Friday, September 03, 2004
As it turns out, the debate O'Reilly had with Maher was taped sometime earlier this week; it wasn't live at the convention like when O'Reilly got Michael Moore on at the DNC. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say they did some editing; for time and/or content. I taped it anyway.
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Tuesday, August 31, 2004
In case if you hadn't seen this, KHOW is playing Bill O'Reilly from noon-2 now. Scott Redmond is gone; apparently ratings were sucking so bad that they tanked that show. That fucking retard Bob Newman still has an hour show, and apparently another on 850.
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Monday, August 30, 2004
Alright, we were talking about script writing last night. Perl is one of the languages I use the most, and it's pretty easy to learn. The book I mentioned that's a good source for learning Perl is, cleverly enough, Learning Perl. It's fairly short, but a good intro. And, of course, you can always just go running around online and find some tutorials. Once you get going, you might want to bust out what's considered to be the Perl Bible, Programming Perl (one of its authors, Larry Wall, is the guy who created Perl). I use this book quite a bit as it has a list of all of Perl's built-in functions and how to use them.
In addition to Perl, I write a decent number of shell scripts. Each shell has its own scripting language with its own syntax and shit, but a lot of them are pretty similar. I'm (naturally) most familiar with Bash scripting language, but not all that familiar. I've found shell script syntax to be a bit cantankerous (like, for example, whitespace matters in some places), and I usually just write small shell scripts that just run a bunch of commands but are too complex to just be made into an alias. Every now and then I'll bust out some kind of programming style construct like a for loop, but usually if I'm getting marginally complex I'll just go the Perl route. As far as my knowledge of shell scripting goes, most of it I've just picked up by example, but you could also get something like Learning the Bash Shell (the cover picture on BN's site is wrong, BTW, but that's the book I have) if you want a reference.
As a side note, I'm actually migrating away from Bash right now, which is what I've used for years since that's the Linux default. I've been using Zsh at home and work, which is Bash-like enough that I don't notice a huge difference, but it has some cool features that I like (most notably with tab-completion) which, as far as I know, Bash doesn't have.
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In addition to Perl, I write a decent number of shell scripts. Each shell has its own scripting language with its own syntax and shit, but a lot of them are pretty similar. I'm (naturally) most familiar with Bash scripting language, but not all that familiar. I've found shell script syntax to be a bit cantankerous (like, for example, whitespace matters in some places), and I usually just write small shell scripts that just run a bunch of commands but are too complex to just be made into an alias. Every now and then I'll bust out some kind of programming style construct like a for loop, but usually if I'm getting marginally complex I'll just go the Perl route. As far as my knowledge of shell scripting goes, most of it I've just picked up by example, but you could also get something like Learning the Bash Shell (the cover picture on BN's site is wrong, BTW, but that's the book I have) if you want a reference.
As a side note, I'm actually migrating away from Bash right now, which is what I've used for years since that's the Linux default. I've been using Zsh at home and work, which is Bash-like enough that I don't notice a huge difference, but it has some cool features that I like (most notably with tab-completion) which, as far as I know, Bash doesn't have.
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