http://www.hexten.net Better than Slashdot Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:09:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ...I'm just following a meme. $ history | awk {'print $2'} | sort | uniq -c | sort -k1 -rn | head 69 svn 56 cd 52 ls 49 make 26 perl 19 vi 15 tack 15 cpan 11 sudo 11 ... http://www.hexten.net/2008/04/16/dont-follow-me It seems that someone is and I don't think it's anyone involved with the project. That page certainly doesn't look like spam or a scam me. http://www.hexten.net/2008/01/28/charging-for-gpsbabel In Understanding User and Kernel Mode Jeff Atwood says that code that uses exceptions is slow because "exceptions imply kernel mode transitions". From the ongoing debate in the comments it seems that this may be true for some languages running under .NET that use Window's Structured Exception Handling but it's ... http://www.hexten.net/2008/01/04/cargo-culted-optimisations ARM designer Steve Furber has been given a CBE. I believe the appropriate response is "w00t!". http://www.hexten.net/2007/12/29/steve-furber-cbe Perl needs Perl 6 and the wider Perl community needs to understand why. When I first got into computers I worried, briefly, that everything I learnt would inevitably be outmoded. I don't want to scare anyone unduly but there will come a time when Perl 5 is outdated. Slow, ugly, verbose, ... http://www.hexten.net/2007/12/28/stop-worrying-and-learn-to-love-perl-6 Congratulations to Rafael and all the Perl 5 Porters on releasing Perl 5.10.0 on Perl's 20th birthday. There's a torrent here for early adopters. http://www.hexten.net/2007/12/18/perl-5100-is-out I've just released HTTP::Proxy::GreaseMonkey. It's an HTTP proxy that allows (some) GreaseMonkey scripts to be used in any browser - not just FireFox. I wrote it so I could use my GreaseMonkey search.cpan.org enhancer with Safari. After installing the proxy and telling Safari (and everything else on the machine) to use ... http://www.hexten.net/2007/12/17/leopard-proxies-pubsubagent-crash It can't just be me who, on reading this headline, wonders why awards are being given for terror and why those awards are attacking bravery. http://www.hexten.net/2007/12/10/awards-for-terror-attack-bravery I wonder if I could use it as my passport photo? It's not exactly a striking likeness. Get yours here. http://www.hexten.net/2007/06/27/simpsons-me I need to parse a DTD. Specifically I need to parse this DTD: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd It's quite a well known one. Certainly there'll be a module on CPAN that can parse it. Let's have a look. XML::DTD Looks promising, comprehensive. Unfortunately it fails with an error which is eventually tracked to a misspelled method name. ... http://www.hexten.net/2007/06/01/cpan-v-dtd-spoiler-cpan-loses