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Video: FeedMash — A Perl/Catalyst RSS Masher—Upper and Twitter&mdash
Update 2011-01-31: Well, life got in the way of getting this out in January, let’s see if it will come out in Feb! I’m currently coding a project using the Catalyst Framework. The project is called feedmash and is partly inspired by paper.li along with the UK Indymedia agg …
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Flickr API and Grabbing Wedding Photos From A Group
My lovely friends Danny and Jess got married recently. I took some photos and so did lots of other people. So we put them all in a flickr group. But they wanted to get hold of everyone's pics to print or whatever. Problem. For some reason flickr have seen fit to disable the API key for the one to …
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Video: Turning MP3s back into ones and zeros
I’ve wanted to make some code to turn MP3s back into the ones and zeros from which they are made ever since reading Eben Moglen’s Anarchism Triumphant. In that Moglen says: A CD player is a good example[of a digital device]. Its primary input is a bitstream read from an optical …
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Config::General arrayrefs and HTML::FormFu
I’m in the process of making a nicer backend for charlieharvey.org.uk using Catalyst (which is lovely BTW). One of the things I’m playing with is using HTML::FormFu for making the forms. But this morning I got proper stuck on the simple task of populating a select box with options fro …
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Getting Chandler Hub to send a daily agenda by email
I think that the OSAF's Chandler project is awesome and I’ve been using Chandler to organise my life for a while now. But one feature it was lacking was a daily email agenda update. Here's how I hacked one in perl. The code is at: The first thing was to be able to pick up some vaguely par …
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BarnCamp 2010
BarnCamp 2010 was two days of workshops on topics ranging from renewable energy to foraging for food to citizen journalism to using free software for activism, three nights of camping, open space sessions, evening entertainment, great food at Highbury Farm, a beautiful farm co-op high in the Wye Va …
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Daily Mail Story Generator
I was at the Climate Camp, reading the Evening Standard's account of how militants intended to hijack the camp to eat babies or something when it occurred to me that Daily Mail, Express and Standard journos could be replaced by a relatively trivial perl script. So, may I present the Daily Mail …
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ALF: Apache log filter
ALF is a filter for people using Apache logging to plain text logs, who still want the flexibility of being able to search their logs like a database. It relies heavily on Jeff Zucker's DBD::AnyData to do the clever stuff, and overlays that with a simple Gtk2 interface.You can run SQL queries a …
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My Geek Codes
How to tell the world you are a geek, you ask? Use the universal Geek code! Using this special code will allow you to let other un-closeted geeks know who you are in a simple, codified statement... The Universal Geek Code PageSo here's mine.-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLO …
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Geekery
Some useful snippets of technobabble, code and such for the discerning geeks and programmers amongst you. …
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