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So what have you been up to?

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 [...]

Morgage Calculator

A bunch of perl to guesstimate how much you will pay and would like to pay for a mortgage.

Perl 5.10.0 on Dreamhost

Since the web moves forward, all past links and instructions are not always accruate any more, the Cwd.pm issues have been resolved and are on CPAN. Thus new instructions are needed, here’s what I’ve done: mkdir ~/local mkdir ~/src cd ~/src wget http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/perl-5.10.0.tar.gz tar zxvf ./perl-5.10.0.tar.gz cd perl-5.10.0 mv ./lib/Cwd.pm ./lib/Cwd.pm.dist wget http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/SMUELLER/PathTools-3.29/Cwd.pm -O ./lib/Cwd.pm [...]

Exception handling intelligently

With any process, there are times when the train comes off the rails, how should this be dealt with? Well there are many different schools of thought but here’s what works best for me, die as soon as there’s a problem. For me there are many reasons for this, but mostly it really boils down [...]