Because Perl definitely isn't dead.

Sorry, I’m not actually dead… I’ve actually been posting loads recently, just not here. I’ve been concentrating on my photography blog for a while. New camera and not working much over Christmas, kinda lead me to work on my photography a little more. Anyway, I’ll be back with some Perl love soon I’m sure!

Boston.com have an article with the year in photos. There are another two pages of photos too if you follow the links at the top. Some of the phtos are awesome, some are grusome!

Just been trying to set some modules up using the CPAN shell on my server and was having some terrible trouble with modules all failing to make, with no real error message. All that was reported was “Not OK”. So I hit the console and tried to manually make one of the modules and that [...]

Check these out. One of the lads at work found them in one of our favorite discout supermarkets. All the 90′s kids it’s time to hit the dance floor!

An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one orders a beer. The second orders half a beer. The third, a quarter of a beer. The bartender says “You’re all idiots”, and pours two beers. ”

Bought a new LinkSys NSLU2 or Slug Box as it’s also known by. This is a lovely little box that allows you to connect your USB drives, pen drives or external hard drives to your network. It’s a tiny little thing that runs it’s proprietary firmware that makes the drives accessible on your network. I [...]

I’ve just been watching this video about the the new T-Mobile G1 and I don’t see it. I have an iPhone and I can’t see anything that I’d actually use that the “g-phone” provides. I mean it’s a reasonable phone, but the UI looks clunky to me. The fact it’s Android is pretty cool as it [...]

So you want to write a funky new model for Catalyst you say. Well the easy way to start would be to use the helper script to create a nice new model and start adding functionality. Woah there! One minute. If you continue down this route then a year down the line when it’s time [...]

RSS Feeds are inherently repeated patterns over and over again with a bit of text in the middle for a link and some content. So what’s the best way to generate one. I’ve debated this to my self now for a few days and can’t really come up with a strong enough argument to sway [...]

POSIX is a Perl module that gives you access to the IEEE 1003.1 standard functions. It’s all implemented in C and so it’s nice and fast. Installed virtually everywhere and provided by the system. All in all it’s lovely for it’s thing, until I saw this blog post. Obviously this is a Ruby problem, well [...]