initself

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• About: Perl is better than sliced bread. Way better.

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• Posted NET::LDAP Active Directory SID Unpack to initself

  I was searching high and low for a way to unpack what NET::LDAP was returning for an objectSID. When dumped, it was just a bunch of line noise garbage. Trying to figure out what format it was in I came across this:

  Re: Ge…

• Posted Strawberry Perl uninstall / Active Perl install Issues on Windows to initself

  I have had a little problem getting a working Perl on Windows over the past few days. I was having a lot of trouble somehow getting a working dmake and mingw to compile code, among other things.

  Here's what happened in my latest attempt, for your benefit:

  1. Created a clean Ama…
• Commented on New Beginning Perl book
  s/quite/quiet/...
• Commented on Perl, C and Dr. Dennis Ritchie
  Great post! Perl and C are the two greats!...
• Posted Initself's Retarded Guide to Building a Package to initself

  To build a package, use Module::Install, ya turkey!

  cpan Module::Install
  

  
  Make a directory for your package to resi…

• Posted Initself's Retarded Guide to Creating a Package to initself

  Here's my definitive guide to creating a Perl package (non-OO) for retards.

  # where package is My/Package.pm
  package My::Package;
  
  # You can put it in the root directory if you wish
  # and refer to it just as Package.pm, but try create your own namespace 
  # if yo…

• Commented on Perl, Perl 5, Perl 6, and names
  If I wrote a song and thought it was great and then proceeded to play it for everyone I knew and not one person enjoyed the song, would I still think it was a great song?...
• Commented on Listing All Installed Programs in Windows XP
  Thanks from bringing WMIC to my attention!...
• Posted Listing All Installed Programs in Windows XP to initself

  I wanted to get a list of all the programs installed on my computer listed in 'Add or Remove Programs' in the Control Panel in Windows XP. Win32::TieRegistry provided a nice way…

• Posted How Open Source is Possible (at least one part) to initself

  Often times I find myself wondering how Open Source is even possible. How does something so amazing as CPAN get built and maintained and perfected?

  I think I figured it out, at least one part of it.

  It is possible because there are a lot of smart people out there being employed by…

• Posted POE Palm Sync Monitor to initself

  I am weird.

  i have a Motorola Droid and a first generation iPhone which I use on WiFi only. But I really can'…

• Posted Perl is Amazing! to initself

  I wouldn't be able to live if it weren't for Perl! Perl5, that is.

  Linux is my IDE.
  Perl5 is my VM.
  CPAN is my language.
  (thanks, mst)

Comment Threads

• roho commented on Listing All Installed Programs in Windows XP

  I tried running your code on ActiveState Perl 5.8.9 on Windows Vista and got the following error message with "use diagnostics":
  Can't coerce array into hash at C:\tmp\installed_programs.pl line 12 (#1)
  (F) You used an array where a hash was expected, but the array has no
  information on how to map from keys to array indices. You can do that
  only with arrays that have a hash reference at index 0.
  

  
  The error occurs on statements in the "foreach" loop. One thing that looks strange is the first statement:
  

  
  next unless m…

• Ovid commented on New Beginning Perl book

  @initself: ooh, that's embarrassing. And in the first sentence, too :) (Fixed, though)