User since: Mar 02, 2006 at 12:31 UTC (20 years ago) Last here: Feb 06, 2026 at 05:11 UTC (8 weeks ago) Experience: 38336 Level: Chancellor (21) Writeups: 3278 CPAN ID: ROBOTICUS Location: Louisville, KY Scary Button: Made "The Book": Aug 03, 2007 User's localtime: Mar 30, 2026 at 17:47 EDT Scratchpad: View For this user: Search nodes

I *really* need to reorganize my home page sometime!

Monks with amusing signatures

• holli: You can lead your users to water, but alas, you cannot drown them.
• kennethk: #11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?` Then have the computer do it the same way.

Other MonkNodes with interesting links

Not many yet, please msg me with others as you find 'em!

• Discipulus has a very nice library of interesting nodes.
• eyepopslikeamosquito has another nice library, including some site history and perl internals.

Nodes with code I ought to revisit and play with:

• Re: list of unique strings, also eliminating matching substrings
• Re^2: Comparing a large set of DNA sequences
• Re: ASCII Battleship Program
• Re: Get random unique lines from file
• Re: C code pre-processor
• Re: Threaded Application Sequencing/Rendezvous

Handy links

• How scalars work (about numbers, text strings, and binary strings) Some perl innards (UTF .. scalar...)
• Dominus A homepage w/ a couple of good refs
• PDF-->HTML via ghosts‎crip‎t
• Microsoft Word Table Reading
• Getting Locations using Distance
• Modules
• Parse::RecDescent Why won't this basic Parse::RecDescent example work?
• Re: How to de-reference a coderef? (B tricks) Accessing perl internals
• use CGI or die;
• CGI Help Guide I don't do http, but for those who do...
• DBI recipes
• Inline::C Re^5: RFC: Abusing "virtual" memory (page faults vs malloc)
• Using Win32::OLE and Excel - Tips and Tricks (see Windows Stuff section, too)
• Marpa::R2 Re^9: Generate a truth table from string with Marpa
• Perl syntax & semantics
• Coping with scoping (offsite)
• Re: variable with $$ Why you shouldn't!
• Using Look-ahead and Look-behind Regex goodness!
• Re^2: Store regular expressions in a file. Spiffy read regexes from file w/ capture
• Perl Idioms Explained
• Secret Perl Operators: the boolean list squash operator, x!! Interesting operator combo
• Far More Than Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know about Prototypes in Perl (perl.com)
• Why it's stupid to 'use a variable as a variable name'
• Why it's stupid to 'use a variable as a variable name' part 2
• Why it's stupid to 'use a variable as a variable name' part 3
• Debugging Tips
• Neat Debugger tricks
• (tye)Re: Stupid question
• Optimization & Golf
• The 10**21 Problem (Part I) or "Stupid Golf Tricks: Finding Magic Functions"
• More Betterer Game of Life or "Life will find a way"
• Perl Environment
• Re: Storable, Cygwin, and memory issues Changing memory limit in Cygwin
• Yes, even you can use CPAN Installing modules without root privs
• HOW2: Install & use old CPAN module without disrupting your installation
• Pack/Unpack
  • Pack/Unpack Tutorial (aka How the System Stores Data)
• Grep/Map/Merge/Search/Sort
• Resorting to Sorting
• Re: Problem with HOA. Sort & map demo
• Re: How to deal with Huge data Merge sort #1
• Re: One to Many is Too Many? Merge sort pseudocode
• Regular Expressions
• haukex's Building Regex Alternations Dynamically
• Planetscapes' My Favorite Regex Tools
• Unicode

  Someday, I simply *must* learn all the Unicode plumbing. I wonder why it's so complex. I'm squirreling this stuff away towards the day when I need it:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6162484/why-does-modern-perl-avoid-utf-8-by-default
• http://mark.stosberg.com/blog/2010/12/percent-encoding-uris-in-perl.html
• PerlMonks usage
• Suffering from Buffering (offsite)
• ESR's "How To Ask questions The Smart Way" (offsite)
• Help for User Settings
• What shortcuts can I use for linking to other information?
• How (Not) To Ask A Question
• Re: The big Vote button Move "Vote!" button with CSS in "Display Settings"
• I know what I mean. Why don't you?
• last hour of cb
• Please post your code! (was: Re^3: Win32::Console question.)
• Re^2: background in <readmore> tags Put green bar to left of <readmore> tags
• Good Intentions: Wikisyntax for the Monastery
• Ajax voting and modern formatting on PerlMonks UI tweaks for voting, chatterbox
• Windows Stuff
• Word and PERL (offsite)
• Automating Windows Apps (perl.com)]
• SOAP
• Collection of PM XML links
• Win32
  • Using Win32::OLE and Excel - Tips and Tricks
  • Tek-tips: use Win32::OLE to drive Excel
• Recommeded Reading for Newbies
• Keeping sharp and fresh Also tips for learning Perl
• On Interfaces and APIs It's important to get your interfaces right sooner rather than later
• (RFC) Arrays: A Tutorial/Reference data structures
• FAQs
• Read from STDIN when available allow console input while code is running
• Bidirectional socket communication

Interesting nodes/threads:

• Finding all Combinations
• (tye)Re2: Finding all Combinations
• Re^2: Finding all Combinations
• Generator of integer partitionts of n
• Re: Generator of integer partitionts of n
• From terminal output to avi - "let's go to the movies" explained Explanation of an obfu
• A Better Word Morph Builder
• Help needed understanding unicode in perl Unicode hints

My better nodes: Apparently not many! ;^)

• Re: possible combinations in sequence
• Re^3: Finding all Combinations
• Re: Speeding up point-in-polygon -- take two
• A few simplifications [Re: a problem with a point...]
• Re^2: Comparing a large set of DNA sequences
• Re: [OT] The statistics of hashing.
• Re: String replacement preparation for file comparison

CUFP node(s)

• Get a specific frequency from various crystals & divisors
• Auto cost per month Car ROI toy

Stuff I should play with, should the time arise:

• Re: There's a reply to a reply to one of my posts PM XML interface links
• Re: CPAN reverse dependencies CPAN dependency graph stuff

Unsorted stuff:

• Special literals taken literally
• Chatterbox to Festival Server (TTS output)
• parallel reading
• Learning by doing.
• Active Directory DC and OU
• Re^3: Help with Hash of hashes, is there a better way?
• Re^2: Consideration for others code
• #perl.br calc - A Perl Shell

Last few changes:

• 2K210719: Cadged a link to Your Mother's interesting PM UI Tweaks, and added Optimization & Golf section.
• 2K210624/5: Added Discipulus and eyepopslikeamosquito's libraries
• 2K200213: PM Usage link: nodelet hack for Wiki Syntax, added link to Car ROI toy
• 2K171101: Added module names to couple entries in modules section, format fixes
• 2K130129: Added Win/SOAP, trivial format & content fixes