Category Archives: General

Task Management with Hiveminder and Perl

This is how I manage my tasks with Hiveminder on a weekly basis and the Perl script that helps me do it. I don’t really expect the Perl script to be useful to anyone as-is but portions of it may … Continue reading

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Comic Genius

This guy is a comic genius! Sheer hilarity.

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WebService::MobileMe uploaded to the CPAN

Just a quick post to announce a new perl module I uploaded to the CPAN the other day. It’s still to be considered alpha quality as it is lacking error checking and other such necessary stuffs but is working for … Continue reading

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YAPC|10

I will be at YAPC|10 in Pittsburgh the end of June. Here’s a schedule of the talks I plan to attend. There are a few holes not because the talks at those time suck but because they rock so hard … Continue reading

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Playing a Tone Through an Arduino Connected Piezo

I’m working on a top secret project, all I’ll say is it involves the Arduino, Twitter, and the refrigerator, and needed to play a tone through a piezo connected to the Arduino. I looked around and the closest I could … Continue reading

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pitz prepares to rock my socks

Matt Wilson must be spying on my dialogs in sekrit IRC channels. After setting up Task this evening I mentioned there being several project ticketing systems, like Ditz, that store data in the RCS. I was lamenting the fact that … Continue reading

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~/.bashrc Perl Module Version Tip

I often need to quickly check the version of a perl module currently installed. A while back I got tired of running: $ perl -MPOE::Filter -E ‘say $POE::Filter::VERSION’ 1.2357 So I added a quick function to .bashrc: pm-vers () { … Continue reading

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git diff and white space

So I’m getting ready to make a commit to wxperl and I run a git diff to check on changes and git yelled at me that I had some trailing white space. Well it didn’t yell but it hi-lighted the … Continue reading

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Net::Abuse::Utils v0.10 Released

I just released Net::Abuse::Utils v0.10 to CPAN. If you can’t wait, grab it here. If you haven’t heard of this module before, see this online example of some of the data that can be returned. Online docs are available as … Continue reading

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