tags: Perl

2003

September

2004

April

2004 Apr 6

slurping

I notice that Blosxom uses a variation of the code that perl.com deems inefficient. I wonder if slurping would really speed it up all that much?

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2006

March

2006 Mar 25

blosxom and XSLT

My dream (heh, that sounds really bizarre and grandiose but there it is) is to write a blogging engine that is centered around entries written in a custom XML language and transforming it to XHTML and RSS via XSLT. The only real reason I’d like to do this is because I spent an awful amount of time learning XML and XSLT back in the day and I think it would let me do things that I otherwise am not able to do easily without massive amounts of perl kludgery.

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2007

August

2007 Aug 17

perl script for converting atom to MT import format

Ideally, this should probably be a plugin that uses the MT API, but this little bit of kludgery seems to do the trick. Be forewarned, I used a lot of perl modules that may be non-standard.

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2008

January

2008 Jan 1

separate spheres

If things had gone differently, I might've actually become a computer programmer. Although it's questionable as to whether I would've survived such a decision.

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