statico's Journalstatico's use Perl Journalgift woes- December 17, 2005 Gardener's Supply Company shipped out the package on Monday via UPS Next-Day Air. It's Saturday, so where is it UPS.com lists the package with a "Rescheduled Delivery" date: today. During some investigation a UPS employee told me that this is really code for "we lost your package, recovered it Friday, and are shipping it today." Normally, aside from my annoyance, this wouldn't have been a problem -- except that I'm leaving the country tomorrow and UPS doesn't deliver on Saturdays here.Serves...http://use.perl.org/~statico/journal/28039?from=rss my code is gold- December 13, 2005 This past Spring, at some point in my Software Development class, I had an opportunity to mimic a joke I once heard. Professor, I said, all my code is perfect. I assume that any bugs I find are in the Perl language itself. It was funny because it was so absurd. We all laughed and chortled.Now, it's not funny anymore. A claim with this level of silliness has appeared.First, consider the basics of trusting user input. Would you ever write the following CGI script !binshecho "Content-type:...http://use.perl.org/~statico/journal/27954?from=rss knowledge- December 2, 2005 A month ago I was saying to myself, "I know a large amount of stuff. I believe that I'm well off in terms of knowledge." I was confident that I'd be ready to be plopped on the front lines of the job market wearing shiny armor and carrying a mighty-powerful axe. This vision, however, has been slightly tarnished by the realization that I might not be as well-prepared as I had thought.Let's pretend my future boss says, "For this, you'll probably want to create blabbity-blah and write your own...http://use.perl.org/~statico/journal/27826?from=rss |