http://www.iamcal.com/ All the links rom iamcal.com 2013-03-28T05:10:00Z http://www.iamcal.com/images/logo.gif http://www.iamcal.com/ http://www.iamcal.com/2013-03/regexp-kung-fu/ <p>There are two answers guaranteed to show up on nearly every PHP question on Stack Overflow - use the mysqli/PDO extension instead of the deprecated mysql one (to avoid SQL injection), and that you can't parse HTML with regular expressions.</p> <p>With that in mind, my favorite two answers:</p> <ul> <li>[How PDO is still vulnerable to SQL injection attacks](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/134099/are-pdo-prepared-statements-sufficient-to-prevent-sql-injection/12202218#12202218) by Anthony Ferrara</li> <li>[Parsing HTML with regular expressions](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4231382/regular-expression-pattern-not-matching-anywhere-in-string/4234491#4234491) by Tom Christiansen</li> </ul> 2013-03-28T05:10:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-09/the-silver-searcher/ <p>The <a href="https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher">silver searcher</a> is basically <a href="https://github.com/petdance/ack">ack</a>, rewritten in C to be crazy fast. If you're regularly using grep to search a codebase, this is probably a much better idea.</p> 2012-09-25T00:01:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2011-11/2740/ <p>it's now over 8 years old, but <a href="http://perl.plover.com/yak/12views/samples/notes.html">the 12 views of mjd</a> is still good reading</p> 2011-11-10T00:49:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2010-04/2519/ <p>just added a <a href="http://code.iamcal.com/pl/imap_folders/">quick little hack</a> over on my code site for finding out which imap folders are using up your quota</p> 2010-04-14T22:58:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2009-08/2317/ <p>the <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?author=iamcal">cpan testers matrix</a> is a really good tool (especially for a cpan tool) - an at-a-glance report of how well your various modules are testing (and motivating me to fix the failing ones)</p> 2009-08-25T19:13:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2008-07/1755/ <p>i didn't realize there'd be so much movement on <a href="http://rakudo.org/">rakudo</a>. it's looking pretty snazzy</p> 2008-07-19T17:43:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2008-04/1594/ <p>kellan points out this interesting old TPJ article on <a href="http://perldoc.perl.org/Locale/Maketext/TPJ13.html">problems</a> with localization and gettext. the solution isn't really any good, but the problem is real</p> 2008-04-04T19:15:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2007-11/1423/ <p>aside from the final calculation being highly dubious, the perl module dependancy <a href="http://cpandeps.cantrell.org.uk/?module=Flickr::API">viewer</a> is pretty neat</p> 2007-11-09T13:54:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2007-10/1415/ <p>remotely set the 'ready' message on networked HP printer using some <a href="http://kovaya.com/perl/hpsetdisp.pl">perl</a>. been playing with this in the office to nice effect</p> 2007-10-23T18:04:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2006-08/1233/ <p><a href="http://bradchoate.com/weblog/2006/08/12/ack">ack</a> is awesome [via asc]</p> 2006-08-15T22:56:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/)