Limbic~Region

• About: My job title is "Information Technology Specialist" which is a glorified way to say general problem solver. One of my favorite ways to solve problems is with Perl. I believe strongly in giving back to the Perl community by answering questions and spreading advocacy in various forums. I am the author of Tie::Hash::Sorted. I am also a Father of two wonderful daughters and husband to a beautiful wife. I consider myself a Christian but I need a lot of work in that.

Recent Actions

• Posted Looking For A IT Specialist (Perl Required) to Limbic~Region

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  This blog entry is not an official job announcement. The official announcement will be made available online once it is finalized. I would just like to touch…

• Commented on More Football Prediction with Math
  What is the standard deviation? Is it even a normal distribution? Is that a lifetime average? How does the average change if you only consider the current season or perhaps the last. What is the history of these two...
• Commented on Perl101: finding words in words
  Check out Challenge: "Words" In A String   I later developed it into a full application with options like minimum word length, allow non-word tokens, etc.   If interested, let me know....
• Commented on Perl, Selenium, and ASP.NET
  Have you read my tutorial Using WWW::Selenium To Test Or Automate An Ajax Website? Some of the problems I outlined with getting Selenium running are no longer valid (they have been resolved) but the rest should still be useful....
• Commented on Goodbye use.perl.org, Hello blogs.perl.org
  I will take a look at the modules referenced by Barbie as they may solve half of the problem but I will be using WWW::Selenium to update blogs.perl.org. I have already written code using that technology for Moveable Type since...
• Posted Goodbye use.perl.org, Hello blogs.perl.org to Limbic~Region

  Just a quick note to let everyone know I have abandoned my use.perl.org journal. If I get ambitious, I will write some code to pull everything over there to over here.

Comment Threads

• Brigham Johnson commented on Perl, Selenium, and ASP.NET

  Chickenfoot, while not Perl, offers alternative web scraping powers when normal approaches don't work.

• A. Sinan Unur commented on Perl101: finding words in words

  This is somewhat related to an interesting problem from Stackoverflow which I blogged about.

  Do you have any suggestions for that problem?

• David Cantrell commented on Perl101: finding words in words

  I've come across at least one platform where /usr/bin/env didn't exist: on Unicos, env is somewhere else in the $PATH, but I forget exactly where. I've found this to be more portable, at the cost of being exceedingly ugly, and harder to explain:

  #!/bin/sh

  perl -x "$0"

  exit 0

  #!perl

  print "hello world, I'm $^X\n";

• David Cantrell commented on Perl101: finding words in words

  or if you care about the exit status of the perl script, exec perl and don't exit from the shell script

• cyocum commented on More Football Prediction with Math

  You can find all the statistical information in my last post which links to the Wikipedia page for the distribution.

  The average is for the season.

  I have no clue of the history of the teams or injuries.

  Betfair is giving these percentages as of 6:00pm GMT: Liverpool -> 62.11, Aston Villa -> 15.15, Draw -> 23.81. They are in the area of each other.