So I don’t know if I’m the only one but I’ve had some issues with my upgrade, figured I would do my part and list what went wrong and what I did to fix: App::CPAN not available So it seems that perl was upgraded twice, first to 5.10.0 then to 5.10.1. Some where in the [...]
So there has been much written about getting this mouse set up with Ubuntu, but all failed for me. Heres a quick little post about what I’ve run in to and how I fixed it. For the impatent heres my fdi: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <deviceinfo version=”0.2″> <device> <match key=”info.capabilities” contains=”input.mouse”> <match key=”info.product” string=”Logitech USB Receiver”> [...]
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I have a problem with todo lists, I have the attention span of a turnip thus there a blessing and a curse, as I get excited and put a bunch of stuff on said list then promptly forget that there was a list at all. So I’m going to start making sunday the ‘clean up [...]
Moose gives you the tools to code in a very very clean and standard manner. It does not inhibit you from being dumb, but it makes being smart very easy. Let me give you an example. For work we have a Type for our product id’s, it is just a few lines of code but [...]
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A bunch of perl to guesstimate how much you will pay and would like to pay for a mortgage.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
This is mostly a responce to Jeff Atwood’s “A Scripter at Heart” post, and all the comments that followed. Rant tags engage. The destinction between “scripting” and “programing” from the stand point of the person at the keyboard is irrelevant. Thus I think that this whole article and comment thread are, in effect, just as [...]
Saturday, November 15, 2008
So with all this recent playing with wordpress that I’ve been up to, the more and more that I find my self saying ‘This was not designed for me was it?’ Sadly the answer tends to be ‘nope’, but it’s all in PHP so I can monkey with what ever I want to. GOAL: respect [...]
Saturday, November 1, 2008
So there are many posts out there on how to use curl to post to twitter, so when in need of a mini distraction, do something that some one else has already done, a CLI twitter poster. #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Getopt::Std; use JSON; my $opts = {}; getopt(‘up’,$opts); die ‘I need a [...]
So my big project at work the past few weeks has been moving us from very ad-hoc svn setup that did not allow branches to a nice new clean repo that does. I’ve learned a lot about what svn likes and what it doesn’t I feel that I have a very good understanding of the [...]
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
See thats the problem with this whole “inbox zero invades the rest of your life, thanks Merlin” Lifestyle change thing, you start making lists and getting things that need to get done and make a bunch of lists of everything else. So we all now know that blogging is not at the top of the [...]
