A lead-free area Elf Nebecaneezer (‘Neb’) was welcoming some young new workers to his domain and doing what old folks like to do: pontificate. (His grandchildren politely, but behind his back, call it “bloviating.”) “In the old days, we used hand-set lead type, then gradually used ever-more-modern methods; now we prepare the content in PDFContinue reading “Day 23 – Santa’s Print Shop”
Author Archives: Tom Browder (@tbrowder)
Day 1 – Rocking Raku Meets Stodgy Debian
A unique method for installing Raku on Debian hosts. Rumbling in the rack room Santa’s IT department was now fully invested in using Raku, and it was paying off in increased programmer efficiency as well as toy output. But old elf Eli, a system administrator, was grumbling to himself that it was a lot ofContinue reading “Day 1 – Rocking Raku Meets Stodgy Debian”
Day 3: Santa and the Rakupod Wranglers
Santa’s world was increasingly going high-tech, and his IT department was polishing off its new process that could take the millions of letters received from boys and girls around the world, scan them into digital form with state-of-the-art optical character recognition hardware, and produce outputs that could greatly streamline the Santa Corporation’s production for ChristmasContinue reading “Day 3: Santa and the Rakupod Wranglers”
Day 22 – Santa Claus is Rakuing Along
Part 1 of this article reported on the new journaling process for Santa’s employees and how they keep their individual work logs. Part 2 was a side step to show how to better manage Santa’s code by using the new Zef module repository. Part 3 was another side step because Santa was running out of time.
Day 21 – Santa Claus is Rakuing Along
Santa was tired. He wanted to brag about his new reporting and analysis tools as he had planned, but he knew he had to rest up for his big day coming up soon (sorry, my friend Juan Merelo, for the quick shift!).
Day 14 – Santa Claus is Rakuing Along
Santa just heard that Rakoons using best practices are being urged to start putting their modules into the Raku-only module repository called Zef. He wanted to do that soon, since his philosophy is to be a good example of always trying to do the right thing, and helping guide his IT department in the direction of Zef is certainly the right thing to do according to the experts on IRC #raku.
Day 5 – Santa Claus is Rakuing Along
Santa’s operations were much improved year-over-year since his IT crew adopted Raku as their go-to programming language (see the articles from Raku Advent 2020). In addition, he and his non-techie elves found the language so easy for beginners to use, he decided to see if he could use it for managing the many task reports and other documents needed by individuals as well as managers.
Day 11: Santa Claus TWEAKs with a Class
Prologue Santa [1][2] was browsing the eTrade magazines on his iPad one morning and came across an article referenced in the latest O’Reilly Programming Newsletter about how ancient COBOL is the programming language still used for the bulk of the world’s business software. He had been aware of that since his huge operations with millionsContinue reading “Day 11: Santa Claus TWEAKs with a Class”
Day 23 – A Raku Advent Helper
Introduction I have been writing Raku Advent articles annually since 2016, and it’s always been a struggle for me to get a reliable transformation of my source file into the Raku Advent WordPress (WP) website without something getting changed by WP. Then, the menus are terrible and editing can be troublesome. In this article IContinue reading “Day 23 – A Raku Advent Helper”
Day 20 – Raku from Perl: Transforming Old Perl Code (Part 2)
Spoiler Alert! When I started this two-part post, I was blissfully unaware of a similar topic in the Raku community; however, I was awakened to that fact when I first read Elizabeth Mattijsen’s Raku Weekly Blog on Monday, 9 Dec, and saw that the famous Perl and Raku expert, Jeff Goff, had written a multi-partContinue reading “Day 20 – Raku from Perl: Transforming Old Perl Code (Part 2)”
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