Notes, How Tos, Things To Remember, Things I'll soon forget

I like to build my own version of vim on systems. This usually avoids any problems later when I want to add something new in to it or upgrade to a newer version. In the past older versions of OS X (10.4 and 10.3 ) I could just build vim straight but on 10.5 I had a strange issue of it starting up X11 when I ran it in my terminal window. It seems that either vim or OS X became smarter when it came to talking between process using X Windows communication protocol. (XSMP) Just adding a --without-x to the configure statement didn't help. It required disabling the XSMP protocol. Here is the configure line: ./configure --without-x --disable-xsmp Much better, now I just need to figure out the best terminal font for my 24" iMac. :)

Often SOAP::Lite will try to autotype a parameter in a request and it does it wrongly (or correctly) causing the SOAP server to fail badly (for so many reasons). SOAP::Lite provides three ways to disable this typing. Two of the ways work at the client object level and the other does it at the SOAP::Data object level. Client Level The following options disable autotyping for all data items in a request: autotype method. After creating a SOAP::Lite client you can disable autotyping by $soapclient->autotype(0) . Example: my $soap = SOAP::Lite->uri($xmlns)->proxy($proxy) ->on_action( sub {"$action?type=$reqname&ns=$xmlns"} ); $soap->autotype(0); Overriding the typelookup method. You can override the typelookup to run undef/false/etc. Example: sub typelookup { return undef; } Data object SOAP::Data object provide a type method. This allows manually typing of the object. When this is set to an empty string no type is set nor is it autotyped by serializer. No...