Exciting news! My my beta site is live on the interwebs now. You can even read this article on beta.charlieharvey.org.uk. I decided to launch an incomplete version with bits missing and imcomplete in the hope of getting some feedback from the internets (i.e. you ;-) ). _H_Changing webhosts_ …

Ages ago I made a little form that made it easier to get your twitter feed as an RSS. It just called the Twitter API and it was slightly useful for a few people, which was great. However, Twitter killed their old API and broke various things I’d made that pulled RSS feeds of user streams. …

I was just talking to my colleague Pete about how useful Google’s Did you mean? feature is as a spell checker. It comes up with much better suggestions than other systems. So here is a quick lunchtime hack that uses the little-known Lynx browser -dump command and some Perl to make a comma …

Just a quick update today. I’ve got round to putting the charlieharvey.org.uk Dancer code up on gitorious now, for anyone who is interested to nose about. Obviously I have made sure that config files are not present so it will no work as it is. And let’s face it the code is really onl …

This week in my site redesign video series I’ve been playing with the Twitter bootstrap carousel, working on the nav tree and taking advantage of Dancer’s dispatch to build a set of popular pages reports with APIs ad feeds. …

I am blogging about redeveloping this site. A quick update on the comments subsystem and using the very cool mutable serializer in Dancer. Then I talk about some of the site objectives. I get cut off when saying the final objective which is just to make the site responsive. I guess I should add t …

I am blogging about redeveloping this site. Today’s installment is a bit broken. As it turns out screenr cuts you off after 5 minutes! And I am a bit long winded. I delve a bit more into Dancer, the minimalist Perl web framework and talk a bit about DBIX::Class. Unfortunately screenr broke …

I am planning to blog the process of redesigning and redeveloping this site. This is the first installment of the process. This week I am just focussing on how the site looks, and developing static blocks which can be included everywhere in the site. I’ve been using Twitter’s bootstrap …

This site is almost 10 years old believe it or not. Which is a lifetime in web years. The frontend mostly runs of a pile of cgi scripts and HTML::Template files that have grown organically over the years. The backend is developed using the Catalyst framework. So, I’ve decided that it …

Twitter recently got rid of the ability to get search results as an RSS as part of their API update of 11 June 2013.

I found those feeds rather useful, so I made a little screen scraper that reimplements the functionality without needing to auth against their API (it just pulls the re …

weather_for.pl is a simple commandline tool to get the weather for your town or city. It uses the OpenWeatherMap API to fetch the weather. You give it a city name and an optional longitude/latitide pair (to he …

In this mini-series I look at building a minimally functional XML parser. Last time I used Haskell’s Parsec library. This time use Perl and the Regexp::Grammars to build an analogous XML parser.Cartoon from xkcd I recently attended Damian Conway’s underst …

One of the gotchas with Riseup.net’s crabgrass install is that it is very much a pull technology. You have to remember to check your Crabgrass. I am forgetful sometimes. So I made a script called crab2mail to pull your crabgrass inbox into your email …

This is hosted on Gitorious now. I thought I would give gitorious a whirl anyhow, so you can find the latest version of feed2diasp over there.

I've just got myself set up on …

Back in the old days of the internet, googling for Bullshit used to bring up dack.com's web economy Bullshit generator.

Bullshitr came along a few years later to upd …

My colleague Brian, of New Internationalist Australia mentioned a tool he uses to get keyword suggestions for adwords and SEO purposes. So, I thought I'd have a crack at making a perl version. This is that. Its called The Suggester. Cunning name, huh?

Muffet is a web spider written in Perl and Moose that I've put up on github, under GPL.

The problem that I was trying to solve was to spider …

TwitterHaiku lets you find a haiku-like tweet. That is to say that it finds 17 syllable tweets from the Twitter search API …

A little perl script to send you a daily agenda email from your chandler hub account. Discussed in depth on the page Getting Chandler Hub to send a daily agenda by email. …

Well, after a couple of hours faffing with perl I've got a valid looking RSS feed. This will let you stay in touch with what I'm ranting, writing and coding using a 'news reader' program or device. Or e …