Another intruder in the mooring
of the heart of the Perl


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It's like a dream really. There was a RUNOPS level and a setjmp, and I remember being chased along a tunnel, and there was a smell of roses, and ... wait .... no, it's all fading .... it's gone now.
— Dave Mitchell on p5p, 2004-08-10


The perl5-porters summaries

I write the p5p mailing list summaries. Back issues are archived on dev.perl and published on use.perl. I have a local repository of the raw POD.


Here and there


Different ways to build and test perl

Notes on compiling perl in different ways.

Mix-and-match variants for Configure

rsync repositories


Bookmarklets

A short list of bookmarklets for finding your way around the Perl world.

Site Bookmark Purpose / source code
perl RT RT # Enter a number and view the corresponding ticket on rt.perl.org. You will require your own credentials to be logged in, in order to continue.
javascript:void(s=prompt("RT #:",""));
if(s){location.href="http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id="+escape(s)}
cpan RT RT # Enter a number and view the corresponding ticket on rt.cpan.org. You will require your own credentials to be logged in, in order to continue.
javascript:void(s=prompt("RT #:",""));
if(s){location.href="http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.htmlid="+escape(s)}
Applied
patches
Patch # Enter the number of a patch, and view the commit message (and thus, the details of the patch.
javascript:void(s=prompt("Patch #:",""));
if(s){location.href="http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse?patch="+escape(s)}
smoke report Smoke # Enter a number of perl smoke test to view the results.
javascript:void(s=prompt("Smoke #:",""));
if(s){location.href="http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.daily-build.reports/"+escape(s)}
Perl
monks
PM # Enter the numeric ID of a Perlmonks node and view the resulting page.
javascript:void(s=prompt("PM node:","")); if(s){location.href="http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id="+escape(s)}
xrl.us xrl # Type in the short key of an xrl.us hyperlink and go straight to the redirected link.
javascript:void(s=prompt("xrl.us redirect key:",""));
if(s){location.href="http://xrl.us/"+escape(s)}
The title of this page was generated by a computer program that took the words "Just another Perl Hacker" and ran them through an online computer translation service, converting the text several times between English, French, German and Spanish.
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Copyright © David Landgren 2004-2008
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