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Re: The best browser bookmarking system is already built-in

dotandimet — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 09:58:30 -0000

Works on Mac too, although the file created is in XML rather than INI format

Re: Home is Where the Heart is – Page 18

dotandimet — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 12:47:56 -0000

It's a bit of a cop-out to have Rotem's complaint about unfairness appeased by a lucky draw...

Re: Home is Where the Heart is – Page 6

dotandimet — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 09:47:47 -0000

OK, you just inspired me to start a Facebook thread about unfortunate NPC naming choices...

Re: פרק 145 – מוניומנטים ונקודות ציון

dotandimet — Wed, 04 May 2016 07:44:22 -0000

הפרק הזה היה נשמע לגמרי אחרת אם מישהו היה אומר לאורי בזמן "אנדרטאות".

עוד מקשיב, מחכה לשלב שתזכירו שביקור בהר ראשמור במשחק לא נחשב אם אין סצנת קרב בתוך נחיר של נשיא חצוב בסלע.

Re: לא כוחות

dotandimet — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 07:28:38 -0000

מיש כבר אמר את זה: https://www.facebook.com/my...

Re: die

dotandimet — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:37:36 -0000

While it helps that die() appends a file name and line number telling you where the exception comes from, you'll soon find it might be helpful to see a stack trace, so you know what caused the exception. The croak() function from the Carp module is probably what you want to use instead of die in any module you write.

Re: Recording DarkPAN dependencies on CPAN

dotandimet — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 08:49:47 -0000

So, as a maintainer of a pile of DarkPAN code, the only times I've really cared about our dependencies were when I decided to upgrade perl. Since I've got a couple of central integration points (a web app and a database model layer worked on by many developers), I wanted to ensure that any module and script we use would work with the new perl. So I used ExtUtils::Installed and/or Dist::Surveyor to
generate a huge list of modules I needed to install to the new Perl
version, and fed it to cpanm. I also threw in cpanm-reporter to send test reports.

I wish that Neil Bowers guy had written a survey/review of tools to list/upgrade your installed dists before I did this. Dist::Surveyor tries to narrow down the dependencies to specific distributions, with versions; ExtUtils::Installed doesn't, but it lists non-CPAN modules we have installed (a senior developer wrote some stuff in XS, so I need to know what they are).

I think your best bet for getting people to report the distributions they use (i.e, something more comprehensive than people hitting "like" on MetaCPAN) might be hooking up into something like this, maybe even wrapping this process in a slicker, more useful interface.

Re: Comparing the speed of JSON decoders

dotandimet — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 06:57:59 -0000

Mojo::JSON is pure Perl, so it should be slower than the XS modules, although it might be faster than JSON::PP (Sebastian claimed it was the fastest pure Perl JSON parser at one time). It's not so interesting to add it to a speed test, but there might be differences in correctness.

Re: Sometimes, It's the Little Things - Hacking Thy Fearful Symmetry

dotandimet — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 10:04:02 -0000

Is there a reason to use YAML instead of it's less-insane cousin, YAML::Tiny?

Re: my reads: Rivers of London and London Falling

dotandimet — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:04:12 -0000

In his blog, Ben Aaronovitch explained that some parts of Rivers of London started life in the shape of an aborted TV pitch. I haven't read Paul Cornell's books, but I'm guessing that convergent details (diverse cast, Harry Potter references) would arise from that simple commonality - the TV medium, the urban fantasy/police procedural genre, and the modern London setting.

Re: Class method and alternative constructor in classic Perl OOP

dotandimet — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:43:28 -0000

There is (was?) a convention used in new() methods to handle being called on an instance:
sub new { my ($class, %args) = @_; return bless \%args, ref $class || $class; }
ref on a string (such as the class name) returns false, ref on an instance returns the class name.

Re: A New Year, a New Dancecard - Hacking Thy Fearful Symmetry

dotandimet — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 08:29:01 -0000

I looked at this and thought "I could do something similar as a Mojolicious command" and then "maybe we could share the data files" and then "if there was a central repository for this..."

For a brief while there was JSAN (http://openjsan.org), but right now the closest central repository I think is bower (http://bower.io/). The source for their registry is here: https://github.com/bower/re... (a sinatra app which describes the API).

Although upon reflection, the documentation links are probably the most interesting feature (and one really missing from bower, which is mainly about dependency management).

Re: Proper usage of the roles in Perl

dotandimet — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:04:07 -0000

You're right. That sucks. :-(

Re: Proper usage of the roles in Perl

dotandimet — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 11:14:02 -0000

This is relevant to Perl packages in general; if you put the 'use' statements outside the package declaration, the functions they export will be visible in the file scope, but won't show up as methods of the package elsewhere. Which means you don't need namespace::clean if you're careful.

Re: The good, the bad, and the beautiful

dotandimet — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 04:17:41 -0000

https://metacpan.org/requir... lists things like YAML::Tiny and File::Util in amongst all the Dzil plugins.

Re: How to create an "include" node

dotandimet — Wed, 01 May 2013 13:07:33 -0000

How about adding (a whitelisted subset of) attributes I set on an outline node to it's HTML representation? That way you can support things like paragraph direction (the dir attribute), which makes editing mixed language text (for example, Hebrew and English) much nicer.

Re: undef on Perl arrays and hashes

dotandimet — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:40:15 -0000

The Set::Functional module (https://metacpan.org/module... does an interesting trick with undef on a hash slice - look at its settify method, which changes a list into a set (basically, an unique list, so it works like List::MoreUtils::uniq) without iteration:


sub setify(@) {
  my %set;
  undef @set{@_} if @_;
  return keys %set;
}

Re: Fetching the status of blog entries using grep and cut

dotandimet — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:47:35 -0000

Using cut is nice, I'm ashamed to admit I usually use the more verbose awk '{ print $1 }' (or whatever).

Re: Science fiction of the world

dotandimet — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:49:05 -0000

Tidhar and Charles Tan operate a blog at http://worldsf.wordpress.com (originally started to promote the first Apex book of World SF) that is a hub of information on SF&F written by authors from outside the US/UK - you'll find links, reviews and original fiction there.

Re: Open File in Perl

dotandimet — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:28:25 -0000

What about IO::File? It's part of the core, isn't it?

use IO::File;

my $fh = IO::File->new('filename', 'r');

   while (my $line = $fh->getline) { # or $line = <$fh>
     print $line;
   }

Re: Barewords in Perl

dotandimet — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:05:32 -0000

I think your bad example is very good (uh...), I was just thinking that the most common occurrence of barewords I see in Perl code examples is a file handle.

But I guess your goal is to teach people how to write good Perl, not how to read bad Perl.

Re: Barewords in Perl

dotandimet — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:49:27 -0000

The implicit section missing from this tutorial would be 'Bad (deprecated?) uses of barewords', right?

Re: FLOSS Weekly 190

dotandimet — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 02:34:29 -0000

No link to the project?

Re: The effectiveness of Twitter, or the lack of it

dotandimet — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:15:35 -0000

Something I've seen a number of people I follow do is reposting links (specifically links to their latest blog post or article, not random linkage) for the morning/evening/afternoon "crowd" - twitter is much more time-dependent than blogs or even Facebook (which is useless for different reasons): If you're not reading Twitter when a post is made, you're usually not going to scroll back/down and see it.

I think two things that can make tweets more effective are:

(a) - being on-time and on-topic - they use a hashtag that people are likely to be looking for, when people are likely to be looking at it - i.e., #yapc or #yapc2011 is more likely to be noticed *during the conference* than #perl posted whenever.

(b) - being part of a conversation - posting in reply to someone, or being replied to. The latter is a bit of a chicken and egg problem....

Re: Strawberry Perl with Cream - 5.12.3 v3 released

dotandimet — Mon, 30 May 2011 10:35:28 -0000

Wasn't there supposed to be a Chocolate Perl, richer than Strawberry as Strawberry was richer than Vanilla?