pudge's Journalpudge's use Perl JournalTime Capsule Software Broken- June 19, 2008 Brand new 500 MB Time Capsule. Latest firmware, latest AirPort software, latest Mac OS X version.One of my computers, a Titanium PowerBook, connects just fine and backups and it all seems happy and joyous.My other one, the MacBook Pro ... not so much. No matter what I try, I get "The backup volume could not be mounted." Here's the system log: Jun 18 00:49:47 bourque kernel0: AFP_VFS afpfs_mount: VolumesShore, pid 206Jun 18 00:49:47 bourque SystemLibraryCoreServicesbackupd327: Backup requested...http://use.perl.org/~pudge/journal/36728?from=rss Doing it Right the First Time- June 5, 2008 So our design guy tells us that it would be much better if, instead of throwing in double <br> tags for paragraphs, we changed it to <p> tags. Oh, and make sure it works in XHTML in case we want to use that someday, which means we need starting and ending tags.So, this is sortof a pain, doing it right. I am trying to think of all the potential problems, and there's a bunch. So I put in a paragraph tag for the double-linebreak tag, but where do I put the ending tag What...http://use.perl.org/~pudge/journal/36599?from=rss Stupid Slash Tricks: Auto-Encapsulation of Tasks- June 5, 2008 The slashd program in slash runs "tasks" which are separate files. It performs a require(). The problem is that sometimes symbols in each task can conflict with another.We have many tasks so rather than edit each one, we decided to handle the encapsulation in slashd itself. It creates a package name, and has code to import symbols from main into the package, and then sets the line number correctly. (my $tmppackage = $file) = s.pl$; ...http://use.perl.org/~pudge/journal/36597?from=rss |