user roboticus <hr> <h3>Nodes with code I ought to revisit and play with:</h3> <ul> <li>[id://906085]</li><li>[id://937249]</li><li>[id://953743]</li><li>[id://988117]</li><li>[id://951711]</li><li>[id://980987]</li> </ul> <h3>Handy links</h3> <ul> <li>[id://645432] Some perl innards (UTF .. scalar...)</li> <li>[id://3737] A homepage w/ a couple of good refs</li> <li>[id://794918|PDF-->HTML via ghostscript]</li> <li>[id://556602]</li> <li>[id://542896]</li> <li>Modules</li> <ul> <li>[id://1015622]</li> <li>[id://413799] Accessing perl internals</li> <li>[id://51012]</li> <li>[id://165253] I don't do http, but for those who do...</li> <li>[id://284436]</li> <li>[id://653503] (usage of Inline C)</li> <li>[id://153486] (see Windows Stuff section, too)</li> </ul> <li>Perl syntax & semantics</li> <ul> <li>[http://perl.plover.com/FAQs/Namespaces.html|Coping with scoping] (offsite)</li> <li>[id://343572] Why you shouldn't!</li> <li>[id://518444] Regex goodness!</li> <li>[id://870882] Spiffy read regexes from file w/ capture</li> <li>[id://519396]</li> <li>[id://564792] Interesting operator combo</li> <li>[http://www.perl.com/language/misc/fmproto.html|Far More Than Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know about Prototypes in Perl] (perl.com)</li> <li>[http://perl.plover.com/varvarname.html|Why it's stupid to 'use a variable as a variable name']</li> <li>[http://perl.plover.com/varvarname2.html|Why it's stupid to 'use a variable as a variable name' part 2]</li> <li>[http://perl.plover.com/varvarname3.html|Why it's stupid to 'use a variable as a variable name' part 3]</li> </ul> <li>Debugging Tips</li> <ul> <li>[id://509118]</li> <li>[id://45547]</li> </ul> <li>Perl Environment</li> <ul> <li>[id://541750] Changing memory limit in Cygwin</li> <li>[id://693828] Installing modules without root privs</li> <li>[id://760249|HOW2: Install & use old CPAN module without disrupting your installation]</li> </ul> <li>Pack/Unpack <ul> <li>[id://224666]</li> </ul></li> <li>Grep/Map/Merge/Search/Sort</li> <ul> <li>[id://128722]</li> <li>[id://569939] Sort & map demo</li> <li>[id://596095] Merge sort #1</li> <li>[id://682287] Merge sort pseudocode</li> </ul> <li>Regular Expressions</li> <ul> <li>[planetscape|Planetscapes'] [id://696693|My Favorite Regex Tools]</li> </ul> <li>Unicode Someday, I simply *must* learn all the Unicode plumbing. I wonder why it's so complex. I'm squirreling this stuff away towards the day when I need it: </li> <ul> <li>[http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6162484/why-does-modern-perl-avoid-utf-8-by-default]</li> <li>[http://mark.stosberg.com/blog/2010/12/percent-encoding-uris-in-perl.html]</li> </ul> <li>PerlMonks usage</li> <ul> <li>[http://perl.plover.com/FAQs/Buffering.html|Suffering from Buffering] (offsite)</li> <li>[http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html|ESR's "How To Ask questions The Smart Way"] (offsite)</li> <li>[id://17642]</li> <li>[id://43037]</li> <li>[id://172086]</li> <li>[id://486641] Move "Vote!" button with CSS in "Display Settings"</li> <li>[id://510718]</li> <li>[id://596792]</li> <li>[id://657488]</li> <li>[id://769581] Put green bar to left of <readmore> tags</li> </ul> <li>Windows Stuff</li> <ul> <li>[http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/perl/word.html|Word and PERL] (offsite)</li> <li>[http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/04/21/win32ole.html|Automating Windows Apps] (perl.com)]</li> <li>SOAP</li> <ul> <li>[id://987065|Collection of PM XML links]</li> </ul> <li>Win32 <ul> <li>[id://153486]</li> <li>[http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=6715|Tek-tips: use Win32::OLE to drive Excel</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <li>Recommeded Reading for Newbies</li> <ul> <li>[id://494009] Also tips for learning Perl</li> <li>[id://553487] It's important to get your interfaces right sooner rather than later</li> <li>[id://594413] data structures</li> </ul> <li>FAQs</li> <ul> <li>[id://928062|Read from STDIN when available] allow console input while code is running</li> <li>[id://548416|Bidirectional socket communication]</li> </ul> Interesting nodes/threads: <ul> <li>[id://128286]</li> <li>[id://197008]</li> <li>[id://394168]</li> <li>[id://386531]</li> <li>[id://393792]</li> <li>[id://542789] Explanation of an obfu</li> <li>[id://558342]</li> <li>[id://812368] Unicode hints</li> </ul> My better nodes: Apparently not many! ;^) <ul> <li>[id://554423]</li> <li>[id://557196]</li> <li>[id://569984]</li> <li>[id://737573]</li> <li>[id://937249]</li> <li>[id://963012]</li> <li>[id://963824]</li> </ul> CUFP node(s) <ul> <li>[id:/1019055]</li> <li>...car ROI toy ... where did I put that?</li> </ul> Stuff I should play with, should the time arise: <ul> <li>[id://553416] PM XML interface links</li> <li>[id://869200] CPAN dependency graph stuff</li> </ul> Unsorted stuff: <ul> <li>[id://543280]</li> <li>[id://465955]</li> <li>[id://548184]</li> <li>[id://499479]</li> <li>[id://544195]</li> <li>[id://553004]</li> <li>[id://551926]</li> <li>[id://552887]</li> </ul> Last few changes: <ul> <li>2K130129: Added Win/SOAP, trivial format & content fixes</li> <li>2K120425: Added a 'my better' node.</li> <li>2K120414: Added debug link, noted mcdarren's site status.</li> <li>2K120411: Added Unicode links</li> </ul> </ul> 2013-05-19 11:06:12 23883 542721 550715 %Y%m%d %H:%M 2321 Louisville, KY</td></tr><tr><td>Made <a href="/?node=Saints in our Book">"The Book":</a></td><td>Aug 03, 2007 America/New_York 85 &01;  on