brainbuz on 6 Jan 2014 07:49:21 -0800 |
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Re: [Philadelphia-pm] Meeting schedule |
The 6:12 from 30th St gets to Paoli at 6:37, the rest of the time it takes 50 minutes. Going back Septa trains run 60-90 minutes apart, but it looks like faster Amtrak trains may also be available and only slightly more expensive. > We'd be happy to host sometimes at DuckDuckGo, especially as an > occasional location change-up. We're in Paoli right off (walking > distance) from SEPTA/Amtrak on R5/30th street trains. Right across the > street is a good place for after b(urger|eer)s: http://tjseveryday.com/ > > Wrt Unicode, not the worlds expert but we do deal with that and would be > happy to contribute to a discussion on it. I find myself essentially > relearning it every year when some pernicious bug comes up and enough > time has passed where some of the details have atrophied. Practically, I > find myself coming back to these two pages each time, which is where I > would recommend starting (in that order): > > http://www.ahinea.com/en/tech/perl-unicode-struggle.html > http://perldoc.perl.org/perlunicode.html > > One thing that has tripped me up repeatedly but not listed on either is > your terminal encoding. If you're messing around with Unicode but your > terminal encoding is not set to UTF-8 or something like it you're going > to have trouble seeing output correctly. One nightmare recently resulted > from having two terminal windows open, one with a UTF-8 encoding and one > without, and me trying to figure out what was wrong with my code (answer > NOTHING). > > -- > Gabriel, http://ye.gg/ > > On Sun, Jan 5, 2014, at 06:02 PM, Walt Mankowski wrote: >> Several people emailed me today asking if we were going to have a >> meeting tomorrow. I've got admit, our current "first Monday of the >> month" schedule has become really bad for me. In September I started >> teaching a class at Drexel that meets every Tuesday at 9:30 in the >> morning. It's a 3-term course. Part 2 starts on Tuesday and runs >> through mid-March. Part 3 will start in April and run until June, and >> I'm guessing it's likely to meet Tuesday mornings as well. I've never >> taught this course (or anything else!) before, and I like to spend >> Monday evenings preparing for class. >> >> So some other day of the week would work better for me. >> >> John Karr emailed me a few days to suggest a topic: >> >> > I'm working on a project where I have to deal with character >> > encoding issues a lot. I'd like to suggest a Unicode Gripe and >> > Solutions session. >> >> That sounds like a great topic to me. I've never had to deal with >> unicode programmatically so I couldn't contribute anything, but I'd >> like to hear what people have to say in case I ever do. >> >> I'd like to also suggest that if anyone has any topic suggestions, >> please send them to the mailing list instead of to me directly. This >> is doubly true if you're going to email me on a holiday when I'm about >> to head out of town for the better part of two days and am likely to >> forget about your email when I get back. :) >> >> So, to answer the questions, no, we don't have a meeting scheduled for >> tomorrow. I'm not even sure if we even have the room scheduled. I >> suppose there's still time to organize a social meeting, but I >> probably won't make it. >> >> Walt >> _______________________________________________ >> Philadelphia-pm mailing list >> Philadelphia-pm@pm.org >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/philadelphia-pm >> Email had 1 attachment: >> + signature.asc >> 1k (application/pgp-signature) > _______________________________________________ > Philadelphia-pm mailing list > Philadelphia-pm@pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/philadelphia-pm > _______________________________________________ Philadelphia-pm mailing list Philadelphia-pm@pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/philadelphia-pm