use Perl

"’" used for single quotes ('), "−" used for dashes (-)

As I was writing this I went and changed Terminal -> Preferences -> Advanced -> International -> Character Encoding from "Unicode (UTF-8)" to "Western (ISO Latin 1)" and its no longer an issue (the original characters are being used throughout perldoc's output)

So the question is, is this a problem with perldoc or a just a problem with Terminal.app? And if it is perldoc, should I submit a bug?

I'd like to formally announce #news on irc.perl.org. It's be up and running for awhile, but after YAPC::NA 2006, I replaced all my code with plagger and a yaml config file.

Currently rssbot watchings the following Perl sites and notfies the channel with updates

• CPAN (search.cpan.org rss not pause uploads)
• AnnoCPAN
• CPAN Ratings
• use Perl
• use Perl Journals
• Perl Monks (Newest Nodes)
• Perl Jobs
• The Perl Foundation
• The Perl Foundation News (Moveable Type - Steering Committe Blog)
• Perl.com
• The Perl NOC
• Perlcast
• The Perl Summer of Code 2006

some sample output from the channel (minus the URLs)...

20:50:19 * rssbot [perlcast] Perlcast Interview with Andy Hunt on "Practices of an Agile Developer"
20:50:19 * rssbot [perljournals] [schwern] Julian Cash is a genius.
21:00:29 * rssbot [cpan] SWF-Chart-1.4
21:00:29 * rssbot [perljournals] [jmcada] Practices of an Agile Developer
21:10:22 * rssbot [perlmonks] [PerceptiveJohn] Perl On Server
22:00:44 * rssbot [cpan] MP3-Find-0.06
22:30:31 * rssbot [perlmonks] [Petruchio] Who would win in a swordfight?
22:40:34 * rssbot [cpan] CPAN-Mini-0.500
22:40:37 * rssbot [cpan] Perl-Critic-Bangs-0.01
23:00:17 * rssbot [perlmonks] [ehdonhon] PITTSBURGH PERL WORKSHOP: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
23:00:17 * rssbot [perljobs] Perl Developer for Test Automation
23:20:14 * rssbot [perlmonks] [llee] windows events

Hope you see you in #news!

I've been collecting perl related RSS feeds for awhile now and I'd like to share my list and add to it. Here goes:

Aggregate

• Planet Perl

Sites

• Perl Foundation
• jobs.perl.org
• Use Perl Journals
• Use Perl
• Perl.com
• Perlcast
• YAPC::NA::2005 (Toronto)
• Annocpan
• CPAN Forum
• Perl NOC
• Perl Monks - Newest Nodes (I'd like only New Nodes and not all the darn responses) :)

People (who don't use use.perl.org or just other sources)

• brian d foy's O'Reilly Blog
• Ask Bjørn Hansen
• David Wheeler
• James Ducan

What I'd Like to See

• CPAN Latest Uploads (http://search.cpan.org/recent)
• CPAN Ratings (http://cpanratings.perl.org/)

Perlmonks RSS made easy (perlmonks.org)

So if anyone else has any other RSS urls they'd like to share and grow this list, just add a comment. (especially the perlmonks feeds, the homebrew nature of the site is great for asking for help and providing feedback, but not so great for finding what RSS feeds exist without digging through nodes and comments) :(

For all the folks who aren't using RSS yet... What the hell are you waiting for? :)

It got me thinking... I often find myself struggling to do simple things in javascript and end up avoiding it because I'd rather code in perl because it just seems to flow.

After reading Sean's notes it got me thinking how cool it would be to show have some kind of javascript for perl hacker's reference. Showing common perl patterns and showing the javascript equivalents.

The best examples (like some of Sean's) would be hte ones that say... It works like this in the perl world, but in javascript you can fake it like this.

Anyway, a wiki for it sounds like a first good step, anybody else have any feedback, suggestions, or comments on the idea?

Its funny looking back at something you wrote so long ago (8 years!). Anyway, I thought I'd share my really cool signature that I had back then... :)

<*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*>
Jeffrey J. Bisbee                     Program and Design
Transterra Co.                        Internet Group
Phone 402.596.8504                    Fax 402.597.7789

accutrade.com - ceres.com - aufhauser.com - eBroker.com
<*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*>

It's funny looking back, Transterra Co. went on to be come Ameritrade. The humble beginings were fun. I knew enough perl to write the the first brokerage application (with globals all over the place).

Looks like ECODE can't handle my monster sig :P

Well I found one called vimspell.vim and this is how I implemented it only to auto spell check my e-mail as I type and not any old text document I open up (which got REALLY anoying)

1. grab vimspell.vim
2. mkdir ~/.mutt
3. cp vimspell.vim ~/.mutt/.
4. vim ~/.mutt/vimrc # should only contain the following 5 lines

   source ~/.vimrc
   source ~/.mutt/vimspell.vim
   highlight SpellErrors ctermfg=Red cterm=underline term=reverse
   set filetype=mail " correct syntax highlighting
   set textwidth=72  " wrap at column 72
   

5. In your ~/.muttrc or (in my case ~/.mutt/mutt.settings) tell vim to use the new ~/.mutt/vimrc file:

   set editor = "vim -u ~/.mutt/vimrc"

and presto you should have spell checking as you type.

UPDATE - fixed line wrapping issue with long "highlight..." ~/.mutt/vimrc line

randomcrap@jbisbee.com

When this first happened it really sucked because my poor filters weren't ready for it and not only did I get bounces, I got people replying to the e-mail and complaining to me about the spam I didn't even send.

Up until this point, I just said screw it and decided to let Spam Assasin and my Email::Filter do the work. I've been thinking about how to stop from even seeing the bounces and I've determined that if I could actually get a list of all the aliases I've used over the years, I could block any mail not set to those know addresses. So the task at hand, parse all my mboxes and pull out any address @jbisbee.com to build a master list.

I tried a couple of mbox parsers, but settled on Mark Overmeer's wonderful (and huge) Mail::Box because of all the OO goodness. I also used File::Find::Rule to build a list of all my mboxes. With these modules, I was able to put together the follow script to generate a list of the aliases I use with my jbisbee.com domain.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use File::Find::Rule;
use Mail::Box::Manager;

my $directory = "/home/jbisbee/mail";
my $domain    = quotemeta 'jbisbee.com';

# to count the number of occurences for each address
my %aliases = ();

# get all your mboxes within your mail directory
my @mboxes = File::Find::Rule->file()
                             ->name( '*' )
                             ->in( $directory );

my $mgr = Mail::Box::Manager->new;
for my $folder_name (@mboxes) {
    my $folder = $mgr->open( folder => $folder_name );
    foreach my $message ( $folder->messages ) {

        # Mail:;Address objects for to, cc, and from
        for my $ma ( $message->to,
                     $message->cc,
                     $message->from ) {
            if ( $ma->address =~ /$domain$/i ) {
                $aliases{ lc $ma->address }++;
            }
        }
    }
    $mgr->close($folder);
}

for my $email ( sort { $aliases{$b} <=>
                       $aliases{$a} } keys %aliases ) {
    print "$aliases{$email}\t$email\n";
}

Now armed with this list I have setup my mail aliases file to only accept mail to those addresses. Never again will I have to deal with bounces to e-mails I never sent and never again will I have to deal with people asking me to remove them from a spam list I don't have.

At any rate, my PHP crap sucks really bad (go figure) and I really like the idea of comments on my journal entries.

On a side note, if you use linux and would like to get Kazaa running under wine, take a look at this HOWTO I threw together some time ago.