Tue, 13 Oct 2009
Make Great Money Now as a Freelance Developer...
Well, I'm so glad the person posting this job put a plus sign after the number '10' for an hourly rate, because as a 'Senior mod_perl programmer' with 'lots of application development background' who is used to dealing with 'Difficult code with poor documentation' in 'Very large applications developed over many iterations', I would never even consider applying for this at just $10/hour - the plus sign makes all the difference!
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Tue, 08 Sep 2009
Perl CGI Programming, the Right Way
One of the best resources for learning Perl CGI programming online used to be Ovid's CGI Course. I was disappointed to find it no longer online, but glad to see it in updated form, now maintained by the Perlmonks community. It always distinguished itself from other CGI tutorials with its early attention to security and taint mode. Well worth the read.
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Thu, 21 May 2009
Cool Emacs Hacks
I'm an Emacs-guy, have been for a long time. As much as I use vi from time-to-time, I never could get into modal editing. Despite having used GNU Emacs as a programmer for years, I still learn cool Emacs-fu all the time. Here are a few recent findings:
- Useful Emacs commands, from the Reddit community
- Emacs search and replace across files
- Building regular expressions with Emacs
I do a lot of Perl web development, meaning Perl but also CSS, HTML and Javascript are in the mix, sometimes all in the same file. Emacs' MMM-mode [0] works really well if you want to color-highlight the syntax of disparate languages in the same buffer. Here is the configuration I use in my .emacs:
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