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Signing main content
G'day Leif,
Thankyou for joining PerlNet and for your contribution to the Catalyst page. This is just a quick note to let you know that I've removed your signature from the bottom of the article and I hope you don't mind. I've done this because we'd like everyone to feel free to improve and add to the article, however signatures can make people feel that the article is owned by someone and thus not for open editing. The history of your contribution will still be available on the history page. Please let me know of any questions you have regarding this.
All the best,
Jarich 13:07, 11 January 2006 (EST)
Mock Objects example
G'day Leif,
You're our local Perl Testing guru, so I was hoping I could get you to put a little thought into the example for mock objects on the Perl testing tools page. I've never had to create a mock object in Perl, so I'm a little hazy on how the best way might be to do it. I could copy the CPAN synopsis in, but I thought something more real-life might be cool.
Many thanks,
Jarich (talk) 13:37, 30 January 2006 (EST)
OK, give me a few days - I have 3 things I am doing right now, with about three (now 4) in the pipe....
RE: Mock Objects example
- I love your expansion! Many thanks, it's fantastic.
Missed you on IRC
G'day Leif,
Sorry I missed being able to say goodbye to you on IRC today. I was momentarily distracted by some chickens and discovered you had disappeared in my few minutes AFK.
All the best,
Re: coverage testing reports
Send them to Paul and he'll handle uploading them appropriately.
Jarich (talk) 09:46, 20 February 2006 (EST)
Timezone configuration
G'day Leif,
PerlNet probably thinks you're in a different timezone than you really are. Try the following:
- Head to Special:Preferences.
- Select the 'Time zone' tab.
- Hit the 'fill in from browser' button.
- Hit 'save'.
Alternatively, you can manually enter the offset from GMT. Currently we're GMT+11, and will stay that way until after the commonwealth games.
I don't believe MediaWiki provides a yet provides way to specify your timezone (Australia/Melbourne). That means a manual trip to the preferences screen whenever you hit daylight savings.
Cheerio,
Using Unicode in PerlNet,
你好 Leif,
You may find the discussions on the Unicode talk page useful for inserting Unicode glyphs into PerlNet.
Cheerio,
Using Combiners
G'day Leif,
I've answered your question about using combiners. The short answer is you can, but they don't always look very good.
--PJF (talk) 14:01, 26 February 2006 (EST)
Melb.PM committee archives?
G'day Leif,
I'm hoping to include more member resources on our Melbourne Perl Mongers page, and as you're our most active Melb.PM committee member on PerlNet, I would like to ask for your help.
I've added links to the general members mailing list and archive, however I'm afraid that I don't have any information on the committee list. Are there public archives of the list or meeting-minutes available, or any plans to make them available? Presently the MPM committee is rather opaque to the general membership.
I also believe that there's a MPM meeting next week, but I haven't seen anything regarding the content. I remember you mentioned there were plans to hold a regular series of talks on specific topics; do you have any more information on this so it can be added to the MPM, or upcoming events pages?
Many many thanks,
Tidyview screenshots
G'day Leif,
I've noticed that you've uploaded a new tidyview screenshot, replacing the old one. This may have been intentional; however should you want both 'side-by-side' and 'above/below' screenshots, then I recommend uploading the second screenshot under a different name.
The wiki also keeps a revision history of all files, so we can always revert the current version to the previous one if you wish.
Cheerio,
Tidyview packaging help
Hello Leif,
I was the annoying person ( :-) ) that bothered you after your talk at Melbourne Perl Mongers. I was actually wondering if I could pass on the help that Adam Kennedy gave me to package my module to you to help you package your Tidyview for CPAN.
Blm 18:44, 9 March 2006 (EST)
Not a problem - I am planning to run the code through Perl::Critic tonight, and add Adam's Perl::Signature - I was going to start the packaging work with Module::Starter::PBP, but if you have some specific advice, please feel free to contribute.
60.240.59.204 18:48, 9 March 2006 (EST)
Sounds great. I didn't know about Module::Starter::PBP. I was just going suggest maybe I could look at the code and come up with a Module::Install based install. Also maybe help by creating some tests and maybe implementing some of the things people suggested at Perl Mongers. But then I was thinking you probably know more about Perl and Tests and such than I do. What are you going to call the modules? App::GUI::TidyView and Perl::Tidyview maybe?
All the best,
Blm 20:45, 9 March 2006 (EST)
I've had a response from Steve, who wrote perltidy in the first place. I was really surprised to get one so soon, the newest piece of code in perltidy is 3 years old!! Anyway, he said he loves it, and is very happy to make it a part of perltidy sourceforge project.
I have fixed all of Perl::Critic's comments - only one of them was a genuine flaw actually.
Yes, Module::Install, it was recommended to me by diotalevi at perlmonks.org, so I will package with that after creating the Module::Starter::PBP version. After that I'll send you a copy to see what you think - its really pretty simple, the hardest part is rendering all the options. That module is about 300 lines, everything else is about 50 lines. There arent any test cases yet - horror!!! - buts that because it doesnt actually _do_ anything - it just presents a GUI and runs perltidy with the options the user picks. There is scope for a complete test of every option, as I am sure there are some mispelled ones (found 2 today as it is).
So let me play for the weekend, and get you something next week.
OK. Sounds good :-)
218.214.24.151 22:38, 10 March 2006 (EST)
Coverage Example
G'day Leif,
Sorry it took a while, but the coverage example is now up. Many thanks for generating this!
Feedback, as always, is appreciated.
All the best,
Thanx Paul, that just super.
Leriksen 12:13, 15 March 2006 (EST)
VandalBot talk
G'day Leif,
I agree that VandalBot or wiki-bot writing in general will make a great talk idea. WWW::Mech is a wonderful module to show off, and actually has its roots and beginnings with Melbourne.PM. ;) Feel free to nudge me closer to a meeting date if I don't put up my hand earlier.
Cheerio,
--PJF (talk) 07:52, 13 April 2006 (EST)
You have new spam!
G'day Leif,
The "new messages" link is automatically generated when PerlNet detects that changes have been made to your talk page, even if those changes have been subsequently reverted. To the best of my knowledge it does a simple version-number comparison.
I don't think I can turn it off. However I am pleased to say that we've significantly reduced both the amount of spam that reaches PerlNet and the time taken to revert it.
As for why your page is so popular with spammers, I really don't know. Maybe it's because you're such a prominent figure, with Leif Eriksen Day being celebrated each year.
All the very best,
Spam Noise
G'day Leif,
I agree entirely that spam ends up with noise in the recent changes list. In theory it should be possible for this to be filtered out (by reporting both the original edit and the reversal as a "bot" edit), but I haven't looked into the existing (third party) script to see how easy this change will be to make.
Unfortunately I'm going to be interstate quite a bit over the next two weeks, so my ability to change this may be a little slow. However I have added it to my todo list.
Cheerio,
--PJF (talk) 12:58, 3 November 2006 (EST)
Editing the Perl Myths page
Hi Leriksen!
I noted that you added a reply about "Perl is not Object Oriented" to the Perl Myths that I started. However, it had many errors including many missing apostrophes. Plus, I found the reply as a whole was rather annoying, instead of more to the point. I guess I'm going to rewrite it.
Next time, please:
- Write in proper English. My browser has spell checking for it, or you can use an external spell-checking.
- Try to be more informative, friendly, tactful and less intrusive.
Please don't take it the wrong way.
Thanks,
Shlomi Fish
Well, what can I say - the breadth of your damnation is so over the top, my initial reaction was "This guy needs to relax!!!" Missing apostrophes ! Who gives a rats! Almost no one. I'd rather read a something missing apos that actually told me something useful, and I would _never_ pull the author up on it.
Firstly, its a wiki, mate! - encourage people - if _you_ don't like a missing apos, you fix it. I have fixed many spell/grammar errors in many sources, and I have never bragged it. No one cares if you fix an apostrophe - no one. I'd love people spending 20 seconds to bang out a factoid, rather than avoid adding content because it takes too long to make the wiki-police happy.
If people are going to be berated for missing a piss-ant apostrophe, they'll go away. Wont that make you feel better - almost no content, but its all grammatically correct!
Second, the opinions about Perl not being OO are mine, contributed to a public wiki with pure intent, and I think having at least 80% useful content, and less than 2% sodium. Maybe my humor annoys you - tough. Don't complain to me about it, you'll just get a rant in reply. Maybe the answer doesn't fit your preconceived ideas of what the answer should be. In that case, your a narrow-minded pedant. The who point of a wiki is to provide lots of different stuff, some of that might make people go "I never thought of it that way". If so great. If not, shut up.
- Try to be more open-minded, accepting, discrete and less annoying.
Dont bother replying, I expunge you from my existence.
L
