Chris Grau

• About: I use Perl to support an EDA engineering organization. Occasionally I write about the things I do with Perl.

Recent Actions

• Commented on Elapsed Time in Test Output
  Steven, That's a good question. I don't know how an alternative formatter can be activated from within a test file, which would probably be required for CPAN Testers to use a custom formatter. This may be the use case I...
• Commented on Elapsed Time in Test Output
  Thanks, Ron. I rather liked the Time::Elapsed module when I found it and, in fact, had started using it when I was still adding timing code to my test files. I may try to use it if I develop a...
• Commented on Elapsed Time in Test Output
  Thanks for pointing out the use of the --timer flag. I had meant to say something about it, but forgot. It's one of the options I have set in my ~/.proverc file and, as you mentioned, is quite useful for...
• Posted Elapsed Time in Test Output to sirhc

  I’ve been writing tests for a web service in which one of the methods would occasionally take an inordinate amount of time. The amount of time was inconsistent and it would be useful to capture some timing data to provide the vendor. But, I didn’t want to litter my test files with…

• Posted Repeated Capturing and Parsing to sirhc

  An interesting query was recently posted to the internal Perl mail list at work. The questioner was trying to match a pattern repeatedly, capturing all of the results in an array. But, it wasn't doing quite what he expected. The message, with minor edits, went a little something like the…

• Commented on Automating On Call Jury Instructions
  As requested, I've posted a version using Mojo::UserAgent. As a bonus, I've updated the original to use WWW::Scripter....
• Commented on Automating On Call Jury Instructions
  Mojo::UserAgent looks neat, thanks for the pointer. Maybe, as a demonstration, I'll write a version of my script using it. I suspect my local Perl Mongers group would enjoy seeing different approaches to solving this problem....
• Posted Automating On Call Jury Instructions to sirhc

  Early in February, I received a jury summons for the United States District service (at least in this court) are placed on call for a period of about 30 days. I was to call for instructions on April 1 and potentially pro…

• Posted For Want of a Newline to sirhc

  Recently I had the pleasure of spending three hours debugging an obscure bug. An obscure bug I caused by introducing a newline. That little punk, 0x0A.

  I released a new version of a command line program. For me, it’s an elegant piece of work, combi…

• Commented on Ninja Code
  You're right, and it's glaringly obvious now that I see it. I originally wrote something about this while at OSCON back in 2008, so I no longer remember if it was their bug or my transcription error. Though it might...
• Posted Ninja Code to sirhc

  As this is only my second post—my first merely being a plug for a Damian Conway talk at my local Perl Mongers meeting—I thought I’d keep it short and silly.

  At OSCON 2008, Amazon had a prominent booth advertising heavily that they were hiring. They didn’t want to h…

• Posted San Diego Perl Mongers Present Damian Conway to sirhc

  The San Diego Perl Mongers present Damian Conway. One night only, Monday, October 11, 7 PM at the offices of Knobbe Martens,

Comment Threads

• A. Sinan Unur commented on Automating On Call Jury Instructions

  The following is a rant:

  Here's the thing that really, really bugs me: Somewhere there is some government IT guy sitting, building retirement funds putting together web pages like this. Looking at the page, I see:

  <noscript>
Javascript is disabled. You must use a javascript-enabled browser in order to view this page.
<br /><br />
<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/critical/ie6sp1/default.asp" target="_blank">Click here to download the latest Internet Explorer up…

• A. Sinan Unur commented on Automating On Call Jury Instructions

  More ranting:

  The best part is the following gem in the source:

  <a href="http://bobby.watchfire.com/" title="Bobby's Home Page"></a>

  JavaScript required and Bobby (via Archive.org)!

• Joel Berger commented on Automating On Call Jury Instructions

  Chris: If you do please post a link, I would be curious to see the difference!

• Aristotle commented on Automating On Call Jury Instructions

  All that effort just to get a single “it’s over, you can go home” mail… :-)

• Joel Berger commented on Automating On Call Jury Instructions

  This makes for a very interesting comparison. I had never heard of WWW::Scripter, so now I have something new to look at. Well done sir!