The Perl Advent Calendar For 2003

Andy Lester writes "CPAN is a treasure trove of submitted code from across the Perl community, and is one of the reasons for Perl's great popularity. There are hundreds of active contributors, and over 2500 modules in the module list. With so many modules, it can be daunting for a Perl beginner to know what's worth noting. Plus, since so many modules are built on other modules, it's important for module authors to know which modules are best-of-breed. One source for direction is Mark Fowler's Perl Advent Calendar. Each day in the month of December, Mark reveals a new module in his calendar, including an overview and mini-tutorial in its use."

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eye lub j00 4ll

[Anonymous Coward]

eye lub j00 4ll!

7 fps in a day...bite me GNAA...

tsarkon reports i have this perl calendar.

[Anonymous Coward]

its so cool. it has dates for fucking greased up anuses

9 steps to greasing your anus for Yoda Doll Insertion!
v 3.92.0
$YodaBSD: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/yodanotes/9steppro cess.sgml,v 3.92.0 2003/11/24 20:30:25 tsarkon Exp $

1. Defecate. Preferably after eating senna, ex lax, prunes, cabbage, pickled eggs, and Vietnamese chili garlic sauce. Defecation could be performed in the Return of the Jedi wastebasket for added pleasure.
2. Wipe ass with witch hazel, soothes horrific burns. (Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda can use witch-hazel on mouth to soothe the horrific burns from performing so much analingus.)
3. Prime anus with anal ease. (Now Cherry Flavored for those butthole lick-o-phillic amongst you - very popular with 99% of the Slashdotting public!)
4. Slather richly a considerable amount of Vaseline and/or other anal lubricants into your rectum at least until the bend and also take your Yoda Doll , Yoda Shampoo bottle or Yoda soap-on-a-rope and liberally apply the lubricants to the Doll/Shampoo/Soap-on-a-rope.
5. Pucker your balloon knot several times actuating the sphincter muscle in order to work it in.
6. Put a nigger do-rag on Yoda's head so the ears don't stick out like daggers!
7. Make sure to have a mechanism by which to fish Yoda out of your rectum, the soap on the rope is especially useful because the retrieval mechanism is built in.
8. Slowly rest yourself onto your Yoda figurine. Be careful, he's big!
9. Gyrate gleefully in your computer chair while your fat sexless geek nerd loser fat shit self enjoys the prostate massage you'll be getting. Think about snoodling with the Sarlaac pit. Read Slashdot. Masturbate to anime. Email one of the editors hoping they will honor you with a reply. Join several more dating services - this time, you don't check the (desired - speaks English) and (desired - literate). You figure you might get a chance then. Order some fucking crap from Think Geek. Get Linux to boot on a Black and Decker Appliance. Wish you could afford a new computer. Argue that IDE is better than SCSI because you can't afford SCSI. Make claims about how Linux rules. Compile a kernel on your 486SX. Claim to hate Windows but use it for Everquest. Admire Ghyslain's courage in making that wonderful star wars movie. Officially convert to the Jedi religion. Talk about how cool Mega Tokyo is. Try and make sure you do your regular 50 story submissions to Slashdot, all of which get rejected because people who aren't fatter than CowboyNeal can't submit. Fondle shrimpy penis while making a Yoda voice and saying, use the force, padawan, feeel the foooorce, hurgm. Yes. Yes. When 900 years you reach, a dick half as big you will not have.

All in a days work with a Yoda figurine rammed up your ass.

I HAVE A GREASED UP YODA DOLL SHOVED UP MY ASS!

GO LINUX!!

Tux is the result after trimming Yoda's ears off so that Lunix people don't rip themselves a n

CPAN is a nightmare

[P145M4]

I use debian and want to apt-get everything
I hate it to use CPAN and break everyhting ...

Re:CPAN is a nightmare

[Anonymous Coward]

Isn't there anything like BSDPAN for FreeBSD? I just discovered that and think it's a pretty cool idea.. whenever you install something with CPAN, it automagically hooks into the package system and creates a package for what you just installed.

I had not idea what it was for years, it didn't seem to be documented anywhere, I finally read something about it and tried it out after avoiding CPAN entirely.

I hope other Free software distros like Gentoo Linux come up with something equivalent....

Re:CPAN is a nightmare

[fwoggey]

# apt-get install dh-make-perl
# dh-make-perl --build --cpan Some::Module
# dpkg -i libsome-module-perl*.deb

But...

[aanand]

...is it Fair Trade?

Mirror + any other questions?

[twoshortplanks]

Hello again Slashdot, welcome back to my server.

Hmm, about nine comments. Good to see my calendar is well loved ;-)

The original poster neglected to mention there's a mirror at http://mirror.perladvent.org incase my server falls over for any reason. Not that it does that a lot, but last year the part London where my server's located had a nasty power cut on the 4th, so I guess anything's possible.

If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask them, but since it's half one in the morning atm, answers will have to wait until I've had some kip

Re:Mirror + any other questions?

[Anonymous Coward]

No questions, just a big thanks. :-) I hadn't heard of the modules mentioned so far, though it's good to promote their presence; there's way to much insecure web development going on because of lack of validation, XSS attacks, etc.

Great stuff for web developers

[sbszine]

From the two days that we I get at so far, the calendar looks pretty useful. For those who haven't bothered to RTFA, the first two days cover validating user input without referring to a copy of Mastering Regular Expressions. I can see myself using something from this calendar in the new year, if I survive the family xmas lunch with my sanity intact.

Be naughty

[it0]

and look up the 3rd day

Obligatory Gentoo plug

[metamatic]

If you used Gentoo, you could use Portage to download and install from CPAN. Nyaah nyaah nyaah.

Cool!

[Anonymous Coward]

An advent calendar with cooly cool chocolate perl camels instead of fat santa's head and other crap! I gotta get me one of those!

Edutainment

[fatcat1111]

Maybe it's because I stumbled across the calendar when I was first learning Perl several years ago, but I've always had a soft spot for this. Not a day goes by in December where I don't learn something truly useful.