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Yoz as in Yoram

A link to Computer Jobs in Israel in this feed by a “yoz” piqued my curiosity. Google assured me that this must be infamous british Perl hacker Yoz Graham, whose real name is Yoram.
Lots of good stuff on his blog, BTW: an Excel rant (Dad: But that’s ridiculous. I don’t believe you. Everyone knows how to use Excel. You’ve got a bloody computer science degree. How can you not know how to use Excel?), a rave about the new star in CPAN, IO::All (And it is marvellous: if Perl is the Swiss Army Chainsaw then this is the new light saber attachment – can’t do anything you couldn’t do previously but it slices through most IO jobs in one or two lines, from file slurping (one line, obviously) to creating a forking server (er, two lines). This Perl.com piece would be a great introduction if another burst of coding from Ingy hadn’t rendered it half-obsolete a mere three days later. ), and this fine Wired parody:

Pausing only to spill some famous London ale down the front of his XXL-sized rugby shirt, Barry outlined some key points in the rapidly-evolving lexicon of British desire. “So what you do, right, is you spot a nice tart over by the bar and you think, lovely, I’ll have a bit of that. And you tip her the wink, you know? And then, if she looks back at you, she’s gagging for it.”

“Just like Bluetooth signalling,” I commented as I tapped hurried notes into my Zaurus. “Ingenious!”

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XUL Periodic Table

XUL Periodic Table (Mozilla browsers only) is an exhaustive demonstration (with source code) of Mozilla’s GUI widgets. (via this guy.)

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The Perl Email Project

Daring Fireball: The Perl Email Project is a heads-up about an attempt to write a better and more usable library for working with e-mail in Perl. See also The Evolution of Perl Email Handling by Simon Cozens, who co-wrote this library.

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Rich Text Editing in WordPress

Look, WYSIWYG HTML Editing in WordPress (using HTMLArea). Also, here’s someone explaining how to hack HTMLArea to produce <em> and <strong> tags instead of <i> and <b> (or rather, instead of Mozilla’s annoying <span style="…"> tags).

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HOWTO migrate from blosxom to wordpress

Marc Nozell’s mini-blog: HOWTO migrate from blosxom to wordpress