user shockme On January 21, 2002, I hit the [http://www.exitwound.org/gifs/XP666.jpg|XP of The Beast]! [id://111066|My First Post] (as an [Anonymous Monk]) - Can you find yours? It's out there somewhere... About my nick: See KISS, Love Gun, 1977, Ace Frehley. Languages other than Perl: <UL> <LI>Basic - Don't laugh. When I started, it was a required course at my college. <LI>Fortran 77 <LI>COBOL - along with VMS JCL (ugh) and CICS (ugh-ugh) <LI>Prolog - my first self-taught language. I suck. <LI>Snobol - anybody remember this one? My second self-taught language. I got in alot of trouble at [http://www.ti.com|Texas Instruments] for writing a production system in this language. Of course, the system worked perfectly and ultimately saved the company in the 10's of thousands of dollars ... but I still got slammed by the PHBs (who ultimately claimed credit for their "huge cost saving idea"). <LI>C <LI>PHP - my fourth self-taught language. <LI>and one or two others that I either can't recall or have forced from my memory </UL> OS's: <UL> <LI>[http://www.linux.com|Linux] - [http://www.debian.org|Debian], [http://www.redhat.com|RedHat] and [http://www.mandrakesoft.com|Mandrake] <LI>[http://www.sun.com/solaris|Solaris] <LI>[http://www.microsoft.com|Win9x, WinNT, Win2k and WinXP] </UL> Databases <UL> <LI>[http://www.mysql.com|MySQL] <LI>[http://www.oracle.com|Oracle] <LI>[http://www.postgresql.org|PostgreSQL] <LI>[http://www.microsoft.com|Access & SQL Server] </UL> Contribution(s): I wrote the Chatter.pm module for <a href="http://perlbot.sourceforge.net">perlbot</a>. It allows perlbot to be something of an infobot, by taking whatever is said in the chatroom and performing a regex comparison against a <a href="http://www.mysql.com">MySQL</a> database. Whoopee. Look for it in the 1.2.3 (or later) release. Join the <a href="http://iosef.ssl.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cgi?cmd=team_lookup&name=Perlmonks">Perl Monks Seti@Home Group</a>. Indispensible books: <UL> <LI><a href="http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/BookInfo/BookInfo.asp?theisbn=1565922840&from=MDZ411">Learning Perl</a> - If you never written a lick of code, this book is perfect for you. By the time you get to the end, you'll be coding Perl with ease. <LI><a href="http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/BookInfo/BookInfo.asp?theisbn=1565922433&from=MDZ411">The Perl Cookbook</a> - Probably the only shortcoming is O'Reilly's failure to include a disk or CD containing the code examples. This book is an incredible time saver and a great learning tool. <LI><a href="http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/BookInfo/BookInfo.asp?theisbn=0596000278&from=MDZ411">Programming Perl 3rd Ed</a> - The bible. Plain and simple. This is the stuff. <LI><a href="http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/BookInfo/BookInfo.asp?theisbn=1565922573&from=MDZ411">Mastering Regular Expressions</a> - If you don't understand why you need to know this, you're just not paying attention. <LI><a href="http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/BookInfo/BookInfo.asp?theisbn=1565926099&from=MDZ411">Perl For System Administration</a> - Incredible cross-platform information. Whether you're on Linux or WinWhatever, you'll find some really good information here. <LI><a href="http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/BookInfo/BookInfo.asp?theisbn=1565924266&from=MDZ411">Learning The vi Editor</a> - Good stuff. Really good. </UL> Books I'm soon to own and read (come on Santa!): <UL> <LI>[Data Munging With Perl] <LI>[Mastering Algorithms With Perl] </UL> I really get a kick out of writing humorous perl poetry. I don't know why. Anyway.... Some of my "more memorable" nodes: <UL> <LI>[A Night at the Bar] <LI>[The Pick-Up Artist] - my highest rated node to date. This speaks volumes as to my substantive contributions.... <LI>[The Choice] - a terrible attempt at zen-like poetry. This is what happens when keyboards and alcohol collide. <LI>[A Beginner's Guide to Using Mail::Audit and Mail::SpamAssassin] - definitely neither poetry nor funny...well, maybe funny...but in a serious tutorial-type way. Props to [jcwren] for the most excellent and informative response. </UL> All of my <a href="/index.pl?node_id=6364&usersearch=shockme&orderby=createtime% 20DESC">pathetic nodes</A> </UL> Nodes that I enjoy: <UL> <LI>[Damian Conway's ten rules for when to use OO] <LI>[How to get the most of your question from the monks] <LI>[The path to mastery] <LI>[using strict and functions] </UL> Some information that's good to know, the location of which is not necessarily immediately obvious: <UL> <LI>[Best Nodes] <LI>[Chatterbox Clients] <LI>[Level Powers] <LI>[Most Often Mentioned Modules] <LI>[Most Visited Nodes] <LI>[New Chatterbox functionality] - /msg'ing users <LI>[Number of Monks by Level] <LI>[Our Best Users] <LI>[Perl Monks Approved HTML Tags] <LI>[Perl Monks Stats Pages] <LI>[Super Search] - when all else fails... <LI>Some History - props to [VSarkiss]<UL> <LI>[The True Catacombs of Perlmonks] <LI>[Tux vs. Daemon|The First Poetry Submission] <LI>[By Sharon Hopkins (also in Programming Perl)|The Second Poetry Submission] - really good. <LI>[How can I cleanly split a string of text into a two-dimensional array?|The First Question] <LI>[What we need...|The First Meditation] <LI>[Halloween Fun|The First Cool Use For Perl] <LI>[Accidentally Creating Nodes|The First PM Discussion] </UL> <LI>[Worst Nodes] </UL> Who is [Node Reaper]? From [turnstep]'s node (repeated here for my convenience): The [NodeReaper]'s main job is to "harvest" posts that the community feels is of no value. These can be duplicate posts, off-topic posts, trolls, or anything else. All monks at level 6 or higher can nominate a post to the [Nodes to Consider] page. Once it has been moved there, all level 6 or higher monks can vote to delete it, keep it, or edit it. Once a post has a certain number of "delete" votes (currently 5) without having reached a certain number of "keep" votes (currently 2), the [NodeReaper] will swoop in and claim the node. Once he does, ownership of the node is transferred from the original owner to the [NodeReaper]. The node's content is replaced with a short message containing a link to the original text. The reason for the node's deletion (as entered by the level 6+ monk who nominated the node) is shown at the top of the node. Any future votes on the node will go towards the [NodeReaper], and not the original poster of the node. The negative writeups is because [NodeReaper] has no need to obey the normal laws of physics in the Monastery - you'll have to ask *him* what the number means. :) Obligatory Geek Code (<a href="http://www.ebb.org/cgi-bin/ungeek.cgi?geekCode=GJ%2FIT+d-+s%3A+a+C%2B%2B%2B+UL%2B%2B%2B%2B%24+P%2B%2B%2B%24+%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0AL%2B%2B%2B%24+E---+W%2B%2B+N%2B%40+o+K-+w%2B%24+O-+M-+V+%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0APS%2B+PE+Y%2B+PGP%2B%2B+t%2B%40+5%40+X%2B%2B+R+tv%2B%40%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0Ab%2B+DI%2B%2B%2B%2B+D%2B+G%2B%2B+e%2B%2B%2B%2B+h----+r%2B%2B%2B+%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0D%0Ay%2B%2B%2B">Decode me</a>): <CODE> -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GJ/IT d- s: a C+++ UL++++$ P+++$ L+++$ E--- W++ N+@ o K- w+$ O- M- V PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t+@ 5@ X++ R tv+@ b+ DI++++ D+ G++ e++++ h---- r+++ y+++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ </CODE> Obligatory Perl Geek Code (<a href="http://www.xmltwig.com/cgi-bin/pgc/pgc_decode?code=P%2B%2B%2B$c-P6%20R%20M%2BO%2BMA%20E%20PU%20BD%20C%2B%2BD%2B%2BS%2B%2BX-WP%2BMO!PP%20n-CO--PO%20o%20G%20A--OL!Ee---Ev%2B%2BEon-Eot-uL%2B%2BuS%2BuH%2Buo%2Bw%20m!osA%2B&version=0.01">Decode me</a>): <CODE> -----BEGIN PERL GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 0.01 P+++$c-P6 R M+O+MA E PU BD C++D++S++X-WP+MO!PP n-CO--PO o G A--OL!Ee---Ev++Eon-Eot-uL++uS+uH+uo+w m!osA+ ------END PERL GEEK CODE BLOCK------ </CODE> 2009-04-24 16:13:37 2078 358563 images/userincoming/shockme.jpeg 143 Lat.33.58.33 Long.-101.86.67 -6 on on &001;: