User since: Jun 03, 2000 at 17:36 UTC (25 years ago) Last here: Dec 19, 2019 at 13:52 UTC (6 years ago) Experience: 12382 Level: Monsignor (18) Writeups: 1032 Location: Kalamazoo, Delton, or sky User's localtime: Jun 24, 2025 at 15:27 EDT Scratchpad: View Member of: holders of unholy power For this user: Search nodes

"When you refuse to set goals that seem unreachable, you will never reach them." -Zinn

Stuff I wrote

• http://cpan.jettero.pl/
• Identity Based Encryption using Pairings and Crypt::PBC
• psh (perl testing shell)
• Concerning Single Sign-on, Bitcard (TypeKey), and OpenID
• My CPAN Proxy Mirror [CPAN::CachingProxy]
• my best stuff
• my worst stuff

Module Favorites and/or honorable mentions:

WWW::Mechanize, XML::XPath. Text::Balanced, Devel::Peek, Module::Corelist, Module::Release, DBM::Deep, Tie::File, Math::Units::PhsyicalValue, Benchmark, Net::Server, MIME::Lite (html), Net::SMTP::OneLiner (quick text), HTML::Table::FromDatabase, File::Slurp, IPC::System::Simple

Discoveries

This is potentially useful in many different situations: m/blarg/ and m/\Gelseward/

I always mean to use this, but forget about it: perl -MO=Deparse yourcode.pl

This is like bash -x s‎crip‎t.sh, but for perl: PERLDB_OPTS=AutoTrace perl -d s‎crip‎t.pl

Pike's previous_object() is sadly missing from perl... or is it? previous_object()

Devel::EvalError seems to indicate that checking $@ for eval errors is going to fail some of the time.

bart points out possibly the coolest thing I've seen (as a side comment) yet: $+

use warnings FATAL => qw(uninitialized); Not something I'd use very often (I'm more of a common::sense kinda guy), but I can see potential value in it.

Modules I mean to look at but haven't

What is this Coro module? (found in 714778).

Who is loading this page? HTTP::BrowserDetect pulled from this post: (id:605732).

wfsp has pointed out HTML::Template, which I think I might really really like.

I should really re-write FoxPro::DBF (never published) to be like (or use, or extend) DBD::AnyData or at least fit in the DBD namespace somewhere (around AnyData I imagine). (ref)

I have a huge library of roll-your-own CGI stuff that I use. Recently I started looking at more modern alternatives. I mean to try to use CGI::Application eventually. It's really neat. That necessarily implies the use of CGI::Application::Plugin::Session, since I really like (and already use) CGI::Session. I disliked CGI::Session::Auth after careful examination... If you have any other suggestions, /msg them over please.

Sub::Contract and Class::Contract both seem really neat. Must check them out.

Monks I know IRL

• shandor
• qi3ber

“Important” Dates

• 2006-12-21: Level 11
• 2007-01-05: Level 12
• 2007-01-11: 300 posts
• 2007-01-12: member of a group
• 2007-01-22: Level 13, making me a saint (sorta)
• 2007-03-16: Level 14
• 2007-03-22: 400 posts
• 2007-04-07: 420 posts
• 2007-05-24: 500 posts
• 2007-05-28: level 15
• 2007-10-05: "You have 666 points until level 16 - Parson"
• 2008-01-02: level 16
• 2008-04-22: 666 posts
• 2008-06-03: "Happy Monkday!! You've been here 8 painful years."
• 2008-10-02: level 17
• 2009-06-03: "Happy Monkday!! You've been here 9 rewarding years."
• 2010-10-28: level 18

Random Junk

The JBlue CSS was originally my creation — but it was not done in css way back then.

If you go Skydiving in Michigan. Be sure to let me know. Um, actually if you've ever done even a single jump, let me know. I'd like to know who the skydiving Perl Monks are.

The same thing goes for go players: stop by the KGC for a game of go. If you'd like to simply play me online (slowly), contact me on DGS.

Guy Fawkes Webring

If you were born on 11/5, msg me or swampyankee to get in on the webring. It's a circular linked list.

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