Perlrun explained!

One more quick thing. I was looking for a good explaination of the perl command-line switches and I found this.

Doc converters

Just a little post, mostly for myself. In reading this post about converting LaTeX to plain text I found a couple cool projects that I need to check out, opendetex for converting LaTeX to txt and Pandoc to convert seemingly anything to anything.

Explaining Perl Regexes

If you need to figure out what a certain regex is doing you can use YAPE::Regex::Explain but even more convenient is this web interface.

Open source web meetings

Some time ago I was trying to TA via an open source web meeting platform. At the time I was considering dimdim and openmeetings.

While I haven't followed up in a long time, I just got an email that dimdim is being bought and the open source platform is being discontinued (actually it seems that it was abandoned not long after I was looking at it anyway).

Just to update though, it seems that openmeetings is going strong and a poster added a new project to my open source horizon big blue button. I will keep that in mind for the next time I get the web interaction bug, perhaps for my dissertation.