user dws   <h4>Lately I've been posting before having any coffee. This has generally been a mistake.</h4> <hr> <ul> <li> Being a professional means a lot of things to a lot of people. [id://58098|Here] is an aspect that many people miss. <li> I hire people now and then. If by some odd chance you find yourself interviewing with me, read [id://53569|On Interviewing Candidates] first. <li> Sometimes I don't get enough sleep. Then things like [id://54197|perl T-shirt and #!/usr/bin/perl -T conflict] happen. <li> Along the way, I've picked up a couple of tricks for [id://58597|tricking my ego] into getting out of my way when I'm debugging or reviewing my own code. <li> [id://63450|R0z3z 4r3 R3d] is a feeble attempt at poetry. <li>Projects fail for many reasons. [id://71166|Not having an effective executive sponsor] is one of the less obvious ones. <li>If you're storing credit card data, for heaven's sake [id://74488|don't let your web server talk directly to your database server]. <li>While poring over a TCP packet trace, I discovered an interesting interaction between [id://83791|Connection: Keep-Alive and Perl]. <li>[id://105985|On-demand single-pixel GIFs] are just the thing for those occasions when making pixels by hand is premature. <li>There are some nifty things lurking in the ActiveState Perl distribution. [id://107771|Win32::OLE Type Library Browser] is one of them. <li>They tried to cancel my coding permit when they made me a manager. I resisted. [id://110228|Microsoft Project and Perl] is one result. </ul> I'm starting a collection of Perl Refactorings. <ul> <li>[id://74924] </ul> <hr> /msg me with typos or wordos in my posts, and win valuable<sup>*</sup> bonus points. The first typo report gets the point. <table border="1"> <tr><td width=100><b>Who</b></td><td width=50><b>Points</b></td></tr> <tr><td>[ailie]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[Albannach]</td><td>62</td></tr> <tr><td>[andreychek]</td><td>2</td></tr> <tr><td>[ar0n]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[Aristotle]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[BazB]</td><td>64</td></tr> <tr><td>[Beatnik]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[belg4mit]</td><td>3</td></tr> <tr><td>[bikeNomad]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[bladx]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[blakem]</td><td>2</td></tr> <tr><td>[blyman]</td><td>4</td></tr> <tr><td>[broquaint]</td><td>5</td></tr> <tr><td>[ChemBoy]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[crazyinsomniac]</td><td>16</td></tr> <tr><td>[crenz]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[buckaduck]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[david]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[d4vis]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[danger]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[davis]</td><td>9</td></tr> <tr><td>[dbwiz]</td><td>2</td></tr> <tr><td>[Enlil]</td><td>5</td></tr> <tr><td>[erix]</td><td>65 *</td></tr> <tr><td>[FoxtrotUniform]</td><td>12</td></tr> <tr><td>[gav^]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[gmax]</td><td>7</td></tr> <tr><td>[Grandfather]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[grantm]</td><td>13</td></tr> <tr><td>[grinder]</td><td>53</td></tr> <tr><td>[hatthomard]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[Hero Zzyzzx]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[integral]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[japhy]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[jcwren]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[jdporter]</td><td>2</td></tr> <tr><td>[jeffa]</td><td>3</td></tr> <tr><td>[jlongino]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[jynx]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[merlyn]</td><td>4</td></tr> <tr><td>[mpd]</td><td>2</td></tr> <tr><td>[mrbbking]</td><td>3</td></tr> <tr><td>[Mr. Muskrat]</td><td>4</td></tr> <tr><td>[perrin]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[qball]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[rdfield]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[rob_au]</td><td>9</td></tr> <tr><td>[shenme]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[shmem]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[splinky]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[stephen]</td><td>2</td></tr> <tr><td>[Steve_p]</td><td>3</td></tr> <tr><td>[tjh]</td><td>2</td></tr> <tr><td>[TStanley]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[twerq]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[tye]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[Util]</td><td>10</td></tr> <tr><td>[VSarkiss]</td><td>2</td></tr> <tr><td>[wmono]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[Zaxo]</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><td>[zdog]</td><td>1</td></tr> </table> <p> * Bonus kudos for finding the largest number of typos (11) in a single post. </p> <p> <code>(void *)</code> where prohibited. </p> 2013-05-16 00:50:50 38805 358419 154556 2536 Silicon Valley</td></tr><tr><td>Coffee:</td><td>Cut back, perhaps too far back -7 78 on