Finally, Google has released a code search that enables you to search through source code.
Similar to koders.com and others.
I haven’t seen too much of my own publical GPL code in here, but it’s a start.
The question is: Can I search for special characters?
Linux Journal has a Linux Timeline starting from August 1991, when Linus Torvalds announced he was doing a free unix clone, up to February 2002.
There are lots of entries, the first few are nice. I was curious what’s been happening since 2002?
Perl::Critic is an excellent way to not only validate your Perl source code, but to learn some tips from the Perl monks who have contributed to the Perl::Critic documentation.
I uploaded one of my latest CGI scripts written in Perl to see how good my Perl chops are…turns out I picked up a few tips that I was unsure about in my previous Perl scripts.
A few simple techniques can be used to make your code more standardized in the event that your are not the only person reading it.
The Perl Critic web site has a nice usable web interface for uploading source code and checking its validity — although for obvious reasons if you’re working on enterprise code you should probably download an install the Perl::Critic CPAN module on your own server.
While waiting for my system to rebuild a few apps, I decided to tweak the Internet Map with Gimp…
I opened up the internet map in gimp, resized it to 1600×1200 (so it’ll fit my resolution as a wallpaper), then starting playing with the filters and scripts from the pulldown menu.
Occasionally, you’ll have multiple layers created from script-fu items. Just merge them down.
If you loose all your color at any given moment, you can always hit the undo button.
Here’s a shot of my current desktop.
I recently finished reading Matt Zandra’s PHP 5 Objects, Patterns, and Practice
Sample chapter: Ch. 08 – Some Pattern Principles can be downloaded from the APress web site.
I used to big a proponent of O’Reilly books, but there’s a new player on the block – APress…I’ve been quite satisfied with the two books, including Fast Track to UML 2.0 by Kendall Scott.
PHP5 has a Pass-by-reference notation: &$bar in line 3 as seen here in the parameter to a function bar(); Basically, this is just a point from the sub routine’s “$bar” back to the caller’s $foo. In this case, a change to the reference variable $bar is reflected in the main variable $foo.
“bar points to/references foo”
$bar => $foo;
1
Output:
foo:foo
bar:foo
bar:bar
foo:bar
Recommended reading: PHP 5 Objects, Patterns, and Practice
Javascript books