User since: Oct 19, 2001 at 18:58 UTC (24 years ago) Last here: Jul 12, 2004 at 14:31 UTC (21 years ago) Experience: 5833 Level: Vicar (15) Writeups: 366 Location: Coconino Pirate Name: Mad Roger Flint Clown Name: Grungie the Clown Opening: 1.a3 (Anderssen) 1...c6 (Slav/Caro-Kann) User's localtime: Jun 17, 2025 at 09:35 -04 Scratchpad: View For this user: Search nodes

Ignatz is a reference to Ignatz Mouse from my favorite comic strip, Krazy Kat. Other favorites include Peanuts, Eightball, Neat Stuff, Love and Rockets, This Modern World, and Robert Crumb.

Stuff and Bother:

• On 8/13/02 at 7:22AM I became PM's 121^st Saint.
• My Online Christmas Songbook
• Home Page
• I was the lead programmer for the 2nd worst "dot bomb" of all time!!!

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Places of Interest

Favorite Nodes I've Written

Humor

• Merlyn's secret uncovered!
• Steal This Code
• Cheese

Angry Threads

• RE: RE: Odd file rename
• Why me? Why not Ovid? (discussion)
• Why I hate Perl (discussion)
• Parallels Between Perlmonks.ORG and Religious Cults (Retirement Announcement)
• problems editing a flat-file
• Reaped: So merlyn why did you hack the password file?
• merlyn is fighting a fight of justice. I stand apologetic, informed and corrected
• pscanner.pl
• Ignorant Article

Good Advice

• Professional Employees and Works for Hire!!!!
• Code Smarter
• How to debug unknown dynamic code?
• When to use Prototypes?
• Modules in the Windows environment
• BeatBox 2001
• Compressing/Obfuscating a Javas‎crip‎t file
• web site design, or lack thereof
• How to make a CPAN Module Distribution
• Database searches with persistent results via CGI
• Code review on s‎crip‎t site
• Essential CGI Security Practices
• Failure To Refactor
• Common Beginner Mistakes
• (OT) Finding Technology Solutions
• Benefits of the Specification
• Building Modules
  • How to make a CPAN Module Distribution
  • What Are The Rules For Subs And Modules When Fed Wrong Input
  • MakeMaker, h2xs, and writing CPAN modules
  • ExtUtils::ModuleMaker
  • Starting the development of a module : thoughts

Ideas

• Why I like functional programming
• Tricks with DBI
• Refactoring: Soft-code class name in factory method
• Code::Police
• Funkyness with closures...
• PerlMonks CSS Examples
• XML for databases?!?! Is it just me or is the rest of the world nutz?
• Shift versus Sanity
• A question of style
• Win32 programming resources
• The best amputation possible: Perl proper as Closed Source software
• The worst amputation possible: Perl proper as Open Source software
• Random thoughts on programming
• Thoughts on the magicality of @_ and $_
• The Drama of Being a Developer by cacharbe
  • I - Heroism, Specifications, and testing with the right mice.
  • II - To Portal or not to Portal
  • III - Portal me this, Portal me that
  • IV - Quality is something else altogether

Code

• Automatic Music with Perl
• Permutations and combinations
• Good Programming is Better
• (tye)Re: Stupid question
• Find duplicate files.
• Beast of the Number: Parsing the Feral Phone
• spiraling quine
• Manipulating Audio Data in Perl
• Battle s‎crip‎t
• Supervisor
• Vampire Numbers
• Function Prototype Context Conversion
• Here, doccy doccy. nice doccy. heredoc, treat.
• 1-D Cellular Automata
• DBI
  • What are placeholders in DBI, and why would I want to use them?
  • Where the advice to use DBI bind parameters can go wrong (long)
  • Database searches with persistent results via CGI
  • (Ovid: Death to Select Star!) Re: MySQL DBI Help
  • Tricks with DBI
• OO
  • My first stab at OO perl...
  • Damian Conway's ten rules for when to use OO
• Parse::RecDescent
  • Parse::RecDescent Grammar Fun
• Safe.pm
  • Is Safe.pm unsafe?
  • How to use LWP::Simpe inside a safe compartment?
  • use Safe and CGI;
  • The proper use of Safe
  • How Safe is Safe::?
  • Known security issues with Safe.pm?
  • Perl sandbox
  • Mileage with safe
  • Safe / @ISA Problem
• Sorting
  • Complex sorting
  • Sorting multi dimensional arrays
  • Fun with two-dimensional arrays
  • Advanced Sorting - GRT - Guttman Rosler Transform
  • Complex Sort - using varying numbers of parameters
• Testing
  • Automated software testing: emulation of interfaces using Test::MockObject
• Tk
  • ftp-Tk
  • Perl/Tk graphical debugger
• Web Content
  • Database driven web content: live or tape?
  • Web Application Test Suite Generator
  • TT2 -- A Matter of Style
  • Automating a Static Website
  • Extending MoveableType to support embedded Perl
  • So, what *is* the best way to deliever dynamic content nowadays?
• XML
  • XML Resume Module design
  • Why is Perl so bad with XML?
  • XSLT vs Templating?
  • XSLT vs Templating, Part 2
  • XML documentation formatting and transformations

Homenodes

• Corion
• mt2k
• Arguile: "Why I don't (often) use MySQL"

PM Type Things

• Worst Nodes
• Best Nodes
• Recently Updated Home Nodes
• Re: Chatterbox emphasis and links
• Modules in the Windows environment
• Home Node Image Rotator
• How (Not) To Ask A Question
• Borg's Belly
• What makes a bad question?
• Secret Saint Handshake