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How to send email with an attachment in Perl

I've been beating my head against this all day, but I think I've finally figured it out. I gather that... (More...)

AppleScript autoresponder in Snow Leopard's Mail.app

Last year, I tried to create an autoresponder for Apple's Mail.app, but ran into problems. Now, in Snow Leopard, I've... (More...)

Infernokrusher programming language

Last fall, I happened across a piece I wrote in 1995 about a programming language to be called "C!!!" (pronounced... (More...)

How to annoy yourself

I just looked at the submission-processing code for SH, where I found the following comment: # I was going to... (More...)

The Big Rewrite

Some months back, Chad Fowler wrote a series of brief posts about "The Big Rewrite"--the fateful decision that many software... (More...)

Smarter spellcheckers

There are a lot of typos that spellcheckers won't catch. Some of those, there's probably nothing to be done about... (More...)

Name parser

Got home late last night, should've gone to bed, but instead decided to write some code. The following will probably... (More...)

Weekend update

Some things I did this weekend, including several that I had not planned to do, in no particular order: Spent... (More...)

Google data APIs!

For those who've been wondering what I've been devoting most of my waking hours to lately: The Google Calendar data... (More...)

Multilanguage (programming) comments

Last week at work, I sat down and wrote a quick little Perl utility. I tried to run the script,... (More...)

Poignant documentation

I'm still not awake enough to post a more substantive entry, but as I was on my way to bed... (More...)

Day 2, plus musing about programming

Today we received 22 more submissions. Also, I wrote some new code to make it easier for me to enter... (More...)

Productive

Here are some of the things I've done in the past week, in no particular order: finally washed some dishes... (More...)

Debugging principle

My sardonic pal Jack Mantis is thinking about writing a book on programming. Here's the current draft of the beginning... (More...)

From the adorable to the sublime

And if those kittens should be too cute, Papa's gonna buy you Ahem. Let me try that again: Rowan pointed... (More...)