User since: Jul 19, 2004 at 19:33 UTC (20 years ago) Last here: Mar 29, 2018 at 22:18 UTC (7 years ago) Experience: 12450 Level: Monsignor (18) Writeups: 478 Location: Rochester, MN User's localtime: Oct 10, 2024 at 15:58 CDT Scratchpad: View Member of: punsters For this user: Search nodes

Welcome to bobf's Ice Cream Shop

Please feel free to browse though the finest selection of ice cream in the Monastery, made fresh daily from only the best ingredients found in and around the grounds^*. At least int rand(50) varieties are guaranteed to be in stock at any given time (of the more than 1000 recipies I've accumulated), but if you don't see your favorite I do take requests.

If you are in the mood for something else, please stop by Moriarty's Fine Food Emporium, where you can find a delectable selection of cheese, chocolate and marshmallows.

^*A few specialty items must be imported. I also keep a small stock of cheesecake behind the counter for special guests. Let me know if you're interested and I'll see what I can do. ;-)

Some of my favorite writeups

• Don't go all PerlMonks on me (a PM-related anecdote)
• True or False? A Quick Reference Guide (I almost didn't even post this one)
• Bits & pieces (my first and only obfuscated JAPH)
• Newlines: reading files that were created on other platforms (variations on this question are asked frequently)
• Double interpolation of captured substrings (a small epiphany in my early years)
• Slicing multilevel hashes (fun with hash slices)
• Alternative ways to fully qualify subroutine names (trying to practice laziness)

Things I'd like to know more about

Actively learning:

• Perl! I'm currently reading Perl Best Practices, Object Oriented Perl, and Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook
• CGI::Application
• MySQL
• myGrid and BioMoby

Future topics:

• Perl! I've got 5 more O'Reilly books just waiting to be cracked open...
• Service_oriented_architecture
• Ontologies and Controlled vocabularies
• Grid computing

Chatterbox and Node Tags

<code></code> or <c></c> tags prevent interpolation, as do:

    & becomes &
    &lt;  becomes <
    &gt;  becomes >
    &#91; becomes [
    &#93; becomes ]
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Linking

node by ID: [id://nodeid]
node by ID within the context of the containing thread: [href://?node_id=rootID#nodeID]
my scratchpad: [pad://]
user's scratchpad: [pad://username]
perldoc entry: [doc://document name]
perlfunc entry: [doc://function name]
module search on CPAN: [cpan://XML::Parser]
module search on Kobes: [kobes://XML::Parser]
module docs on CPAN: [mod://XML::Parser] or [module://XML::Parser]
module distribution on CPAN: [dist://Class::DBI 0.95]
search google: [google://search terms]
search a jargon file: [jargon://search terms]
search a dictionary: [dict://word]
search WikiPedia: [wp://Page Title]
see also What shortcuts can I use for linking to other information?