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>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Maher <tim@consultix-inc.com> writes: Tim> On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 08:33:25PM -0000, Peter Scott wrote: >> Some advice for Perl trainers doing hands-on demonstrations: >> Don't type "my $self = shift" (or shift anything else) without >> practice. It is too easy to typo and leave the 'f' out of >> 'shift'. For some reason I am more prone to making this >> mistake in front of an audience than when coding alone. >> Peter Scott Tim> Been there; done that! I also recommend avoiding attempts to Tim> type the potentially much more embarrassing "$count" for the same Tim> general reason (did it once; won't ever take the chance again!). And don't do live demos on your laptop where you might have personal data unless you've already rehearsed every step of your demo in the privacy of your own cubicle, and verified that nothing of questionable interest might be exposed. And on a completely unrelated topic, keep in mind that the resource fork of a movie you downloaded to a UFS partition on MacOSX will be stored in a file named "._moviename.mpg", which doesn't get removed when you say "rm *". :-) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!Thread Previous | Thread Next