Month: June 2010
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some *-berlin.de domains
All of a sudden today I thought I should register a couple of domains. Here they are: www.perl-berlin.de www.ruby-berlin.de www.rails-berlin.de Quite a good start — even e-mail addresses are set up! If you want to have any such e-mail address — talk to me!
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Spidering Hacks – O’Reilly Media
CHAPTER ONEHack #2 – Best Practices for You and Your Spider … Be Liberal in What You Accept … This is an inexact science, to put it mildly. … … Monitor your spider’s output on a regular basis to make sure it’s working as expected [Hack #31], make the appropriate adjustments as soon as possible…
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jobs.perl.org needs a couple of changes — let’s start brain storming!
For me as a freelancer it’s very clear: There must be separate feeds for freelance and salaried staff. There should be an opportunity of commenting on the job postings, e.g. if the original poster doesn’t close the job, it makes sense to get that information from somebody else, maybe from somebody who was somehow involved.…
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“Senior Software Engineer – Perl” / “Germany, Karlsruhe” / “Pay rate: 70,00 €/h” / CLOSED
“Closed”, so the recruiter says. What a pity, that comments on job postings on jobs.perl.org are not possible.
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“Tour de Babel” by Steve Yegge
[…]My whirlwind tour will cover C, C++, Lisp, Java, Perl, (all languages we use at Amazon), Ruby (which I just plain like), and Python, which is in there because — well, no sense getting ahead of ourselves, now. […]
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“A Quick Tour of Ruby” by Steve Yegge
Very nice to read. Ruby used to annoy me simply by existing. I first heard about Ruby years ago, in maybe 1997 or 1998, and folks said it was kind of like Perl, but “cleaner”, whatever that meant. Ruby fans back then seemed like a tiny minority of rebels and fringe separatists. Ruby irked me…
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iPhone apps, that I need sooner or later
Telefonkarte (Calling Card): supplies you with support for all sorts of call-through telecom providers, even your FRITZ!Box at home can serve as one and is indeed supported by this app …
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how to avoid to accidentally Quit Firefox?
Is there any config. variable? There is a checkbox labeled “Warn me when closing multiple tabs”. That does the job.
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first steps in IRC with pidgin
“Add Account” for each IRC server/user pair (e.g. irc.freenode.net), that you want to use, within pidgin with IRC as protocol “Join a Chat” (below Buddies), select the right Account (i.e. one of your IRC protocol/server accounts), enter the Channel (including the ‘#’), leave the Password blank! here we are! Did I mention recently, how much…