From tony.edwardson at usa.net Mon May 10 13:47:57 2010 From: tony.edwardson at usa.net (Tony Edwardson) Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 21:47:57 +0100 Subject: Next Tech Meet Message-ID: <4BE870FD.2040708@usa.net> Hi All In order to finally do something to organise the next Tech meet as I promised to do, would anyone like to volunteer to do a talk ? Cheers Tony From tony.edwardson at usa.net Thu May 13 11:34:01 2010 From: tony.edwardson at usa.net (Tony Edwardson) Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 19:34:01 +0100 Subject: Fwd: Conex Europe - Perl Update Message-ID: <4BEC4619.60908@usa.net> Interested anyone ? -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Conex Europe - Perl Update Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 15:37:38 +0100 From: Matthew Geppert To: Tony.Edwardson at usa.net Dear Tony Hope you are well. Are you thinking about looking for a new opportunity? or just interested in the market conditions? please get in touch ASAP as I will be able to send your CV out of multiple of my clients within 24hours. Please find below an example: of a current requirement (I have several others) Senior Perl Developer - Salary Competitive (with scope for increased responsibility) - London A London based market leading application service provider providing niche web based services to a majority of the top-tier financial institutions urgently need 2 senior perl developers working to develop, enhance, maintain and support the companys hosted services. The applications delivering the services generally have an interactive user interface component delivered as dynamic web pages over the Internet as well as a series of significant server based data processing components. The role offers the opportunity to work in a small company setting with other skilled developers to produce high quality software where good work is both recognised and rewarded. Essentials: * Self-motivated, pro-active and autonomous, with good team-working skills * Ability to absorb and retain complex business and technical information rapidly * Excellent design and software development skills * Experience in software development for *nix / web deployment * SQL and relational data modelling skills * OO design skills, including the ability to apply appropriate OO patterns * Linux / Apache / MySQL / Perl * GnuPG / CVS / IPTABLES * Good communication skills and the ability to liaise with technical contacts at clients, and to provide telephone support to end users Desirable: * Experience in developing for financial markets or experience developing in the LAMP stack If you are keen in the above, please let me know asap. Best regards, Matthew Geppert 01708 716 880 matt at conexeurope.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tom at eborcom.com Mon May 17 02:30:58 2010 From: tom at eborcom.com (Tom Hukins) Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 10:30:58 +0100 Subject: Perl 5.12.1 is now available Message-ID: <20100517093058.GU48517@eborcom.com> Following on from the recent release of Perl 5.12.0, we now have 5.12.1 which patches a few problems in the earlier release. I'm impressed with the work Jesse has done on regularly releasing Perl and thought I would share the good news with you all. The perldelta link in the announcement contains details of the changes. Tom ----- Forwarded message from Jesse Vincent ----- Mailing-List: contact perl5-porters-help at perl.org; run by ezmlm X-List-Archive: List-Id: Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 19:10:15 -0400 From: Jesse Vincent To: perl5-porters at perl.org Subject: Perl 5.12.1 is now available "Now suppose," chortled Dr. Breed, enjoying himself, "that there were many possible ways in which water could crystallize, could freeze. Suppose that the sort of ice we skate upon and put into highballs??? what we might call ice-one???is only one of several types of ice. Suppose water always froze as ice-one on Earth because it had never had a seed to teach it how to form ice-two, ice-three, ice-four ...? And suppose," he rapped on his desk with his old hand again, "that there were one form, which we will call ice-nine???a crystal as hard as this desk???with a melting point of, let us say, one-hundred degrees Fahrenheit, or, better still, a melting point of one-hundred- and-thirty degrees." -- Kurt Vonnegut, /Cat's Cradle/ It gives me great pleasure to announce Perl 5.12.1, the second stable release of Perl 5.12. You can (or will shortly be able to) download Perl 5.12.1 from your favorite CPAN mirror or from: http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/perl-5.12.1/ SHA1 digests for this release are: 75a8a17cec15d68c6bb959b0aa9879d2ded6f90d perl-5.12.1.tar.bz2 83b99f08379782dc06594a85eeb279edc5b0ca44 perl-5.12.1.tar.gz This release contains minor bug fixes and updates of several core modules, as well as minor documentation updates. It should be fully backward compatible with Perl 5.12.0. Perl 5.12.1 is a recommended upgrade for all users of Perl 5.12. You can find a full list of changes in the file "perl5121delta.pod" located in the "pod" directory inside the release and on the web at: http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/perl-5.12.1/pod/perl5121delta.pod Perl 5.12.1 represents approximately four weeks of development since Perl 5.12.0 and contains approximately 4,000 lines of changes across 142 files from 28 authors. Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant community of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.12.1: ?var Arnfj?r? Bjarmason, Chris Williams, chromatic, Craig A. Berry, David Golden, Father Chrysostomos, Florian Ragwitz, Frank Wiegand, Gene Sullivan, Goro Fuji, H.Merijn Brand, James E Keenan, Jan Dubois, Jesse Vincent, Josh ben Jore, Karl Williamson, Leon Brocard, Michael Schwern, Nga Tang Chan, Nicholas Clark, Niko Tyni, Philippe Bruhat, Rafael Garcia-Suarez, Ricardo Signes, Steffen Mueller, Todd Rinaldo, Vincent Pit and Zefram. We expect to release Perl 5.12.2 in mid-August 2010, followed by Perl 5.12.3 in mid-November. The next major release of Perl 5, 5.14.0 should appear in spring 2011. Best, Jesse Vincent, on behalf of the Perl 5 Porters. ----- End forwarded message ----- From andyfrommk at googlemail.com Tue May 18 13:58:00 2010 From: andyfrommk at googlemail.com (Andy Selby) Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 21:58:00 +0100 Subject: Meeting: Tuesday 25th of May Message-ID: The monthly MKLUG/MiltonKeynes.pm meet-up is nearly upon us! As ever, it will be held at the Wetherspoons pub, near the railway station (not the one in the snow dome), next door to Chiquitos: http://osm.org/go/eu4qJDHoE-- Starting from 7pm, and going on till the last people stumble off home. We usually inhabit one of the two large curved tables in front of the bar. Feel free to bring your laptop/Linux device along if you want a hand/to show off.