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Perl Practice

In learning a new programming language, I will often make a one-off program to explore the language and get real-life experience in using it. With Perl, I created a programmatic version of a game I play with my kids as… Read More »Perl Practice

6 Meter Mobile

My friend Dave (K1ZH) came over today and helped me fix up my 6 meter FM Genave radio to work with a tone generator on the local repeater. We studied the schematics and suffered through a power supply failure but… Read More »6 Meter Mobile

Hardware

Many geeks take pride in their hardware and will boast about it without prompting. Some of us are less boastful and are hard pressed to say exactly what we are running. I’m definitely in the later category. The only time… Read More »Hardware

The Lama Book

I’m getting back into Perl again, for a web site rewrite at work using Apache’s mod-perl. Many folks have learned Perl from the O’Reilly book, Learning Perl by Schwartz and Phoenix. About all I remember from it was that it… Read More »The Lama Book

Shell Game

I downloaded the preview of Microsoft Shell, aka Monad. One of the reasons I use Linux as my primary OS has always been the functionality of the shell. I won’t bore you with all the details, suffice it to say,… Read More »Shell Game

Hand Coding

There is a really interesting article here – Does Visual Studio Rot The Mind? by a long time Windows programmer named Charles Petzoid, the author of Programming Windows. In the article he questions the reliance of Windows programmers on the… Read More »Hand Coding

Diversion Tactics

I’m a parent of pre-school age children. I know all about diversions. I can redirect the attentions of my children at the drop of a hat to discourage deviant behavior. It beats yelling at them and it goes unnoticed by… Read More »Diversion Tactics