user Errto  Finally got around to putting something on here after several months. Recent news about me includes: <ul><li>Moved into a snazzy new fifth floor apartment, and now have as a roommate PM's very own [ChemBoy]. Update: Left that apartment, moved into an even snazzier duplex condo. Same roommate</li> <li>Finally got my hands on a respectable Linux server to play with at work, and I am actually writing my first substantial work-related Perl program (an SQL-based-report-generator-sort-of-thingy). Where by substantial I mean more than a few dozen lines. I don't have "official" management approval to actually deploy Perl code in production, but I plan to make a very good case for it. UpdateThis didn't happen.</li> <li>Actually started implementing my first real Perl project for work, a deskop app for Win32 with a combined web/Tk interface. I get to use [cpan://HTTP::Daemon], [cpan://XML::LibXSLT], [cpan://LWP], [cpan://Tk], [cpan://CGI::Simple], [cpan://Win32::GUI]*, [cpan://DBD::SQLite],[cpan://Text::xSV] and <strike>[cpan://PAR]</strike> all in the same program. [cpan://HTTP::Proxy] helped tremendously with debugging. Woohoo!</li> <li>Still looking for a nice user image for my home node here. Update: got one! This is a view from the window in my office, captured on my mediocre phone camera. If you know New Haven, you can probably figure out where this is (/msg me to check).</li> <li>I became the 400th [id://3559|Saint] on Monday 29 August 2005 at approximately 11:30 PM EDT.</li> </ul> Relevant links: <ul><li>Explanation of my [id://413099|name]</li> <li>What I [id://361312|do] for a living</li> </ul> I learned an interesting thing about PerlMonks yesterday. Anyone is free to ask questions, but not all questions (even those that rigorously follow the advice given in [id://172086] ) are of equal merit. It's also important that your question be of interest to at least some reasonable portion of the general audience. After lurking for two years as [Anonymous Monk] and then spending several months exclusively answering questions, I finally posted one of my own at [id://422308]. At one point its rep was -2, making it my worst node ever! I couldn't think of what I had done wrong. But then I realized the problem - my question offered no opportunity for discussion or enlightenment, and therefore should probably have been asked on a PAR mailing list or some such. A humbling experience, to be sure. My list of intriguing and/or useful nodes: <ul><li>[id://141063] - similar to a problem I have been struggling with at work (how to combine a database query with the results of a separate full-text search engine)</li> <li>[id://302003] - cool way to set up a desktop web application</li> <li>[id://415908] - discussion that inspired me to start the project mentioned above</li> <li>[id://93583] - saved me from total despair after many hours of trying to coax LWP to post to an ASP script, and <strike>further deepened my feelings of Microsoft suckiness</strike>. This was later revealed to not be Microsoft's fault. One of my esteemed colleagues decided to dump a referer check into the common authentication module and not tell anyone, and said check responds with a redirect back to the same address.</li> <li>[id://395397] - quick and easy way to produce a nice Windows desktop installer for an app</li> <li>[id://22319] - my favorite obfu on the site. It doesn't try to confuse you with sheer volume of trickery. It has a single ingenious idea; not the sort of thing you think of every day, yet not hard to understand once you read it closely.</li> </ul> (*) In case you were wondering why I would use Win32::GUI and Tk in the same program: Tk is because I like it better and I want my program to be portable, Win32::GUI is because I want the Win32 version to have a taskbar icon. 2011-05-15 23:27:01 6421 359816 503723 585 New Haven, CT, USA America/New_York