"Desperate Perl and Large Scale Perl"

a tale of two languages: desperate Perl and large scale Perl

not enough links to this screencast :-P

Perl Myths 2010-03 Ann Arbor Perl Mongers

"amusing" @INC trouble

got into a bit of panic today:

$ perl -e 'use LWP'
Global symbol "%Config" requires explicit package name at ... 

This happened when running anything that used perl, and this error I have not seen before.

Asking around and googling resulted in one conclusion: core Config.pm is busted, Perl is damaged, must reinstall. Lucky for me I realized there was a Config.pm in the folder I was in at the time, and './' was in pole position in my @INC.

tried Ubuntu 10.04

... not bad, though I won't switch: shivering at the thought of moving all the configs, instant messenger logs, mail accounts and setting and other useful junk accumulated during 5 years of updating a Debian in-place.

perl on wikibooks

Perl book on wikibooks

nice one, did not know about it

strange apache error

apache failed to start with an error:

[Thu May 27 13:41:29 2010] [crit] (28)No space left on device: mod_rewrite: could not create rewrite_log_lock
Configuration Failed

Carlos Rivero has a solution using perl.

Here is what I used, as somebody suggested in the comments to the post linked above:

ipcs -s | grep emilper | awk ' { print $2 } ' | xargs ipcrm sem

then restarted the server

installing padre 0.62 on debian sid

Got an unexpected "bank holiday", so I am playing.

Padre installs nicely on Debian Sid when using CPAN on 2010-05-24 ... I wonder if I am doing something wrong :P ... or maybe Padre is getting closer to being ready for prime-time.

Plugins that installed cleanly:

• Padre::Plugin::PAR


• Padre::Plugin::XS


• Padre::Plugin::Encrypt


• Acme::Padre::PlayCode


• Padre::Plugin::Nopaste


• Padre::Plugin::DataWalker


• Padre::Plugin::HTML


• Padre::Plugin::HTMLExport


• Padre::Plugin::JavaScript


• Padre::Plugin::Kate


• Padre::Plugin::CSS


• Padre::Plugin::Ecliptic


• Padre::Plugin::SpellCheck


• Padre::Plugin::PHP


• Padre::Plugin::ViewInBrowser


• Padre::Plugin::PerlCritic


• Padre::Plugin::Debugger


• Padre::Plugin::Encode


• Padre::Plugin::Alarm


• Padre::Plugin::Swarm


• Padre::Plugin::ClassSniff

Plugins that fail tests:

• Padre::Plugin::Shell::Base


• Padre::Plugin::CommandLine


• Padre::Plugin::InstallPARDist


• Padre::Plugin::Vi


• Padre::Plugin::Template


• Padre::Plugin::Filter