Kevin's Weblog

The following is a good way to use up all your memory amazingly quickly:

my $special_chars = "!@#$%^&";
...
sub munge {
  ...
  $special_chars = quotemeta($special_chars)
  ...
}

[Aside: I’ve come to realize that a risk in this “Hall of Shame” business is that coworkers might take offense. So, let me make a comment or two. First off, a healthy fraction of these examples are actually things that I wrote at one point, so I do try to be fair. Second, my intent really is to teach, and maybe amuse occasionally, not to ridicule; I hope that someone, somewhere will avoid stepping into the same trap.]

I got accepted for YAPC too. Now I really need to get around to writing this talk. At least I only have to get 20 minutes worth done for YAPC. Seems like I ought to be able to manage it.

It’s going to be a pretty crazy summer. YAPC is June 27-29 in Toronto. Then we’re going to be in Vancouver from July 8-29 for a summer program S. is doing at UBC. Then I don’t even go home, but straight to Portland for OSCON on August 1-5. Yeeghads!

(Speaking of which, if anyone knows of a sublet in Vancouver for that period, please let me know. The university seems to be flaking on its promises of family housing.)

It seems like only last year that I bought a top-of-the-line PowerMac, and now it’s bottom-of-the-line. Wait a minute... it was only last year. Dangit!