From paul.weaver at bbc.co.uk  Mon Oct  8 19:47:36 2012
From: paul.weaver at bbc.co.uk (Paul Weaver)
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 19:47:36 +0100
Subject: Current State of Auntie Beeb
In-Reply-To: <CACB3aYWfHf+ubbYgjiLxtbVjfndRynPHKY6Rf7VYnjJp7J33kQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Message-ID: <F498D6FC3BD0E1498AC6D331904E7F050172DB37@bbcxues22.national.core.bbc.co.uk>

We use a lot of perl internally in News. Not just monitoring, but in the
TV production chain. Pretty much anything you see that's not live, and
comes from abroad, comes in via perl. Just this evening I've written a
few new lines of perl code which I've deployed to servers in Islamabad,
Brussels and Moscow.

The last entirely new perl code I created was in March, a jquery front
end/perl backend to control some video encoders.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: london.pm-bounces at london.pm.org [mailto:london.pm-
> bounces at london.pm.org] On Behalf Of Ashley Hindmarsh
> Sent: 26 September 2012 12:16
> To: london.pm at london.pm.org
> Subject: Re: Current State of Auntie Beeb
> 
> >
> >
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 22:40:52 +0100
> > From: Simon Wistow <simon at thegestalt.org>
> > Subject: Current State of Auntie Beeb
> > To: "london.pm" <london.pm at london.pm.org>
> > Message-ID: <20120925214052.GO9776 at thegestalt.org>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> >
> > Out of interest which bits of the Beeb are still Perl? Are l.pm-ers
> > still there? And where does http://news.bbc.co.uk fit into
everything
> > these days?
> >
> >
> >
> Well, there's me, and a several others working in Publishing Services.
> 
> Perl products in our area are:
>  * PIPS (programme metadata database).
>  * Dynamite (client-facing: programme metadata feeds)
>  * Media Selector (client-facing: media access/security), which is
very
> Modern Perl (thanks mainly to pdcawley)
> 
> There's other odd projects out there too.
> 
> No new Perl projects though.
> 
> Don't think the News homepage has anything to do with Perl these days.
> 
>   Ash

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From david at cantrell.org.uk  Wed Oct 10 12:42:25 2012
From: david at cantrell.org.uk (David Cantrell)
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:42:25 +0100
Subject: FLOSS UK Unconference 27th October
Message-ID: <20121010114225.GI16027@bytemark.barnyard.co.uk>

I was asked to forward this to the list.  So I have:

> Could you please post to the London.pm mailing list about the FLOSS UK
> Unconference on the 27th October.
> It is being held at the BCS building in Southampton Street, Covent
> Garden and is free with lunch provided.  We would really like to have
> talk on any subject related to free software and hardware, and
> previous events suggest that there will be a fair amount of general
> discussion separate to the talks as well.
> 
> Further details are available from
> http://www.flossuk.org/Events/Unconference2012

-- 
David Cantrell | top google result for "topless karaoke murders"

    Wow, my first sigquoting! I feel so special now!
        -- Dan Sugalski

From acme at astray.com  Wed Oct 10 19:53:38 2012
From: acme at astray.com (Leon Brocard)
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:53:38 +0100
Subject: Wanted: Speakers for London.pm Technical Meeting
Message-ID: <20121010185338.GA12933@gmail.com>

Hello everybody!

I'm trying to organise a technical meeting for the 2012-10-30 in Victoria
London. I'm looking for a few speakers for 20 minute talks. Perhaps you might
like to practice your London Perl Workshop talk? Could you email me offlist if
you're interested?

Cheers, Leon.

From arunragini at gmail.com  Thu Oct 11 21:29:10 2012
From: arunragini at gmail.com (Arun ragini)
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 01:59:10 +0530
Subject: anti-javascript-perl-6
Message-ID: <CALbP1_XHDttbfQAH7MkxRrOFuTWz561Ow_ufMiM895X4rXigAw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi All,

Just in case some one didn't noticed check out
http://css.dzone.com/articles/anti-javascript-perl-6


Thanks to Perl
my career started with it.
-- 
www.opensourcer.net

From davehodg at gmail.com  Fri Oct 12 00:05:23 2012
From: davehodg at gmail.com (DAVID HODGKINSON)
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:05:23 +0100
Subject: anti-javascript-perl-6
In-Reply-To: <CALbP1_XHDttbfQAH7MkxRrOFuTWz561Ow_ufMiM895X4rXigAw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CALbP1_XHDttbfQAH7MkxRrOFuTWz561Ow_ufMiM895X4rXigAw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <8388C20E-935C-4D1A-8B23-A1CF031499ED@me.com>


On 11 Oct 2012, at 21:29, Arun ragini <arunragini at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Just in case some one didn't noticed check out
> http://css.dzone.com/articles/anti-javascript-perl-6

"And people would evaluate the new language on its merits rather than being prejudiced by previous experience with Perl."

No, it will be tarred with the write-only line noise brush.

Damien was right.