.: Aberdeen.pm.org Blog :.

We’ve all been there–a data translation problem rears its head and you reach for your toolkit of Perl snippets. It might involve parsing a CSV file, extracting MIME attachments, generating bulk SQL insert statements, or scraping data from a web application. You know you have code lying around that’ll take you halfway there, if only you could find it. Then there’s the problem of pulling it all together.

Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to catalog your code snippets? How about a way to browse or search by keyword, a way to modularize your code for easy reuse, and a way to document it and easily access that documentation? Wouldn’t it be even better if you could pull the pieces together to assemble a solution without having to actually write code at all?

Now there is. Now there’s Sprog.

Read the main article and the perlmonks.org post

I’ll be trying it out tonight, but it looks like it could be very hadny for saving your own blocks and using them again later to develop a module.

Gavin.

url for upgrade.log is now valid.

Thanks.

A quick one I knocked up last night to fix some RPMS that were missing form upgrading to Fedora Core 4. There’s a list of RPMS in upgrade.log and the script is called getrpms

Hope this helps out someone else.

Gavin.

More info about the 5.8.7 release.

Bye for now,

Gaivn.

Dear Guys,

I am soon to be releasing some stuff to CPAN.

You can keep checking my page for updates at:

http://search.cpan.org/~ghenry/

I’ll post everything I do to the list anyway.

Bye for now,

Gavin.

Want to ask questions or read great code and tutorials, then signup at PerlMonks:

http://perlmonks.org

I am ghenry on there:

http://perlmonks.org/?node=ghenry

Bye for now,

Gavin.

Hi all,

A while ago I registered us at:

http://ug.oreilly.com/

and

http://wiki.oreillynet.com/usergroups/index.cgi?PerlMongers

Yesterday they sent me a nice parcel.

In it was:

2 x T-Shirts
4 x Postcard Packs
2 x Tim O’reilly Books
1 x Template Toolkit Book

That’s pretty nice of them for just registering on the O’reilly User Group
Program.

Once we have an actual meeting, I will think up a competition or something to win these.

I am reading the Template Toolkit book, and keeping a T-shirt for myself.

I hope you guys don’t mind

Thanks,

Gavin.

I would like to start a download section.

Anyone got any scripts laying about?

Gavin.

Testing mailing list again - ignore.

Dear all,

I have added a plugin called cat2email, that posts a new post to a mailing list or e-mail address.

This is just a new post to test that.

Thanks,

Gavin.