From webmaster at cosmicperl.com  Thu Sep  4 18:23:31 2008
From: webmaster at cosmicperl.com (Lyle)
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:23:31 +0100
Subject: [Bristolbathpm] Free Perl Course Project
Message-ID: <48C01993.400@cosmicperl.com>

Free Perl Course Project

 The idea in this project is that every Perl programmer teach at least 
one other person to code. Be that a family member, friend, work 
colleague, employee, friend of a friend, or even friend of an employee.

Following the success of the Free Perl Course offered by Bristol & Bath 
Perl Mongers this project has been started to encourage other Perl 
groups and programmers to do the same.

Please check out the site:-
http://www.perlproject.org


From webmaster at cosmicperl.com  Thu Sep  4 18:24:33 2008
From: webmaster at cosmicperl.com (Lyle)
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:24:33 +0100
Subject: [Bristolbathpm] Perl Certified Hosting
Message-ID: <48C019D1.2040106@cosmicperl.com>

Perl Certified Hosting

  The idea for this project was put forth by Amias of Bristol & Bath 
Perl Mongers. We are creating a Perl Certified Hosting scheme that will 
be open for all hosting companies to join.

Requirements will include a set list of web related Perl Modules and 
proper webserver configuration.

Please visit the site:-
http://www.perlcertifiedhosting.com

For more details and to get involved with helping this scheme become a 
reality.


From webmaster at cosmicperl.com  Thu Sep  4 18:27:26 2008
From: webmaster at cosmicperl.com (Lyle)
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:27:26 +0100
Subject: [Bristolbathpm] Perl Donation (from everybody)
Message-ID: <48C01A7E.8060501@cosmicperl.com>

Perl Donation (from everybody)

  This scheme has been started with the aim to give the Perl 6 
development budget a big boost.
http://www.perldonate.com

Please take the time to make your small donation. The aim is that we all 
make a small donation so that it amounts to a lot.



From webmaster at cosmicperl.com  Thu Sep  4 18:29:32 2008
From: webmaster at cosmicperl.com (Lyle)
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:29:32 +0100
Subject: [Bristolbathpm] Perl Certification
Message-ID: <48C01AFC.3020007@cosmicperl.com>

Hi All,
  You know I just couldn't resist.

Details:-
http://www.perlcert.com


Lyle


From webmaster at cosmicperl.com  Fri Sep 12 14:32:41 2008
From: webmaster at cosmicperl.com (Lyle)
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:32:41 +0100
Subject: [BristolBathPM] How to impress with Perl?
Message-ID: <48CA6F79.5020803@cosmicperl.com>

Hi All,
  Following my recent visit to the local LUG, next time I go back I want 
to have something to show them. I want to sit down with my lappy, run a 
few different programs, then be able to say 'actually all that was done 
with Perl'.

  I remember downloading an OpenGL program before that had an animated 
robot. All done in Perl. I'm hoping you can tell me about programs and 
examples you've seen done in Perl, the ones that made you think 'I 
didn't know Perl could do that!'.

  The other things I was gonna mention were things like SpamAssassin, 
BugZilla, IMDB, things to make people say 'I didn't realize that was 
done in Perl'.


I'd very much appreciate your input on this...


Lyle


From nigel at turbo10.com  Fri Sep 12 15:41:05 2008
From: nigel at turbo10.com (Nigel Hamilton)
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:41:05 +0100
Subject: [BristolBathPM] How to impress with Perl?
In-Reply-To: <48CA6F79.5020803@cosmicperl.com>
References: <48CA6F79.5020803@cosmicperl.com>
Message-ID: <50fec4060809120741t16eb5641ofd72ead2e66a0a30@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Lyle,

      The LUG guys no doubt know slashdot --- but they may not know that all
the source code is Perl and is freely available at slashcode.com.

Nige


2008/9/12 Lyle <webmaster at cosmicperl.com>

> Hi All,
>  Following my recent visit to the local LUG, next time I go back I want
> to have something to show them. I want to sit down with my lappy, run a
> few different programs, then be able to say 'actually all that was done
> with Perl'.
>
>  I remember downloading an OpenGL program before that had an animated
> robot. All done in Perl. I'm hoping you can tell me about programs and
> examples you've seen done in Perl, the ones that made you think 'I
> didn't know Perl could do that!'.
>
>  The other things I was gonna mention were things like SpamAssassin,
> BugZilla, IMDB, things to make people say 'I didn't realize that was
> done in Perl'.
>
>
> I'd very much appreciate your input on this...
>
>
> Lyle
>
> _______________________________________________
> BristolBathPM mailing list
> BristolBathPM at bristolbath.org
> http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
>
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From alex at alexfrancis.org.uk  Fri Sep 12 16:02:43 2008
From: alex at alexfrancis.org.uk (Alex Francis)
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:02:43 +0100
Subject: [BristolBathPM] How to impress with Perl?
In-Reply-To: <48CA6F79.5020803@cosmicperl.com>
References: <48CA6F79.5020803@cosmicperl.com>
Message-ID: <16afc9550809120802j5f57d525ia46dd3487bcd55df@mail.gmail.com>

Hi

Ref IMDb - pretty much everything is written in perl, we use Mason for
templating. Looking over the site you won't see us doing anything too
unusual in terms of functionality, but if I could tell you the real
traffic numbers your head might well explode. Several orders of
magnitude bigger than the biggest site I've worked on before :-)
Hooray for the attention economy !

Alex

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Lyle <webmaster at cosmicperl.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>  Following my recent visit to the local LUG, next time I go back I want
> to have something to show them. I want to sit down with my lappy, run a
> few different programs, then be able to say 'actually all that was done
> with Perl'.
>
>  I remember downloading an OpenGL program before that had an animated
> robot. All done in Perl. I'm hoping you can tell me about programs and
> examples you've seen done in Perl, the ones that made you think 'I
> didn't know Perl could do that!'.
>
>  The other things I was gonna mention were things like SpamAssassin,
> BugZilla, IMDB, things to make people say 'I didn't realize that was
> done in Perl'.
>
>
> I'd very much appreciate your input on this...
>
>
> Lyle
>
> _______________________________________________
> BristolBathPM mailing list
> BristolBathPM at bristolbath.org
> http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
>

From webmaster at cosmicperl.com  Sat Sep 13 17:03:35 2008
From: webmaster at cosmicperl.com (Lyle)
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:03:35 +0100
Subject: [BristolBathPM] How to impress with Perl?
In-Reply-To: <48CA6F79.5020803@cosmicperl.com>
References: <48CA6F79.5020803@cosmicperl.com>
Message-ID: <48CBE457.7040609@cosmicperl.com>

Found some more:-

http://www.gumtree.com
http://www.craigslist.org



Lyle


Lyle wrote:
> Hi All,
>   Following my recent visit to the local LUG, next time I go back I want 
> to have something to show them. I want to sit down with my lappy, run a 
> few different programs, then be able to say 'actually all that was done 
> with Perl'.
>
>   I remember downloading an OpenGL program before that had an animated 
> robot. All done in Perl. I'm hoping you can tell me about programs and 
> examples you've seen done in Perl, the ones that made you think 'I 
> didn't know Perl could do that!'.
>
>   The other things I was gonna mention were things like SpamAssassin, 
> BugZilla, IMDB, things to make people say 'I didn't realize that was 
> done in Perl'.
>
>
> I'd very much appreciate your input on this...
>
>
> Lyle
>
> _______________________________________________
> BristolBathPM mailing list
> BristolBathPM at bristolbath.org
> http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
>
>   

From webmaster at cosmicperl.com  Sat Sep 13 18:48:36 2008
From: webmaster at cosmicperl.com (Lyle)
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:48:36 +0100
Subject: [BristolBathPM] Half Marathon
Message-ID: <48CBFCF4.6000703@cosmicperl.com>

Hi All,
  Go the Bristol Half marathon tomorrow. Seemed like a good idea months 
ago but I'm certainly not in the shape I'd like to be.

Wish me luck! :~s

p.s. anyone else doing it?

From revford at blueyonder.co.uk  Sat Sep 13 19:31:53 2008
From: revford at blueyonder.co.uk (gav)
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:31:53 +0100
Subject: [BristolBathPM] Half Marathon
In-Reply-To: <48CBFCF4.6000703@cosmicperl.com>
References: <48CBFCF4.6000703@cosmicperl.com>
Message-ID: <20080913183153.GA13712@bluemidget.local>

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 06:48:36PM +0100, Lyle wrote:
> Hi All,
>   Go the Bristol Half marathon tomorrow. Seemed like a good idea months 
> ago but I'm certainly not in the shape I'd like to be.
> 
> Wish me luck! :~s
> 
> p.s. anyone else doing it?

Good luck Man.

My Sister is giving it a go, but it's a bit out of my league.  :)

-- 
Gav Ford
revford at blueyonder.co.uk 
http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk 
I think we need to:  Plug in the graviton flow
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From pmh at edison.ioppublishing.com  Mon Sep 15 09:59:52 2008
From: pmh at edison.ioppublishing.com (Peter Haworth)
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:59:52 +0100
Subject: [BristolBathPM] How to impress with Perl?
References: <48CA6F79.5020803@cosmicperl.com>
Message-ID: <PGM.20080915085952.23868.9273@edison.ioppublishing.com>

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From gr-hopkins at o2.co.uk  Mon Sep 15 11:00:08 2008
From: gr-hopkins at o2.co.uk (Gareth Hopkins)
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:00:08 +0100
Subject: [BristolBathPM] Half Marathon
References: <48CBFCF4.6000703@cosmicperl.com>
Message-ID: <5E1E381FD1EB42B99BDB673200338E30@hopkinstgfz6eq>

Well done on completing the marathon. A lot would have given up after what 
happened.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lyle" <webmaster at cosmicperl.com>
To: "Bristol and Bath Perl M[ou]ngers" <bristolbathpm at bristolbath.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 6:48 PM
Subject: [BristolBathPM] Half Marathon


> Hi All,
>  Go the Bristol Half marathon tomorrow. Seemed like a good idea months
> ago but I'm certainly not in the shape I'd like to be.
>
> Wish me luck! :~s
>
> p.s. anyone else doing it?
> _______________________________________________
> BristolBathPM mailing list
> BristolBathPM at bristolbath.org
> http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
>
>
> -- 
> No virus found in this incoming message.
> Checked by AVG.
> Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.6.18/1658 - Release Date: 
> 07/09/2008 15:30
>
> 


From nigel at turbo10.com  Mon Sep 15 12:09:53 2008
From: nigel at turbo10.com (Nigel Hamilton)
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:09:53 +0100
Subject: [BristolBathPM] How to impress with Perl?
In-Reply-To: <PGM.20080915085952.23868.9273@edison.ioppublishing.com>
References: <48CA6F79.5020803@cosmicperl.com>
	<PGM.20080915085952.23868.9273@edison.ioppublishing.com>
Message-ID: <50fec4060809150409m57fe6b4anb074c4f260635fe9@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Peter,

There's always the old standby: Frozen Bubble, but surely everyone
> already knows that's perl by now?
>
>

I had no idea. That's very cool - my son and I love playing that.

Nige
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From alex at alexfrancis.org.uk  Mon Sep 22 12:24:01 2008
From: alex at alexfrancis.org.uk (Alex Francis)
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:24:01 +0100
Subject: [BristolBathPM] The language from which the gods wrought the
	universe...
Message-ID: <16afc9550809220424s48f61aacu24eaa245930d4e39@mail.gmail.com>

Y'all seen this?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite-programmer-cartoon#85259

Alex

From revford at blueyonder.co.uk  Mon Sep 22 13:33:48 2008
From: revford at blueyonder.co.uk (gav)
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:33:48 +0100
Subject: [BristolBathPM] The language from which the gods wrought
	the	universe...
In-Reply-To: <16afc9550809220424s48f61aacu24eaa245930d4e39@mail.gmail.com>
References: <16afc9550809220424s48f61aacu24eaa245930d4e39@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20080922123348.GA7026@bluemidget.local>


Cheers for the link, a few nice ones there.

I just can't help loving this one:

http://xkcd.com/221/

But for the sake of this list:

sub getrandomnumber {return(4)}; #Chosen by a fair dice roll.  Guaranteed to be random


-- 
Gav Ford
revford at blueyonder.co.uk 
http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk 
I think we need to:  Plug in the booster container
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From alex at alexfrancis.org.uk  Mon Sep 22 14:34:38 2008
From: alex at alexfrancis.org.uk (Alex Francis)
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:34:38 +0100
Subject: [BristolBathPM] The language from which the gods wrought the
	universe...
In-Reply-To: <20080922123348.GA7026@bluemidget.local>
References: <16afc9550809220424s48f61aacu24eaa245930d4e39@mail.gmail.com>
	<20080922123348.GA7026@bluemidget.local>
Message-ID: <16afc9550809220634g1550e6baq9fb3ce39b6a2d5f3@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:33 PM, gav <revford at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Cheers for the link, a few nice ones there.
>
> I just can't help loving this one:
>
> http://xkcd.com/221/
>
> But for the sake of this list:
>
> sub getrandomnumber {return(4)}; #Chosen by a fair dice roll.  Guaranteed to be random
>
>
> --
> Gav Ford

I liked that one, especially because it reminds me of that scenario
where you're working with a customer facing person (product manager,
tech support, whoever it is) and they want you to build something but
they're too busy to really explain what. So you go ahead and build
something that is blindingly obviously not what they actually want,
just to make a point. Not that I've ever done that, or would condone
such behaviour.

I kinda like the sentiment in the one I linked to, that you might
start out intending to write something in some clean, abstract
language, but half way through when you realise you're a bit shafted,
you reach for perl as the quick, magic glue to fill in all the blanks
and actually make the components work together and so forth.

Alex

From webmaster at cosmicperl.com  Mon Sep 22 15:31:28 2008
From: webmaster at cosmicperl.com (Lyle)
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:31:28 +0100
Subject: [BristolBathPM] The language from which the gods wrought the
 universe...
In-Reply-To: <16afc9550809220424s48f61aacu24eaa245930d4e39@mail.gmail.com>
References: <16afc9550809220424s48f61aacu24eaa245930d4e39@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <48D7AC40.4000304@cosmicperl.com>

Well worth the chuckle  ;)


Lyle