Advent Calendar For Geeks 65
bLanark writes "Well, as children and adults all over the world begin their day with chocolate, with the traditional Advent calendar, I'd like to remind you that there's an alternative for geeks. The Perl Advent calendar will give you a new Perl tip every day right up to Christmas."
Is this Necessary (Score:1)
Re:Is this Necessary (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah do we really need this extra in our life without everything else we have on?
Are your referring to Christmas, or Perl? ;)
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Personally, I celebrate Javakkuh.
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Well all the radio commercials are calling it "The Holiday season" and "Gifts for the Holidays" instead of openly saying C++mas or Javakkuh or even Kwanzaa.
I blame those guys promoting those 4th level languages with more verbosity and higher amounts abstraction. It's obviously led to the generalization of the holidays.
Though - I suppose thats what the assembly programmers were saying about me last year...
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Re:Is this Necessary (Score:5, Funny)
This year you are being visited by three ghosts.
The ghost of preprocessor directives.
The ghost of just-in-time debugging.
And finally...
The ghost of lazy evaluation.
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Happy Channukah (Score:4, Informative)
:-D
Happy Saturnalia or something (Score:3)
Yeah, I know that starting on 1 December there should generally be only 21 pouches to reach the solstice, 23 for Saturnalia, and 25 for Yule and Sol invictus, but kids here expect to get prezzies on 24 December, so that's when the calendar ends.
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That's beautiful. Are the pouches mounted on a backboard? Have you posted pics anywhere?
My lady stax & I are also crafters and currently doing hand felted items. We're going to have to riff on your idea for next season.
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I can now die in peace.
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My child gets the actual Lego advent calendar, which is totally secular. So far she's gotten a snowman and a child minifig with sword (!).
I don't get any presents, here's why. (Score:3)
Allow me to be somewhat cynical without angering the mods too much.
There's a reason people turn off the "hints" in IDE's, 3D modeling software, Word, Open office... ect. It's because if there is a problem, we'll go out and search for the solution. Now they want to put the daily hints behind the advent calender? oy vey!
You may now proceed to mod me down.
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Indeed. After all, what I can do with a measly 8 hints? Why not make a calendar for a full year instead?
dear ghod, NO! (Score:2)
the twelve days of Clippymas!"
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1. Clippy: Misunderstood animated pedagogical agent or spawn of Satan? [blogspot.com] - Invokes Sun Tzu
2. Why People Hate the Paperclip: Labels, Appearance, Behavior, and Social Responses to User Interface Agents [stanford.edu]. Impressive 65 Page PDF available from this abstract page.
3. People Who Hate Clippy, the Stupid Paper Clip from Microsoft Word (Wartburg Chapter) [facebook.com]. Emergency outreach
4. Meme:Clippy [knowyourmeme.com]. Fanpic uploads @ end.
5. On Youtube [google.com].
6. How I Made Clippy Lovable [nexgadget.com]. Stanford again. What is it with these guys? You know their masco
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a) It's Perl, not PERL
b) Given the code I've been slogging through the last few years, it seems Perl is no more "write only" than PHP, Java, or C.
So instead of (Score:2)
gifts and chocolate for perl tips?
Gee. I'll jump right on that~
I'm a tip traditionalist (Score:2)
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Will you settle for cats, dogs, or bouncy red balls?
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So you want Vigor?
http://vigor.sourceforge.net/screenshots/ [sourceforge.net]
No Thanks (Score:3)
"Well, as children and adults all over the world begin their day with chocolate, with the traditional Advent calendar, I'd like to remind you that there's an alternative...
No thanks. I'd rather have the chocolate.
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Me too, but I’d be willing to tolerate Perl tips stamped into the chocolate or printed on the wrapper. Call it a fair compromise.
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Chocolate is already bitter.
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Left out, again (Score:1)
Perl 6 calendar (Score:2, Informative)
Also don't forget about the Perl 6 advent calendar [wordpress.com] that's just posted its first entry this year!
Advent of what? (Score:1)
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How about a geek advent calendar that features non-fictional historical events?
Eg:
Ala Lovelace, the first programmer, born 10 December 1815
Charles Babbage, inventor of the computer, born 26 December 1791
Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, born December 28, 1969
(ok I know advent calendars normally stop at xmas, but most people celebrate New Year more these days anyway)
I'm sure others can fill in the gaps...
Phillip.
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"(ok I know advent calendars normally stop at xmas, but most people celebrate New Year more these days anyway)"
I hadn't noticed that. How did I miss all the New Year TV specials, the radio stations playing New Year music 24/7, the throngs of New Year shoppers, etc?
Re:Advent of what? (Score:5, Funny)
I hadn't noticed that. How did I miss all the New Year TV specials, the radio stations playing New Year music 24/7, the throngs of New Year shoppers, etc?
Not any more, of course. When I was growing up, there were all these New Year celebrations. I remember the booze, the pointy hats, the grand public displays featuring dioramas of Father Time and Baby New Year. Good times...
Then, some time during the 2020's I think, the protests began. The Chinese were first, of course, complaining that January 1 wasn't their new year, bitching about how offended they were whenever anybody wished them a "Happy New Year!" in the beginning of January. "America is a diverse country," they would say, "and we should respect and honor ALL new year's celebrations equally. And besides, we built your fuckin' railroads, it's the least you could do, right?" The ACLU got involved when the Pagans starting acting up, noting that "The New Year begins November 1. In fact, you wouldn't even have ANY new year if it wasn't for our sun god! Goddam Christians just co-opted our New Year like they did everything else of ours!" The floodgates were opened then. Muslims, Hindus, 7th Day Adventists -- who even *knew* their were enough census-registered Klingons to get tlhIngan Qummem declared a National Bank Holiday every tenth month?
Yeah, "Happy New Year," those were the days. Egg nog and Guy Lombardo, and the ball dropping in Time Square. Back when you could drop balls in Times Square, without the cubes and rhomboids challenging it in the courts...
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You must have been asleep on December 31st at 23:59 in the year 1999, when computer programmers averted a world-wide apocalypse. January 1st was henceforward declared a national holiday in their honour, as you will find it is this year if you check your diary.
Whereas Christmas has slowly died along with its associated religion, apart from strong poultry sales, the New Year and the fresh start it symbolises is still celebrated strongly to this day.
Phillip.
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"You must have been asleep on December 31st at 23:59 in the year 1999..."
I was awake in my local time zone. Due to early-onset middle age, I was not "partying like it was 1999", however.
"the New Year and the fresh start it symbolises is still celebrated strongly to this day."
Don't get me wrong: New Year's Day is pretty much the only annual holiday that I observe personally (i.e. in private, not public motion-goings-thru) in any way, as a fresh-start event. But I know that I'm atypical, and more-observed t
Oh that's nice (Score:1)
More Perl Advent Calendars (Score:5, Informative)
The Perl community has more advent calendars than the one linked in TFA:
(Catalyst, Plack and Dancer are web frameworks)
Good thing that Perl is dead. Just imagine how it'd overflow the internet with advent calendars if it were alive!
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Yes, the -M missing colon is a copy and paste/revision typo, I will fix it this evening.
No, there is no missing r. The operator used is qr, not q; the delimiter is % ;-)
Indeed, this is even addressed in the article text
As for the GP, I link to all the relevant calendars that I know of on delicious,
accessible via "Links" in the footer of the splash page.
Yes there are a lot of them, but this is the continuation of the original, which was
created by Mark Fowler in 2000.
The Big Picture (Score:1)
PyCalendar? (Score:1)
SysAdvent too! (Score:1)
Appvent, free iPhone app each day (Score:2)
http://appventcalendar.com/ [appventcalendar.com]
More fun advent calander (Score:2)
Self-Flagellation, Humiliation, Suffering... (Score:2)
Two more... (Score:2)
Angry Birds (Seasons) [androidandme.com] features an advent calendar with a new level released every day.
More?
Stop oppressing me! (Score:1)