Pirate Mode Code
I don’t know whether anyone noticed, but on Talk Like A Pirate Day, all the text on this site was converted to pirate lingo.
This was done through
that I consed up for the occasion. Feel free to steal download and use it.
When to Optimize
The First Rule of Program Optimization:
Don’t do it.The Second Rule of Program Optimization (for experts only!):
Don’t do it yet.— Michael Jackson
How to Write A Good API
A lot has been written about how to design a good user interface, but very little about how to design a good programming interface (API: Application Program Interface, or a library). This is somewhat surprising, since an API is nothing more than an UI for programmers, and programmers are normally good at writing tools for each other.
Time-Related Things I Never Want to See In A Perl Script Again
I got stuck debugging someone else’s Perl code today, and it was chock-full of the sorts of things that annoy the piss out of those of us who know better.
Ajax == Emacs: the Next Generation
I’ve started learning this
thing. which allows you to do cool things like
Google Maps
and the
U Wisconsin directory search.
Little Languages and Tables
Recently, a coworker whipped up a Perl script that’ll build all of the
Perl modules we support. This is useful for when we add a new
supported OS or OS version. This script takes a config file, moduledefs, which lists the modules to build, as well as various quirks that affect how and whether the modules should be built. moduledefs is itself a `require‘d Perl script: