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Sometimes I wonder why I have never looked into certain Perl modules before. That was the case with, for example, Class::DBI and Template (Toolkit). Today I "discovered" another one of those: Data::TreeDumper by Khemir Nadim ibn Hamouda.

I've been a fan of the Data::Dumper module for a while, but Data::TreeDumper can be so much nicer in certain situations. Compare the output of these two data structures and see why I like it:

Data::Dumper

$VAR1 = {
          'etag' => 'b',
          '__RULE__' => 'test',
          'part(s)' => [
                         [
                           'part',
                           '1'
                         ],
                         [
                           'part',
                           [
                             'content',
                             'data '
                           ]
                         ]
                       ],
          'stag' => 'b'
        };

Data::TreeDumper

|- __RULE__ = test  [S1]
|- etag = b  [S2]
|- part(s)  [A3]
|  |- 0  [A4]
|  |  |- 0 = part  [S5]
|  |  `- 1 = 1  [S6]
|  `- 1  [A7]
|     |- 0 = part  [S8]
|     `- 1  [A9]
|        |- 0 = content  [S10]
|        `- 1 = data   [S11]
`- stag = b  [S12]

Now isn't that layout easier on the eyes, or what? Good job, Nadim!

Joffie pointed keyhole out to me yesterday and after looking at it, I must say I'm impressed.

Keyhole offers "The Ultimate Interface to the Planet", or to put it in other words: pretty pictures ;) The software (free trial version) allows you to fly through space towards your home (maybe) and visit nice spots on the face of the earth.

The website claims to be "powered by Google" (might as well be the next evil empire ;) but I don't really see any use for Google in it yet... Anyways, this is just fun and interesting :)

(The software is MS Windows only ...)