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Month: August 2012

  • O’Reilly Media book: Head First jQuery

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    Head First jQuery: Want to add more interactivity and polish to your websites? Discover how jQuery can help you build complex scripting functionality in just a few lines of code. Head First jQuery shows you how to navigate HTML documents while handling events, effects, callbacks, and animations. By the time you’ve completed the book, you’ll…

  • O’Reilly Media book: Intermediate Perl, 2nd Edition

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    Intermediate Perl: Get a clear roadmap for improving your skills with Intermediate Perl, and gain working knowledge of Perl’s objects, references, and modules—ingredients that make the language so versatile and effective. Written by the authors of the bestselling Llama book, Learning Perl, and updated for Perl 5.14, this book offers a gentle but thorough introduction…

  • Alex Howard: On email privacy, Twitter’s ToS and owning your own platform – O’Reilly Radar

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    On email privacy, Twitter’s ToS and owning your own platform – O’Reilly Radar Somebody (“Guy Adams“) had tweeted somebody else’s (“Gary Zenkel“) e-mail address, and he got his twitter account suspended for this. In the end it got released again … . You may want to read this article.

  • TidBITS Publishing e-book (only): Take Control of Using Mountain Lion

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    Take Control of Using Mountain Lion: Learn to function effectively with OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, whether you want to embrace recently added features (such as Notifications, Launchpad, gestures, and Mission Control) or want to strike a balance between old and new options. Most importantly, you’ll get a thorough grounding in Mountain Lion’s new “modern…

  • TidBITS Publishing e-book (only): Take Control of Upgrading to Mountain Lion

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    Take Control of Upgrading to Mountain Lion: Best-selling author Joe Kissell guides you through every step in the process of upgrading to Mountain Lion. You’ll begin with a compatibility check, learn to make a suitable pre-upgrade backup, and then follow assorted pre-upgrade advice, including managing your Apple ID, deleting digital detritus, and making a safe…

  • developing software in Perl – I really like it with cpanm and perlbrew

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    http://www.b.shuttle.de/hayek/mediawiki/w/index.php?title=Main_Page#Computers.2FProgramming.2FLanguages.2FPerl – moved this article to my wiki in 2015-03   http://Jochen.Hayek.name/wp/blog-en/2010/07/02/appperlbrew-manage-perl-installations-in-your-home-or-wherever-you-want/ : my own updated notes on App::perlbrew; including a note on creating a stable alias for steady and ongoing use http://Jochen.Hayek.name/wp/blog-en/2010/07/08/appcpanminus-a-new-cpan-installer/ : my own notes on App::cpanminus, “yet another CPAN installer” (Just for me, for finding my way through confusion.) My usual starting point before installing a CPAN module: $ perlbrew…

  • Addison-Wesley book: The Procmail Companion

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    http://www.pearsoned.co.uk/bookshop/detail.asp?item=100000000015413 (link for the UK) http://www.addison-wesley.de/main/main.asp?page=englisch/bookdetails&productid=145891 (link for Germany) You can order an “on demand” paper copy of this book. I owe a paper copy of this book (I got mine through Amazon), and I would love to have a PDF available. Yes, of course, there are a few manual pages for procmail etc., but this…

  • PerlMonks – The Monastery Gates

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    PerlMonks – The Monastery Gates: A community committed to sharing Perl knowledge and coding tips. The site contains questions and answers, useful snippets, and a library of code.

  • Regexp::Common : numbered captures, named captures

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    Regexp::Common – Provide commonly requested regular expressions – metacpan.org I came across R::C through the chapter on Canned Regexes in the Perl Best Practices book [Link]. Don’t get me wrong: I really appreciate R::C (i.e. this package)! Really! All due respect! Under “-keep” results from R::C get returned as numbered captures. If I figure that out correctly,…

  • Regexp::Common : “the various patterns are not anchored”

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    Regexp::Common – Provide commonly requested regular expressions – metacpan.org The various patterns are not anchored. … This is by design, and not a bug. If you want the pattern to be anchored, use something like: … I.e. enclose it in something like this: m{^RE{…}$} ! And as opposed to advises elsewhere by the original author…