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FLOSS UK Regular Expressions Tutorial with Damian Conway
I’ve just returned from a fantastic Understanding Regular Expressions tutorial given by Damian Conway for FLOSS UK (formerly the UK UNIX Users Group). Damian is a bit of a legend in the Perl community having won the Larry Wall award 3 times, written Perl Best Practices and spent quite a few …
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Perl character encoding and UTF-8 in brief
Character encoding. Its enough to make grown people break down and weep bitter tears of rage. Perl provides rather good UTF-8 support, and there are some excellent tutorials out there. So, my contribution is more of a checklist and cookbook than a technical explanation._H_UTF-8 In your source …
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Making SVG fractals with perl
I’ve just returned from visiting nor in Rotterdam. It being her birthday, we went to the pub with some of the lovely folks from her course, and the talk turned to SVG and if there was anything interesting you could do with it. I thought that maybe you could do something with fractals. In …
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Having SOAP::Lite or LWP::UserAgent skip SSL certificate verification
Wow. This was a two pipe problem. I just upgraded perl on one of our servers. We use a lot of SOAP::Lite calls here, which used to be fine. But all of a sudden all my lovely scripts say: 500 Can't connect to our.server.com:443 (certificate verify failed) at /usr/bin/myscript.pl line 28Now …
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Visualising RSS feeds with Perl and GraphViz::Data::Grapher
The slider requires javascript. Trying to load it now... $('#slider').flickrshow({ autoplay:true, interval:5000, set:'72157626958402918' }); A few weeks back I was browsing round Perlmonks as is my wont, when I came across planetscape's post How can I …
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Tip: is.gd from the commandline
This is a pretty minimal tip. The other day I was looking for a way to shorten URLs from the commandline. Now the bit.ly API expects you to authenticate before doing any shortening (I’ve not pulled apart the web ui to see if its possible without). The is.gd URL shortener has no such restric …
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Perlmonks User RSS Maker
Monk This is a tool for making an minimal RSS feed of a user's posts from the Perlmonks website. I made it to incude my perlmonks posts in my Drupal life aggregator with my perlmonks posts. You can construct an url to get ther feed from scripts or the CLI by hand usinghttp://charlie …
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March 2011 Reading
Let me first just mention that prepending the word post to any body of thought – post-anthropology, say – doesn't magically result in a rejuvination of that thought as some theorists are wont to believe. Howe …
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February 2011 Reading
Turing's 1936 paper on Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem is something of a geek classic, introducing important concepts like the Universal Turing Machine. I’m no mathemetician even though I r …
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January 2011 Reading
This is a frankly awesome critique of the (mid-90s) left’s ’master’ narritive of totalised global capitalism. The books central insights are gleaned …
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Import pegasus mail folders to cyrus
This utility was developed for People & Planet's recent migration away from Mercury mailserver to Cyrus IMAP. Given a user name, Pegasus mail di …
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