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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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Review — Ross on Wye Traditional Farmhouse Cider
This is another from my recent cache from Cider Club UK order. Ross on Wye is much more traditional cider country than Scotland or Berks. The bottle informs me that Broome Farm, where the cider originates has been makikng the stuff …
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New Features On Site: Page Archive, Tags In an Atom Feed
I’ve been doing a bit of hacking on the frontend of the site today, and I’ve added a couple of new features one of which I’ve wanted for a while and one of which I needed in order to get stuff aggregated into the Planet Perl Iron Man blogging challenge. Well, for the Pl …
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Review — Thistly Cross Gold
I’m not going to beat about the bush here. I like whisky. And I like cider. So I was intrigued to hear of a cider that was matured with chipped whisky barrels. That's got to be good, right? Well, I got a bottle of the Thistly Cross …
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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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November 2011 Reading
The original Pragmatic Programmer book was pretyy influential on me when it came out and I’ve really enjoyed a few other books in the series. This book is no exception to that. There's a lot of se …
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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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Review — Combe Raider
Bonjour ciderists. Long time no wotsit. 5 months in fact. Time flies, eh? This week I’ve been getting ciders off the internets thanks to Cider Club UK. My ciders arrived at work in a big box a couple of days after ordering, so props to Cider C …
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Tip: Make a distressed font with GIMP
The other day I had need to make a sort of distressed/grungy/textured looking font using The GIMP. You know the kind of thing. A little googling bought up Grunge texture text from gimp.pixtuts.com, which got me most of the way towards the effect I wanted. This video is my simplified version of t …
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October 2011 Reading
This is a difficult read at times, putting the lie to the myth of the British Empire being a benign, democratic or civilising project. Rebellion was never far from the surface and was put down by geno …
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