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Some thing never get old

Monday, August 27th, 2007

This little Perl script I wrote 2 1/2 years ago to recover images from digital camera media is one of them.
It’s weird the way sometimes you spend months working on projects you never look at again, and then other times you write 25 lines of what you think is a one-off, and end up […]

Perl: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Somehow, I managed to resist posting this reply on beginners-perl. Apparently I hate flame wars more than I hate Perl6. Who knew? I still want to put it out there, though:
On 5/14/07, Chas Owens <xxxx.xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
Not that I use them myself, but the “proper” (for various values of
proper) way to use POD for multi-line comments […]

twittersleep: caching twitter while AFK

Friday, March 16th, 2007

Ok, last post about twitter for a while, but I thought I’d share.
One of the things I don’t like about twitter is logging on in the morning to find more tweets than my client will display. Going to twitter.com and hitting “next” a few times isn’t really any answer; it would take all morning at […]

Forcing list context with anonymous arrays

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

In the learn something new every day department, we have this gem from John W. Krahn on the perl beginners list in response to the following question:
I have a file that I would like to read in then
do the following:
[…]

Apology

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

I want to apologize to anyone who’s commented here lately, particularly to Autrijus and grumpy who commented on my Perl6 rant. For some reason, I don’t seem to be getting emails when people comment. I’m looking into it.
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Oh my god, you killed Perl! You bastards!

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

Sorry, couldn’t resist the title. I’ve finally gotten around over the last couple of days to taking a close look at [Perl6](http://dev.perl.org/perl6/). I’m scared. I’ve been excited about the idea of Perl6 since the first rumblings started. A compiler that will compile to bytecode and accept a backed to create native executables? What’s not to […]

Programmer’s Toolkit: newpl

Wednesday, June 1st, 2005

Taking another little break to talk about scripting: `newpl` is a script to write perl script templates. Why? Because most text editors choose the mode to use on a file based on the extension. Some of the good ones (we all have our favorites, I’m a habitual `emacs` user, personally) parse […]

Mixed Networks Admin.: A Little tlp

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

To get back a little more into tech content:
If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time with a lot of xterms open: local session, ssh sessions, database connections, you name it. Keeping track of all those windows can get confusing, especially if you aren’t always at the same physical console. Different […]

[Announce-NY]: Final Perlsemny meeting

Thursday, May 12th, 2005

[Perl Seminar New York](http://groups.yahoo.com/group/perlsemny/) sends the following:
> Our final official meeting for the 2004-05 season will take place on the third Tuesday of May at the usual location:
> Tuesday, May 17, 2005, 6:15-8:15 pm
> NYPC User Group
> 481 8 Avenue (Ramada New Yorker hotel)
> Suite 1560
> between 34th & 35th Sts, Manhattan, right near Penn […]

In which our hero munges a CF card

Thursday, April 28th, 2005

Last week, I did something stupid (an unfortunately frequent occurrence). I was going through my digital camera trying to free up some space on the card and, so I *thought*, protecting the pictures I wanted to keep or hadn’t uploaded yet. When I hit delete, and confirmed that yes, I was absolutely sure I […]