
initself
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- About: Perl is better than sliced bread. Way better.
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Posted Adding a Gravatar to PAUSE Account to initself
How one goes about adding an profile image to their PAUSE account is un-intuitive.
The &tldr; of the matter is:
- Associate your primary PAUSE email address with a gravatar at gravatar.com.
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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:
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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:
- Created a clean Ama…
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Commented on New Beginning Perl book
s/quite/quiet/...
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Commented on Perl, C and Dr. Dennis Ritchie
Great post! Perl and C are the two greats!...
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Posted Initself's Retarded Guide to Building a Package to initself
To build a package, use Module::Install, ya turkey!
Update: Per mstpan, one should not us…
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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…
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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?...
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Commented on Listing All Installed Programs in Windows XP
Thanks from bringing WMIC to my attention!...
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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…
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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…
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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'…
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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
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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)

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