This day has been Chrétienized
NY Times : Screen Savers as Artist's Medium
"It exists while it's being ignored, but as soon as you come back to work, you click it away. You develop a strange relationship with your screen saver." Duuuuuude ... yeah. ... duuuuuude ... it's like it's there ... but it's not! .... yeah.
Teodor Zlatanov : Debugging Perl with ease
"walks you through both the built-in Perl debugger and CPAN's Devel::ptkdb. The Perl debugger is powerful but
frustrating to navigate. CPAN's Devel::ptkdb, on the other hand, works wonders by simplifying code debugging and thereby saving
hours of your precious time. In his discussion Zlatanov concentrates on explaining debugging methods and general concepts rather
than looking at specific tools." (thanks
luke)
Perlmonks : Net::Ping, The Mini-series
"I used the Perl debugger to step into Net::Ping and found that the connect() was failing with "Connection refused". What does this mean? It means that the other computer is up, is reachable, and isn't listening on TCP port 7 (and it did this all without triggering the time out). Well, that is a wonderful form of a successful ping in my book. When I ping a computer, I don't want to be told whether it is listening on port 7! So Net::Ping should return a true value for this case. Instead it returns a false value and manages to hide the value of $! so you can't just change the false to true if $! is "Connection refused". *sigh*"
Ahmed El-Mahmoudy : lynx2links
"is a program that converts between 'lynx', 'links' & Netscape bookmarks." Although,
I swore I would never learn C, the code here is straightforward enough that I will add this functionality to the todo list for
Favorites::Convert.