Recently there were two discussions on editors/IDEs for Perl on two mailing lists I'm subscribed to: one on the Perl XML mailing list and one on the Catalyst mailing list.

They are interesting and informative and not too flamatory. In one post someone posted a link to texteditors.org, which is a wiki dedicated to text editors, which seems nice as well. I already added several Emacs jokes.

After I woke up today, I decided to make myself a daily schedule. So I copied my last daily schedule (back from 8-August) and updated. One of the items there read - "htdig Mandriva bug." (that my friend reported and I confirmed). Since it was very old, I decided to finally get to investigate it.

Searching for "htdig" on the Mandriva bug tracker yielded this bug report, which was still open, and I could confirm the bug still existed by installing htdig and running it. After I downloaded the source RPM and looked at it and the htdig site, I saw that the version in the source RPM was out of date (3.2.0b2-something while 3.2.0b5 has already been released). So I updated it, and tried to recompile. It took several "rpm -bb" iterations to get the RPMs to build: I had to remove out of date patches, add one of my own to fix a compilation bug, and mess up with the installed files list. Eventualy it got built and I installed the modified package, and tried to run it again. This time the bug was not reproduced.

I uploaded the updated package only in the evening and posted a link in the bug report. Between that, I got my aggregated RSS feed to work again. Now I've built the new kernel and am preparing to install it. There goes my 8 days uptime...

P.S.: if you want to get an audio feedback once a long compilation ends, you can do something like: make bzImage modules ; mplayer -ao arts /home/shlomi/Music/mp3s/"Jenna Drey - Why Should I Believe You (Rock Version ).mp3" . Substitute "make bzImage modules" with the compilation command, "-ao arts" with your favourite "mplayer" params", and the Jenna Drey song with a media file you'd like to hear.