[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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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

I want to write an app that will let me catalog all my cds, MP3s, DVDs, and books. It will support the CueCat scanner to make for easy entry of items (I won’t assume that all people have their CueCat hacked, as I do). It will be in perl of course because I just can’t seem to get anything written in Java in a timely manner as it is such a PITA about everything. I found a few abandoned projects on SourceForge that either never got past the planning stage, or never got much useful code written.

It started out as just something to catalog MP3s. It would read the ID3 tags (if there were any) and use that data to populate the db entry or supplement data found on FreeDB.org. A perl/tk app was going to run on any desktop/laptop with MP3s but no
internet access, which would grab as much data as possible about the mp3s and dump the output to a flatfile. A second perl/tk app would send that output file to a cgi/webapp that would get the data into the db after looking up whatever it needed on FreeDB.

It will be stored in a mysql db and have a web interface for searching and adding new data.