Slides for Matt Biddulph‘s speech “Python for Perl programmers” are a quick and easy way for Perl programmer to learn main differences between Perl and Python. Few code exmaples and quotes for the maestros are also included.
Category: Programming
A big part of my work has to do with code. I’ve worked as system administrator – installing, patching, and configuring someone else’s code. I’ve worked as independent programmer, writing code on my own. I also programmed as part of the team. And on top of that, I worked as Team Leader and Project Manager, where I had to interact a lot with programmers. Programming world on its own is as huge as the universe. There is always something to learn. When I find something worthy or something that I understand enough to write about, I share it in this category.
RTFM
# The best perl one liner ever! perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10)'
Extreme Perl
Extreme Programming is one of those subjects on my TODO list that I want to know about, but never bother to read anything about. If one day I will kick myself in the lazy butt and actually start learning about it, one of the books I will want to flip through is Extreme Perl, which is basically Extreme Programming applied to Perl programming language.
Perl and Unicode
I had a couple of issues with Unicode in Perl. Things just W. Work. And Warn. Those of you who haven’t done your reading yet, will probably find this article by Ivan Kurmanov very informative.
Linkblogging with del.icio.us
I was thinking about syndicating my del.icio.us bookmarks into the blog, but never implemented it. Today I stumbled upon this post which explains how to syndicate del.icio.us into Movable Types. The Perl script used is a dirty hack. Of course, I had to immidiately correct and improve the situation.
My version of the script uses XML::RSS module for parsing the RSS feed and CGI module for generating the HTML. It also uses del.icio.us tags as a title of the link. Overall, the script is much smaller and cleaner. The results of its work can be seen in the right panel, below archives.