PERL 5.10 native to UBUNTU 10.4

I finally figured out the the Logo of Active Perl is a Lizard of some sort, My first look at it made me think it was set of eyes that look funny. Anyway...

How awesome is this?!

An hour ago in our Web Development Course we've been assigned to do a simple ticTacToe program. Being in third year, it sounds familiar and simple to do, the challenge presented itself when the instruction was to develop it using PERL (practical extraction & report language).

We were still at LAB2 when the instruction was given and since the whole session was devoted to the completion of the activity and I forgot to bring my laptop with me, I just powerslacked through the session and surfed the interweb for installation procedures of PERL on UBUNTU platforms.

Luckily I found some tips, and even went to search for codes that would refresh the console so as to create the illusion the the tacTacToe lines are fixed in place when the whole program runs.

Adding to the luck is the comment coming from a friend of mine that PERL is automatically installed in UBUNTU LTS.

When I checked, it really was there at usr/bin/perl.exe. Joy! Now I know what my shebang line would look like.,.,

I think the whole of this coming night would be devoted to the completion of the exercise. Here's to hours of fun programming. Cheers!

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The Nexus 10

Recently I've been into exploring free desktop "docks" in the interweb. Docks are tools that allow easy navigation about the Desktop environment. With it, one could customize shortcuts for specific executables to be run and keep icons organized and neat, appearing in specific areas of the desktop to the users fancy.

Popular among my IT peers (we're still students) is the mac dock which for us is fun and elating to use since with it we could make our laptops (compaqs and dells) seem like that of an actual macintosh.

Of course as the dissident student that I am, I chose to escape the stereotype and research some more on other docks that could make my simple compaq laptop equal that of the desktop appearance of the macs.

And i found, THE WINSTEP NEXUS DOCK 10.4.

Since I resent having copyright infringement complaints I'll provide some images later. But googling it up would be great. The animations are one thing, elegant yet simple. The preloaded designs are cool, in the sense that I observe that they blend pleasantly with the desktop designs that I choose, no matter how random they may be. The setup provides the user with a high sense of control. The setup window itself is customizable, Cheers!

Looking forward to finding more fantastic docks compatible with windows seven.

Oh, i almost forgot, NEXUS IS FREE TO DOWNLOAD.,.,.,so grab a copy now.,.,

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