[the] Code Girl (aka UnrulyGrrl)

• IO::Interface::Simple - Perl extension for access to network card configuration info
  IO::Interface::Simple allows you to interrogate and change network interfaces.
  (tags: perl)
• XML::TinyXML - Little and efficient Perl module to manage xml data
  Since in some environments it could be desirable to avoid installing Expat, XmlParser and blahblahblah , needed by most XML-related perl modules,. my main scope was to obtain a fast xml library usable from perl (so with a powerful interface) but without t
  (tags: xml perl)
• AnyEvent::Impl::Perl - Pure-Perl event loop and AnyEvent adaptor for itself
  Allows you to do event looping WITHOUT NEEDING POE! Hooray!
  (tags: perl)
• IPC::System::Simple - Run commands simply, with detailed diagnostics
  Exceptions on failure, Easy access to exit status,
  Consistent interfaces
  (tags: perl)
• 25 Excellent Ajax Techniques and Examples
  (tags: ajax)
• Awesome Things That Firefox’s Web Developer Extension Can Do
  (tags: webdev firefox)

• Unix::Lsof - Wrapper to the Unix lsof utility
  This module is a wrapper around the Unix lsof utility (written by Victor A.Abell, Copyright Purdue University), which lists open files as well as information about the files and processes opening them. Unix::Lsof uses the lsof binary, so you need to have
  (tags: linux perl)
• psmon - Process Table Monitoring Script
  This script monitors the process table using Proc::ProcessTable, and will respawn or kill processes based on a set of rules defined in an Apache style configuration file.

  Processes will be respawned if a spawn command is defined for a process, and no o

  (tags: perl linux utilities)

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• WWW::Google::API::Base - Perl client to the Google Base API
  WWW::Google::API::Base - Perl client to the Google Base API
  (tags: api perl google)

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All the coding that I do at work is web-based, so I looked for extensions to Firefox that would help me debug/troubleshoot.
Here’s what I found, that I cannot live without:

• Firebug - fantastic for troubleshooting , css, and XMLHTTPRequest… including stack traces; also contains an inspecter and some other things. Bonus: you can add javascript code for debugging (that you wont later have to remove or comment out) by using

  console.debug

  or console.info and a few other error levels. The XMLHTTPRequest debug output alone is worth its weight in gold (i’ve been doing a log Ajax-type stuff lately so it has come in really handy)

• Web Developer toolbar - Contains a boatload of useful things. My favorites: showing all class/id details, displaying element information as you move around a page, and ‘view source -> generated source’ (YES, you can see the source of a page that was dynamically generated without resubmitting the form (as the default ‘view source’ requires)
• Live HTTP Headers - shows you HTTP headers being sent and received real time. You can filter which sites you care about or exclude things like images. Also shows you form-related POST and GET (both requests and responses). Great for finding out what hitting Submit actually sent
• Find in Statusbar - not just for developers but anyone who wants to conserve precious screen real estate. adds a small search text box to the status bar instead of popping up a new section above the statusbar….also dont have to worry about accidentally making it pop up by certain key combinations.

Add this to your .bashrc:

function pmver () { perl -M$1 -le "print $1->VERSION"; }

pmver $module
ex:

root@linuxwins:~/.cpan/build# pmver IO::Tty
1.05

This is actually part of Hack #4 of “Perl Hacks”

Catalyst is an up-n-coming Model-View-Controller framework written in Perl.

Someone else besides me got tired of all the dependencies and therefore painful installation of Catalyst, and was nice enough to create a “uncompress and run” version of Catalyst. It’s available here

I tried it out yesterday, and was up and running in under 5 minutes.

For all you perl programmers who do web-based apps, you should definitely give Catalyst a look

Note to self: if your perl CGI script ever returns what looks like raw HTML in your browser, check for print statements that
dont print html. ALL DAY I looked for the bug, luckily another team member found it for me. It was in a totally different method
from the one that generates the HTML, and therefore ended up getting sent just before the header, screwing up everything.

I also learned today that you can use

wget -d

to see all the headers being returned.

With my new script [perl], you can run full backups as often as you wish.

Backups are stored in dated dirs (ex: m500_backup.20040707-1610)

Requires: Perl and pilot-link