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Fixing the web with greasemonkey Posted by: pjfenwick
Video duration: 210 seconds How to fix the web with greasemonkey. This talk was presented by Paul Fenwick ( http://pjf.id.au/blo g ) at linux.conf.au, and won the award of "best lightning talk" for the conference. A higher resolution copy of the essay can be found at: http://flickr.com/ph otos/pfenwick/369990 413/ . Yes, I really did write this when I was about eight years old. Related: barcampmelbourne2008, firefox, funny, greasemonkey, lca2008, linux.conf.au |
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SweeperBot 2000 Posted by: pjfenwick
Video duration: 53 seconds http://sweeperbot.or g/ SweeperBot 2000 plays minesweeper for you! Now you'll have time for the more important things in life. Related: bot, minesweeper, perl, solitaire |
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autodie - Lexical exceptions for Perl 5.10 Posted by: pjfenwick
Video duration: 334 seconds Wouldn't it be great if Perl built-ins could throw their own exceptions, with proper error hierarchies, and nice-looking error messages? Wouldn't it be great if these could be enabled with a lexical scope? With the new autodie pragma, it can. Related: exceptions, perl, perl510, programming |
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Rusty Pong Posted by: pjfenwick
Video duration: 131 seconds Rusty Russell and Val Henson demonstrate a version of the classic game "pong" were the paddles are drawn on the screen using infra-red pens (made from modified lip-gloss sticks) which are monitored by a wiimote. This demonstration was made at the linux.conf.au 2008 Open Day. Related: rusty, cc-by, gadget, game, lca2008, linux.conf.au, pong, russell, russell, rusty, wii |
