18 days ago
Jeremy Zawodny : protobuf-perlxs - Google Code - protobuf-perlxs - Google Code: it sounds fast too
joshua : protobuf-perlxs - Google Code - protocol buffers for perl
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2 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Redhat perl. What a tragedy. - Redhat perl. What a tragedy.: yikes... this is really bad
nelson : RedHat Perl broken - Well, more broken than Perl elsewhere
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2 month ago
joshua : Beast of the Number: Parsing the Feral Phone - parsing phone numbers
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5 month ago
deusx : Chirpy! - A Free Quote Manager - "Chirpy! is an Open Source online quote management system. It allows you to keep a database of quotes by friends and foes. It is most useful for quotes collected on IRC channels."
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6 month ago
philgyford : Kbinstuff -perl, Unicode/utf8, CGI.pm, apache, mod_perl and MySQL - My Perl scripts were never fetching UTF8 strings from a UTF8 database. Much cursing later, I found this reference to doing $dbh->("mysql_enable_utf8") = 1. Seems to work. Finally. Grr.
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7 month ago
philgyford : Journal of ziggy (25) - Using perl to extract ID3 data from the iTunes Music Library XML file and then update the relevant MP3s with the correct data.
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10 month ago
Linkorama : IBM Poopheads say LAMP Users Need to "grow up" - The trick isn't to make PHP more complex, it's to make the enterprise less complex. You need to equate complex requirements with complex systems less and start asking "do we really need this?" more.
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11 month ago
Simon Willison : Perl on Rails - Why the BBC Fails at the Internet - Perl on Rails—Why the BBC Fails at the Internet. Depressing explanation of how the BBC’s decision to outsource its technical infrastructure to Siemens has resulted in severe technology limitations, including the need for everything to run on Perl 5.
philgyford : Perl on Rails - Why the BBC Fails at the Internet | I Am Seb - The only surprising thing about this was that so many people were surprised. A lot of BBC employees' energies are spent trying to circumvent Siemens, from desktop support to website hosting.
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11 month ago
deusx : How to Fix CGI - majordojo - "the goal of mod_perlite is to run single Perl scripts in the Apache process space, caching Perl bytecode as it goes, but flushing script memory after every request. Installation is also incredibly simple, and 100% analogous to PHP installation."
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12 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : hpsetdisp.pl - hpsetdisp.pl: "Connects to a JetDirect equipped HP printer and uses HP's control language to set the ready message on the LCD display." Heh. I did this years ago at Yahoo too.
Rod Begbie : hpsetdisp.pl - An old hack, rediscovered: Change the "00 READY" message on HP printers. I used variants of this at uni ("00 RAEDY" and "PAPER UPSIDE DOWN" were favourites of mine), and at AnagramOfPanties (in those glorious bubble days, I ran a script which displayed t #
deusx : hpsetdisp.pl (INSERT COIN) - "Connects to a JetDirect equipped HP printer and uses HP's control language to set the ready message on the LCD display. Takes an IP address and message on the command line. My favorite message is "INSERT COIN"."
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12 month ago
Matthew M. Boedicker : perl script to change the ready message on an HP printer - could you scroll an RSS feed? (via programming.reddit) [via]
deusx : Miscellany: INSERT COIN - "This little perl program allows you to set the "Ready Message" on HP printers to whatever you'd like."
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deusx : Infotropism – There’s a new Perl blog in town - "Enter Perl Buzz, a new blog set up by Andy Lester and myself. I think of Perl Buzz as “the shiny, happy Perl blog”, and I’m not ashamed to pimp it out with every web 2.0 gimcrack and widget we can find."
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15 month ago
wearehugh : Delete Empty Directories
factoryjoe : Delete Empty Directories - It is a very simple program will remove empty directories (folders) from filesystem. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: perl, script, command line, subdirectories
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17 month ago
joshua : DBD::Gofer - A stateless-proxy driver for communicating with a remote DBI - interesting way to distribute db connections
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17 month ago
joshua : Coding Horror: Your Favorite Programming Quote - on programming quotes; i especially like the larry wall one
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18 month ago
wearehugh : Daring Fireball: Google Lucky Search Scripts for ThisService
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19 month ago
deusx : Learning Perl the Hard Way - "In presenting Perl features, I tried to find examples that are interesting in their own right, and that encourage the reader to explore Perl's features."
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43folders : Eddie Codel photo - [computer books on the street] - I'm pretty sure the SF neighborhood where Eddie lives now runs on exclusively Rails.
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19 month ago
nelson : Regexp summary - comparing the magic regex of grep, egrep, emacs, perl, python, tcl
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19 month ago
nelson : Perlbal - Yet more amazing brad fitzpatrick software; a simple HTTP reverse proxy load balancer
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20 month ago
deusx : lgf: The Clueless Leading the Blind - "Daily Kos...using Ruby on Rails instead of mod_perl. Oh brother." Wow. And PHP/Zend ridiculed because Jews are involved. Creepy nutters.
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Linkorama : Wiki Jobs - Socialtext is hiring several positions, locations vary, mileage doesn't so much
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25 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo Erotica Editor Fired for Excessive Programming - Yahoo Erotica Editor Fired for Excessive Programming: "I'd be pounding out some hot code and then the boss would come by and I'd have to quickly switch to Jenna Jameson taking it from behind. I needed quick fingers, but I wasn't quick eno
deusx : BBspot - Yahoo Erotica Editor Fired for Excessive Programming - "if you want to check on the latest kink on regsex.com, for example, and forget the 's', you end up at regex.com, and banner-ads for all sorts of geeky stuff jump right into your face -- I mean, what's a young dude supposed to do?"
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