some command line shortcuts

dig for missed dependencies

egrep -r '^\s*(use|with|extends)\s+' * \
 | awk '{print $2}' | awk '{sub(/\;/, ""); print}' \
 | sort -u

jumpstart a "00-load.t"

egrep -r '^\s*package ' * \
 | awk '{ print $2}'  \
 | awk '{sub(/\;/, ""); print "use_ok(\""$1"\")"}' \
 | sort -u

quick syntax checks

for i in `find ./  | egrep '\.(pm|pl|cgi|t)$'`; do perl -wc $i; done

bad tests

bad tests are worse than no tests, and it's better to have no tests than to have tests designed to pass


there it is, I've said it publicly

sorting utf8 with Perl

What's Wrong with sort and How to Fix It

informative perl utf8 article

use unicode by default in Perl

how to do utf-8 with HTML::Mason

how to do utf-8 with HTML::Mason

4 easy steps to make Mason utf-8 Unicode clean with Apache, mod_perl, and DBI


PerlSetVar MasonPreamble "use utf8;" fixed it for me


yes, I know Mason 2 is live :)

fuck iso-8859-16

... and the ignorant bastards that cannot distinguish between an aesthetic choice when designing font faces and character encoding.

iso-8859-16 is not for Romanian, and the traditional and correct way to write in Romanian is with s+cedilla, t+cedilla ... which means iso-8859-2. Want ş with a tiny comma below the "s" ? Fucking design a new font face and give the rest of us a break. Rumanians wrote with s+cedilla for 150 years and did not lose sleep over it, but now we have to deal with two fucking character sets that don't translate and which look so much alike on screen that you need fucking glasses to distinguish between them.

Yes, you know who you are.

Net::SSH::Perl install

Very nice module but a bit of a pain to install: the pain will be caused by Math::Pari wich fails automatic installation with cpan(m).

To fix it get the Math::Pari archive from CPAN, then ftp://megrez.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/unix/OLD/pari-2.1.7.tgz and extract pari-2.1.7.tgz in the same folder where the Math-Pari-2.* folder is, then perl Makefile.PL Configure, make, make install. pari-2.5.0 won't work.