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User since: Aug 09, 2005 at 17:21 UTC (19 years ago) Last here: Dec 18, 2012 at 19:25 UTC (12 years ago) Experience: 3359 Level: Curate (13) Writeups: 273 Location: Denver, CO User's localtime: Sep 08, 2024 at 14:27 CDT Scratchpad: View For this user: Search nodes

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My goal of moving from outside of Chicago, Illinois to Denver, Colorado has been attained; and in doing so I must part with Perl and take on a new world of Ruby and Rails. Perhaps I'll return from time to time, but whatever the case may be, Perl and I had a great 6 to 7 years: it has enlightened me, empowered me, and given me the footing and gusto to move onward and upward. Long live Perl! ♥

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Sinner → Saint:	January 13, 2011
CPAN modules I remember using:	Algorithm::Combinatorics Algorithm::Permute App::Ack Archive::Zip Aspect Benchmark Carp Config::IniFiles Cwd Data::Clone Data::Dump Data::Dumper Data::Rmap Data::TreeDumper Date::Format DateTime DBI Encode Fcntl File::Basename File::Copy File::Copy::Recursive File::DirCompare File::Find File::Find::Object File::Find::Rule File::Next File::Path File::Spec File::stat File::Temp File::Touch Filesys::DfPortable Filesys::DiskUsage FileHandle FindBin Geo::GeoNames Geography::States Getopt::Long::Des‎crip‎tive Getopt::Lucid Hash::AsObject Hash::Merge Hook::Filter HTML::Element HTML::Entities HTML::Entities::Numbered HTML::Table HTML::TreeBuilder Image::ExifTool Image::Magick::Thumbnail::PDF IO::File IO::Handle IO::Socket IO::Tee Lingua::EN::Numbers Lingua::EN::Titlecase List::Compare List::MoreUtils List::Pairwise List::Util Locale::Currency Locale::Language Log::Dispatch Moose Net::FTP Net::SSH::Perl Number::Bytes::Human Number::Format Parallel::Fork::BossWorker Parallel::Fork::BossWorkerAsync Parallel::ForkManager Path::Class PerlIO::tee Pod::Simple::HTML Pod::Usage POSIX Regexp::Assemble SelectSaver Set::IntSpan SOAP::Lite Sort::Key::Natural Sort::Naturally Spreadsheet::ParseExcel Spreadsheet::WriteExcel Statistics::Basic Storable String::BOM String::Interpolate String::ShellQuote Term::Prompt Term::Size::Any Text::Autoformat Text::CSV Text::Compare Text::Reform Text::Table Text::TabularDisplay Text::Trim Text::Unidecode Text::Wrap Tie::AliasHash Tie::File Tie::File::Hashify Tie::Hash::Approx Tie::Hash::Indexed Tie::IxHash Tie::RangeHash Tk Tree::Builder Unicode::Collate Unicode::Normalize Unicode::UCD WordNet::QueryData WWW::Mechanize XML::Entities XML::Tidy XML::Twig XML::Writer YAPE::Regex::Explain
CPAN modules I'd like to play with:	Algorithm::Loops Chart::Clicker Data::Diver Data::Record DBIx::Class Devel::NYTProf File::Stream PadWalker Parallel::ForkManager PPI Regexp::Grammars Smart::Comments Text::Unidecode Time::Piece Web::Scraper

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Perl Monks

• Last Hour of the Chatterbox
• What shortcuts can I use for linking to other information?

Interesting nodes

• Perl tests
• Basic debugging checklist
• Tell me how it works! — Typeglobs
• What is the major Perl successful story ?
• Near equal partitions.
• unknown number of dimensions of a multidimensional hash — Dynamic hash dimensions
• Re: Lookup closest hash key — B-Tree
• Survey of POOP Modules (draft; please do not vote or reply)
• Identify subs and their source

What?

• How (Not) To Ask A Question
• I know what I mean. Why don't you?
• How To Ask Questions the Smart Way

Perl

• Just the FAQs (References, Buffering, Scoping, and Precedence)
• The Perl Data Structures Cookbook
• Clay Shirky on Love, Perl
• Higher-Order Perl

XML

• Perl-XML FAQ
• Ways to Rome: Processing XML with Perl
• XML::Twig, XML::Writer, XML::Tidy, XML::Entities

XML::Twig

• Re^3: XML::Twig problem — Regarding flush and twig_print_outside_roots
• Make sure you process your PIs if you need to work with them
• Note that the documentation for output_filter states that it "will be called every time a document or element is processed by the 'print' functions (print, sprint, flush)." Therefore, when using a combination of twig_roots and twig_print_outside_roots, your twigs will be filtered (if printed/flushed), but the non-twigs will not be filtered. You can work around this by using the _all_ or _default_ twig handlers
• Re^3: XML::Twig question and problem — "filter options do not operate when using the twig_print_outside_roots"

Unicode

• perlunitut: Unicode in Perl
• Character Encodings in Perl
• Unicode::Collate, Unicode::Normalize
• Re: Character encoding of microns — Digging into the Details

Regex

• Re^2: Store regular expressions in a file. — String-to-regex interpolation
• regexp::assemble and dispatch-table with unicode

Data Structures

• How can I visualize my complex data structure?
• Data::Rmap

Databases

• DBI
• DBD::AnyData — Common formats as databases
• DBI recipes
• A UTF8 round trip with MySQL

Language

• Re: NLP - natural language regex-collections? - Lingua
• Crossword Table Maker — And Word Galaxies
• Find Words a la Boggle

Bits

• Re: Matching or masking specific characters in an array of strings
• Re: Fast Identification Of String Difference

Tieing

• Re: Trouble with Tie::IxHash — Nested Hashes

POD

• POD nested item list not rendered as expected — See Pod::Simple::HTML

Style

• Location of 'use' statements

Tk (GUI)

• Tk Tutorial
• Re: TK::MListbox Issue — Arranging Content with Two Listboxes

Funnies

• xkcd://208 — Regex
• xkcd://519 — Utility

Text::CSV

• Beware of new lines!

Unicode

• Letter Database
• UniView
• UTF-8 Tool
• The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer...Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets

Other

• Omniglot — Writing Systems and Languages of the World

Chatterbox Shenanigans

• hacker: wtf. I've been adding subs all week, so I add an 11th sub, and now it falls over? WTF!!!
  tye: not all web apps can go to 11


• tye should start up a Perl Mongers so he can get away from the familly one night a month and sit in a bar alone


• tye: anyone heard of tools that will decode the audio of a fax call for debugging fax failures?
  bart: I know of such a device. It's called a "secretary".


• Corion: ... even I got that one :) (but I never read Pooh much, and in German, all the names are translated, for the obvious onomatopoetic effect)
  jZed: pooh-etic effect?


• Ashes.cfg: Is there a default date comparison module?
  tye: Date::Female:: HotOrNot
  tye: Date::Male:: StudOrDud


• bart: Soap, Ajax... What's this with developers and cleaning products?


• rhesa: ilike seems to have been available for some time in postgres (as well as case-insensitive regular expressions)
  Petruchio: ilike "bread and butter", ilike "toast and jam";


• jdporter: can I run SAX in a Safety box?
  Fletch: of course; you wouldn't want to be having unsafe sax . . . *bah dum dum*


• ssandv: whoa, someone actually posted a homework question and said it was a homework question. That's unusual. :)
  ssandv: I wonder if the people who squawk about not reinventing the wheel go around in wagons with solid wooden wheels and straight axles. My guess is no...


• MidLifeXis: Voronich Good morning. Modified my bread recipe for wheat this AM. ...
  ...
  Voronich: You can start with tablespoon sized quantities. After about 4 days it froths up like my ex girlfriend when her Xanax wore off. *shudder*
  MidLifeXis: Ewwwww.
  Voronich: Sourdough starter isn't quite as insane as that and rarely spouts groundless accusations of infidelity in shopping mall food courts; but I digress.


• thezip: It's also a whole lot of fun to strap a doggie biscuit to the cats. Max has such a great time with that
  Your Mother: I do the opposite. I spray the dog with catnip.
  Voronich: FUN!
  thezip: Oh, we *are* a bunch of Friday CB'ers, aren't we?


• thezip: So V, how's the dating scene this week?
  Voronich: meh.
  Voronich: I just don't have the energy.
  thezip: Wow, that doesn't sound good
  Voronich: Problem is I sorta have a pathological hatred for the process. It all seems like a sex & the city blooper reel.
  SuicideJunkie: Maybe you need to change your algorithm. Depth first search instead of BFS.
  Voronich: well this is the result of having gone the other way. Pure DFS ends miserably.
  spx2: Voronich what are you trying to do ?
  MidLifeXis: Remember, SFW :-b
  Voronich: date without dating
  


• Voronich still has a little trouble resisting the impulse to burst out into Toby Keith lyrics at work sometimes.
  marto: go for it, but only if you upload video footage of your coworkers reaction
  Voronich: They don't even blink any more.
  marto grins
  Voronich: I pretty much have to hop on the desk and start playing air guitar to Bat Out of Hell to get a reaction now.
  marto: perhaps you should work on some show tunes
  


• Corion: I should adapt and use that "disapproving look" emoticon more...
  Corion: ಠ_ಠ - but that means I'll get more emails about Wide Character in Print :-)


• mikeraz became a Friar today. Something must be broken around here.
  Voronich gets the oil and some twinkies.
  thezip: Kinky
  jellisii2 sets out the fire extinguisher.
  Voronich: Friar...oil? *waits for it...*
  thezip readies the friar extinguisher


• zek152 is frustrated with work making him use a windows os. It's like putting a bird in a cage and telling him to 'go fly'.