Re: Cool/useful short examples of Perl?

2011-06-02 Thread Simon Cozens
On 01/06/2011 18:55, Peter Edwards wrote: Here's an idiot simple code colorizer for logs / diffs that I use quite a lot http://blogs.perl.org/users/peter_edwards/2010/08/colorized-perl-code-snippets-on-ansi-terminals.html Here's my idiot simple log colorizer: use Config::Auto; use

Re: Speed v Version

2011-06-02 Thread Andrew Beattie
On 01/06/2011 23:10, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: With added greengrocer's! FTFY. Andrew

Perl under MacOS X

2011-06-02 Thread Randy J. Ray
I find myself the unexpected caretaker of a MacBook Pro, handed off to me when someone at $JOB left recently. It's shiny. And very eye-candy-ish. But I am now wishing I'd paid more attention to recent discussions of OSX-related stuff. I seem to recall some issues with Xcode 4 and compiled CPAN

Re: Perl under MacOS X

2011-06-02 Thread Kieren Diment
On 02/06/2011, at 5:55 PM, Randy J. Ray wrote: I find myself the unexpected caretaker of a MacBook Pro, handed off to me when someone at $JOB left recently. It's shiny. And very eye-candy-ish. But I am now wishing I'd paid more attention to recent discussions of OSX-related stuff. I seem

Re: Perl under MacOS X

2011-06-02 Thread Leo Lapworth
On 2 June 2011 08:55, Randy J. Ray rj...@blackperl.com wrote: I find myself the unexpected caretaker of a MacBook Pro, handed off to me when someone at $JOB left recently. It's shiny. And very eye-candy-ish. But I am now wishing I'd paid more attention to recent discussions of OSX-related

Re: Perl under MacOS X

2011-06-02 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 09:37:36AM +0100, Steve Mynott wrote: Install Virtualbox or Vmware and use a linux perl. Much simplier in the long run than playing around with payware DVD sized downloads for gcc, case insensitive filesystems and the like. $ date Foo $ uname foo $ cat Foo foo Thu Jun

Re: Perl under MacOS X

2011-06-02 Thread Matt Lawrence
On 02/06/11 09:06, Kieren Diment wrote: On 02/06/2011, at 5:55 PM, Randy J. Ray wrote: I find myself the unexpected caretaker of a MacBook Pro, handed off to me when someone at $JOB left recently. It's shiny. And very eye-candy-ish. But I am now wishing I'd paid more attention to recent

Re: Perl under MacOS X

2011-06-02 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 09:37, Steve Mynott st...@gruntling.com wrote: Install Virtualbox or Vmware and use a linux perl. Yes. I wish I could reclaim the time wasted between me thinking ooh, cool, I can do unix dev on my Mac directly (problems start here) to screw all this, I'm running a VM

Re: Perl under MacOS X

2011-06-02 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:01, Peter Edwards pe...@dragonstaff.co.uk wrote: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/virtualboxs-seamless-mode-combine-operating-systems-desktop/ It’s also possible, in theory, that some legally-questionable BitTorrent trackers have VirtualBox images you can use to boot OSX.

failing to steal from Java (was Re: Someone needs to take jwz aside...)

2011-06-02 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 01:28:14PM +0100, Pedro Figueiredo wrote: On 27 Apr 2011, at 13:02, Nicholas Clark wrote: The issues seem to be dependency management and code reuse. How is Java solving these in ways that Perl is failing at? It's not automating the (to some degree

Re: Someone needs to take jwz aside...

2011-06-02 Thread gvim
On 21/04/2011 09:38, Simon Cozens wrote: On 21/04/2011 09:26, Mark Overmeer wrote: CPAN was never made to maintain software. It is made to distribute software. When you upload something to it, there is no warning that you will become responsible for its future. And this, folks, is precisely

Re: Perl under MacOS X

2011-06-02 Thread Jesse Vincent
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 10:15:19AM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 09:37, Steve Mynott st...@gruntling.com wrote: Install Virtualbox or Vmware and use a linux perl. Yes. If you're going to go that route, have a look at Vagrant. vagrantup.com

Re: Perl under MacOS X

2011-06-02 Thread Brian Manning
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Andy Armstrong a...@hexten.net wrote: Amusingly quite a lot of Adobe software will refuse to install on a case sensitive HFS filesystem. The list includes most / all of the creative suite, Premiere, Flash Builder. It's their way of saying You're not worthy!.

Re: Someone needs to take jwz aside...

2011-06-02 Thread Simon Cozens
On 02/06/2011 21:50, gvim wrote: Considering the amount of development you've done on Perl web frameworks over the years isn't this tantamount to having given up on Perl, at least for web development? Yes and no. I've moved from being more of a developer to being more of a user. Perl is a