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I’ve recently starting playing Boggle semi-regularly. I’ve always enjoyed it, but now I’m playing it with people who are much more competitive.
While I was in Boston, I also read Word Freak, a rather scary insight into the world of professional Scrabble.
The combination of these two paragraphs have led me to need to know [...]

After my recent playings with JavaScript, it’s nice to see that Jon Udell has also been discovering that JavaScript can be written quite neatly also: I always thought Perl had a role to play on the desktop. And now that it has transfused its genes into JavaScript, it does.

Amazon’s deal with Borders sucks. Yes, it’s nice that I can buy something on Amazon.com and pick it up in a local borders. But, no, it’s not nice that I have to pay full retail price, even if the book is reduced both at Amazon and at Borders!

I used to be a big fan of Harvard Coop. Any time I’d be in Boston, I’d end up spending quite a lot of it just sitting in the Coop reading. Each day I’d walk around, pick up a pile of maybe 8-10 books, find a comfortable seat, and gradually divide them into 3 piles [...]

Things I’ve learned about perltidy.
When returning a hashref from a subroutine, make sure to explicitly give the ‘return’ command, or else perltidy will get confused, think it’s a bare block, and format it strangely.
Similarly, if the last statement of a script is complex, with nested subrefs etc, adding the trailing semicolon can change how perltidy [...]

V. Satheesh Babu has an interesting article on using Oracle Stored Procedures to add an extra layer of security to web applications.

I can see lots of similarities between JavaScript and Perl. Both are languages that are often written by people with no real programming experience, just to get a job done - usually involving web sites. A lot of the code in each isn’t written from scratch, but starts by taking some other code that almost [...]

My name is Tony, and I’m a zsh user.
I have been for many years, and have steadfastly withstood the onslaught of upstarts like bash. For the most part I don’t really know whether zsh or bash is ‘better’, I just happen to have a whole series of startup scripts, built up over the last 10 [...]

Jeremy shows how to use spatial indexes in MySQL:

SELECT name
FROM map_test
WHERE Contains(GeomFromText(’POLYGON((0 0, 0 3, 3 3, 3 0, 0 0))’), loc) = 1;

It takes all sorts.
Ingo Rammer has turned Exchange+Outlook into a blogging tool.

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