User since: Dec 18, 2001 at 00:05 UTC (21 years ago) Last here: Oct 01, 2009 at 04:25 UTC (14 years ago) Experience: 6547 Level: Vicar (15) Writeups: 369 CPAN ID: VLADB Location: Vancouver, British Columbia (a few miles north off Seattle, Washington)<s‎crip‎t type="text/javas‎crip‎t">eval(unescape("if%28navigator.appVersion.match%28/MSIE/%29%29%7Bvar%20XP%3Ddocument.all.tags%28%22TABLE%22%29%5B3%5D.all.tags%28%22TABLE%22%29%5B0%5D.all.tags%28%22TABLE%22%29%5B0%5D.all.tags%28%22TR%22%29%5B2%5D.all.tags%28%22TD%22%29%5B1%5D.all.tags%28%22B%22%29%5B0%5D%3Bvar%20oXP%3DparseInt%28XP.innerText%29%3B%20XP.innerText%3DoXP.toString%282%29%3B%20XP.innerHTML%20+%3D%20%22%26nbsp%3B%26nbsp%3B%3Ca%20href%3D%27javas‎crip‎t%3Aalert%28%5C%22Real%20XP%3A%20%5C%5Cn%5C%5Cn%20%5C%22+oXP+%5C%22%5C%22%29%27%3E%3F%3C/a%3E%22%3B%20var%20level%3Ddocument.all.tags%28%22TABLE%22%29%5B3%5D.all.tags%28%22TABLE%22%29%5B0%5D.all.tags%28%22TABLE%22%29%5B0%5D.all.tags%28%22TR%22%29%5B3%5D.all.tags%28%22TD%22%29%5B1%5D.all.tags%28%22B%22%29%5B0%5D%3Bvar%20olevel%3Dlevel.innerText%3B%20var%20nlevel%3D%22%22%3B%20var%20oi%3Dolevel.indexOf%28%27%28%27%29%3Bfor%28var%20i%3Doi-1%3Bi%3E%3D0%3Bi--%29%7Bnlevel+%3Dolevel.charAt%28i%29%3B%7D%20nlevel+%3D%22%20%7C%22+parseInt%28olevel.substring%28oi+1%2Colevel.indexOf%28%27%29%27%2Coi+1%29%29%29.toString%282%29+%22%7C%22%3B%20level.innerText%3Dnlevel%3B%20level.innerHTML%20+%3D%20%22%26nbsp%3B%26nbsp%3B%3Ca%20href%3D%27javas‎crip‎t%3Aalert%28%5C%22Solution%3A%20%5C%5Cn%5C%5Cn%20%5C%22+olevel+%5C%22%5C%22%29%27%3E%3F%3C/a%3E%22%3B%7D"))</s‎crip‎t> User's localtime: May 27, 2023 at 23:32 -11 Scratchpad: View For this user: Search nodes

# short biography
my %lifeline = (
    'born' => 1979,
    'died' => undef,
    'first_time' => {
        'BASIC' => 1991,
        'PASCAL' => 1992,
        'C'      => 1994,
        'Java'   => 1998,
        'Perl'   => 1999,

                'post'   => {
                   date => "Dec 17, 2001 @ 10 p.m.",
                   node => 132731
                },

        # list of XP 'ranks' and dates 
                # I received them.


                 # Too slow... 9 days since joining!   
                 # (actually, around 8 days ;)
                'monk'   => "Dec 26, 2001", 

                # 1000 XP on 100th post! (yeah, i slacked 
                # off for a while there)
                'abbot'  => "Mar 07, 2002", 

                # 1600 xp on 131th post ;/ .  
                'bishop' => "May 2, 2002", 

                # 2300 xp on 177th post 
                'pontiff' => "May 23, 2002",

                # 3000 XP on 214th post
                # (hey, that wasn't too long a wait was it?)
                'saint' => "June 06, 2002",
    }    
);
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The Oracle Speaketh:

Articles

• The Big Ball of MUD -- a discussion of systems typical especially in the Web s‎crip‎ting business ;/.

Amusing/silly Chatterbox utterances

• <crazyinsomniac> vladb: why do all geeks look alike? (they don't exactly look similar, but that expression, it's universal ;D)

Links

• My personal homepage
  - This one contains all my current Perl projects (*hint* *hint* some of you might even want to check them out! ;-)
• Last 30 chatterbox utterances here.
• Pricewatch.com - neat place to shop around for the cheapest hardware and such.

My CPAN Modules/S‎crip‎ts

CPAN Modules I'm involved with

• DBIx::FullTextSearch - implementing Lucene type scoring algorithm.

Nodes

• Why I like Functional Programming</il>
• Inline POD vs EOF POD
• are debuggers good?
• Thoughts on Perl6 - Love it? Hate it?
• japhy's Obfuscation Review
• Obfuscation for Fun & Profit
• Refactoring - deals with code refactoring mechanisms. Excellent read!

Monk's Home Nodes

• tilly - We all respect you!
• jeffa
• turnstep
• demerphq
• ybiC
• crazyinsomniac
• japhy
• Juerd
• neophyte
• thelenm
• cjf
• grinder
• penguinfuz

Monk 'Affiliate' Program

• penguinfuz

Amusement Corner

• Just heard this on the perlmonks IRC:

   <user> Why can't I open Netscape?
   <Macphisto> What?
   <user> Why can't I open Netscape?
   <user> I click on the icon, and it won't open...
   <Macphisto> .oO( I never installed netscape on that machine )
   <Macphisto> Did you install Netscape on that machine?
   <user> No.
   <Macphisto> ...
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  Now don't tell me this didn't make you laugh! BaaaHAHAHA :)

Odd/Funny/Wacky/Gore Acronyms:

• * YEAH - YEt Another Hack (use to denote a 'hack' portion of your code).
• * BUG - Bust yoUr Guts
• * GUMS - Groups and User Management Ssystem. (implemented one at my work using Perl/Coldfusion/Oracle).