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Monday January 16, 2006
05:35 PM

Catalyst in 20 minutes

I've been spamming everywhere else, so why not here?

'The purpose of this tutorial is to teach you enough Catalyst to be dangerous, as quickly as possible. It should take less than an hour to complete. Dangerous, in this case, means "able to make use of the core documentation".'

http://www.pjls.co.uk/tutorials/catalyst.html

+Pete

Monday October 10, 2005
04:30 AM

Javascript Goodness

I've been doing some pretty funky stuff with Javascript recently - I had a two week gig to produce a front end to an XMLRPC interface to a client's admin system - if you're a Bytemark customer you can have a play at:

https://secure.bytemark.co.uk/panel/

I really like how Javascript makes me think differently about some aspects of programming - the inheritance system is ... different, but kinda funky, and I've been relying on closures more than I've had to before. So if anyone knows anyone who needs some Javascript contracting done ... :-) pete@nospam.clueball.com

Wednesday May 04, 2005
05:04 AM

Filtering non-ASCII characters with procmail and mutt

Almost a year since my last entry, awesome... :-)

So here's a little snippet of my .procmailrc to remove characters I can't understand anyway from the subject and from lines, as mut is sending them straight to my terminal, and messing up my display:

# Rewrite the subject and sender to remove foreign characters
OLDSUBJECT=`/usr/local/bin/formail -xSubject:`
NEWSUBJECT=`echo $OLDSUBJECT | /usr/bin/tr -cs '\11\12\40-\176' 'Z'`

OLDSENDER=`/usr/local/bin/formail -xFrom:`
NEWSENDER=`echo $OLDSENDER | /usr/bin/tr -cs '\11\12\40-\176' 'Z'`

:0fw
|/usr/local/bin/formail -i "Subject: $NEWSUBJECT"

:0fw
|/usr/local/bin/formail -i "From: $NEWSENDER"

Thursday June 03, 2004
09:00 AM

mod_perl 2 guide

Sooo,

I'm putting together a very rudimentary mod_perl 2 tutorial / guide. The HTML sucks etc, but content suggestions are welcome ...

+Pete

Thursday April 10, 2003
05:58 AM

Bug Bonanza

My bug challenge has proven to be quite popular, and the approach has picked up a couple of fans...

So here's an idea: Why Doesn't Someone(tm) create an automated system where module authors can offer bounties in a central place? Bounties per bug can be set as high as authors want, in a sort of auction fashion... Sadly, as TorgoX will no-doubt point out, I'm a bear of little action, and even less time, so I think this should become someone else's baby.

Monday April 07, 2003
07:09 AM

RTF::Tokenizer

I released RTF::Tokenizer v1.0 last night. All hail me. I used FIGLET for the README file again... It's a massive improvement. I stole the best parts from RTF::Parser and the old RTF::Tokenizer, and got a huge speed improvement. There are over three thousand tests too. The plan is now to build RTF::Reader using it, and also rewrite RTF::Parser to use it, which is easier said than done, but, done it shall be.