a twitter script for irssi | Twirssi
may 2009 by blech
Not quite what I'd want (that's a bot that feeds an IRC channel, so everyone can see what's going on) but it's not at all bad either. I'm running it for a while to see how it goes.
twitter
perl
irc
irssi
via:simonwistow
may 2009 by blech
aws - simple access to Amazon EC2 and S3 | timkay.com
april 2009 by blech
A pure Perl script to manipulate EC2 and S3. Saves having to install all that Java nonsense.
amazon
ec2
perl
script
work
via:mattb
april 2009 by blech
Security Update might break Perl | bulknews.typepad.com
february 2009 by blech
The Security Update released by Apple yesterday, 2009-001, clobbers part of the core IO module. If you've ever upgraded it, you'll need to fetch it manually and reinstall.
perl
macosx
security
cpan
via:obra
february 2009 by blech
Bot::BasicBot - examples - namer.pl | search.cpan.org
january 2009 by blech
I can't live on an IRC channel without a bot to read out URL titles these days. How handy, then, that this is already written for me.
perl
irc
bot
html
url
utility
jerakeen
january 2009 by blech
DS_Store Format | search.cpan.org
december 2008 by blech
Documentation of the various settings for Finder window settings stored in .DS_Store. This might be useful if I ever start itching to programatically fix up various window issues.
mac
finder
ftff
perl
cpan
code
via:siracusa
december 2008 by blech
Peer to peer version control systems | Vox
june 2008 by blech
After reading about *jour and the Ruby lovein, I finally thought this morning "hm, why didn't someone do that with SVK back at Fotango?" Leon Brocard remembers better than I do, since it turns out CLKao did. (Admittedly *jour goes further.)
versioncontrol
svk
svn
bonjour
perl
history
june 2008 by blech
Interview with Aaron Hillegass | InformIT
may 2008 by blech
"Scott Stevenson interviews Aaron Hillegass about the new edition of Aaron's book, programmers' fear of the NIB file, and why there aren't more Macs in corporate America." Random Perl praise in there, too.
apple
cocoa
development
perl
via:pauldwaite
may 2008 by blech
Andy Armstrong - WWW-TarPipe | search.cpan.org
may 2008 by blech
The obligatory Perl module for TarPipe.
development
software
api
web
images
tarpipe
perl
may 2008 by blech
we do it for the war stories, right? | this is aaronland
april 2008 by blech
"you can use (drum solo, please) Flickr::Upload::FireEagle to not only geotag your photos but, in turn, use your photos to update FireEagle itself"
flickr
api
dopplr
fireeagle
location
geowanking
photography
mobile
perl
april 2008 by blech
Perl Resource Kit - Utilities Guide | O'Reilly
march 2008 by blech
From the "Whatever Happened To" section, the first (of four) chapters on JPL, the Java-Perl bridge, from the Perl Utilities Guide book. Ten years ago now. Crumbs.
perl
java
software
book
documentation
history
march 2008 by blech
#33881: Additional accessors needed | rt.cpan.org
march 2008 by blech
My patch to XML::Feed's Atom accessors.
perl
xml
bug
march 2008 by blech
#29684: Empty summary added on convert() | rt.cpan.org
march 2008 by blech
I need to apply this patch to my local XML::Feed, after I've done a similar patch/test job on the changes I made to get a valid Atom feed out of the module.
perl
xml
atom
feeds
code
bug
patch
march 2008 by blech
Make test fails at the 29th of Feb | rt.cpan.org
february 2008 by blech
My good deed for the day: I fixed the test failure in DateTime that only occurs once every four years. Well, I think I did. Hopefully it'll be useful to someone, anyway.
perl
calendar
bug
blogcomment
february 2008 by blech
Perl on Rails | BBC Radio Labs
december 2007 by blech
Interesting. I can see their reasons and I'd love to see the code but this is going to go down badly with the Rails and Perl crowds, I reckon.
bbc
blog
development
framework
perl
rubyonrails
december 2007 by blech
displaying EXIF statistics and searching - Flickr
july 2007 by blech
Dario Taraborelli's UI for searching EXIF data. However, it's not public. I've hijacked his comments thread to mention my unfinished/unpublised EXIF machine tag script. I really should do something with it, but if I don't, at least it's sort of out there
flickr
exif
rdf
machinetag
php
perl
july 2007 by blech
Journal of acme - Dynamic Languages
july 2007 by blech
On why there's no Perl compiler down to dynamic runtimes, and comparing to the state of Cocoa bridges.
perl
cocoa
camelbones
blogcomment
july 2007 by blech
DVD Spanner
july 2007 by blech
Matt Sergeant's CamelBones app for burning a big folder to a selection of DVDs. Bound to be less painful than doing the same thing with iPhoto (although you don't get to keep the metadata, hm). Bit of a shame about the metal, though.
camelbones
perl
osx
software
backup
july 2007 by blech
CamelBones: "first class citizen"? - nntp.perl.org
may 2007 by blech
Interesing post from Sherm Pendley on the Perl/Cocoa bridge CamelBones, Apple, the .scriptingbridge project (in 10.5), and why PyObjC "won".
development
perl
python
macosx
cocoa
bridge
may 2007 by blech
What's new in Perl 5.10? » SlideShare
april 2007 by blech
Leon's presentation on the new stable Perl, due this year
perl
presentation
language
slides
april 2007 by blech
How we build Vox » SlideShare
april 2007 by blech
Interesting presentation. I didn't realise Catalyst + Data::ObjectDriver gave you DB partitioning; once again Perl is dull but useful.
perl
presentation
architecture
framework
development
vox
yapcasia2007
via:simonwistow
april 2007 by blech
downlode.org > Perl > Splatter
april 2007 by blech
"Splatter is a small Perl application that allows you to simultaneously update accounts on Twitter and LiveJournal." A hack, and not useful to me, but I thought I'd give it some link love.
perl
twitter
livejournal
hack
via:candacep
april 2007 by blech
torgo_x: Perl and LWP online
march 2007 by blech
The full text of the (very good) O'Reilly book is now available online. Legally.
perl
book
march 2007 by blech
brian d foy's journal: "five things I hate about you"
march 2007 by blech
Thoughts on being able to criticise a language and what it means as a guide to how good a developer is
perl
language
development
march 2007 by blech
use.perl.org - petdance's journal - Top 10 reasons to use ack
december 2006 by blech
ack is a grep enhancement for code, and one that I should really install everywhere and get into the hang of using, because it looks very useful
perl
unix
tools
development
grep
december 2006 by blech
Ben Hammersley: Atom API in Movable Type
november 2006 by blech
His simple example is like the one I knocked up for Vox; the one that didn't work.
api
atom
moveabletype
perl
xml
november 2006 by blech
ack - grep-like text finder for large trees of text - search.cpan.org
august 2006 by blech
Looks interesting and useful and all that.
development
tools
perl
august 2006 by blech
Macromates SVN: /trunk/Bundles/Template Toolkit.tmbundle
may 2006 by blech
Hmm. Wonder how well this works.
textmate
editor
macosx
template-toolkit
perl
development
may 2006 by blech
Perlmonks: Cool symlink hack
may 2006 by blech
Nice way of storing very small configuration options, perhaps
perl
configuration
symlink
hacks
via:stig
may 2006 by blech
O'Reilly Radar > Database War Stories #2: bloglines and memeorandum
april 2006 by blech
Do you really need a database? Is Web 2.0 another iteration of "worse is better"? And when did I turn into a YAML advocate anyway?
database
persistence
perl
blogcomment
april 2006 by blech
encoding::warnings - Warn on implicit encoding conversions - search.cpan.org
april 2006 by blech
Looks like it'd be useful
perl
unicode
development
sanity
via:jerakeen
april 2006 by blech
Net::FS::Flickr - store and retrieve files on Flickr - search.cpan.org
april 2006 by blech
Does what it says in the description- uses Flickr as a network filesystem.
flickr
perl
filesystem
api
april 2006 by blech
nntp.perl.org - perl.macosx (9702) - Perl modules and Universal Binary
march 2006 by blech
If I'd bothered to keep up with the Joneses I might be able to do that. Mind you, I might be able to get hold of the README and do it anyway.
perl
osx
intel
development
march 2006 by blech
Unicode-CheckUTF8-1.01
december 2005 by blech
What does this do that decode_utf8 doesn't? And why is it so badly documented?
perl
unicode
december 2005 by blech
search.cpan.org: Text::vFile::asData - parse vFile formatted files into data structures
march 2005 by blech
There are many Perl .ics parsers, but I've been persuaded this one doesn't suck
perl
ics
ical
cpan
richardc
march 2005 by blech
Unicode-processing issues in Perl and how to cope with it
february 2005 by blech
... in utterly the wrong way. Great.
perl
unicode
wrong
february 2005 by blech
search.cpan.org: DBD::iPod - Connect to an iPod via DBI
january 2005 by blech
I hope this does what it says on the tin, but I'd prefer DBD::iTunes
mac
perl
database
development
january 2005 by blech
search.cpan.org: MP4::Info - Fetch info from MPEG-4 files (.mp4, .m4a, .m4p)
august 2004 by blech
AAC metadata reader in Perl, finally.
id3
music
perl
august 2004 by blech
Google asks for WWW::Search Module removal
july 2004 by blech
Mind you, people have demanded screenscraping modules be removed from CPAN too
development
google
perl
july 2004 by blech
WWW::Map::UK::Streetmap - A tale of woe
july 2004 by blech
Mind you, people have demanded screenscraping modules be removed from CPAN too
geowanking
london
perl
july 2004 by blech
Definitely NOT the Odeon Website, because this one is accessible
july 2004 by blech
Complete with CPAN module, if you feel like running your own copy, or something
development
film
perl
web
july 2004 by blech
Using Address Book from mutt
april 2004 by blech
A little Perl script to do the job. Watch for the anti-spam substitutions
email
mac
macosx
perl
april 2004 by blech
search.cpan.org: killperl - Utility to kill all perl programs
april 2004 by blech
Just so I can say "faster pussycat, kill kill!"
perl
april 2004 by blech
Wired bots
april 2004 by blech
Nicely presented tutorial, but could do with being a proper CPAN module, not loads of .pl files
bots
im
perl
april 2004 by blech
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