[Tallahassee-pm] Back on the wagon

[Ryan Carmelo Briones]

Just adding a couple of things... make sure you pick up MRE v2 if you decide
to get it. I hear it's a must have. Also, a guy i knew from perlmonks.org
was starting to write a book for Manning, but it appears he never finished.
None the less, what he had done is up at http://japhy.perlmonk.org/book/ .
It is definitely worth checking out. This kid is a genius. Also, read your
POD. It's there for a reason, and it has so much that we often overlook
because of laziness. Just my $0.02.

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ryan carmelo briones
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tillman, James" <JamesTillman at fdle.state.fl.us>
To: "'Phillip Tyre'" <phillip.tyre at fcul.com>
Cc: <tallahassee-pm at mail.pm.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 2:23 PM
Subject: RE: [Tallahassee-pm] Back on the wagon


> Heh, heh.  Welcome back, errant Jedi knight!  We won't fault you for
falling
> to the dark side.
>
> By the way:  PHP has added Perl5-compliant regular expressions to the
> language, so now you can feel intimidated in both languages!
>
> Frankly, PHP borrows so much from Perl's syntax and features, it should be
> an easy transition from one to the other.  I've actually learned PHP by
> fixing other people's bugs, never having cracked a book on it.
>
> There's a great book from O'Reilly called "Mastering Regular Expressions".
> I'd recommend getting a trial subscription to O'Reilly Safari (if you
> haven't already), and read that book.  You can use RegExps in many places,
> including many popular programmer's text editors, in Java (there are now 3
> implementations in Java), Javascript on the client-side of all major web
> browsers, and God-only-knows-where-else.  Once you learn 'em, you'll
wonder
> how you ever did without 'em.
>
> jpt
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phillip Tyre [mailto:phillip.tyre at fcul.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 1:58 PM
> To: tallahassee-pm at mail.pm.org
> Subject: [Tallahassee-pm] Back on the wagon
>
>
> These last few weeks have seen me do some more light PHP coding, but
> yesterday, I actually broke down and worked in Perl some. To be honest,
it's
> been a very long time since I created a program in Perl, but it just
seemed
> the best option. It's just a little program that opens up a DBI
connection,
> does some work, and then shuts down (It's going in a cron job once tested
> fully), but I'm rather proud of how quickly I got back up to speed and
> produced it.
>
> I also realize that when it comes to regular expressions in Perl, I'm
still
> a weenie who can't make the plunge to using them comfortably.  Maybe it's
> just lack of experience, but I always feel like I really don't know what
I'm
> doing when I use them. For some reason I'm just intimidated by regular
> expressions, and I dunno why.
>