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Tuesday, September 5th, 2006Houston and Vienna for YAPCs Next Year (The Perl Foundation)
The Perl Foundation, in conjunction with the YAPC::Europe Foundation are happy to announce Houston and Vienna as the venues for next year’s North American and European YAPCs.
This is great! Now I don’t have to go out of town to attend the perl conference. Last year it [...]
Perl vs PHP5 Part II / Blogging
Friday, August 20th, 2004Wow. I didn’t realize allowing MT to trackback would get so much of a response for my rant! Brian answered a comment, and now I feel retarded. Maybe next time I feel like trackbacking, I need to re-read stuff before I comment on it, and maybe do a little bit of research while im at [...]
Perl vs PHP5
Friday, August 20th, 2004brian d foy writes in this article, O’Reilly Network: Perl versus PHP 5, that he’s seen a lot of complaints about how hard it is to install modules in Perl. Now either he doesn’t use Perl, or maybe he just doesn’t know.
perl -MCPAN -e ‘install Module::Name’
That’s it. PHP doesn’t have a vast module network. I [...]
YAPC Day 3 and out
Saturday, June 19th, 2004Day three was good.. I really enjoyed Damian’s talk.. Overall good conference this year.. the University at Buffalo was a great place to host it. They had wireless everywhere, and plenty of places to eat on campus.. Go to tour the supercomputing lab. That was fun. Went to Niagra falls last night, and hopped the [...]
YAPC Day 2
Thursday, June 17th, 2004YAPC day 2 going on.. I’m listening in on “Advanced Regexs” had a sub for lunch, and two cookies. Uhh thats it for now.. just keeping the site up to date.
YAPC Day 1
Wednesday, June 16th, 2004Well, I’m here at YAPC 2004. Sitting here on the wireless, listening to the keynotes and Perl upcoming releases speech and such.
The hotel SUCKS!! The University Inn, in Buffalo, NY is horrible customer service wise. I got in last night and they said “Hey, you were supposed to be here yesterday, we canceled your reservation.” [...]
Finished LConMan
Thursday, May 27th, 2004Finished working on LConMan today. It’s working great on my laptop.. Now I can be even lazier!!
“LConMan was created because I’m too lazy to be typing in different configs for each
connection im at, being it home wlan, work wlan, work ethernet, home ethernet, etc.
LConMan will handle loading any connection type, even if you need to [...]
Email Parsing woes
Wednesday, May 5th, 2004Been writing an email archiving application for the office here. It stores every message in a MySQL table as follows :
+————+————–+——+—–+———+—————-+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+————+————–+——+—–+———+—————-+
| [...]
Wee Middle of the night
Monday, February 23rd, 2004#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $laundry = ‘done’;
if ($laundry eq ‘done’) {
sleep_now();
dream();
}
night
Texas Lotto Numbers
Wednesday, July 30th, 2003Ok, so the Texas Lotto is up to $47 million. So I decided, screw these quick pic machines, ill just write a Perl script to give you random numbers. It works great. Gonna play the numbers tonight.
[ Check it out ]
If you’re interested, the original code is here. The one liner by wog [...]