Tag Archives: perl
JavaScript.pm on OSX
Just a quick note… I was looking at RT#48699 when I noticed that MacPorts didn’t have JavaScript.pm in it’s collection. I needed to install it by hand. Unfortunately, the latest version (1.12) doesn’t install cleanly. So I’ve forked it and … Continue reading
Mixed Character Encodings
I’ve been given a MySQL dump file at work. It’s got problems — Windows-1252 and UTF-8 characters are mixed in. Bleargh. How can we clean it up to be all UTF-8? Perl to the rescue. use Encode qw( encode decode … Continue reading
mod_perl 1 blows chunks
At $WORK, I’m looking at a web service built on mod_perl 1 / Apache 1. The service takes XML as input and returns XML as output. So far, so good. Unfortunately, whilst I was testing with curl, I found something … Continue reading
for() $DEITY's sake, why?
I used to think I had a reasonable grasp of Perl. Yesterday, I realised I didn’t even understand a basic foreach loop. my $val; my @values = qw( a b c ); foreach $val (@values) { print $val, “\n”; } … Continue reading
London Perl Workshop 2006
Yesterday was the London Perl Workshop, a one-day, two-track conference put together by the London Perl Mongers (in particular, muttley and Greg). I arrived early (mostly due to my lack of faith in train times), so got to put up … Continue reading
XML::Genx 0.22
I’ve released XML::Genx 0.22. There are no functional changes, just a couple of minor bugfixes in order to ensure that it works on Windows correctly. For some time now, I’d been trying to get XS modules compiling on Windows correctly … Continue reading
subatom 0.11
Yet another new version, subatom 0.11 again prompted by Hans F. Nordhaug. The only change this time is to add a feed_title option to the config file, so you can specify the title for the feed as a whole. Now, … Continue reading
subatom 0.10
I’ve made another release of subatom. This contains a number of fixes for bugs that I managed to put into the 0.09 release (as well as a couple of minor features). This has really left me with a very nagging … Continue reading
subatom 0.09
I’ve released a new version of my tool subatom. If you haven’t seen it, it produces atom feeds for subversion commit messages. It’s pretty handy for monitoring activity in a subversion repository and it doesn’t need access to the server. … Continue reading
gdb ruby $pid
gdb is my “tool of last resort”. When all other online diagnostics have failed, I know enough gdb to pull out a C level stack trace. % gdb $SHELL $$ GNU gdb 6.3.50-20050815 (Apple version gdb-477) (Sun Apr 30 20:06:22 … Continue reading