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- @joshu If only the President asked such questions of himself... :-) said 1 day ago
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- @MarkDCali @MaxTrescott Yes, it's a Lancair 235 with an O-320 under the hood. Very fast for very low fuel burn. said 3 days ago
- @MaxTrescott Confirmed. It's who I thought it was. Looking forward to his write-up. said 3 days ago
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Category Archives: perl
craigslist Charitable Fund Donates to the Perl Foundation
I’m very happy to see the announcement on the Perl Foundations’s home page this morning. According to craigslist CEO and former Perl Hacker Jim Buckmaster, “craigslist has gloried in and relied upon Perl for most of its software development for more than … Continue reading
Posted in craigslist, perl
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I actually tried learning Rails
A few months back I wanted to prototype some ideas that my wife and I have been tossing around for web sites that’d be fun to build up in our so-called spare time. I thought it would be smart to … Continue reading
Posted in perl, programming
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Perl, MD5, and Unicode
Pro Tip: Perl’s Digest::MD5 hates Unicode (and so should you). Here’s what I recently learned from perldoc Digest::MD5 recently (the hard way, of course): Perl 5.8 support Unicode characters in strings. Since the MD5 algorithm is only defined for strings … Continue reading
Posted in perl, programming
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