any technical content) * Ye Compleat History of Ye Perle Mongers of Olde London Towne (Part 1)? http://www.yapceurope2008.org/ye2008/talk/1176 Please let me know what you think. Dave... From ziya at suzen.net Fri Aug 22 07:50:43 2008 From: ziya at suzen.net (Ziya Suzen) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:50:43 +0100 Subject: Pick A Talk In-Reply-To: <48AEA6B5.7050501@dave.org.uk> References: <48AEA6B5.7050501@dave.org.uk> Message-ID: <7e7471f80808220750l11a349bdvf97dabe0e903488c@mail.gmail.com> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Dave Cross wrote: > * Proud to Use Perl > http://www.yapceurope2008.org/ye2008/talk/1175 This one please. I'd perefer a tech talk, not that I don't like fun stuff - OK! I can be boring sometimes.. :( -z From tom at eborcom.com Mon Aug 25 10:26:09 2008 From: tom at eborcom.com (Tom Hukins) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:26:09 +0100 Subject: Pick A Talk In-Reply-To: <48AEA6B5.7050501@dave.org.uk> References: <48AEA6B5.7050501@dave.org.uk> Message-ID: <20080825172609.GA25883@eborcom.com> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:44:53PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: > Tom has very kindly invited me to come and speak to you in a couple of > weeks time and I'd like to make up my mind what to talk about. Peter has to take the credit for hassling potential speakers in this case. > The obvious suggestion is to let you choose one of the talks that I gave > in Copenhagen last week. Thanks. > * Proud to Use Perl > http://www.yapceurope2008.org/ye2008/talk/1175 This might be interesting. > * Perl in RPM-Land > http://www.yapceurope2008.org/ye2008/talk/1314 > (This is really the only one with any technical content) I'd like to hear this one most as we package our code at work with RPM. > * Ye Compleat History of Ye Perle Mongers of Olde London Towne (Part 1)??? > http://www.yapceurope2008.org/ye2008/talk/1176 I saw this one at the last London.pm technical meeting. While it's quite interesting for people involved with the London group, I doubt it would work so well for our group. Of course, it all depends on what everyone else wants. Tom From oliver.gorwits at oucs.ox.ac.uk Mon Aug 25 10:37:29 2008 From: oliver.gorwits at oucs.ox.ac.uk (Oliver Gorwits) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:37:29 +0100 Subject: Pick A Talk In-Reply-To: <20080825172609.GA25883@eborcom.com> References: <48AEA6B5.7050501@dave.org.uk> <20080825172609.GA25883@eborcom.com> Message-ID: <48B2EDD9.6060006@oucs.ox.ac.uk> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tom Hukins wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:44:53PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: >> * Perl in RPM-Land >> http://www.yapceurope2008.org/ye2008/talk/1314 (This is really >> the only one with any technical content) > > I'd like to hear this one most as we package our code at work > with RPM. +1 from me, too, for the same reason. - -- Oliver Gorwits, Network and Telecommunications Group, Oxford University Computing Services -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIsu3Z2NPq7pwWBt4RAiUHAJ4jP9MXmRDdV5md46vldJ1+ZCbh4gCg5ChR Y5sI74yYq2vHuh5UiXm0l3Q= =vFLh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From pm at gavinwestwood.co.uk Tue Aug 26 03:42:56 2008 From: pm at gavinwestwood.co.uk (Gavin Westwood) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:42:56 +0100 Subject: Meeting: Tuesday 26th August In-Reply-To: <48AB1F2D.9020902@gavinwestwood.co.uk> References: <48AB1F2D.9020902@gavinwestwood.co.uk> Message-ID: <48B3DE30.3020505@gavinwestwood.co.uk> Just to remind people that this is tonight. Hope to see you there! Gavin On 19/08/08 20:29, Gavin Westwood wrote: > It's that time again! > > The Milton Keynes Linux User Group (MKLUG) and Milton Keynes Perl > Mongers social meet up will be held at the Wetherspoons pub, near the > railway station (not the one in the snow dome), next door to Chiquitos: > > http://miltonkeynes.openguides.org/?J.D_Wetherspoon%2C_Central_Milton_Keynes > > Starting from 8pm, and going on till the last people stumble off home. > Feel free to bring your laptop/Linux device along if you want a hand/to > show off, but be aware we've had problems with using their Wifi on a > couple of occasions... >