On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 05:58:00PM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Maher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tim> On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 08:33:25PM -0000, Peter Scott wrote: > >> Some advice for Perl trainers doing hands-on demonstrations: > >> Don't type "my $self = shift" (or shift anything else) without > >> practice. It is too easy to typo and leave the 'f' out of > >> 'shift'. For some reason I am more prone to making this > >> mistake in front of an audience than when coding alone. > >> Peter Scott > > Tim> Been there; done that! I also recommend avoiding attempts to > Tim> type the potentially much more embarrassing "$count" for the same > Tim> general reason (did it once; won't ever take the chance again!). > > And don't do live demos on your laptop where you might have personal > data unless you've already rehearsed every step of your demo in the > privacy of your own cubicle, and verified that nothing of questionable > interest might be exposed. > > And on a completely unrelated topic, keep in mind that the resource > fork of a movie you downloaded to a UFS partition on MacOSX will be > stored in a file named "._moviename.mpg", which doesn't get removed > when you say "rm *". > > :-)
Not that I've ever suffered from any of the above problems, oh no... (Displaying your /etc/bashrc, when it happens to contain aliases designed to discourage those who type curse words as commands - during a demo at a bank headquarters, no less - cannot *possibly* have happened to me. Never.) I would *love* to publish these cautionary tales in the Linux Gazette. :) Would anyone mind? Even a single 'no' will be sufficient. * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://linuxgazette.net *
