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Devops w/ Perl @ Linode PPW Talk Slides

Posted on October 27, 2011 by mikegrb

Earlier this month a gave a talk about Linode’s use of Perl for devopsy things at the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop. Finally getting around to posting the slides online. I wanted to add some details so more of the slides made … Continue reading →

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Whole House Energy Monitoring

Posted on February 27, 2011 by mikegrb

I placed an order for a TED 5000 on February 10th. The TED 5000 is a whole house energy monitor — a kill-a-watt for the whole house. I’ve spent a lot of time reading about the products available in this … Continue reading →

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Task Management with Hiveminder and Perl

Posted on March 13, 2010 by mikegrb

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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YAPC|10

Posted on June 1, 2009 by mikegrb

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

Posted on March 23, 2009 by mikegrb

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

Posted on February 22, 2009 by mikegrb

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

Posted on January 9, 2009 by mikegrb

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

Posted on January 7, 2009 by mikegrb

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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Geeky Weather Station Stuffs

Posted on December 21, 2008 by mikegrb

http://weather.thegrebs.com/ I recently received a nice Honeywell weather station. It turns out they are actually manufactured by a company called Irox which also sells stations under it’s own name but they seem to be more popular in Europe. Being a … Continue reading →

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