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...

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• Posted Updated wikis: Perl, Mojolicious, CSS and JS, Debian and Digital Security to Ron Savage

  Get them at the usual place...

• Commented on Sydney August Meeting!
  Friday 23rd May 2025! Time travel! Gotta love Perl!...
• Posted ANN: Perl.Wiki V 1.29. jsTree version V 1.00. CPAN::MetaCurator V 1.00 to Ron Savage

  Remember to click 'Continue Reading' or whatever.

  You can download Perl Wiki V 1.29.

  And you can play with the jsTree version V 1.00.

  Also the correspon…

• Posted Moving house & automating Perl.Wiki updates to Ron Savage

  Remember! Click Continue Reading to see all the text.

  I am selling my villa unit and downsizing, probably in a month or so.
  There may be a period when I am off-line.
  In Australia villa unit means (usually) a stand-alone building in a small block of units.
  I have 2-bedroom…

• Commented on Announce: Perl Wiki V 1.26
  Hi Sorry for the delay in replying. And this reply is directed to both of you who commented on my post. a: Saif. Thanx for the compliment. b: davebaker. One thing frustrating about blogs.perl.org is that it can hide part...
• Posted Announce: Perl Wiki V 1.26 to Ron Savage

  Here we go: Download me

  Changes for this version:
  o V 1.26:
  - 2025-05-02
  - Add para AiEngines containing Langertha
  - Add Alien::Build, Alien::cmake3, App::Module::Lister, B, Blessed::Merge, Caller::Reverse, Cla…

• Posted Tree::DAG_Node V 1.34 uploaded to CPAN to Ron Savage

  Many thanx to Shawn Laffan for testing this version on Strawberry Perl.
  I test it on my Debian machine first of course.
  It took Shawn and myself a number of attempts to make all the test pass under the 2 types of OSes.
  

• 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...

Comment Threads

• 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 :)

• Dean commented on Sydney August Meeting!

  Thanks for pointing out the typo. Lets pretend it was just MM-DD-YYYY date formats