Month: June 2010
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set an ACL on /var/run and locked myself out a little
I wanted to run a script of mine with output in /var/log and its PID captured in a file in /var/run. I must have gotten something wrong with the ACL I set on them, as GDM did not succeed starting my next session afterwords. Took me a little to find out, how that came, but…
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prepped up my 1st contribution to CPAN
Now I am waiting for my PAUSE ID on CPAN. My first script to contribute is named xls-tar.pl, a utility, that tries to handle XLS files a little like TAR treats its archives. Update / 2010-06-13 14:00: Got my account on PAUSE resp. CPAN acknowledged (“johayek“), so my home directory there is http://search.cpan.org/~johayek/. Uploaded xls-tar.tar,…
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contributing on CPAN
This week with the perl community around LinuxTag.org/2010 made me rethink my status of “involvedness” with the perl community a little. Yes, I am going to really share things from now on, e.g. on CPAN. So this morning after Gábor Szabó‘s departure, I not only applied for getting this blog merged into ironman.enlightenedperl.org, but I…
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applied for “Planet Perl Iron Man”
Gábor Szabó encouraged me to a couple of things during this week with him around LinuxTag.org/2010. One of them was to “join the program” at ironman.enlightenedperl.org, which seems to be a Grand Unified Perl Blog. I am rather excited about this right now.
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came across something “better than grep”: “ack”
Its home page. Gábor Szabó used it, when he showed me Padre.
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Parrot, the virtual machine
I am rather astonished: Parrot has a rather lengthy list of existing client languages in its Wikipedia article, and there is an even longer one on Parrot.org. I wonder, how lively they really are.
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Ragel State Machine Compiler
Ragel compiles executable finite state machines from regular languages. Ragel targets C, C++, Objective-C, D, Java and Ruby. […]
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Screen Capture in Snow Leopard
Helpful article!! To take a screen capture press Cmd+Shift+4 on your Snow Leopard. […]
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ELPA = Emacs Lisp Package Archive
This article describes how to install the installer. […] Once you have installed the package manager, type M-x package-list-packages. Type r in the package menu buffer to update the list of packages available from the server. If you want a particular package, type i next to its name to mark it for installation, and then x…
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“A weblog client for emacs”
weblogger.el implements Blogger, MetaWeblog and (hopefully soon) the Atom API weblogging APIs.