user
atcroft
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<td><i><b>Note</b>: If you see me on and I do not respond (either in the CB or the private message system), it is almost certainly not that I am ignoring you. I currently use the FrameChat2 CB client and often leave it running, which makes me appear to be at console, even when I am not. My apologies for any confusion or ill feelings that may have resulted previously.</i>
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<p><b>Current location</b>: eastern Texas, USA
<p><b>Previous locations</b>:
<ul>
<li>eastern Texas, USA (xxxx-2000, 2001-2003, 2005-present)
<li>south-central Texas, USA (2000)
<li>north-central Georgia, USA (2004-2005)
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<td><b>CPAN handle</b>: <A HREF="http://search.cpan.org/~atcroft/" TARGET="atcroft">ATCROFT</A><br />(If I actually produce some for release, you'll find them there.)<br />
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<td><b>Modules I've contributed to</b>:<br>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/~gphat/Geo-Address-Mail-Standardizer-USPS-0.03/" target="atcroft" >Geo::Address::Mail::Standardizer::UPSP</a> - patches and tests</li>
</ul>
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<A NAME=atcroft_top>
<P><B>Sections</B>
<UL>
<LI>Links I find
<UL>
<LI><A HREF=#atcroft_extremely_useful>Extremely useful</A>
<LI><A HREF=#atcroft_quite_interesting>Quite interesting</A>
<LI><A HREF=#atcroft_good_reference>Good references</A>
<LI><A HREF=#atcroft_useful>Useful</A>
<LI><A HREF=#atcroft_misc_links>Miscellaneous of interest</A>
</UL>
</LI>
<LI><A HREF=#atcroft_met>Monks I've met (few thusly)</A>
<LI><A HREF=#atcroft_misc>Miscellany</A>
<LI><A HREF=#atcroft_geekcode>Geek Code (best guess)</A>
<li><a href=#atcroft_postings>Some of my postings in various sections of the [id://131|Monastery]</a>
<li><a href=#atcroft_button>The obligatory button (for those who like to push them)</a>
</UL>
<P>After having to look up several links to find where I put them to respond to a posting, I decided to take the plunge and add a number of them here. The content is that of their owners, and I have no control other than to remove them if necessary from here. If I have mis-attributed something, please let me know so I can correct it. I hope this may prove useful to someone, as this site has proven for me. <EM>(All off-site links below are targetted to a new window named by my monastary name, so clicking the first may open a new window, but the second and following will open within that same window.)</EM>
<UL>
<LI><A NAME=atcroft_extremely_useful>Extremely useful
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.perlmonks.org/">PM</A>
<UL>
<LI>[Library]
<LI>[Outside Links]
<LI>[Super Search]
<LI>[Tutorials]
</UL>
</LI>
<LI>Other sites
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.google.com/" TARGET="atcroft">Google</A>
<!-- LI><A HREF="http://www.perldoc.com/" TARGET="atcroft">PerlDoc</A -->
<LI><A HREF="http://perldoc.perl.org/" TARGET="atcroft">Perl documentation - perldoc.perl.org</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=+site:perlmonks.thepen.com&num=30&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&as_qdr=all" TARGET="atcroft">Google search of ThePen PerlMonks static mirror</a>
</UL>
</LI>
</UL>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME=atcroft_quite_interesting>Quite interesting
<UL>
<LI>PM
<UL>
<LI>[Best Nodes] / [Worst Nodes] (see also [Selected Best Nodes])
<LI>[Java Chatterbox]
<LI>[Newest Nodes]
<LI>[Our Best Users]
</UL>
</LI>
<LI>Other sites
<UL>
<!-- LI><A HREF="http://tinymicros.com/pm/?goto=MainPage" TARGET="atcroft">Perl Monks Statistical Pages</A -->
</UL>
</LI>
</UL>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME=atcroft_good_reference>Reference
<UL>
<LI>PM
<UL>
<LI>[Essential CGI Security Practices] by [cjf]
<LI>[How to RTFM] by [Masem]
<LI>[Professional Employees and Works for Hire] by [tilly]
<LI>[tilly]
</UL>
</LI>
<LI>Other sites
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="http://bugs.perl.org/" TARGET="atcroft">Perlbug Database WWW Interface</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://oreilly.com/openbook/webclient/" TARGET="atcroft">Web Client Programming with Perl</A> (available through the <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/" target="atcroft">O'Reilly Open Books Project</a>)
<LI><!-- A HREF="http://www.easystreet.com/~ovid/cgi_course" TARGET="atcroft" -->Web Programming with Perl<!-- /A --> by [Ovid]
<!-- LI><A HREF="http://hissa.nist.gov/dads/terms.html" TARGET="atcroft">Dictionary of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Problems</A -->
<LI><A HREF="http://www.nist.gov/dads/" TARGET="atcroft">Dictionary of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Problems</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.nr.com/" TARGET="atcroft">Numerical Recipes Home Page</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/" TARGET="atcroft">Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics</A>
<!-- LI><A HREF="http://www.math.net/mathcontents.html" TARGET="atcroft">Math.Net</A -->
<LI><A HREF="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/" TARGET="atcroft">RFC Archive</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.rfc-editor.org/" TARGET="atcroft">RFC-Editor Webpage</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/" TARGET="atcroft">Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.w3c.org/" TARGET="atcroft">World Wide Web Consortium</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.webreference.com/" TARGET="atcroft">WebReference.com - The Webmaster's Reference Library - Web Authoring Tips & Tutorials for Developers</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.htmlhelp.com/" TARGET="atcroft">HTML Help by The Web Design Group</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Central/d/-6/java" TARGET="atcroft">The official U.S. time - clock</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.worldtimeserver.com/" TARGET="atcroft">The World Time Server</A> (look up local times world-wide)
<LI><A HREF="http://www.worldtimezone.com/index24.html" TARGET="atcroft">World timezone map</a> (with current time, 24h version)
<LI><A HREF="http://www.unicode.org/" TARGET="atcroft">Unicode Home Page</A>
</UL>
</LI>
</UL>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME=atcroft_useful>Useful
<UL>
<LI>PM
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en&as_sitesearch=perlmonks.thepen.com" TARGET="atcroft">Google Advanced Search of PM static site version</A>
<LI>[id://43037]
</UL>
</LI>
<LI>PM Articles
<UL>
<LI>[Suggestions for working with poor code]
<LI>[Web Application Frameworks and their Templating Engines with a Comparative Study of Template and HTML::Template]
<LI>[id://117895]
</UL>
</LI>
<LI>Perl
<UL>
<LI><!-- A HREF="http://world.std.com/~aep/ptkdb/" TARGET="atcroft" -->ptkdb - a GUI-based debugger for perl<!-- /A -->
<LI><A HREF="http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/" TARGET="atcroft">PerlTidy - perl code reformatter project</A>
</UL>
</LI>
<LI>Other sites
<UL>
<LI><!-- A HREF="http://useit.com/" TARGET="atcroft" -->useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's site (Usability and Web Design)<!-- /A -->
<LI><A HREF="http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/service/its.htm" TARGET="atcroft">NIST Internet Time Service</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/service/time-servers.html" TARGET="atcroft">NIST Internet Time Service</A>
</UL>
</LI>
</UL>
</LI>
<LI><A NAME=atcroft_misc_links>Miscellaneous
<UL>
<LI>PM
<UL>
<LI>[Site How To]
<LI>[Message Inbox]
<LI>[Module Usage]
<LI>[Most Often Mentioned Modules]
<LI>[What is consideration?]
<LI>[id://180874]
<LI>[id://227268]
<LI>[How do I moderate?]
<LI>[Nodes to consider]
<LI><!-- A HREF="http://crazyinsomniac.perlmonk.org/perl/cblast35/cblast35.cgi" TARGET="atcroft" -->CB Last 35<!-- /A -->
<LI>[Perl Monks User Search]
<LI>[gods]
<LI>[editors]
<LI>[pmdev]
<LI>[power users]
<LI>[our best users]
<LI>[borg's belly]
<LI>[ignored users]
<LI>[Voting/Experience System]
<LI>[Level Powers] (deprecated - see the above link instead)
<LI>[Operating System Logs]
<LI>[Recently Updated Home Nodes]
<LI>[id://213052]
<LI>[id://298942] - for when all else fails...
</UL>
</LI>
<LI>PM Articles
<UL>
<LI>[From Initiate to Monk]
<LI>[The path to mastery]
<LI>[7 Stages of regex users]
<LI>[Style geekcode]
<LI>[Software Design]
<LI>[Turning HTML into an Image]
<LI><UL>Perl GUIs/editors
<LI>[id://108708]
<LI>[Perl Development Environments]
<LI>[id://15473]
<LI>[id://165894]
<LI>[id://170890]
<LI>[id://183632]
</UL>
</LI>
<li>[id://197315]
<li>[id://195485]
</UL>
</LI>
<LI>Perl
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.wall.org/~larry/natural.html" TARGET="atcroft">Natural Language Principles in Perl</A>
<LI><!-- A HREF="http://www.patternsinperl.com/" TARGET="atcroft" -->Design Patterns in Perl<!-- /A -->
<LI><A HREF="http://www.sysarch.com/perl/sort_paper.html" TARGET="atcroft">A Fresh Look at Efficient Perl Sorting</A>
<LI><!-- A HREF="http://www.perltutor.com/" TARGET="atcroft" -->PerlTutor.com - The Interactive Perl Tutorial<!-- /A -->
<LI><!-- A HREF="http://www.samag.com/columns/schwartz/" TARGET="atcroft" -->Perl Advisor</A> by [merlyn]
<LI><A HREF="http://www.stonehenge.com/" TARGET="atcroft">Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc.</A> - [merlyn]'s
<LI><!-- A HREF="http://prometheus.frii.com/~gnat/yapc/2000-stages/index.html" TARGET="atcroft" -->YAPC 2000: Stages of a Perl Programmer<!-- /A -->
<LI><A HREF="http://jobs.perl.org/" TARGET="atcroft">jobs.perl.org: The Perl Job site</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://use.perl.org/" TARGET="atcroft">use Perl: All The Perl That's P7L to E5T and R4T</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/" TARGET="atcroft">nms</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://perlgolf.sourceforge.net/" TARGET="atcroft">Perl Golf</A>
<LI><!-- A HREF="http://www.perl.com/language/ppt/" TARGET="atcroft" -->PPT: Unix Reconstruction Project<!-- /A -->
</UL>
</LI>
<LI>Other sites
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.acm.org/classics/oct95/" TARGET="atcroft">Go To Statement Considered Harmful</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.delorie.com/web/wpbcv.html" TARGET="atcroft">Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/" TARGET="atcroft">Viewable with Any Browser: Campaign</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://tidy.sourceforge.net/" TARGET="atcroft">HTML Tidy Project Page</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.devshed.com/" TARGET="atcroft">DevShed - The Open Source Web Development Site</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.acronymfinder.com/" TARGET="atcroft">Acronym Finder</A>
<LI><!-- A HREF="http://bofhcam.org/menu.html" TARGET="atcroft" -->bofhcam menu<!-- /A -->
<LI><!-- A HREF="http://www.calc.org/news/display.php" TARGET="atcroft" -->calc.org -<!-- /A -->
<LI><A HREF="http://www.gameai.com/" TARGET="atcroft">The Game AI Page: Building Artificial Intelligence into Games</A>
<LI><!-- A HREF="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/index.html" TARGET="atcroft" --><A HREF="http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/index.html" TARGET="atcroft">The Jargon File</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.geekcode.com/" TARGET="atcroft">The Geek Code</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu/~kamikaze/documents/geekWeapons.html" TARGET="atcroft">Geek Code Weapons Extensions</A>
<LI><!-- A HREF="http://xmltwig.org/pgc/pgc.html" TARGET="atcroft" -->The Perl Geek Code<!-- /A -->
<LI><A HREF="http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html" TARGET="atcroft">MIT OpenCourseWare Project</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimerAll.html" TARGET="atcroft">NCSA -- A Beginner's Guide to HTML</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-ptkwidg/" TARGET="atcroft">Using Advanced Widgets in Perl/Tk</a> (includes a side-bar about using parameters with call-backs)
</UL>
</LI>
</UL>
</LI>
</UL>
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<A NAME=atcroft_met>
<P><B>Monks I have met</B>:
<UL>
<li>[jdm] (and family), co-worker from 1998-2000 and friend (and good man)<!-- John McClelland, from TCA -->
<LI>[thedamian] (and perhaps a few others, whose Monastery names I failed to catch) at the June 2002 <A HREF="http://dfw.pm.org/">DFW PerlMongers</A> meeting
<li>[Mr. Muskrat] (and family), 15 Aug 2003 <!-- Dallas area -->
<li>[phydeauxarff], 02 Dec 2003 <!-- Atlanta, GA -->
<li>[DrManhattan], 02 Dec 2003 <!-- Atlanta, GA -->
<li>[brian d foy], at the 23 May 2006 meeting of the DFW PerlMongers<!-- DFW.pm meeting -->
</UL>
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<A NAME=atcroft_misc>
<P><B>Miscellaney</B>:
<P><B>Best recently-overheard self-given title by a programmer</B>: "Master of dread, ambassador of darkness, banisher of confusion, and herder of cats..."
<P><B>"Compulsory" listing of areas of interest</B>: physical sciences, psychology, space, computer science, photography, sci-fi, computer systems administration, (and a few others)
<p><b>Interesting quote</b>: <blockquote>Thing that got me was not her list of things she hated, since she was obviously crazy as a Cyborg, but fact that always somebody agreed with her prohibitions. Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws--always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up. Because not one of those people said: "Please pass this so that I won't be able to do something I know I should stop." Nyet, tovarishchee, was always something they hated to see neighbors doing. Stop them "for their own good"--not because speaker claimed to be harmed by it.</blockquote> Manuel Garcia O'Kelly, in <em>The Moon is a Harsh Mistress</em> (by Robert A. Heinlein)
<p><b>Interesting quote</b>: <blockquote>Morality is your agreement with yourself to abide by your own rules.</blockquote> Jubal Harshaw in <em>Stranger in a Strange Land</em>(also by Robert A. Heinlein)
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<P><B>My best-guess at my Geek Code</B> <EM>(lines 1-3 are interpretted as standard Geek Code, line 4 using Phil Stracchino's weapons extension, lines 5-8 using the Perl Geek Code extension, links listed above)</EM>:
<PRE>
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.12+weapons+Perl
GCS d-(+) s: a C++ UL++(++++) US(++++) P++(++++) L+++>++++ E->++
W+(+++) N+>+++ w@-- V PS+ PE Y+>++ PGP>+++ t+>+++ 5+>+++
X+>+++ R tv b+>++++ DI++(+++) D+>++ G>+++ e++>++++ h r->+++
!ma>++ k(-)>++ F3(+)>5++ X->+++
P+(++)>+++$ c-->++ P6->++ R+(++)>+++ M>+++ O>+++ MA!>++ E>+++
PU->++++ BD->+++ C>++ D+@++>+++ S@++>+++ WP+++ MO>++
PP>+++ n->+++ CO?>++ PO>+ o>+++ G>+++ A->++ Ee->++
Ev->+++ En Et uL++>+++ uS>+++ w-
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
</PRE>
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<a name=atcroft_postings>
<p><b>Some of my postings in various sections</b>:
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<ul>[Seekers of Perl Wisdom]
<li>[id://70931] (my first posting)
<li>[id://72286] (my first time responding to someone else)
</ul>
</td>
<td>
<ul>[Meditations]
</ul>
</td>
<td>
<ul>[Perl Monks Discussion]
<li>[id://130490]
<li>[id://176623]
<li>[id://264125]
<li>[id://393403]
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<ul>[Obfuscated Code]
<li>[id://371396]
<li>[id://596923]
</ul>
</td>
<td>
<ul>[Perl Poetry]
<li>[id://174995]
<li>[id://321447]
<li>[id://340536]
</ul>
</td>
<td>
<ul>[Cool Uses for Perl]
<li>[id://130497]
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<ul>[Snippets Section]
<li>[id://224291]
</ul>
</td>
<td>
<ul>[Code Catacombs]
<li>[id://465955]
</ul>
</td>
<td>
<ul>[Categorized Questions and Answers]
<li>[id://130392]
<li>[id://390153]
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<ul>[id://1609|Polls] (accepted)
<li>[id://842572]
</ul>
</td>
<td>
<ul>[id://1609|Polls] (suggested)
<li>[id://823019]
</ul>
</td>
<td>
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<li>[id://??????]
<li>[id://??????]
</ul-->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
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<A NAME=atcroft_button>
<P><B>The obligatory buttons, for those who like to push them<br>(for amusement porpoises only-the output will be sent as if you submitted it)</B>:
<!-- Button code adapted from that provided by [JSchmitz] -->
<table>
<!-- tr>
<td>Output (in CB):</td>
<td>/me yells as they carry 'em out, "You've got to tell them... [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/|Soylent Green] is people... We've got to stop them... somehow..."</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan=1>
<form METHOD="POST">
<input TYPE="hidden" NAME="op" VALUE="message">
<input TYPE="hidden" NAME="node_id" VALUE="70929">
<input TYPE="hidden" NAME="message" VALUE="/me yells as they carry 'em out, "You've got to tell them... Soylent Green is people.... We've got to stop them... somehow...."">
<input TYPE="submit" VALUE="Are you Thorn? (final words from Soylent Green)">
</form>
</td>
</tr -->
<tr>
<td><b>Version</b></td>
<td><b>Button</b></td>
<td><b>Output in CB</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Movie version<br/>(final words from<br/> [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/|Soylent Green])</td>
<td>
<form METHOD="POST">
<input TYPE="hidden" NAME="op" VALUE="message">
<input TYPE="hidden" NAME="node_id" VALUE="70929">
<input TYPE="hidden" NAME="message" VALUE="/me yells as they carry 'em out, "You've got to tell them... Soylent Green is people.... We've got to stop them... somehow...."">
<input TYPE="submit" VALUE="Are you Thorn?">
</form>
</td>
<td>/me yells as they carry 'em out, "You've got to tell them... [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/|Soylent Green] is people... We've got to stop them... somehow..."</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Philosophical version<br/>(What am i?)</td>
<td>
<form METHOD="POST">
<input TYPE="hidden" NAME="op" VALUE="message">
<input TYPE="hidden" NAME="node_id" VALUE="70929">
<input TYPE="hidden" NAME="message" VALUE="/me is merely a figment of the imaginations of the voices in their head">
<input TYPE="submit" VALUE="What am I?">
</form>
</td>
<td>/me is merely a figment of the imaginations of the voices in their head</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Replacement version<br/>(I was replaced...?)</td>
<td>
<form METHOD="POST">
<input TYPE="hidden" NAME="op" VALUE="message">
<input TYPE="hidden" NAME="node_id" VALUE="70929">
<input TYPE="hidden" NAME="message" VALUE="/me didn't go away, and was replaced by a small code snippet (that was smarter, and better-looking, too)...can anyone help?">
<input TYPE="submit" VALUE="I was replaced...?">
</form>
</td>
<td>/me didn't go away, and was replaced by a small code snippet (that was smarter, and better-looking, too)...can anyone help?</td>
</tr>
</table>
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