Welcome

04/07/2006  Edit

Welcome to badkins.net.

This is my personal portal. This site is run using an experimental content management system I've written called Lowbrow.

Lowbrow is a combination blog and journal and wiki, combining features of all three types of cms. I am the author and maintainer of Lowbrow. Lowbrow is still in the very early stages of development. Use the navigation panel on the left to browse the site.

Connections

04/19/2006  Edit

• Books
• Write Great Code Volume 2
• Intermediate Perl
• Mastering Perl
• Wicked Cool Perl Scripts
• Wicked Cool Shell Scripts
• Just Say No To Microsoft

• News
• Use Perl
• The Perl Review
• Back to Iraq

• People
• chromatic
• Perl Geek Code
• Steve Oualline

• Talks
• Powell's technica q&a with Brian DeFoy - Interesting comments on blogging
• YAPC Talks 2000 - Stages of a Perl Programmer

• Software
• PS Tray Factory

• iPod
• Podcast
• Tools for you iPod
• Podcast Alley

• Motorcycles
• Ural Home

• Photos
• Flickr

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Unraveling Code with the Debugger Reading other people's code can be difficult, especially if you have no idea what happens when and where. Understanding code flow is vital to maintenance and bug fixes, but littering code with print and debugging statements is tedious and prone to error. There's another way: use the debugger! Daniel Allen demonstrates how to pinpoint a problem with Perl's debugger.

<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/04/06/debugger.html>;

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Regular Expressions in C++ with Boost.Regex Searching and parsing text can be a messy business, especially in C++. Instead of building your own token-based state machine, spend an hour learning regular expressions and use a good package such as the regular expression library from the Boost library. Ryan Stephens demonstrates how to match, search, and parse text with Boost.Regex in C++.

<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/04/06/boostregex.html>;

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