Keep myself off PerlMonks

[ZZamboni]

When I have a lot of work (like lately), PerlMonks is a curse, because I find it so interesting to hang around here that I end up spending too little time working. So I wrote this little program to remind myself of what I should be doing :-)

A couple of points:

• Sorry for the use of system to send email. But I spent a whole 5 minutes writing this script, and I really didn't feel like looking up Mail::Internet or whatever other module might have done the job.
• I made it wait and loop itself instead of putting it in crontab to be able to have the $DISPLAY variable set.

Of course, writing this script and posting it here was just another excuse for not getting back to work. So here it is:

#!/usr/local/perl-5.6.0/bin/perl -w

use strict;

use PerlMonks;
use PerlMonks::Users;

my $n=PerlMonks::Users->new;
while(1) {
        my %u=$n->users;
        if (exists($u{ZZamboni})) {
                system(q(echo Get to work | /usr/bin/mailx -s "Shouldn
+'t you be working on your thesis?" zamboni));
                if ($ENV{DISPLAY}) {
                        system(q(wmessage -t "What are you doing?" --c
+enter "Get back to work!"));
                }
        }
        sleep 300;
}

--ZZamboni

Update: fixed typo: s/spend/spent/

[t0mas]

A very cool bit of code ZZamboni. I couldn't resist convering it to the wierd world of Win32 :-)

#!c:/perl/bin/perl -w

use strict;

use Win32::API;
use PerlMonks;
use PerlMonks::Users;

my $n=PerlMonks::Users->new;
while(1) {
    my %u=$n->users;
    if (exists($u{t0mas})) {
        MessageBox("What are you doing?","Get back to work!");
    }
    sleep 300;
}

sub MessageBox { 

    my ($caption,$message)=@_;

    my $MB_OKCANCEL  = 0x00000001;
    my $MB_ICONERROR = 0x00000010;

    my $Box = new Win32::API(
        "user32", 
        "MessageBoxA", 
        "IPPN", 
        "I");

    $Box->Call(0,$message,$caption,$MB_ICONERROR|$MB_OKCANCEL);
}



/brother t0mas

[xphase_work]

This is a great idea :) I'm sure there are quite a few people, including myself, that will benefit from this. Speaking of work, I should probably get back to it.

-xPhase

[Beatnik]

I have similar addictions at the moment. I forced myself into staying away from IRC while I'm studying for/taking my finals, but now I get distracted by Perlmonks... Help ! I'm a community junkie ! :)

Greetz
Beatnik
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