Tag Archives: perl

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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