Due to work and personal reasons, I've been away from Perlmonks for a few months. Finally today, I had a little time to come back and visit, and I was delighted to find that the site is busy with the usual mix of witty repartee and cool technical discussions.

It's great to be back. :)

Alex / talexb / Toronto

Team website: Forex Chart Monkey, Forex Technical Analysis and Pickpocket Prevention

"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

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Re: I've missed you guys
by bibliophile (Prior) on Nov 27, 2009 at 14:52 UTC
    Welcome back! :-)

    -bib

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Re: I've missed you guys
by JadeNB (Chaplain) on Nov 27, 2009 at 17:34 UTC
    I noticed you in the Chatterbox this morning (sorry I didn't say hello—I only had a few minutes to spare), and was thinking that it was good to see you after a long absence. Welcome back; why don't you toss in a question or two? :-)
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      Thanks -- I'll post a question when the need arises, but right now I'm finishing up a couple of large pieces of code and taking part in a massive system installation. No material for questions or even a meaty meditation.

      My somewhat longer term plan is to start building a list of tools and techniques for doing what I call forensic software development; reviving software that works, but has no 'owner', learning what it does, and eventually re-writing the code with up-to-date practices (perltidy, perlcritic, logging and so forth).

      Alex / talexb / Toronto

      Team website: Forex Chart Monkey, Forex Technical Analysis and Pickpocket Prevention

      "Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

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        forensic software development; reviving software that works, but has no 'owner', learning what it does, and eventually re-writing the code with up-to-date practices (perltidy, perlcritic, logging and so forth)
        Wow—that sounds both extremely useful for the user and extremely difficult for the developer. Certainly I've wished for tools like that before; I hope that we'll hear more about them as they develop.
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