ν42 - nu42.com Table of Contents for 2010 December A good example of marketing Perl to other programmers Does Perl have to “suck” for you to be satisfied with your choice of language? An Economic Perspective on Marketing Perl Don’t blame Perl for all ugly code! The brotherhood of SAS and Perl November Pad a SAS macro variable with leading zeros Plain ASCII table output in SAS Auto-correct fail Why is Perl not on every Windows machine – at least on the “server” versions of the OS? October Sometimes, a brute force solution is acceptable Perl’s srand now returns the seed September Don’t leave randomness to chance (or, avoid using rand if it matters) Extract bullet lists from PowerPoint slides using Perl and Win32::OLE Extract slide titles from a PowerPoint document using Perl’s Win32::OLE Explain this regex to me August ØMQ OMG! Crypt-SSLeay 0.58 released How does a bug survive for a very long time? Easily embed interactive streaming audio on web pages A Perl script to make printing ClimateAudit threads easier Why book on Sheraton.com? July Displaying LaTeX formulae on web pages The beauty of Moose: Enforcing an interface June Use your own configuration file with Dancer YAPC::NA 2010 The decline and fall of programmers May Why can’t I get Dancer’s version when invoking perl from the command line on Windows? Internationalization fail Check if your Twitter followers are real using TinEye The beauty of TinEye Web application security April What is up with GIARABUB? Do we need ClimatePerl? Uncommenting AuthorizedKeysFile in sshd_config causes public key authentication to fail The day I gave up on Apple March Linode rocks HTML layouts for print