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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

NOTE Google changed the gmail API some time ago. I haven't been able to suss out how and they haven't documented it. So I’m no longer able to support this project. My apologies.This Greasemonkey script hides the right hand side ads on gmail and widens the email bit. You'll need to install …

I wanted to learn how to write a firefox extension. This is it! Spinal Text - an extension to turn your text up to ELEVEN! It won't work on all pages, after all its just a learning project. I’ll probably redo it properly one day! WTF? see the Spinal Tap fan site …

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 …

Some useful snippets of technobabble, code and such for the discerning geeks and programmers amongst you. …

Looks like your browser doesn't like Java. Sorry about that. You could try and download the plugin This is a 2 person java version of the all time classic Pong. It's fairly simple, but it does require a >=1.2 java plugin. You can download the source code un …