User since: Jun 23, 2002 at 06:02 UTC Last here: May 21, 2013 at 10:14 UTC (5 hours ago) Experience: 25608 Level: Canon (20) Writeups: 1122 Location: Australia User's localtime: May 21, 2013 at 15:19 UTC Scratchpad: View

I like programming in Perl. Though I don't get to use it as much as I'd like. My two main hobbies nowadays are space stuff and Perl.

My best node: Saturn

Coding Standards and Style

• On Coding Standards and Code Reviews
• Why Create Coding Standards and Perform Code Reviews?
• Writing Solid CPAN Modules
• On Interfaces and APIs
• Two Different Languages: Two Similar Books (PBP and CCS)
• Modern Perl: The Book: The Draft
• Re: I need perl coding standards
• Re: Meaning of "Clean" Perl code
• Re: What is modern Perl?
• Re: Strategies for maintenance of horrible code?
• Re^4: What's it with Perl Syntax ?!
• Re: Where Do I Go Next?
• Re: eval question
• perl certification
• Code style advice: where to put "use" statements?
• Perl Best Practices book: is this one a best practice or a dodgy practice?
• Perl Elitist Code vs Functional Code
• Practical example of "Is Perl code maintainable"
• How should I do (and document) effective semi-formal code review?

Rosetta Code

• Tales from writing a RPN evaluator in Perl 5, Perl 6 and Haskell
• Five Ways to Reverse a String of Words (C#, Perl 5, Perl 6, Ruby, Haskell)
• Yet Another Rosetta Code Problem (Perl, Ruby, Python, Haskell, ...)
• Rosetta PGA-TRAM
• Rosetta code: Split an array into chunks
• Re^2: Perlplexation - foreach shoulda Known

The Lighter Side of Perl Culture

• The Lighter Side of Perl Culture (Part I): Introduction
• The Lighter Side of Perl Culture (Part II): JAPH
• The Lighter Side of Perl Culture (Part III): Obfu
• The Lighter Side of Perl Culture (Part IV): Golf
• The Lighter Side of Perl Culture (Part V): Poetry
• The Lighter Side of Perl Culture (Part VI): April Fools
• The History of Acme::Bleach and Acme::EyeDrops

Golf

• The golf course looks great, my swing feels good, I like my chances (Part I)
• The golf course looks great, my swing feels good, I like my chances (Part II)
• The golf course looks great, my swing feels good, I like my chances (Part III)
• The golf course looks great, my swing feels good, I like my chances (Part IV)
• The golf course looks great, my swing feels good, I like my chances (Part V)
• The golf course looks great, my swing feels good, I like my chances (Part VI)
• Spending Time on Saving Time [golf]
• Drunk on golf: 99 Bottles of Beer
• Compression in Golf: Part I
• Compression in Golf: Part II
• Compression in Golf: Part III
• Dueling Flamingos: The Story of the Fonality Christmas Golf Challenge
• Golf: Magic Formula for Roman Numerals
• When One Golfer Speculates On What Another Is Doing...

• Re^2: Golf: Length of longest line in a file
• Re^3: Counting positive numbers
• Re: pi and some continued fractions
• Re^2: Mini-Tutorial: Working with Odd/Even Elements
• Re: Golf: Sudoku solving
• Re^3: Perl Golf Ethics
• Re: Rot13 Challenge
• Re^3: Golf: Count unique words
• Golf: ROT-n
• Golf: Fix de facto HTML comments
• Competition fuels obsession over Perl
• Friday Golf: All 2-digit combinations
• Pascal-Sierpinski for golfers
• Diamonds for fun
• Golf for unique digits

Process

• Common Software Development Mistakes
• On Interviewing and Interview Questions
• On Finding, Hiring, Inspiring and Keeping
• Re: About 'Show me your Code'
• Nobody Expects the Agile Imposition (Part I): Meta Process
• Nobody Expects the Agile Imposition (Part II): The Office
• Nobody Expects the Agile Imposition (Part III): People
• Nobody Expects the Agile Imposition (Part IV): Teamwork
• Nobody Expects the Agile Imposition (Part V): Meetings
• Nobody Expects the Agile Imposition (Part VI): Architecture
• An interesting rebuttal of "agile"
• Re: Perlmonks SmartPhone App
• Swallowing an elephant in 10 easy steps
• Re: Overtime: the "Bad News" Warning Sign

Fun

• Spinning World
• Larry Witticisms from perl Errors
• Snow flake
• Perl Monopoly Board
• Running a Perl Quiz Night
• Somersaulting camel
• Bitrotten obfuscations
• Re: S‎crip‎tome and Perl One-Liners
• Add "Image Miniatures" to your HTML
• Re: regex to find vowels in anyorder
• Re: One Liners
• A brief history of Perl 6 development in haiku

QA and Testing

• Perl CPAN test metadata
• Re: Winning people over to better development practises
• What is the best way to add tests to existing code?
• Organising Large Test Suites
• Testing failures: How to override print to make it fail?
• Re: I need perl coding standards
• Quality, Developers and Testers: Organisational Issues
• Re: How can I use Perl knowledge in my Software Testing career
• Re: Philosophical question about testing
• Re: Test Case Generator

XML

• Stepping up from XML::Simple to XML::LibXML
• Perl XML FAQ
• Some questions from beginning user of XML::LibXML and XPath
• XML::LibXML and namespaces
• XPATH DOM traverse html/xml
• XML Newbie
• XML::SAX::ExpatXS - stop parsing?
• chromatic article about XML::Rabbit (XML::LibXML::Augment mentioned in a comment)

Other

• Unix shell versus Perl
• Ensuring only one copy of a perl s‎crip‎t is running at a time
• Re: Lock File
• Weird anomaly in brian_d_foy experience points
• Have BrowserUk and sundialsvc4 gone on holiday together?
• BrowserUk Missing but not Forgotten
• Re: Selected best nodes - nothing recent, why?
• Some recent DNA threads
• Re: Proposal: eliminate down-votes
• Re^3: Short and easy way to write if...elsif syntax
• Re: Why do people say 'Perl' is dead?!?!
• Re: Perl Monks in numbers?
• Re: I have been away from perl for a long time. Need suggestions for getting back in the game!
• Past Polls

PM FAQs

• Use strict warnings and diagnostics (earlier version: Use strict warnings and diagnostics or die)
• Use strict and warnings
• RFC: Tutorial: use strict; now what!?

• 101 reasons to use strict;
• The power of strict typo-checking
• On Commenting Out 'use strict;'
• Why We Use Strict!
• The strictures, according to Seuss

• What is the best way to master perl
• Re: Real Life Perl Exercises
• Re: Perl Exercises: For Beginners
• Problems to solve for Perl Beginners
• Small Perl quests for a beginner?
• In need of guidance
• Perl Puzzles
• Additional exercises for "Learning Perl" book?
• Want to be a part of a project
• Forgetting Syntax, Forgetting logic, Heck, Should I even try keep learning Perl??
• Whats the average time taken to learn Perl?
• Re^2: Bling Bling (or: Teaching Perl to Teenagers)
• Learning Fundamentals: Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in Perl
• Best ways of learning Perl!
• seeking direction to start with perl
• how can I learn well
• Recommended Reading

• Best Perl Books of All Time
• If I could only own one Perl book, it would be:
• (Perl) Programming Books like the Camel Book
• Which Book
• Re: Book question
• So what is your Perl book "Trilogy" anyway?
• Books to master Perl, LAMP and web development
• Network Programming with Perl Book Recommendation
• What book would be valuable to someone self-taught?
• New Beginning Perl book due out in August
• Perl Videos and Book (followed by re-asking in Perl Book OOPS)
• Programming Perl
• Please guide me regarding good books/resources on data structures and algorithms

See these PM nodes:

• RFC: How to Release Modules on CPAN in 2011
• Best Module Starter?
• José's Guide for creating Perl modules
• Writing Solid CPAN Modules
• Simple Module Tutorial
• How to make a CPAN Module Distribution

And these external references:

• Starting a module with Module::Starter (Perl Training Australia)
• Writing Perl Modules for CPAN book by Sam Tregar (also available as free pdf at Online Web Library)

• Repainting the Monastery

• Suffering from Buffering
• Perl tip: Buffering and IO::Handle

• Example response: how to learn Perl

• Re: Hello World for module writers

• Re: Teaching Regular Expression Pattern Matching
• Re: Hiding your S‎crip‎t
• Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler
• Re: cannot modify LINUX env vars

• Memory is not released back to operating system
• Re: Not able to release memory
• Re^3: How to return unused memory to OS?

• comparing lists and getting an exemtion report

• Re: Alias vs Reference

• Re: Matching and nonmatching multiple regexps at once

• Re: file compare and renaming

• How to hide the console window when GUI s‎crip‎t is run.

• Syntax explanation required (perldoc -q duplicate)

• Timing and timing out Unix commands
• Timing Windows commands
• Backticks and SIGALRM
• trying to get timeout to work
• Signals vs. Windows
• Windows run an exe print its output and cut it off after a time

• Why String eval and symbolic references are evil (advice from MJD and merlyn)
• General Advice from MJD
• MJD on fish

• How do I post a question effectively?
• XY Problem
• How (Not) To Ask A Question
• On asking for help
• PerlMonks for the Absolute Beginner
• How do I compose an effective node title?
• Re: RFC - shortform posting guidance for newcomers
• I know what I mean. Why don't you?
• Basic debugging checklist
• On node obliteration
• How To Ask Questions The Smart Way by ESR
• SSCCE: Short, Self Contained, Correct (Compilable), Example

• Yes, even you can use CPAN
• stackoverflow - how to install CPAN modules without root privileges

• Site facelift?
• RFC: A Design Proposed for Anonymous Monk (logged out view)
• PerlMonks site design

Perl Internals References

• PerlGuts Illustrated
• Extending and Embedding Perl by Tim Jenness and Simon Cozens
• perlintern
• perlhack
• perlhacktut
• perlhacktips
• perlsource
• perlinterp
• perlguts
• perlapi
• perlcall
• perlxstut
• perlxs
• perlembed
• Hacking perl by robin
• Perl closures: internal details.(Updated)
• Study the Perl source code itself
• Join the perl5porters@perl.org mailing list (see lists.perl.org)

In Memoriam

• Iain Campbell Truskett ("Spoon"/"Koschei") RIP 2003-12-29 (Koschei/spoon)
• On the shoulders of giants... Nick Ing-Simmons Deceased (Perl Foundation)
• So long its been good to know you (VSarkiss)
• Sad news (blazar)
• Ivor Williams (rinceWind) (rinceWind)
• Sad news (Almut) (almut)
• Sad news (Dr Randy Kobes) (randyk)
• RIP, Tad McClellan
• Bill Harp massive heart attack, currently in ICU, prognosis not good