Abigail

• About: I am Abigail.

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• Commented on My First Perl Conference
  Some of us actually care about their privacy. I rather not have any images (moving or still) of me floating around on the internet....
• Commented on Brian McCauley (1967-2015)
  This is very sad news. Please pass my regards to Sam....
• Commented on Encapsulating Responsibility in Methods
  I find your argument about the "using" parameter of the steam_milk function not at all convincing. There's no reason what so ever that the steam_milk must have a "using" parameter, and the barista should not. If you can "hide" that...
• Commented on Perl 7
  I think people still haven't stopped ridiculing SUN for releasing Solaris 7 as the successor to Solaris 2.6. In the end, it doesn't matter at all how you label a Perl release. The IT world consists mainly of people having...
• Commented on A distributed design challenge
  Can't you just say campaign $C is handled by server hash($C)%36, for some appropriate hash function? Or you could throw in the amount of money left on the budget, and if $N units are left, you allow min($N, 36) servers...
• Commented on Let's say no to NO
  I also have a job, and neither you, nor the conference organizers are paying for my flights, hotels or giving any compensation for the fact I'm not working those days. I don't think you're entitled to dictate how I should...
• Commented on Let's say no to NO
  Guess I'll never be at a YAPC::Russia then. If you're paying for my flights, hotels and time, then you have the right to demand something. But if you expect me to pay for my flights, my hotels, and take time...
• Commented on Why is this "use" a syntax error?
  Do note that a version number is not a float. 0.96.1 is valid as well, but isn't parsed as a floating point number. So, your argument that .96 is parsed the same way as 0.96 in numerical context doesn't hold....
• Commented on Unicode and Passwords
  One thing to consider is, what are your costs? Has anyone done research to find out whether allowing Unicode passwords results in an increase of customer service calls, because people are having problems? You may think passwords become more secure...
• Commented on Belgian Perl Workshop 2011
  Would love to attend, but I've already made other appointments for said date. Next time, please pick a date sooner!...
• Posted A new JAPH to Abigail

  http://perl-blog.abigail.be/post/9347752138/a-new-japh

• Commented on Allowing anonymous comments
  Signing in here seems to be easy - all I need to do is click a link, no username or password required. Could be that in the past I set up some magic to deal with it, but that I...
• Commented on How to remove a carriage return (\r\n)
  $g =~ s/\R//; Takes care of all Unicode line endings....
• Commented on Something for Perl event organisers to take into consideration
  I'm not sure what to think of codes of conduct. What's the difference between a conference that has a code of conduct, and one that doesn't have one? What is the difference that's being made? How is it enforced? If...
• Commented on Why is booking.com hiring so many developers?
  Perl is neither a sufficient, nor a necessary requirement. We've hired people with no or limited Perl skills, and we have not hired some people with great Perl skills. At Booking.com, we need people that can, and will take responsibility,...
• Posted Somewhere between "use re 'eval'" and "no re 'eval'" to Abigail

  Say, you have a function, which takes a string, a pattern, and then

  sub example {
      my ($str, $pattern) = @_;
      $str =~ /$pattern(?{ 1; })/;
  }
  

  The cod…

• Commented on What non-Perl books do you recommend to Perlers?
  I rather throw out all my Perl books than my copy of "Advanced Programming in the UNIX environment" by the late W. Richard Stevens. And then there's the oeuvre of Donald E. Knuth....
• Commented on The Perl Survey 2010 is ready for you to complete!
  Some comments: Too bad the editors section doesn't have an "Other" option - now I cannot list my editor. I've also no idea what "open source dynamic languages" are. Is C "open source"? What's the source of a language anyway?...
• Commented on Starting Euler
  Mike: I think the point of Project Euler is that it's a math challenge, not a trivial program challenge. Each time I solved a problem using brute force, it felt like cheating....
• Commented on Starting Euler
  http://github.com/Abigail/ProjectEuler...
• Commented on MySQL and Oracle
  Here's a blog post (in German) of a former MySQL consultant (who now employed by $WORK), pointing out that Monty has its own agenda: http://blog.koehntopp.de/archives/2708-Monty-vs.-mysql-gpl.html He also points out (outside of the blog) that SUN has poured a lot of...
• Commented on MySQL and Oracle
  I would say this is a good test case for open source software. Can software that is "open" survive being sold to a third party (the party in this case being SUN - let's be clear here, Oracle didn't buy...
• Commented on dev.perl.org - gets a facepaint
  I've created an account on the site the link is pointing to, left a message on the forum, and now the page is up-to-date again....
• Commented on dev.perl.org - gets a facepaint
  Just too bad that the link "actively maintained" points to a page suggesting development suddenly stopped in August 2009....

Comment Threads

• Aaron Crane commented on Brian McCauley (1967-2015)

  I'm extremely sorry to hear that; I always thought Brian was a genuinely lovely person. Please pass on my sincere condolences to Sam.

• Ovid commented on Why is booking.com hiring so many developers?

  phpist: yes, they hire PHP developers, so long as you're willing to learn Perl. Booking.com wants competent developers and they know they'll be able to pick up a new language.

• Wendy commented on My First Perl Conference

  I didn't write my reaction to provoke a thanks by you. Just wanted to let you know that I saw you, like who you are, hugged you, and did not notice you needed more hugs, and maybe needed some more introductions to the people I know well, but you had Barbie doing that already. Butch as hell, just like me, and still soft inside. :-)

• Sam commented on My First Perl Conference

  That's absolutely fair enough and I respect your preference, Abigail.

• Sam commented on My First Perl Conference

  Oh I know that Wendy, but you were extremely kind and ludicrously generous and you need thanking. So... THANKS!

  And yes, we have to let good old Barbie still feel useful... :P