Author Archives: Paul Tomblin

StackOverflow

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Paul Tomblin

StackOverflow (aka “SO”) is the best site on the net for asking and answering questions about programming. Not about the job of programming (there is another site in the same family) but specific problems in “how do I do this” … Continue reading →

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Stupid Perl Tricks

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Paul Tomblin

I’m certainly delving into some depths of Perl I’ve never touched before. I need to lookup a record in one table using a subclass of DBIx::SearchBuilder::Record, and depending on what it says in the “table_name” column, look up a record … Continue reading →

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Another sleepless night

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Paul Tomblin

I was having trouble sleeping. I thought it was because I have a sort of “rubbed raw” feeling in my arm pit. I got the same thing last time – because I can’t lift the arm, my arm pit doesn’t … Continue reading →

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Forth? Why Forth?

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Paul Tomblin

Had a dream last night, in which the programming language Forth played a big role. Which is a bit of a puzzlement because I’ve never learned to program in Forth. There was a time when Forth was tagged as the … Continue reading →

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Perl and IDEs

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Paul Tomblin

From about 1987 to about 4 or 5 years ago, I did all my software development using vi (and later gvim), ctags, and all the Unix command line tools. But towards the end of my time at Kodak, I got … Continue reading →

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