I need an IDE (hopefully free) for perl on OS X - recommendations?
Also, has anyone done graphics programming on perl? I just need to do simple stuff, like create a graphic file with circles, lines and some text on it....
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tommyrot - Sep 22, 2007 6:17:20 pm PDT #2834 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Tom Scola - Sep 23, 2007 2:04:04 am PDT #2835 of 25496
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
CamelBones lets you write perl code in Xcode. It's probably overkill for what you're looking for.
For graphics, you will probably want to use the GD module.
Glamcookie - Sep 23, 2007 2:53:45 pm PDT #2836 of 25496
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
iPhone users: I've been trying to set up GF's Gmail account ever since we got our phones (months ago). Even though I select POP and recent (emails from now on) under Gmail > Settings, all of her email loads onto the phone. V. v. irritating. I've gone to a few forums and tried some stuff that hasn't worked, but thought I'd ask here just in case.
Why she cancelled her .mac account I'll never know. Grumble, grumble...
§ ita § - Sep 24, 2007 6:02:41 am PDT #2837 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Can anyone recommend a trusted source for Symbian OS software? Most urgent thing I'm looking for to complete my migration from my Palm is a password keeper, but obviously it has to be reputably secure.
I grabbed a few games off a random site, and they already make me nervous and I'm probably going to wipe them off soon.
§ ita § - Sep 24, 2007 12:28:30 pm PDT #2838 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Cool. If you're balking at Vista for whatever reason, Microsoft will let you downgrade Ultimate or Business.
bon bon - Sep 24, 2007 12:50:11 pm PDT #2839 of 25496
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
FWIW, I've learned a couple things about Vista from installing it this weekend/the internet. One, if you buy an upgrade disk, apparently you can't clean install it and validate it-- you need your XP disk to install, which I don't have. But according to the internet you can cheat by installing from the vista disk and then upgrading from the same disk, then activating. I haven't tried this yet.
Also, it's pretty ridiculously slow unless you turn off a lot of the features, like indexing. I was surprised at that. I understand it works well if you have top-of-the-line equipment, but I thought that was the case with my Latitude D800.
tommyrot - Sep 24, 2007 12:51:55 pm PDT #2840 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Does it just take a while to index everything the first time? I think Spotlight on my iBook took an hour or two to index everything, during which time it was pretty darn slow.
§ ita § - Sep 24, 2007 12:54:50 pm PDT #2841 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Gack! I still want the timeline on the Leopard free/cheap upgrade. I just read that G4 and Leopard will not play nicely. I'm pretty sure my laptop is a G5, but I'm flaking on the detail.
Minis you get with extra memory pre-installed, right, because they're tight inside?
Sheeit. I need to get all that worked out before my new TV. I may never get new clothes ever again.
bon bon - Sep 24, 2007 12:54:51 pm PDT #2842 of 25496
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
It's always indexing in the background, apparently, which is why it's slow. Just turning it off took about 45 minutes of...indexing!
Typo Boy - Sep 24, 2007 1:19:24 pm PDT #2843 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Also the "free" downgrade. You still have to have the XP disk. I guess the point is that since they give you a code, you can borrow the disk from a friend and install it semi-legally.