http://www.shlomifish.org/me/blogs/ http://blogs.perl.org/users/shlomi_fish/2013/04/heroic-people-make-any-job-awesome.html First of all, I have written my recent hacktivity log over on my new dreamwidth.org blog, and I am not posting it here, because it involves a lot of non-code hacktivity, which I expect to do quite a lot... Shlomi Fish employment hacktivity log jobs work http://blogs.perl.org/users/shlomi_fish/2013/04/heroic-people-make-any-job-awesome.html Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:04:24 -0000 2013-04-14T19:06:57Z http://fc-solve.blogspot.com/2013/04/freecell-solver-enterprises-acquires.html <p> <b>1 April, 2013, Tel Aviv, Israel:</b> Due to the spectacular commercial success of Freecell Solver Enterprises™’s <a href="http://fc-solve.blogspot.co.il/2010/03/01-april-2010-freecell-solver.html">Enterprise Edition</a> and its <a href="http://fc-solve.blogspot.co.il/2011/03/freecell-solver-goes-webscale.html">Webscale™ edition</a>, we have amassed quite a bit of cash in the bank, so we decided to make a small but important strategical acquisition. As a result, Freecell Solver Enterprises™ is proud to announce its upcoming acquisition of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google">Google Inc.</a>, which will result in an exciting synergical merger. </p> <p> Some of the upcoming changes would be replacing Google’s tech support (which is notoriously bad) by Freecell Solver Enterprises™’s world-famous and superb tech support (as detailed in the essay <a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/customerservice.html">“Seven steps to remarkable customer service”</a> by Joel on Software), as well as integrating Google search into <a href="http://fc-solve.shlomifish.org/">Freecell Solver™</a> for an enhanced experience in solving Freecell. We are also planning on creating a separate YouTube top-level category for card Solitaire-related videos (including screencasts and presentations). </p> <p> We are sure that the upcoming acquisition is going to allow Freecell Solver Enterprises™ to further its competitive edge, and allow us to have even more significant growth, which will in turn allow us to make even more significant acquisitions. As our CTO, <a href="http://www.shlomifish.org/">Shlomi Fish</a>, notes: “good times are coming.”. </p> <p> Soon, people will say “Let’s Freecell Solver Enterprises™ Superheroic Web Search™ it!” instead of “Let’s Google it!”, for an exciting Web 3.141592™ experience. </p> Shlomi Fish ( shlomif@iglu.org.il ) humour freecell fun enterprise google tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96099636168698788.post-8053664997773858097 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:06:00 +0000 2013-04-01T09:06:31.066-07:00 http://blogs.perl.org/users/shlomi_fish/2013/03/screenplay-text-alternative.html A short time after I posted a message about XML-Grammar-Screenplay to a Perl forum, a Perl enthusiast sent me a message reading like that: I would think that a proper screenplay grammar would be useful (I've thought of writing... Shlomi Fish hacking hollywood perl screenplays scripts http://blogs.perl.org/users/shlomi_fish/2013/03/screenplay-text-alternative.html Sun, 24 Mar 2013 04:45:09 -0000 2013-03-24T04:47:02Z http://blogs.perl.org/users/shlomi_fish/2013/03/ann-my-transition-from-software-developer-to-writerentertaineramateur-philosopherinternet-celebrity.html I'd like to make an announcement: after some serious thought, I decided that from now on, being a software developer (which I am not too bad at) will only be the means (but the absolutely necessary ones) to me... Shlomi Fish cpan hacking humor humour perl philosophy http://blogs.perl.org/users/shlomi_fish/2013/03/ann-my-transition-from-software-developer-to-writerentertaineramateur-philosopherinternet-celebrity.html Sat, 09 Mar 2013 15:34:16 -0000 2013-03-09T15:35:21Z http://shlomif-tech.livejournal.com/66252.html <p> Yesterday, I had the idea of creating some “facts” about the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency" rel="nofollow">NSA - the United States National Security Agency</a>, similar to the Chuck Norris Facts meme. And I got some <a href="http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/NSA/" rel="nofollow">pretty good factoids</a> so far, which I will share here: </p> <blockquote> <ul> <li> The NSA doesn't publish. They perish. </li> <li> The NSA employs the largest number of mathematicians with Ph.D. And the most stupid and incompetent ones. </li> <li> The NSA has a patent for an efficient process for collecting a lot of information and doing nothing with it. </li> <li> The Bajoran scholars have positively identified Benjamin Sisko as The Emissary. They also positively identified the NSA headquarters as The Dungeon. </li> <li> One of <i>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</i>’s episodes took place in the NSA headquarters, but had to be destroyed, because all of the test audience had uncontrollable panic attacks. </li> <li> The NSA knows what you did last summer. But no one, in the NSA or outside it, knows why they should. </li> <li> The more the NSA think, the less they want to be able to think. So they think less and less. </li> </ul> </blockquote> <p> Hope you enjoyed it and naturally - “ha ha, only serious!”. Now the ball is in your court - can you think of more? Put them in the comments below. </p> <p> Happy NSA bashing! </p> Shlomi Fish ( shlomif@iglu.org.il ) humor security http://shlomif-tech.livejournal.com/66252.html http://shlomif-tech.livejournal.com/66252.html Wed, 06 Feb 2013 06:28:51 GMT http://blogs.perl.org/users/shlomi_fish/2013/02/essay-just-write-the-god-damn-tests-motherfucker.html (I originally wrote this in a post to qa@perl.org, and I apologise for the profanity in the title, but I felt it is needed in this case.) So why am I writing this? I used to feel guilty about... Shlomi Fish essay philosophy tdd tests http://blogs.perl.org/users/shlomi_fish/2013/02/essay-just-write-the-god-damn-tests-motherfucker.html Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:02:18 -0000 2013-02-03T18:03:13Z http://shlomif-tech.livejournal.com/65955.html <h2>Israeli Perl Workshop 2013 - 25 February 2013</h2> <p> (The Hebrew text will be followed by an English one). </p> <div align="right" dir="rtl"> <p> <a href="http://act.perl.org.il/ilpw2013/" rel="nofollow">סדנת הפרל הישראלית לשנת 2013</a> תתקיים ב-25 בפברואר, 2013. זהו כנס יומי שיתקיים <a href="http://act.perl.org.il/ilpw2013/location.html" rel="nofollow">במכללת שנקר ברמת-גן</a>. לעיונכם נתונה <a href="http://act.perl.org.il/ilpw2013/talks" rel="nofollow">רשימת המצגות</a> שתינתנה בסדנה, בה יהיו שני מסלולים. </p> <p> הפעם יידרש תשלום עבור הכנס, כדי לכסות את ההוצאות, ויש צורך להירשם (בקישור), אז הקדימו להירשם היום. בנוסף, אם אתם, או חברה מסחרית אחרת שאתם מכירים מעוניינים לתת חסות לסדנה, אנא פנו למארגניה. </p> <p> הפעם סימן הכנס הוא "פרל מעשית" (Perl in Practice) ואנו מקווים שרוב ההרצאות בכנס תהיינה על יישומים מעשיים שנכתבו או יכתבו בשפת פרל. </p> <p> פרל הינה שפת תכנות דינמית וחזקה שנמצאת תחת פיתוח פעיל, ושיש לה מאגר הרחבות פעיל ופורה בשם <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPAN" rel="nofollow">CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network)</a>. <a href="http://perl.org.il/" rel="nofollow">דף הבית של שוחרי הפרל הישראליים</a> מכיל מידע נוסף וקישורים נוספים לגבי הפעילות של חובבי השפה בישראל. </p> <p> הפעם יתארחו בסדנה מספר אורחים מחו"ל וביניהם <a href="http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%99_%D7%95%D7%95%D7%9C" rel="nofollow">לארי וול</a>, הידוע כיוצר שפת פרל (ומספר מיזמים חשובים מוקדמים וביניהם הגרסה הראשונה של תוכנת ההטלאה <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_%28Unix%29" rel="nofollow">patch</a>) שגם יציג בכנס; אליו תתלווה רעייתו גלוריה. בהמשך נעדכן את שמותיהם של האורחים הנוספים. </p> </div> <h3>English Version</h3> <p> The <a href="http://act.perl.org.il/ilpw2013/" rel="nofollow">Israeli Perl Workshop of 2013</a> will take place on 25 February, 2013. It will be a daily conference which will take place <a href="http://act.perl.org.il/ilpw2013/location.html" rel="nofollow">in Shenkar College in Ramat Gan</a>. One can view the <a href="http://act.perl.org.il/ilpw2013/talks" rel="nofollow">list of talks</a> that will be given in the conference, where there are going to be two tracks. </p> <p> ‎This time the conference will cost some money in order to cover the costs and, so there is a need to register (just follow the link). Therefore, please register as soon as possible. In addition, if you, or a different company that you know, are willing to sponsor the workshop, please contact the organisers. </p> <p> Perl is a dynamic and powerful programming language which is under active development, and which has an active and comprehensive extension repository called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPAN" rel="nofollow">CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network)</a>. <a href="http://perl.org.il/" rel="nofollow">The home page of the Israeli Perl Mongers</a> contains other information and more links about the activity of Perl's Israeli enthusiasts. </p> <p> This year's conference will sport some guests from abroad, including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall" rel="nofollow">Larry Wall</a>, who is known as the creator of the Perl programming language (and some earlier software projects such as the original <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_%28Unix%29" rel="nofollow">patch program for UNIX</a>), and who will give a talk at the conference; he will be accompanied by his wife, Gloria. We will publish the names of the other guest speakers as we learn about them. </p> <p> Everyone is welcome to attend. </p> Shlomi Fish ( shlomif@iglu.org.il ) events perl israeli foss http://shlomif-tech.livejournal.com/65955.html http://shlomif-tech.livejournal.com/65955.html Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:47:03 GMT http://blogs.perl.org/users/shlomi_fish/2013/01/count-up-to-100-cpan-distributions-quality-as-well-as-quantity.html Going over the previous count-ups to 100 CPAN distributions in this blog, I feel I have been carried away: I tried to release a lot of new distributions to the CPAN, while neglecting all the existing distributions I have,... Shlomi Fish 100 cpan hacktivity hacktivity log perl sdlx xml http://blogs.perl.org/users/shlomi_fish/2013/01/count-up-to-100-cpan-distributions-quality-as-well-as-quantity.html Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:53:26 -0000 2013-01-07T20:54:43Z http://shlomif-tech.livejournal.com/65619.html <p> I am glad to announce that I, along with some help from some other people, have set up <a href="http://vim.begin-site.org/" rel="nofollow">the Vim Beginners’s Site - http://vim.begin-site.org/</a> (or Vim-Begin for short). It aims to be a centrally managed, yet fully open content/open source site, for concentrating the Internet’s best material for learning about the Vim text editor and expanding one’s knowledge. The site was inspired by <a href="http://perl-begin.org/" rel="nofollow">the Perl Beginners’ site (or “Perl-Begin” for short)</a>, and I set up the domains begin-site.org (and begin-site.com as a future redirect) to concentrate other similar high-quality sites introducing people to various technologies and topics. So if you want python.begin-site.org, emacs.begin-site.org, linux.begin-site.org, dotnet.begin-site.org, cooking.begin-site.org etc. then <a href="http://www.shlomifish.org/me/contact-me/" rel="nofollow">contact me</a> and I’ll see what I can do. </p> <p> The site is incomplete, and there's still a lot to do, but we have <a href="https://bitbucket.org/shlomif/vim-begin" rel="nofollow">a Bitbucket mercurial repository</a>, an issue tracker there, a <a href="https://bitbucket.org/shlomif/vim-begin/src/260364e02c8606b3e582b03adcbd3bce9400b460/vim-begin/jekyll-prototype/TODO.txt?at=default" rel="nofollow">TODO list</a>, and we accept pull requests. The text for the site’s pages is under the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" rel="nofollow">Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence</a> (unless noted otherwise) and whatever original source code is found there is under the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License" rel="nofollow">MIT/X11 licence</a>, and both were chosen to allow for maximal reuse. Nevertheless, we may mirror, restore, or link to, resources under different licences. </p> <p> Cheers, happy new year, and happy Vimming! </p> Shlomi Fish ( shlomif@iglu.org.il ) open source vim http://shlomif-tech.livejournal.com/65619.html http://shlomif-tech.livejournal.com/65619.html Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:48:39 GMT http://shlomif-tech.livejournal.com/65462.html <p> In this tip I will cover how to use ffmpeg to override the audio track of a video from a different audio track (such as the one in a WAV, an OGG or an MP3 file). To do that use the following recipe (based on <a href="http://cfc.kizzx2.com/index.php/muxing-audio-and-video-with-ffmpeg/" rel="nofollow">this out-of-date blog post</a> and some help from ubitux on <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#ffmpeg" rel="nofollow">#ffmpeg</a>, with a lot of trial and error): </p> <pre> ffmpeg -i in_audio.wav -i in_video.ogv -map 0:0 -map 1:1 -shortest \ -c:a libvorbis -q:a 7 -c:v copy output.ogv </pre> <p> Some of these files are not needed if you're not dealing with Ogg Video files. <tt>-shortest</tt> is useful for making sure that the length of the output is trimmed to that of the shortest input. </p> <p> I ended up using this command for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYdqNuX4WJc" rel="nofollow">the latest screencast I prepared</a>. Cheers, and happy holidays. </p> Shlomi Fish ( shlomif@iglu.org.il ) linux open source tech tech tip http://shlomif-tech.livejournal.com/65462.html http://shlomif-tech.livejournal.com/65462.html Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:59:01 GMT