Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Padre again

Been using it for a week every day, and it feels great.

There are a few issues, but it has crashed on me only once, syntax highlighting in css is great, knows when it's editing html without filename hints and does not balk at Mason ... besides having perltidy and perlcritic only one keyboard shortcut away.

Monday, August 16, 2010

Catalyst unicode-related error

Caught exception in engine "Wide character in syswrite at
/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Catalyst/Engine.pm line 675."


the solution is to add the Unicode plugin to the application:


use Catalyst qw/
# ... some other plugins
Unicode
/;

Thursday, July 1, 2010

"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.

Friday, June 11, 2010

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.