User since: Jan 02, 2006 at 09:36 UTC (19 years ago) Last here: Sep 26, 2014 at 06:21 UTC (10 years ago) Experience: 3433 Level: Curate (13) Writeups: 354 Location: lat=12.948684, lon=77.708037, Bengaluru, INDIA User's localtime: Dec 02, 2024 at 23:05 IST Scratchpad: View For this user: Search nodes

my involvement with perlmonks increased from may 2008 when I saw tutorials and Q&A section.
I love to program in both Perl and python. Both are awesome languages. Java and PHP are the recent addictions. ;)

Copyright/Licensing

Any text I write on Perlmonks is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales license.

Personal interests

Books I admire

• UNIX concepts and application(sumitabha das)
• Advanced Programming In unix environment by Richard stevens.
• Learning perl
• Intermediate perl
• Advanced Programming in perl by Sriram srinivasan
• Beginning perl for web development; from novice to professional,
• Object oriented perl
• Dive into python by Mark Pilgrim (if you are from perl or php background, this book has everything for you to start ;) )
• Perl to python migration(Martin C brown)
• Core python programming (by Wesley J chun, excellent book)
• Programming python
• "Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools"
• SCJP 6 study guide (by Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates), excellent book
• Object oriented php
• Core php programming (by Leon Atkinson)
• Head first Javas‎crip‎t
• Head first HTML, CSS and XHTML

Modules I admire

OS I admire

Languages that I admire

Websites I admire

Things that we can really wait for and can go mad for

Python 3(http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html)

references that I would like to revisit
from ww and others
A brief tutorial on Perl's native sorting facilities.
Five Common Misconceptions While Learning Perl
Survey of Surveys on HTML Templating systems
Categorized Damian Modules
Pack/Unpack Tutorial (aka How the System Stores Data)
On Coding Standards and Code Reviews
http://www.masonbook.com/
http://perl.apache.org/docs/tutorials/index.html
http://www.perl.com/lpt/a/596
Ten essential practices http://www.perl.com/lpt/a/939
articles by merlyn => http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/columns.html
from moritz => http://perlgeek.de/en/article/encodings-and-unicode

perlmonks first question => How do I recursively process files through directories
What shortcuts can I use for linking to other information?

Interesting nodes that I have noticed

Simple but effective write ups

as on 13 feb 2010
users above my level => 403 0.86%
users on my level => 182 0.39%
users below my level => 46281 98.75%
total number of users => 46866

as on 25 Aug 2009 
users above my level => 395 0.91%
users on my level => 181 0.42%
users below my level => 42924 98.68%
total number of users => 43500
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my progress/growth status in perlmonks as of SAT 13 FEB 2010 22:30:00 IST
SOME NUMBER GAME

+-------------+--------+---------+--------------+-------------+
|Month        |nodes   | points  | points/node  | Improvement |
+-------------+--------+---------+--------------+-------------+
| 2007-10     |       1|       39|         39.00|         0.00|
| 2008-05     |       1|        3|          3.00|       -36.00|
| 2008-06     |       4|       59|         14.75|        11.75|
| 2008-07     |       1|        3|          3.00|       -11.75|
| 2008-10     |       8|       96|         12.00|         9.00|
| 2008-11     |       5|       38|          7.60|        -4.40|
| 2008-12     |       6|       60|         10.00|         2.40|
| 2009-01     |      46|      324|          7.04|        -2.96|
| 2009-02     |      39|      403|         10.33|         3.29|
| 2009-03     |      51|      515|         10.10|        -0.24|
| 2009-04     |      49|      433|          8.84|        -1.26|
| 2009-05     |      50|      586|         11.72|         2.88|
| 2009-06     |      61|      607|          9.95|        -1.77|
| 2009-07     |      15|      142|          9.47|        -0.48|
| 2009-08     |       5|       31|          6.20|        -3.27|
| 2009-11     |       1|        9|          9.00|         2.80|
| 2010-01     |       1|        1|          1.00|        -8.00|
| 2010-02     |       1|        4|          4.00|         3.00|
+-------------+--------+---------+--------------+-------------+
Total months of activity     => 18
Total nodes                  => 345
Total points                 => 3237
Average nodes per day        => 0.64<(taking last 18 months into calcu
+lation)
Average points per node      => 9.38<
Per day xp gain on voting    => 6<
            PREDICTABILITY TABLE
+---------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+--------+
|Pred. Day|pred. month|pred. level|pred. title|pred. votes|pred. xp|
+---------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+--------+
|       65| 2010-04-19|         14| Priest    |         26|    4005|
|      177| 2010-08-09|         15| Vicar     |         28|    5404|
|      300| 2010-12-10|         16| Parson    |         30|    7002|
|      449| 2011-05-08|         17| Prior     |         32|    9013|
|      663| 2011-12-08|         18| Monsignor |         34|   12008|
|      939| 2012-09-09|         19| Abbot     |         36|   16008|
|     1339| 2013-10-14|         20| Canon     |         38|   22006|
|     1855| 2015-03-14|         21| Chancellor|         40|   30001|
|     2481| 2016-11-29|         22| Bishop    |         42|   40014|
|     3087| 2018-07-28|         23| Archbishop|         44|   50009|
|     3675| 2020-03-07|         24| Cardinal  |         46|   60002|
|     4247| 2021-09-30|         25| Sage      |         48|   70009|
|     4803| 2023-04-09|         26| Saint     |         50|   80014|
|     5343| 2024-09-30|         27| Apostle   |         52|   90001|
|     5870| 2026-03-11|         28| Pope      |         54|  100011|
|    11000| 2040-03-27|         29| GOD       |        108|  200017|
+---------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+--------+
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