I think if you're good enough and the employer has the right shaped hole,
it'll just be a process to go through.
As long as you your application doesn't look weird, in my experience, border
control are
reasonably efficient. Stick out and all bets are off.
On 30 May 2011, at 06:02, AJ wrote:
Hi,
I'm working on http://learn.perl.org/ and I'd like to have a few rotating
example of what can be done with Perl on the home page.
The first two I've thought of are below, does anyone have others?
They don't have to use CPAN modules, one liners are fine as long as it
is simple to see what
Hi Leo,
I have an example on my blog of a script to build sitemaps using TT
Mechanize (http://codelab.ferrarihaines.com/archives/135). Feel free to
use it if it suits your purpose...
Cheers...
Braudel
Hi,
I'm working on http://learn.perl.org/ and I'd like to have a few rotating
example of
Hi Braudel,
On 30 May 2011 12:14, B Maqueira b...@ferrarihaines.com wrote:
I have an example on my blog of a script to build sitemaps using TT
Mechanize (http://codelab.ferrarihaines.com/archives/135). Feel free to
use it if it suits your purpose...
Thanks - it's a too long for what I'm
On Monday 30 May 2011 11:40:57 Leo Lapworth wrote:
Hi,
I'm working on http://learn.perl.org/ and I'd like to have a few rotating
example of what can be done with Perl on the home page.
The first two I've thought of are below, does anyone have others?
They don't have to use CPAN modules,
I like this very much:
use Spreadsheet::Read;
my $ref = ReadData (test.xls);
say $ref-[1]{A3};
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Spreadsheet-Read/Read.pm
Gabor
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:40:57AM +0100, Leo Lapworth wrote:
Hi,
I'm working on http://learn.perl.org/ and I'd like to have a few rotating
example of what can be done with Perl on the home page.
The first two I've thought of are below, does anyone have others?
They don't have to use
On Monday 30 May 2011 14:27:25 'lesleyb' wrote:
I am a little fearful people will substitute variables on the
RHS in a CGI script without untainting first and then complain
when the problems show up.
Whilst I agree helping people learn about taint mode and how to untaint is
valuable, I'm
On 30 May 2011, at 11:40, Leo Lapworth wrote:
Hi,
I'm working on http://learn.perl.org/ and I'd like to have a few rotating
example of what can be done with Perl on the home page.
Like this concept. Some idioms based around some of the major modules would be
nice.
Especially, bit not
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 03:36:54PM +0100, David Precious wrote:
On Monday 30 May 2011 14:27:25 'lesleyb' wrote:
I am a little fearful people will substitute variables on the
RHS in a CGI script without untainting first and then complain
when the problems show up.
Whilst I agree helping
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 15:36 +0100, David Precious wrote:
if (! Email::Valid-address($email_address) ) {
Something wrong with 'unless'?
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Something I use quite a lot when skimming through log files:
perl -le 'print scalar localtime shift'
Ok, probably less than you were looking for...
Cheers,
Pedro
from the File::Slurp synopsis. can't get much cooler, short or useful
than this. :)
# Here is a simple and fast way to load and save a simple config file
# made of key=value lines.
my %conf = read_file( $file_name ) =~ /^(\w+)=(\.*)$/mg ;
write_file( $file_name, {atomic = 1}, map
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 11:59 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
from the File::Slurp synopsis. can't get much cooler, short or useful
than this. :)
my %conf = read_file( $file_name ) =~ /^(\w+)=(\.*)$/mg ;
write_file( $file_name, {atomic = 1}, map $_=$conf{$_}\n, keys %conf ;
It's kind of horrific
On Monday 30 May 2011 16:27:30 Denny wrote:
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 15:36 +0100, David Precious wrote:
if (! Email::Valid-address($email_address) ) {
Something wrong with 'unless'?
Depends whether you follow Damian Conway's PBP strictly :)
At $work, we mostly do follow PBP, but with some
On 30 May 2011, at 16:27, Denny wrote:
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 15:36 +0100, David Precious wrote:
if (! Email::Valid-address($email_address) ) {
Something wrong with 'unless'?
Ask Damian.
I also agree, it's a speedbump for my reading. KISS etc.
D == Denny 2...@denny.me writes:
D On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 11:59 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
from the File::Slurp synopsis. can't get much cooler, short or useful
than this. :)
my %conf = read_file( $file_name ) =~ /^(\w+)=(\.*)$/mg ;
write_file( $file_name, {atomic = 1}, map
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 13:10 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
if you think those are complex, you haven't seen enough perl! :)
I'm trying to think about the target audience, rather than show how
clever I am.
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On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 14:12, Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com wrote:
use Spreadsheet::Read;
my $ref = ReadData (test.xls);
say $ref-[1]{A3};
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Spreadsheet-Read/Read.pm
Cool module. If you do include it, s/ref/workbook/
Paul (who is puzzled by this
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 16:27 +0100, Denny wrote:
if (! Email::Valid-address($email_address) ) {
Something wrong with 'unless'?
No but lots of people appear to find if to be more readable
If you're not worried about readability then why bother with either the
if or unless. Just do:
use
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 17:59, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote:
# Here is a simple and fast way to load and save a simple config file
# made of key=value lines.
my %conf = read_file( $file_name ) =~ /^(\w+)=(\.*)$/mg ;
write_file( $file_name, {atomic = 1}, map $_=$conf{$_}\n, keys
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 19:35 +0100, Jason Clifford wrote:
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 16:27 +0100, Denny wrote:
if (! Email::Valid-address($email_address) ) {
Something wrong with 'unless'?
No but lots of people appear to find if to be more readable
It's not a choice between 'if' and
On 30 May 2011, at 19:47, Philip Newton wrote:
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 17:59, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote:
# Here is a simple and fast way to load and save a simple config file
# made of key=value lines.
my %conf = read_file( $file_name ) =~ /^(\w+)=(\.*)$/mg ;
write_file(
PN == Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com writes:
PN On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 17:59, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote:
# Here is a simple and fast way to load and save a simple config file
# made of key=value lines.
my %conf = read_file( $file_name ) =~
D == Denny 2...@denny.me writes:
D On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 13:10 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
if you think those are complex, you haven't seen enough perl! :)
D I'm trying to think about the target audience, rather than show how
D clever I am.
that isn't clever in my book. the slurp thing
Another example you can add maybe after some further tweaking:
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use Dancer;
get '/' = sub {
Hello World!
};
dance;
$ perl bin/app.pl
...
$ curl http://localhost:3000/
Hello world!
From
On 30 May 2011, at 22:17, Uri Guttman wrote:
DH No. Real people want to solve real world problems in a simple,
DH maintainable way, not wave around a canapé sized penis.
you have a strange way of measuring genitals. real world code is also
concise and fast and usable.
And MAINTAINABLE.
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Jason Clifford ja...@ukfsn.org wrote:
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 16:27 +0100, Denny wrote:
if (! Email::Valid-address($email_address) ) {
Something wrong with 'unless'?
No but lots of people appear to find if to be more readable
If you're not worried about
DH == Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com writes:
DH On 30 May 2011, at 22:17, Uri Guttman wrote:
DH No. Real people want to solve real world problems in a simple,
DH maintainable way, not wave around a canapé sized penis.
you have a strange way of measuring genitals. real world
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote:
D == Denny 2...@denny.me writes:
you need to challenge them a bit with new stuff instead of
handing them simple code anyone can do.
It depends entirely.
If we're teaching things to people who already know some perl, then
On 30 May 2011, at 22:47, Uri Guttman wrote:
DH == Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com writes:
DH And MAINTAINABLE.
DH Not everyone speaks line noise.
if you think that is line noise, then your perl skills need
improving.
And this is EXACTLY the problem. If this is perl, then we've
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote:
if you think that is line noise, then your perl skills need
improving. seriously i have taught the slurp line to total beginners and
they get it afterwards. this is for learn.perl.org, not golf.
my %conf = read_file(
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 17:47 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
my %conf = read_file( $file_name ) =~ /^(\w+)=(.*)$/mg ;
that is an assigment to hash, scalar context call on read_file and a
regex getting out key=val lines. all stuff newbies need to know and must
learn. it happens to use them all in
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 04:40:26PM -0500, Avleen Vig wrote:
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Jason Clifford ja...@ukfsn.org wrote:
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 16:27 +0100, Denny wrote:
if (! Email::Valid-address($email_address) ) {
Something wrong with 'unless'?
No but lots of people
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 23:20, lesleyb lesl...@herlug.org.uk wrote:
I had previous programming experience when I started learning Perl
and I was quickly introduced to the 'unless' construct. I confess
to finding it both cute and entirely obvious.
Yeah, seriously. You know, if someone can
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:40, Leo Lapworth l...@cuckoo.org wrote:
I'm working on http://learn.perl.org/ and I'd like to have a few rotating
example of what can be done with Perl on the home page.
I think this is great,
curl -L http://cpanmin.us | perl - --sudo App::cpanminus
An installer
NC == Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org writes:
NC You've stated that you *don't* expect newbies to know how to read
NC that line. Leo is currently looking for things that newbies could
NC be expected to read.
then you will get one liners that don't do much. you can't have it both
ways.
Uri wrote:
ever taken a class with damian? he doesn't pussy foot around with
kiddie code. that line is just like stuff he trains with
No it isn't. Not in my beginners classes, nor in PBP. When I'm teaching
newcomers to Perl, I focus my examples entirely on readability and
maintainability.
For
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 07:46:08PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
NC == Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org writes:
NC You've stated that you *don't* expect newbies to know how to read
NC that line. Leo is currently looking for things that newbies could
NC be expected to read.
then you will
On 27 May 2011 02:58, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 05:25:01PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
Unless things have changed dramatically ActiveMQ has many, many features
pretty much all poorly documented in the typical ASF/Java project
fashion (i.e a poorly
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Damian Conway dam...@conway.org wrote:
I'll happily concede that this example isn't nearly as impressive as
some of the others in this thread, but its real-world, useful,
conveniently incremental, requires no modules, and ably
demonstrates the value of many
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 2:23 AM, Paul Makepeace pa...@paulm.com wrote:
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 23:20, lesleyb lesl...@herlug.org.uk wrote:
I had previous programming experience when I started learning Perl
and I was quickly introduced to the 'unless' construct. I confess
to finding it both
instead of showing random perl examples on learn.perl why not highlight
the good docs that already exist. the other day someone asked on irc
about some ref stuff and i pointed them to perlreftut. the tutes are
full of useful stuff but they aren't read by newbies (i know that from
many times
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