Ron Savage

• Website: savage.net.au/
• About: I try to write all code in Perl, but find I end up writing in bash, CSS, HTML, JS, and SQL, and doing database design, just to get anything done...

Recent Actions

• Posted Announce Perl.Wiki.html V 1.25 etc to Ron Savage

  My home page gives you access to:

  o Perl TiddlyWiki V 1.25
  o Mojolicious TiddlyWiki V 1.03
  o Debian TiddlyWiki V 1.07
  o Some other stuff...

• Posted Announce Perl.Wiki.html V 1.24 to Ron Savage

  Herewith V 1.24

  Cheers
  

• Posted Announce Perl.Wiki.html V 1.23 to Ron Savage

  Available now: Perl.Wiki.html V 1.23.

  As from today, when I announce a new version of one of my TiddlyWikis, I'll list the 2 most recent parts of the change log. These are just copies of the most recent parts of the para called Version…

• Commented on Announce Perl.Wiki.html V 1.22
  Hi Yes, you are correct. I've just uploaded V 1.23. The link is now Perl.Wiki.html V 1.23. How is it useful? In short, there are perhaps 35,000 modules on MetaCPAN, so I think a quick guide is in order. I...
• Posted Announce Perl.Wiki.html V 1.22 to Ron Savage

  Perl Wiki V 1.22

• Posted Updated Wikis: Debian V 1.05, Mojolicious V 1.02, Perl 1.21 to Ron Savage

  Simplest is if you go to my homepage and follow the links to my Debian and Perl pages.

  Note: The Debian and Mojolicious updates are minor, but a lot of changes are in the Perl wiki.
  

• Posted Update TiddlyWikis to Ron Savage

  The Perl wiki has been renamed from Perl.html - which was too generic - to Perl.Wiki.html:
  

  The Mojolicious wiki is at:
  https://savage.net.au/misc/Mojolicious.Wiki.html

  The Debian wiki is at:
  https://savage.net.au/misc/Debi…

• Posted Perl wiki updated, 4 other wikis uploaded - Take 4 to Ron Savage

  Hi All

  Why aren't my links appearing....

  Note: The first 3 links point to my personal page: http://savage.net.au

  The Perl wiki has been renamed from Perl.html - which was too generic - to Perl.Wiki.html:
  https://savage.net.au/misc/Perl.Wiki.html

  The Mojoliciou…

• Posted Perl wiki updated, 4 other wikis uploaded - Take 2 to Ron Savage

  Hi All

  Note: The first 3 links point to my personal page

  The Perl wiki has been renamed from Perl.html - which was too generic - to Perl.Wiki.html:
  

  The Mojolicious wiki is at:…

• Posted Updated, curated, Perl module TiddlyWiki to Ron Savage

  Download the Perl TiddlyWiki

  Read about TiddlyWIkis

  Cheers
  

• Commented on Curated list of Perl modules
  Fixed. All new uploads of my Perl.html TiddlyWiki will be as requested. Thanx. It's now obvious I put your module in the wrong category. I've also copied a para called TiddlyWikis from another in my collection, which briefly explains TiddlyWikis...
• Posted Curated list of Perl modules to Ron Savage

  See Perl.html
  It's an example of the fabulous TiddlyWiki (tiddlywiki.com), so it's about 230,000 bytes.
  

• Posted Config::Tiny V 2.30 supports keys with arrays as values to Ron Savage

  Yes, it's true. Config::Tiny now allows you to assign an array of values to a key.
  Various examples are documented there and in test files. Sample usage:

  [section]
  greetings[]=Hello
  greetings[]=World…

• Commented on The benefits of change, from an amateur's objective perspective.
  FYI: It's taken me a few days to get back to you, but here is my curated list of Perl 5 modules I find interesting: My TiddlyWiki of Perl modules...
• Posted Railroad diagrams for SQL 2003 and SQL 2016 to Ron Savage

  On github at https://github.com/ronsavage/SQL you will find a repo of SQL stuff created by Jonathan Leffler.

  I recently added some files for SQL 2003 and SQL 2016, created by Domingo Alvarez Duarte.

  Specifically, look for:
  o sql-…

• Posted News regarding GraphViz2 to Ron Savage

  Ed J has taken over maintenance of my suite of GraphViz2 modules.

  The first change has been to split it into multiple distros, so that anyone using just GraphViz2 will have a much smaller download and only 6 pre-reqs.

  Another change is to rework the decision, which I copied from th…

• Posted Keyhole surgery 100% successful to Ron Savage

  Part 1.

  On Match 20th I had keyhole surgery to repair the aortic arch.

  The lining had peeled off the wall. This happens when the lining develops a tear due to (in my case) childhood and later stress.…

• Posted Long time no see to Ron Savage
• Commented on Be generous, but not very
  Hi Ben You might want to try Text::Levenshtein or similar. Search MetaCPAN for Levenshtein....
• Commented on Four backends now for GUIDeFATE...but the struggle continues
  Hi Saif Damn, forgot. For an article on the garden design app see Flowers....
• Commented on Four backends now for GUIDeFATE...but the struggle continues
  Hi Saif Sounds good. The other point I should make is re complexity in the real world. I'm sure your technique would be adequate for little setups, but as complexity grows, I feel the time you spend addressing more and...
• Commented on Four backends now for GUIDeFATE...but the struggle continues
  Hi I should apologise for mentioning web servers without explaining why I brought them into the discussion. I clearly confused a number of people. The idea which went thru my head was that the problem of laying out stuff on...
• Commented on Four backends now for GUIDeFATE...but the struggle continues
  Hi I'm impressed that you've tried a range of packages to experiment with ... but ... Your statement 'Then comes the complexity of extracting signals from different events by a dispatcher which distributes that signal to the correct function' is...
• Posted Finally, a BNF for Perl 5 regexps: The Regexp::Parsertron to Ron Savage

  See Regexp::Parsertron V 1.00.

  Current users of Regexp::Assemble may find something of interest there.
  

• Posted Running Perl for your car's dashboard display to Ron Savage

  About time!

• Commented on Smartmatch in 5.27.7
  I didn't mean there was shortage of commentary, just a shortage of commentary having our desired effect.... Bit like auto-deref, actually :)....
• Commented on Smartmatch in 5.27.7
  Hi All I suppose I should suggest an alternative to 'whereis and whereso'. Literally off the top of my head, because I did not analyse it, I'd say something like case(string) and case(integer) might be better. Sorry, what's that? It...
• Commented on Smartmatch in 5.27.7
  He Leon Lastly, yes, the choice of 'whereis and whereso' is so bad it's embarrassing, since they are too close to each other to be obvious /to beginners/....
• Commented on Smartmatch in 5.27.7
  Hi Leon Thanx for the post. I think the first problem was the introduction of smartmatch at all without much more discussion. As previously noted - not by me - the pathological set of combinations which triggered specific behaviour was,...
• Commented on The Hot New Language Named Rakudo
  Hang the expense. Make it 4 with $x.info....

Comment Threads

• Ben Bullock commented on Be generous, but not very

  Hi Ron,

  I was just thinking the other day that I hadn't seen you for a while here.

  Those Levenshtein things are OK for approximate work, but they tend to give lots of false positives. I actually did extensive work on spelling correction for another related web page which converts English words into Japanese forms, but I found that the Levenshtein corrections, even with a maximum distance of one, tend to throw up so many false positives that I'm not sure it's worth the bother. This is partly because of the amount of nonsense that people type in, and partly because it tends to …

• Ether commented on Starting to use File::ShareDir

  The right thing to do here is use Test::File::ShareDir from your tests, which does the right thing with your @INC so the local share directory can be found:

  ```
  use Test::File::ShareDir -share => { -dist => { 'My-Dist-Name' => 'share' } };
  ```

• jrw32982 commented on Perl in a Business Application

  Interesting read. I enjoyed the line "And then it struct me!" right after the discussion of objects and object systems. :-)

• Philip Sharman commented on Curated list of Perl modules

  This is very helpful. Thanks!

• vadrer1 commented on Announce Perl.Wiki.html V 1.22

  looks interesting, will have a closer look :)