literal thoughts

May 4, 2008

Perl book (mini) reviews

Filed under: english — Tags: , — Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson @ 9:33 pm

I much prefer reading things in well typeset paperback books than on computer screens. The subject of Perl is no exception. I’ve got quite a few Perl books. Some reviews are in order. I haven’t actually written a book review in many years, so they won’t be very “in-depth”, though.

Oh, and by the way, this, too, is a Perl blog.
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May 1, 2008

IRC and character encoding

Filed under: english — Tags: , — Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson @ 1:44 am

A while ago, I wrote an IRC logger for POE::Component::IRC, which is an IRC client module for Perl. The main challenge I faced was the issue of character encodings. Since IRC is ripe with clients that use different encodings, messages must be reliably decoded before they are written to a file.
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