Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish

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• About: Catalyst hacker, management researcher and health informatician.

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• Commented on Zotero/Perl integration
  Yeah I want a 100% markdown based solution, so bibtex doesn't do it for me (largely to do with often working with co-authors). Which means pandoc (haskell markdown to various formats round trip parser including pseudopod and docx apparently). Current...
• Commented on Creating a perl developer survey
  Here you go. Back in 2010 the answer was operating systems ... and best windows distributions. So for the 2013 survey, we should add dwim perl. Any others?...
• Posted Zotero/Perl integration to Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish

  Zotero is in my opinion the best solution to citation management available. It's a firefox/xulrunner based solution for collecting and maintaining bibliographic data and it's associated full text. Zotero has a cloud based API but also an internal (largely…

• Commented on Creating a perl developer survey
  Also looking at the reports on the 2010 survey and evaluating what questions worked well, which were incomplete and which could be deleted would also be very useful in refining the instrument. Bear in mind I got the grant to...
• Commented on Creating a perl developer survey
  Don't reinvent the wheel please. I was planning on running a perl survey in 2013. There have been a few surveys around recently and I wanted there to be a bit of a lull. If you want to help, grab...
• Commented on Smoke testing on Windows
  Hmm, what happened to the Microsoft CPAN Authors Lab. There was an announcement on use.perl.org (link now dead), and a /. article, and a couple of other things. But other than that, nothing. I have no idea how to get...
• Commented on CGI is dead, long live CGI
  Web::Simple seems like a potential solution that has (or will have) some vertical integration features with Dancer and Catalyst should you need to start scaling things up....
• Commented on A Question of Location
  Lovely piece of writing. Thanks :)...
• Commented on Garbage Collection
  love it!...
• Posted ... I like to push the pramalot ... to Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish
  During a recent trip to Sydney I visited the Camelot Lounge. Nothing to do with small children, or arthurian legends, it contains much camel memorabilia. Being a very short train ride (two stops) from the OSDC…
• Commented on Towards a Science of Psychohistory
  The only reason I ask is that I do. You show me yours and I'll show you mine ;)...
• Commented on Towards a Science of Psychohistory
  Got any code?...
• Commented on CPAN modules for the Indonesian language
  The big problem with Indonesian as written online is that much of it is done in txt spk with lots and lots of shortcuts. Which makes it a nightmare for me to read (given I don't read formal indonesian very...
• Commented on How Perl Documentation Could Look Like
  Pandoc is not a format, it's a parser - basically markdown to anything and back - written in Haskell. I guess it's as good as its test data....
• Commented on Posting Pertama
  Saya juga mau Acme::CPANAuthors::Mengerti::BehasaIndonesia Actually Indonesian/Malay[3], Perl and English have interesting linguistic features in common, as they're all driven by the same pragmatic foundations. Except that while English has a huge sprawling vocabulary, Indonesian uses quite a lot of metaphor,...
• Commented on Truth about Booking.com
  To be honest it sounds like pretty much any other bureaucratic environment. Getting bureaucracies to move past one size fits all metrics to understand how to make best usage of their resources is a bit of a challenge once they...
• Commented on How not to use Moose
  On the other hand, I don't see what's wrong with this (aside from the iffy class name and behaviour): package Messiah; use Mo; has $_ => 'is' => 'rw' for qw/foo bar baz/; sub boom { die "aargh"} 1; I...
• Commented on A regex for my book
  I once made a regexp to match every town/suburb name in Australia. As well as being mindboglingly long and complicated it was also blazingly fast....
• Commented on Public classes in Australia
  When are you coming to Sydney, or even better, Wollongong? :)...
• Commented on [UPDATED] Beginning Perl For Bioinformatics
  Scientific programming by its nature is a messy enterprise compared to the more production oriented commercial projects that most programmers are used to. On the other hand I saw a text mining with perl book that while useful on the...
• Commented on On "Communities" In General and Modern::Perl
  An invisible signal is that there are a lot of professional perl programmers quietly getting big stuff done. Things that run important infrastructure across a wide range of business domains in government, education and industry....
• Commented on Mo Moo Moose
  is there a version with non-obsufucated, or commented source anywhere?...
• Commented on Expanding Your MetaCPAN Author Profile
  right, that was a good excuse to start using metacpan rather than search cpan.org. What I did was sign on with my PAUSE account, and then update my old bookmark associated with the keyword "cpan" to read: https://metacpan.org/search?q=%s Now in...
• Commented on It was bound to happen - Perl numbrenclature
  Well to solve the trademark issues, perl 5.6 should be Bactrian, and perl 5.8 should be Dromedary, which fits with what is suspected evolutionary lineage of these camels....
• Commented on Perl numbrenclature support
  Presumably perl 5.005 should be codename Cthulhu, and prior to that should have no codename (i.e. the nameless ones)?...
• Commented on Perl QA Hackathon 2011 - Day 1 "Am I Online?"
  I hope you skated to the airport, parking and public transport are both extortionate to Kingsford Smith....
• Commented on Source code generation with Template Toolkit
  Back in the day when my understanding of functional programming was 0 (rather than 0.01 like it is now), I used to write TT code to generate R code....
• Commented on The Future of Perl Documentation (part 1 of 3)
  Sorry there's no audio, but I talked about documentation at German Perl Workshop last year: here. I put in a proposal for a similar talk at OSCON, although I might look at how to produce better instrucitonal documentation for XUL...
• Commented on Today's lyrical excursion Perl perversion
  sorry Yanik's Madness one should be: perl -e 'our @street= ( 101, 102, our $house, 104, 105 )'...
• Posted Unusual uses for perl to Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish

  The alternative title for this post would be Best Holiday Ever where I got to show my family some of the parts of Indonesia I visited as a child, and where we got to visit a hotel in a national park in…

Comment Threads

• Matt Perry commented on Smoke testing on Windows

  I've been smoke testing on Windows since reading this blog post. I'm also getting hangs. I've used Process Explorer to see what is hanging and it's always due to Capture::Tiny. When things stop I'll see two Perl processes that look like this but with different filenames used for the last argument.

  C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe -e "$SIG{HUP}=sub{exit}; if( my $fn=shift ){ open my $fh, qq{>$fn}; print {$fh} $$; close $fh;} my $buf; while (sysread(STDIN, $buf, 2048)) { syswrite(STDOUT, $buf); syswrite(STDERR, $buf)}" C:\Users\smoker\AppData\Local\Temp\2\qdJ32OEk0b

  Killing one …

• Steven Haryanto commented on CGI is dead, long live CGI

  @Christopher: Thanks! Sticky Notes is nice indeed. Why can't Perl web apps be as simple as PHP to install/deploy? :-/
  

• Matt Perry commented on Creating a perl developer survey

  I would like to know what platforms Perl programmers are using. I write most of my Perl scripts on and for Windows these days and I'm curious how many other Windows Perl programmers are out there.

• Matt Perry commented on Creating a perl developer survey

  Thanks for the links. I'm pleasantly surprised by how high Windows is in the percentages. That tells me that CPAN smoke testing on Windows is more important than ever.

  Please add Citrus Perl to the survey.
  

• Mithaldu commented on Smoke testing on Windows

  My solution so far has been: Smoke on ActivePerl. I haven't tried smoking with Strawberry yet, but ActivePerl smoking has never hung in the manner you described.