curves
The last six months we’ve been dealing a lot with Rails at work. I wouldn’t say I’m an old school perl guy but it’s what I cut my web teeth on and the language I know best. I have been a perl-ie man for the bulk of the last 10 years. As my current position […]
Scripting Games
Damn I wish I’d read about this earlier. There is a Microsoft Scripting Games and this year they added a perl division. Gabe has taken over my desktop and I’ve only got one Windows server at work but it would have been fun to code up a few solutions. Right now it’s almost halfway over […]
user @INC
Add to @INC at the user level export PERL5LIB=/usr/local/perlib/modules Perl Cookbook (perl programmers bible)
media wiki and servers
One thing I hate is having to do something over and over again and usually my laziness gets me into doing more work up front. This afternoons project was getting my server scan to post to our wiki. Cron’d to run once a week is a nmap scan of my servers (replace your ip set […]
Getting Hi-Rely to play with BackupExec
At first I was having some issues with the Hi-Rely eSata drive array swapping drives in and out. So I ended up reading the Symantec boards and found it to be a common issue. Perl of course came the rescue and a little bit of glue fixed it all up. Here’s the quick program I […]
backup that module list
One of the biggest pains in the ass for me is upgrading perl manually and trying to get all the modules back in. I found this handy dandy post which shows off the following method. # Backup your current module list perl -MCPAN -e autobundle # That will create a file with a name like […]
Module::Starter and make dist
Earlier when I’d updated Fedora to Core 5 and now that I’ve gone to 6.10 in Ubuntu I ran into some problems building modules. Module::Starter would start them off just fine and I could “perl Makefile.pl”, “make”, “make test” but when I went to “make dist” there would be an error message saying: -e: META.yml […]