Links tagged with “perl”
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Scripting Languages: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby - Hyperpolyglot
Handy comparison of features of Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby, for when my brain has trouble switching. (via Kottke)
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IMAP Folders
Cal’s Perl script for seeing which of your IMAP folders are taking up most space. Handy.
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Install Movable Type on a Mac - Adventures in Movable Type
This is always more pain than it should be. A handy guide.
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Kbinstuff -perl, Unicode/utf8, CGI.pm, apache, mod_perl and MySQL
My Perl scripts were never fetching UTF8 strings from a UTF8 database. Much cursing later, I found this reference to doing $dbh->(“mysql_enable_utf8”) = 1. Seems to work. Finally. Grr.
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Journal of ziggy (25)
Using perl to extract ID3 data from the iTunes Music Library XML file and then update the relevant MP3s with the correct data.
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Perl on Rails - Why the BBC Fails at the Internet | I Am Seb
The only surprising thing about this was that so many people were surprised. A lot of BBC employees’ energies are spent trying to circumvent Siemens, from desktop support to website hosting.
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Ian-Barton.com » Posting to your Blog from a POP3 account
Including simple “how to install Perl modules” guide.
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Search.cpan.org: WWW::Odeon - A simple API for screen-scraping the www.odeon.co.uk website
Wouldn’t it be awful if large numbers of Accessible Odeon websites suddenly sprang up everywhere…