Tag Archives: perl

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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Local Growl Notifications from Remote Irssi

Posted on June 12, 2011 by mikegrb

What I’ve tried, What I want Skip to the next section if you just care about the end result. In the past, I’ve had my remote Irssi client send UDP Growl packets to my static home IP that were then … 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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WebService::MobileMe uploaded to the CPAN

Posted on July 26, 2009 by mikegrb

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

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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~/.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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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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dh-make-perl will rock your socks

Posted on July 2, 2008 by mikegrb

dh-make-perl is the most awesome Debian package /ever/. dh-make-perl –cpan Some::Module –build sudo dpkg -i libsome-module-0.1-1_all.deb Done. Dependencies If you have apt-file installed and Some::Module requires Lib::Foo for which a Debian package is available, the dependancy will automatically be created. … Continue reading →

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Module::Signature Rocks My Socks

Posted on June 1, 2008 by mikegrb

Just discovered the perl module Module::Signature by 唐鳳 (Audrey Tang) the other day. It’s pretty spiffy. Implementing is easy (stolen from the docs): MakeMaker: WriteMakefile( (MM->can(‘signature_target’) ? (SIGN => 1) : ()), # … original arguments … ); Module::Build: Module::Build->new( … Continue reading →

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Adding a Datastore to an RRD File

Posted on December 30, 2007 by mikegrb

Mainly for personal future reference. Adding a DS to a bunch of RRD files is a big pain, RRD doesn’t have any sort of native mechanism for doing this. The usual procedure is exporting the RRD data to XML, creating … Continue reading →

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