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I don't know either Anil or Paul personally though they seem like perfectly nice fellows.

But oh my god, two serious and earnest keeners should never be stuck in the same room together lest they fall prey to the kind of breathless blowhard-ism witnessed in this piece. I can't speak to the practice of journalism or about Windows scripting and I still think Amazon is evil. But I will not let go of the conviction that the de-rigeur stoneness of the stone -ness concerning permalinks and the inherent reverse chronology of weblog posts is still a crock of shit. Carry on, now.

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Passepartout is not a word processor

You do not use Passepartout for writing text, because it is only a layout editor. Basically speaking, Passepartout is in the business of taking the different parts that make up a page, such as text, photos, graphics, and "gluing" them on piece of paper. Passepartout can import from several different bitmapped image formats as well as EPS files. You write the text in your favorite text editor (e.g. Emacs or VI) in an XML-based format. The XML file is then typeset using a typesetting engine called xml2ps.

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Norm Walsh : Vicious Circle

I maintain however, that using [URLs] as names is confusing because it violates the niave users expectation that they're addresses.

Meanwhile, I am distilling some especially choice words for the numb nuts who think that the best way to handle the problem of resolving URNs is to start hacking the DNS table...

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Kake Pugh : How to Avoid Writing Code

The reason that Class::DBI and the Template Toolkit work so well together is simple. Template Toolkit templates can call methods on objects passed to them--so there's no need to explicitly pull every column out of the database before you process the template--and Class::DBI saves you the bother of writing methods to retrieve database columns. You're essentially going straight from the database to HTML with only a very small amount of Perl in the middle.

It should be noted that when the author says templates can call methods on objects passed to them she means both an object's accessors and it's mutators. This is not necessarily a problem if you are running your web application in a read-only situation and the web server, for example, doesn't have permissions to alter the contents of the database. But as soon as the program that processes templates has authority to muck with the database you had better have confidence in your TT kung-fu and/or the designers who are mucking with the templates. Not only could you do this :



[% some_obj.foo("bar") %]



[% some_obj.update() %]



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[% FOREACH this_obj = some_obj.retrieve_all() %]



 [% this_obj.foo("you lose, sucka") %]



[% END %]



(Note that retrieve_all is actually a package method but there's not much to prevent the object from calling it too.) All this with the both the EVAL_PERL and LOAD_PERL config flags explictly set to false. You can get around this, sort of, if your object doesn't have any circular relationships (e.g. A->has_a(B->has_many(A)) ) by adding a read_only method that sets a trigger to die before an object is updated or deleted. But there isn't really any way to cascade setting those triggers so there is always the possibility of mucking with the original object in a round-about fashion:



# this syntax may not be quite right



[% (foo.bars)[0].fooid.delete() %]



I've spent a little bit of time investigating ( 1 , 2 ) how to make cascading readonly objects but it's still an ugly hack that requires mucking with private functions in Class::DBI. The proper thing to do would be to abstract all of this stuff into a CDBI::ReadOnly package but that might be a while in coming yet. Know you know. via paranoidfish

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I've been thinking about wearing suits, these days.

But I think it's probably just an ill-considered coping mechanism to deal with what's been an otherwise lame month, driving behind a high-end S.U.V. that had a "New York State Terrorist Hunting Permit" sticker and going to a bookstore with a karaoke machine in full effect...

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Michael Schilli : Net::Amazon.pm

Net::Amazon provides an object-oriented interface to amazon.com's SOAP and XML/HTTP interfaces. This way it's possible to create applications using Amazon's vast amount of data via a functional interface, without having to worry about the underlying communication mechanism.

MT plugin authors, those of you who don't also agree that Amazon is one the evil-doers, go forth and wet yourselves with excitement!

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Me : sql-abstract-_recurse_where-order-by.diff

Adds hooks to pass ORDER BY style parameters to the SQL::Abstract _recurse_where() method which is called by the where() which is called by the Class::DBI::AbstractSearch search_where() method, which I'm trying to tie into the Mail::Miner::Mail select() method so that it can stop using the Class::DBI retrieve_all() and search_like methods. The former has no simple way of defining an as-needed ordering criteria and the latter has no way of returning all the records in a table since it will freak out if you tell it to search where 1=1 . I still need to teach _recurse_where to DWIM when it encounters % characters...

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Rodrigo Loyola : Subway...

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : noassitall

No ass at all.
ex. My man has noassitall.

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : cupidity

Cupidity \Cu*pid"i*ty\ (k?-p?d"?-t?), n. [F. cupidite, L. cupiditas, fr. cupidus longing, desiring, fr. cupere to long for, desire. See {Covet}.] 1. A passionate desire; love. [Obs.] 2. Eager or inordinate desire, especially for wealth; greed of gain; avarice; covetousness. With the feelings of political distrust were mingled those of cupidity and envy, as the Spaniard saw the fairest provinces of the south still in the hands of the accursed race of Ishmael. --Prescott. web1913
cupidity n : extreme greed for material wealth [syn: {avarice}, {avariciousness}, {covetousness}] wn

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : wastrel

Wastrel \Wast"rel\, n. 1. Any waste thing or substance; as: (a) Waste land or common land. [Obs.] --Carew. (b) A profligate. [Prov. Eng.] (c) A neglected child; a street Arab. [Eng.] 2. Anything cast away as bad or useless, as imperfect bricks, china, etc. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] web1913
wastrel n : someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently [syn: {waster}] wn

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : gregarious

Gregarious \Gre*ga"ri*ous\, a. [L. gregarius, fr. grex, gregis, herd; cf. Gr. ? to assemble, Skr. jar to approach. Cf. {Congregate}, {Egregious}.] Habitually living or moving in flocks or herds; tending to flock or herd together; not habitually solitary or living alone. --Burke. No birds of prey are gregarious. --Ray. web1913
gregarious adj 1: tending to form a group with others of the same kind; "gregarious bird species"; "man is a gregarious animal" [ant: {ungregarious}] 2: seeking and enjoying the company of others; "a gregarious person who avoids solitude" wn

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : eschew

Eschew from old French eschever, "to flee from" (Job 1:1, 8; 2:3; 1 Pet. 3:11). easton
Eschew \Es*chew"\ (es*ch[udd]"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Eshewed} (-ch[udd]"d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Eshewing}.] [OF. eschever, eschiver, eskiver, F. esquiver, fr. OHG. sciuhen, G. scheuen; akin to E. sky. See {Shy}, a.] 1. To shun; to avoid, as something wrong, or from a feeling of distaste; to keep one's self clear of. They must not only eschew evil, but do good. --Bp. Beveridge. 2. To escape from; to avoid. [Obs.] He who obeys, destruction shall eschew. --Sandys. web1913
eschew v : avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of [syn: {shun}] wn

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : brio

brio n : quality of being active or spirited or vigorous [syn: {animation}, {spiritedness}] wn

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So, do you think Bill Guerin was asking Josie

to sign his stick?
"Penalties," sighed former Nordiques coach Michel Bergeron . "Five for Boston, hostie, none for Montreal. It was like that when I was in Quebec ."
And in case you think it's just me, you should also know that the jurors in the double murder trial of the head of the Quebec chapter of Hell's Angels were let out of their deliberations early yesterday so that they might...yes, watch the hockey game .

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : borejoysy

If you are a spoil-sport, you are borejoysy
ex. I dont want to go to the barn dance, I'm feeling rather borejoysy

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Me : Net::Google.pm 0.4

Added hooks to the spelling and cache interfaces. Please note that Net::Google now has a home on the CPAN , but it will probably be a day or so before this version shows up. Note also that since I appear to be too stupid to figure out how to package things so that the CPAN links work, docs can be found over here .

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : dorkano

Female form of the word "dork." As in the possible Spanish form. Dorkano for males. Used meaning stupid (in a funny way) or just not thinking. This is not a mean term, but rather a term to jokingly make fun of someone and bring attention to her action that caused her to look so goofy.
ex. Sally couldn't believe what a dorkano her friend was when he licked the ice cream store sign's large ice cream cone.

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We were lucky enough to be staying with friends in the West Village.

I've never really believed the Village went beyond 6th Avenue but whatever. Over dinner, the first night, I asked one of my hosts why he'd chosen New York City and he talked about it being the only Real City, with the possible exception of Chicago, in the U.S. Not Boston?, I asked. Boston is really nice, he replied, but it's just a big town. That comment came to mind during a momentary loss of clarity when I caught myself thinking : Huh, it seems like the city has mellowed since I was here last. Then I remembered that I was basically walking around Beacon Hill. Otherwise, there isn't too much to report. I spent most of my time working. Eventually, my hands started to hurt so I went and stood outside the apartment where my great-aunt lived for 30 years and where I learned to appreciate art and food and life in general. Afterwards, we walked down to the Prada store which should really be selling consumer electronics and where I already knew I wasn't allowed to take pictures. Dumb asses. Resistance is futile .

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Radio Crankypants #12 : for category in aaronland.getCategories() redux

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Radio Crankypants #9-10

Know thy own self, or atleast your market. At the end of the day, I guess the biggest problem I have with UserLand products, to date, is that I am not their market. It is clear that Radio UserLand is a pretty spiffy and powerful little tool. And in a power to the people sort of way, I would probably recommend it highly in most circumstances. The sticking point, for me, is not necessarily that everything is sent across the network in clear text; the issue is that lots of people don't have a problem with this. But I do and if I were managing geek central in any kind of corporate environment, I simply would not recommend Radio. Never mind the debate about whether or not your employees should be allowed to run off at the mouth versus the need to ensure that everyone stays "on the bus" using a workflow mechanism. The problem is that Radio passes potentially sensitive information in a way that exposes it for all the world to see. Update : To be clear, none of the other tools that Michael mentions are inherently more secure than Radio. It's not a widget problem, so much as a transport problem. Radio does FTP rather than SCP or FTPS for file transfers. HTTP instead of HTTPS for (XML over) HTTP requests. There was an effort, maybe a year and a half ago, to teach Frontier to speak SSL but I don't know what ever came of it. What something like Movable Type has over Radio is that it runs behind Apache which is commonly built with mod_ssl. Secondly, the interface for Net::FTP and Net::SCP are exactly the same which means that all a (MT/Perl) developer needs to do is try to load the latter and if that fails, and the configs don't explicitly say to bail, load the former. It would likely be possible to set Apache up as a proxy for Manila to ensure that everything comes in and out of localhost on port 443. This is done in the Zope-world all the time. But in order to really do this hack properly, you also have to add kernel hacks/configs to make sure that traffic to the port that Radio is actually sitting on is only allowed from inside your network and on port 443. Which makes it "do-able" under OS X, nightmarishly complicated under Windows and probably impossible in Classic, where there isn't even a port for Apache. As far as the file transfers go, if someone wrote glue for the various SCP applications (Putty on Windows, NiftyTelnet on Classic and scp on OSX ) then it looks like Radio is actually rigged so that you could write a user.html.callbacks.fileWriters callback without too much trouble. It is unclear to me whether or not there is also a callback framework for "fileReaders". I haven't read the docs yet and there is no fileWriters.ftp.read table in my ODB. 10) Apparently, you can not blog to the past

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Me : WWW::Pseudodictionary.pm 0.1

The girl with a not so hidden agenda wondered aloud this morning :
[W]ho in the hell does the word of the day??? agitprop??? gah!
And while I confess to not being entirely sure what she's talking about it did remind me that I had written a whole whack of code for munging the data files at pseudodictionary.com . Since then, however, they've rejigged their back-end but with a little help from the mighty mighty HTML::Parser I was able to whip up a package that exports a single class method named random which returns a hash reference :







asc @ localhost in /home/asc/bin/perl/pseudodict



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          'example' => 'ex. My new job allows me to clock dollars.',



          'permalink' => 'http://pseudodictionary.com/word.php?id=5911',



          'submitter' => 'Jerome Greco',



          'id' => '5911',



          'www' => 'http://jgreco.homestead.com/jeromespage.html',



          'word' => 'clock dollars'



        };







I fear that if 2001 was the year of writing code, 2002 is going to be the year of the pedant ...

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David Rees : "I think one of the frustrating things for a lot of people in this situation

is you just don’t even know what to hope for. It’s not like I had this un-ambiguous thing of ‘Oh my god, we must stop bombing and turn it over to the World Court.’ So these were more just personal comics about how I’d been feeling about the whole situation. And I was drinking heavily when I made them, frankly. I’ve gone through a lot of Jim Beam in the evenings, because I’ve been working whole days in a midtown Manhattan office, listening to sirens and re-booting cnn.com, which is like the worst thing you can do to yourself psychologically." I'm not really sure what to make of the power of pop-culture comment -- wonder twin powers, anyone? -- but there you go.

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is tremulous

| source : web1913 | Tremulous \Trem"u*lous\, a. [L. tremulus, fr. tremere to tremble. See {Tremble}.] 1. Shaking; shivering; quivering; as, a tremulous limb; a tremulous motion of the hand or the lips; the tremulous leaf of the poplar. 2. Affected with fear or timidity; trembling. The tender, tremulous Christian. --Dr. H. More. -- {Trem"u*lous*ly}, adv. -- {Trem"u*lous*ness}, n. | source : wn | tremulous adj : (of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear; "the old lady's quavering voice"; "spoke timidly in a tremulous voice" [syn: {quavering}]

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developerWorks : Automating UNIX system administration with Perl

"A big reason that UNIX administration is challenging is that every UNIX vendor believes standards are for weak-minded fools. ... If you are serious about automating system administration, cfengine is a tool you should know. Ignoring cfengine is a viable option only if you like to spend your days in the vi editor." via qube corner

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is redolent

| source : web1913 | Redolent \Red"o*lent\ (-lent), a. [L. redolens, -entis, p. pr. of redolere to emit a scent, diffuse an odor; pref. red-, re-, re- + olere to emit a smell. See {Odor}.] Diffusing odor or fragrance; spreading sweet scent; scented; odorous; smelling; -- usually followed by of. ``Honey redolent of spring.'' --Dryden. -- {Red"o*lent*ly}, adv. Gales . . . redolent of joy and youth. --Gray. | source : wn | redolent adj 1: serving to bring to mind; "cannot forbear to close on this redolent literary note"- Wilder Hobson; "a campaign redolent of machine politics" [syn: {evocative}, {redolent of(p)}, {remindful}, {reminiscent}, {reminiscent of(p)}] 2: (used with `of' or `with') noticeably odorous; "the hall was redolent of floor wax"; "air redolent with the fumes of beer and whiskey" [syn: {redolent(p)}, {smelling(p)}] 3: having a strong distinctive fragrance; "the pine woods were more redolent"- Jean Stafford [syn: {aromatic}]

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is rotund

| source : web1913 | Rotund \Ro*tund"\, a. [L. rotundus. See {Round}, and cf. {Rotunda}.] 1. Round; circular; spherical. 2. Hence, complete; entire. 3. (Bot.) Orbicular, or nearly so. --Gray. | source : web1913 | Rotund \Ro*tund"\, n. A rotunda. [Obs.] --Burke. | source : wn | rotund adj 1: spherical in shape 2: full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and reverberating phrase" [syn: {orotund}, {round}] 3: excessively fat; "a weighty man" [syn: {corpulent}, {obese}, {weighty}]

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is bailiwick

| source : web1913 | Bailiwick \Bail"i*wick\, n. [Bailie, bailiff + wick a village.] (Law) The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is patrician

| source : web1913 | Patrician \Pa*tri"cian\, n. [L. patricius: cf. F. patricien.] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) Originally, a member of any of the families constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens, before the development of the plebeian order; later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege conferred, belonged to the nobility. 2. A person of high birth; a nobleman. 3. One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one versed in patristic lore. [R.] --Colridge. | source : web1913 | Patrician \Pa*tri"cian\, a. [L. patricius, fr. patres fathers or senators, pl. of pater: cf. F. patricien. See {Paternal}.] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) Of or pertaining to the Roman patres (fathers) or senators, or patricians. 2. Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, a person of high birth; noble; not plebeian. Born in the patrician file of society. --Sir W. Scott. His horse's hoofs wet with patrician blood. --Addison. | source : wn | patrician adj 1: of the hereditary aristocracy or ruling class of ancient Rome or medieval Europe; of honorary nobility in the Byzantine empire [ant: {plebeian}, {proletarian}] 2: belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family"; "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle blood"; "patrician landholders of the American South"; "aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic features"; "patrician tastes" [syn: {aristocratic}, {aristocratical}, {blue}, {blue-blooded}, {gentle}] n 1: a person of refined upbringing and manners 2: a member of the aristocracy [syn: {aristocrat}, {blue blood}]

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Me : "RSSBlog.pm is largely a repackaging of code originally written

by Jonathon Eisenzopf for his Weblog tool. I wrote RSSBlog because I wanted to be able to use the syndication/templating code he wrote via modules in my own programs." All of which means that, as soon as I suss the templates, there will be a gazillion and one ways to read this weblog. On the to-do list : widgets to publish RSS to a Manila server, a Blogger server, a Jabber server, etc...

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