AssFace's Journal: Silly me, looking for IDEs

I had read something about Xcode not being Perl friendly and had just assumed that it wasn't going to do Perl at all.

I tried to install XEmacs, had issues. Komodo - my IDE of choice for Perl on Windows - isn't out of Mac OS X yet. I installed Wing IDE and it is awful. I tried Mi and it wasn't too good either. I installed Perlidex which was absolutely worthless and they want money for that worthlessness.

Finally I found something on MacNN that said XCode would do Perl syntax highlighting. Sure enough, it does.
It won't let you debug it and it won't do autocomplete on it, but it does syntax hilighting and the interface recognizes emacs style key bindings from what I can see.

I started poking around in XCode some more and it has great documentation and looks like it will be a good thing to work with for developing projects for the Mac.

I have been playing a lot of games of Scrabble using Quixotic - an open source program. It has a few bugs in it that I think I might try to fix and submit as my way of learning how to use XCode to program for the Mac.
The icon for that for some reason has changed away from what it should be and is now the same as the HD icon.
Haven't tried restarting to see if that would fix it.

Just today (maybe last night) I noticed that the battery has a button right on it that when pressed, it shows via little green LEDs how full the battery is.

I updated to the new Poisoned client and its sidebar search menu thing is broken now - if you click on it, it repositions all weird.

My typing doesn't show up as quickly in here as it did before - I don't know if it is because I have too much going on, or if some setting in here has changed... of course now that I just typed that, it seems to be fine again.

The speakers on this laptop aren't fantastic, but I haven't tried out headphones on it yet or any output to anything else. Haven't watched a DVD on it yet either - but I did watch a QuickTime video and was very impressed with the quality (likely depends on the source of the QT I would guess).

I am going to try to get up tomorrow morning and meet up with some other runners to run 10 miles. I'm not looking forward to it - not the distance, but the fact that it is in the morning - I usually don't get up before noon on the weekends.