Notes In The Margin » perl

For the last five years, roughly, I’ve been doing PHP programming, gradually forgetting the Perl that I knew, except when I wished PHP would do something that Perl makes easy. One particular sy...

https://drbacchus.com/back-to-perl/

I read with mounting horror Aaron’s post about the Ruby conference, and the various things that he linked to from it. Unfortunately, it’s an old and familiar story. Unfortunately, it reminds ...

https://drbacchus.com/geek-arrogance-and-chauvinism/

Long, long ago, Steve Hancock gave us PerlTidy, which allowed me to quickly and reliably convert raw Perl code into code that abided by all of my coding standards, whatever they might be for a pa...

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The great conference TShirt is one that, if you have to explain what it means to someone who wasn’t there, takes 30 minutes, and leaves both of you feeling like it wasn’t worth the effort. My...

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For many years, I worked on Perl date/time modules. Calendars – non-Gregorian ones, that is – held a great deal of fascination for me, and I wrote Perl modules for many of them. They’re all...

https://drbacchus.com/perl-stuff-in-svn/

The Perl lightning talks have been a staple of the Perl Conference, and, later, the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, for as long as I’ve been attending it. And YAPC, too, although I haven’t...

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I’ve hacked together a few dozen lines of Perl that transform your Delicious Library XML file to HTML pages. It is by no means complete, but if you care, then it will give you a starting point....

https://drbacchus.com/delicious-library-on-your-website-sort-of/

WordPress comes with a nifty feature called Permalinks, whereby you can have links to your articles by name, rather than by the icky ID number. I’ve never done that, because the rewrite rules n...

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There was a guy in line at the security check at the airport wearing a Perl Mongers T-shirt. I asked him, indicating the shirt, if he was a member of a local Perl Mongers chapter. His response? �...

https://drbacchus.com/is-that-a-camel/

Long, long ago, I got a set of those magnetic words. Except that these ones were Perl words. Presumably so that you can write Perl code on your refrigerator. Well, thus far, I haven’t really ha...

https://drbacchus.com/magnetic-essay/