Brian Phillips

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• Commented on Thanks for the Live Streams from YAPC::NA
  @Mark - you can view the streams without silverlight. Here's a Perl script courtesy of the #yapc IRC channel: https://gist.github.com/2926769...
• Commented on YAPC - Lightning workshop
  It's like speed dating for programmers!...
• Commented on Syntax highlight your SQL HEREDOCs in VIM
  It'd be nice if the region didn't start with the HEREDOC tag itself. For instance, I tweaked the snippet to work with an XML HEREDOC and the beginning << of the HEREDOC shows up in red because it's invalid XML....
• Commented on When rand isn't random
  And now I'm a perl5 core contributor! http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.changes/2010/07/msg26793.html...
• Posted When rand isn't random to Brian Phillips

  In spite of having programming Perl mostly full time for the last 12 years, I still find myself learning new things about how Perl works (like the time I discovered the arcane apostrophe package separator when trying to add a

• Commented on When rand isn't random
  @mpeters - yes, that was my intent. I've updated the post to reflect the correct srand call in the init handler. Thanks...
• Commented on Catalyst, MySQL, SQLite, H::FH, UTF-8 and more
  If you are able to reproduce an H::FH bug in an isolated test case (i.e. outside your application), I'm sure the author would work on supplying a fix. I dropped by in the #formhandler IRC channel (see the SUPPORT section...

Comment Threads

• Ovid commented on Syntax highlight your SQL HEREDOCs in VIM

  @rickroller: I keep meaning to properly organize my .vimrc and the rest of my config (particularly since I've been asked to give a talk about it at work), but I seem to have no time lately (something about a 26 week old baby at home).

  Thanks for the kind words, though! I'll try to make it happen at some point.

• Steven Haryanto commented on Thanks for the Live Streams from YAPC::NA

  The script is not working for me, but at least copy-pasting the UUID's is easy enough: https://blogs.perl.org/users/jt_smith/2012/06/streaming-via-vlc.html

  Anyway, thanks for all the streams. A couple of comments: 1) sound is good (they just need to remind speakers to repeat attendees' questions so stream listeners can hear the questions; but 2) the lighting in some room is not good enough? But nevertheless, thanks a lot!

• prakash commented on Thanks for the Live Streams from YAPC::NA

  Here's the javascript snippet to add a link to the video stream: https://gist.github.com/2936793

  Useful if you have dotJs or Greasemonkey.

• JT Smith commented on Thanks for the Live Streams from YAPC::NA

  You're quite welcome!

• Jesse Thompson commented on When rand isn't random

  Ack, bit by this in mod_perl 2.0.8! The PerlChildInitHandler workaround seems to solve my problem.