Shlomi Fish

• Website: www.shlomifish.org/
• About: An Israeli software developer, essayist, and writer, and an enthusiast of open/free software and cultural works. I've been working with Perl since 1996.

Recent Actions

• Posted Tech Tips: Handling Int Vectors in Perl 5 to Shlomi Fish

  The Tips

  Apparently, perldoc -f vec writes 16-bit / 32-bit / 64-bit quantities in big en…

• Commented on Strawberry Perl 5.24.0.1 released
  Thanks for your effort!...
• Commented on Happy 15th Birthday, Devel::Cover!
  Happy birthday, and thanks for all the effort! Devel::Cover is great!...
• Commented on How I made my core testsuite 2x faster
  Thanks for sharing this tip! I found it on Perl Weekly....
• Commented on Recent Hacktivity Log
  Hi Steven, thanks for the comment, but from my reading of the blog post (and some of the comments there) it seems that Module::Build is only going to be deprecated and removed from the core, and will still be...
• Posted Recent Hacktivity Log to Shlomi Fish
  This is another "recent hacktivity log" of some of the open source work I've been up to lately.

  New Command-Line App: App-Du-Analyze

  App-Du-Analyze (with its command-line script of "analyze-du") is now available on CPA…

• Commented on MetaCPAN Officially Welcomes Our OPfW and GSoC Participants
  That's very good news, and good luck to Pattawan and Talina!...
• Commented on Let's delete 10,000 files from CPAN
  Thanks for the heads’ up and the links to the applications that facilitate that. I scheduled 584 files for deletion....
• Commented on Adopting DateTime::Format::Mail
  Thanks for adopting DateTime-Format-Mail. It is used by XML-RSS and the new version broke its tests, so I had to release a new version with better tests. I remember hearing about Iain's (= SPOON) death on Freenode’s #perl where...
• Posted Tel Aviv Perl Mongers Meeting on 26 March 2014: Special Challenges in Hardware Description Languages to Shlomi Fish

  ב-26 במרץ 2014 (יום רביעי) נערוך את מפגש הפרל החודשי שלנו שבו ניפגש לשמוע את הרצאתו מאיר גוטמן על "אתגרים מיוחדים בש�…

• Posted Tech Tip: Opening a file for read/write without clobbering it. to Shlomi Fish

  perlopentut gives several options for opening a file for read and write, and I opted to use '+>' for

• Posted Tech Tip: Loop Labels in Perl 6 to Shlomi Fish

  It is known that one can label loops (or arbitrary blocks) in Perl 5, using the syntax of MYLABEL: while (COND()) { BLOCK } or MYLABEL: for my $x (@array) { BLOCK } and then one can do l…

• Commented on 100 CPAN Distributions + App-ManiacDownloader
  Hi Zak. I have been familiar with lftp (having used it after the demise of ncftp) but I wasn't aware it supported split downloading and HTTP/HTTPS . I'll take a better look at it now as well. Thanks!...
• Commented on 100 CPAN Distributions + App-ManiacDownloader
  chimerix: aria2 does indeed seems interesting and it has implemented my "secret sauce". However, its granularity is limited to one megabyte of data, while Maniac Downloader goes down to 8 KB or 4 KB, and I was told by...
• Commented on The 2013 White Camels
  Congratulations to the winners. I'm sure they are well-deserved awards....
• Commented on 100 CPAN Distributions + App-ManiacDownloader
  Thanks vsespb! I forgot to include MooX::late in the dist.ini and the prereqs failed. Fixed now....
• Commented on 100 CPAN Distributions + App-ManiacDownloader
  Thanks! I appreciate your humility, but the distribution count per author doesn't mean too much - it's just a silly game. Regarding the name of the script, I considered "mandown", but went with "mdown" eventually and later on recalled...
• Commented on How to use the debugger with Moose
  Thanks for sharing this tip....
• Posted 100 CPAN Distributions + App-ManiacDownloader to Shlomi Fish

  Some days ago I discovered that my CPAN distributions count had already gone above 100, only that my MetaCPAN page has misled me due to ="https://github.com/CPAN-API/metacpan-web/issue…

• Commented on Why you probably don't want to use claws-mail
  Hi mauke. I agree with Aristotle here - your tone in the dialogue you quoted was far too rude. Arguably, I may have erred in this respect as well when I was in a bad mood, but from my...
• Commented on Do your piece to fix TIOBE or stop talking about it
  Mithaldu, I do wish you would just have let sleeping dogs rest, and forget all about TIOBE. If we try to game TIOBE, then so do the user communities of other programming languages, and then we are going to...
• Commented on On Starting a Perl Mongers group in the Philippines
  Good luck!...
• Commented on Some Perl-Related Bugs and How They Were Fixed.
  Ron: I believe File::Slurp can only handle one file at a time, while Steven also wants something like “cp -R” - i.e: copying an entire directory tree recursively....
• Commented on Some Perl-Related Bugs and How They Were Fixed.
  Ron Savage: you're welcome - regarding the File::Copy thing....
• Posted Some Perl-Related Bugs and How They Were Fixed. to Shlomi Fish

  In this entry, I'd like to tell about several Perl-related bugs I have run into, and how they were fixed. I know I have not been blogging a lot lately, but, on the bright side, I was busy coding.

• Commented on The "sky" command-line application and other Recent hacktivity
  Toby: blogs.perl.org ate my previous comment, so I'm writing it again. Regarding that site, I cannot fully use it because I inherited some "Changes" from other projects, which use a different format, but I'll try. You are right that...
• Posted The "sky" command-line application and other Recent hacktivity to Shlomi Fish
  If you have a good web hosting, you may have run into a pattern, where you are uploading files to it for other people to download and need to find the URL where they were uploaded to. Thing is - recalling the exact Rsync (= a file uploader) comman…
• Posted Copied from Slashdot.org: "Heroic people make any job they take awesome." to Shlomi Fish
  First of all, I have written my recent hacktivity log over on my new dreamwidth.org blog, and I am not posting it here, because it involves a lot of non-code hacktivity, which I expect to do quite a lot more of from now.

  That put asi…

• Posted XML-Grammar-Screenplay: Alternative Format for Hollywood Screenplays to Shlomi Fish
  A short time after I posted a message about XML-Grammar-Screenplay to a Perl forum, a Perl enthusiast sent me a message reading like that:

  I would think that a proper screenplay grammar would…

• Commented on Whats wrong with the Perl Community?
  Hi, Just my two cents, in addition to what everyone here said: I think we can derive a lot of value from people who say negative things (even if it's destructive criticism), because it may tell us where we...

Comment Threads

• vitoandre.doria commented on Why you probably don't want to use claws-mail

  Holy Moly!

  Sorry to say that but both of you act like assholes and i am not sure who is to blame more?

  The user entering the channel trolling around or the op responding accordingly?

  Well lets get constructive shall we?
  I too use Claws Mail (under Windows). To be honest nearly all E-Mail Clients suck. Someone said once about Claws Mail "it just sucks less than others" and i think that's right. Its flawed in some ways. Like:
  * Why can't i access my mails while its fetching new ones?
  * The search of course! I too would like to see a simple "Search Body…

• marthalucas commented on Some Perl-Related Bugs and How They Were Fixed.

  I want to share a useful tip. If you are facing troubleshooting problem, then there is a need to view hidden files. If you feel like, Try these http://www.showhiddenfilesmac.com.
  

• JJ Merelo commented on Do your piece to fix TIOBE or stop talking about it

  Still as needed as ever...

• bois commented on Why you probably don't want to use claws-mail

  I never heard of claws mail until today, I did a quick search to gather some info and this page was in the first results.

  The IRC logs imply a blatant mistake, if not a perverse evil intent, on the maintainers' part for not documenting what is without doubt an essential function of a mail software that aims to be user-friendly. But, as anyone who has ever done useful work to the society knows, when a maintainer and a user have a heated argument, typically it's the user who has a problem. So, inspired by your post, I decided to try claws mail out to decide whether it is worth my time …

• bois commented on Why you probably don't want to use claws-mail

  And yes, I'm not going to help someone who is unable to follow guidance from upstream or at least cooperate with them, because I dream of a better world where people don't troll at volunteers.