user BazB <!-- Location:latitude=+51.20.56,longitude=-01.40.08--> <!-- os:Linux,NetBSD,Solaris --> <!-- birthday:1977/11/24 --> <!-- Code used on the end of location (++Louis_Wu): Wiltshire, UK </td></tr><tr><td>Favourite whisky:</td><td>Glenfarclas</td><tr><td>CPAN:</td><td>BREMNERB --> <!-- Acolyte on 2001-12-26 --> <!-- Scribe on 2002-01-09 --> <!-- Monk on 2002-01-21 --> <!-- Friar on 2002-02-11 --> <!-- Abbot on 2002-07-01 --> <!-- Bishop on 2002-10-09 --> <!-- Pontiff on 2003-02-01 --> <!-- 190th Saint on 2003-05-07 --> <!-- 100th post 2002-10-15 --> <!-- Accepted into [editors] 2003-10-12 --> <!-- Accepting into [pmdev] 2004-01-27 --> <p> Random image I shot in Glen Coe, Scotland. </p> <h2>BazB's Homenode</h2> <hr> <h2>CPAN</h2> <p> I'm on the CPAN as <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~bremnerb/">BREMNERB</a>. I'm the co-maintainer of [CPAN://File::MergeSort]. </p> <hr> <p> <h2>Perl geek code!</h2> <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-OLC+>++$OLP+>++$OLL+OLA--Ee+++Ev----u L+uB+uS+w!m++osA+ ------END PERL GEEK CODE BLOCK------ </code> <a href="http://www.xmltwig.com/cgi-bin/pgc/pgc_decode?code=P%2B%2B%2B%3E*%24c--%3E%2BP6%20R%2B%24M%2B%2B%3E%2B%2B%2B%24O%2B%2B%2B%24MA%2B%2B%24E%2B%24PU%2B%2B%2B%2B%24BD%20%24C%2B%24D%2B%2B%24S%2B%2B%24X%2BWP%2B%2BMO!PP!n!CO--%3E%20PO--o%2BG%20A-OLC%2B%3E%2B%2B%24OLP%2B%3E%2B%2B%24OLL%2BOLA--Ee%2B%2B%2BEv----uL%2BuB%2BuS%2Bw!m%2B%2BosA%2B&version=0.01">decode it</a> </p> <hr> <h2>Useful nodes</h2> <p> Probably more like "Nodes I keep on losing".<br /> I'll add to these as and when I find something that interests me. </p> <p> Essential reading and security: <ul> <li>[perlman:perlfaq|The perl FAQs]</li> <li>[id://46769], by [chromatic]</li><!-- Common newbie mistakes --> <li>[perlman:lib:strict|strict] perldoc</li> <!-- strict --> <li>[id://87628]</li> <!-- use strict warnings..or die --> <li>[id://66677]</li> <!-- var scoping --> <li>[id://96369]</li> <!-- when is $_ local? --> <li>[id://105446]</li> <!-- our is not my --> <li>[id://9096]</li> <!-- Common Regex Gotchas --> <li>[perlman:perlsec|man perlsec] - Perl security notes...and on a related note: [id://131746|why you should modify %ENV]</li> <li>[id://112434]</li> <!-- Think beyond strict.. --> <li>[id://64670]</li> <!-- Stay aware of security --> <li>[id://129470]</li> <!-- other sec. --> <li>[id://251107]</li> <!-- secure DBI use --> </ul> <br> CGI bits: <ul> <li>[id://51012]</li> <!-- use CGI or die; --> <li>[id://142949]</li> <!-- Essntl CGI sec --> <li>[id://130621]</li> <!-- CGI error handling --> </ul> <br> Style, code reuse and funky programming - OO, functional, etc. <ul> <li>[id://91080]</li> <!-- TheDamian's when to use OO --> <li>[id://8215]</li> <!-- OO meta-tut --> <li>[id://176224]</li> <!-- When/where is OO useful? --> <li>[id://309952]</li> <!-- evil get/set methods --> </ul> <ul> <li>[id://138131]</li> <!-- Good prog is better --> <li>[id://116172]</li> <!-- Maintainable code is best --> <li>[id://137849]</li> <!-- Compactness --> <li>[id://64709|Commenting] - all there is to know</li> <li>[id://42374]</li> <!-- Code smarter --> <li>[id://59345]</li> <!-- Random thoughts on prog'ing --> <li>[id://115778]</li> <!--Specify x3 --> <li>[id://135852]</li> <!-- Premature optim. --> <li>[id://189148]</li> <!-- What goes in test suite --> <li>[id://187935] and [id://148150] are worth a read if you're having trouble figuring out what your code is doing whilst it's running.</li> <!-- debug levels, audit trails --> </ul> <ul> <li>From [jeffa]: [id://136097]</li> <!-- nest if-else --> <li>From [Ovid]: [id://61351]</li> <!-- VB sucks --> <li>From [tilly]: [id://34786]</li> <!-- Func prog --> <li>From [vec]: [id://211998] ..vs people's experience</li> <!-- maintainable code --> </ul> <br> Sorting: <ul> <li>[id://53920|Sorting large datasets]</li> <li>[id://9108]</li> <!-- ST --> <li>[id://145659]</li> <!-- GRT --> </ul> <br> Other stuff. <ul> <li>[id://29126], or when to use ampersands with subroutine calls</li> <!-- Ampersands for subs --> <li>An [id://130249], from [ailie] </li> <!-- Tech doc intro--> <li>[id://69927]</li> <!-- Ref quick ref --> <li>[id://10748|An interesting use for the bare block] from [merlyn]</li> <li>[id://304883] - make debugging easier.</li> <!-- named anon subs --> <li>[id://33410] - [japhy] doing funky things with regexen that I haven't got my head around :-)</li> <li>[id://255961] - links to [id://128925], also useful.</li> <!-- speeding up text matching/window matching --> </ul> <br> Other nodes that make the monastery easier to use are: <ul> <li>[id://48824] and <a href="index.pl?node_id=3184&displaytype=raw">Framechat</a> are handy.</li> <li>[Best nodes] - shows just how you should post :-)</li> <li>And [worst nodes] demonstrates exactly what not to do.</li> <li>[Editor requests] is where you can submit a petition to have nodes edited or deleted.</li> <li>[Ignored users] allows you to see a list of all the users that you are ignoring in the Chatterbox with <code>/ignore username</code> - you must <code>/unignore username</code> for their posts to reappear.</li> </ul> <hr> <h2> Stats! </h2> <p> The amazing [jcwren] has all the stat's you'll ever need at <a href="http://tinymicros.com/pm/">tinymicros.com/pm</a>.<br> Here's my <a href="http://tinymicros.com/pm/index.php?goto=PlotChart&nodeid=127547&start=200">XP change graph</a> </p> <p> [mojotoad] has some <a href="http://mojotoad.perlmonk.org/cbs/index.html">funky chatterbox stats</a> too. </p> <hr> <h2>Handy links and info.</h2> <p> Tom Christiansen's <a href="http://www.perl.com/doc/FMTEYEWTK/style/slide-index.html">Perl Style talk</a> from the 1998 Perl Conference. Style and programming techniques. </p> <p><a href="http://www.perl.com">perl.com</a> and <a href="http://use.perl.org/">use.perl.org</a> are worth a visit, if you haven't done so already. </p> <p> Michael G Schwern has some excellent <a href="http://magnonel.guild.net/~schwern/talks/">slides/talks</a> on his site. </p> <hr> <h2>Monks I've met in person</h2> <p> <ul> <li>[kal] - we were both members of <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/">ShefLUG</a> (Sheffield UK) at one time.</li> <li>[broquaint]</li> <li>[castaway]</li> <li>[theorbtwo]</li> <li>[castorbaway] :-)</li> <li>[barrd]</li> </ul> </p> <hr> <br> 2013-02-28 16:09:25 5340 358114 images/userincoming/BazB.jpeg 240 Berkshire, UK </td></tr><tr><td>Favourite whisky:</td><td>Glenfarclas</td><tr><td>CPAN:</td><td>BREMNERB Europe/London 85