Tag: perl
DOS Progrmming
March 7th, 2000, No Comments
It looks like we’re about to start a new embedded project for a customer. They have a system running on a DOS-extender and DOS-based realtime kernel. I’m going to try to talk them into replacing it with one of the embedded Linux options that are becoming more popular. If they don’t go for that, I’ll [...]
Advogato First Post
March 6th, 2000, No Comments
Assuming my patches to newslog and to mod_virgule work, this will be my first post to go to both my home page and to my advogato.org diary simultaneously. If nothing blows up, I’ll probably post a freshmeat announcement later tonight in case anyone else wants to sync up news/diary entries on their personal home pages [...]
Discovering Advogato
March 3rd, 2000, No Comments
I’ve been reading an open source news portal called Advogato fairly regularly and decided to sign up for an account. I’m usually just a spectator at these things – I don’t even have a slashdot account. But Advogato is fairly interesting in that it uses a group trust metric system to rate each member and [...]
Programming the Perl DBI
February 22nd, 2000, No Comments
I’ve been working on more Perl DBI stuff today. When I got back from lunch and checked my mail (postal mail, that is), I found that my copy of Programming the Perl DBI by Alligator Descartes & Tim Bunce had arrived. I’ve been waiting for O’Reilly to get this book out the door for a [...]
Newer Newslog
February 3rd, 2000, No Comments
A couple of days of Perl hacking have resulted in Newslog Version 1.2.0. This version should finally be 100% mod_perl-ready and I’m now running it under mod_perl here so I’ll be first to discover any remaining mod_perl bugs. I’ll post an update to freshmeat if I get a chance later today.
Cold Weather and Perl Coding
January 29th, 2000, No Comments
What a week! The MPAA is going nuts, our T1 problems resurfaced again (only briefly fortunately!), and lots of perl coding. And now we’re in the middle of a sudden pile of cold weather. It’s been below freezing two days in a row and there was even a bit of snow falling yesterday – all [...]
New Newslog
December 30th, 1999, No Comments
Updating the newslog script has been on my todo list for quite some time. If this post works, I’ll be able to check it off the list. Newslog version 1.1.0 has a few new features and a few more bug fixes. I may even announce it on Freshmeat if no problems turn up tonight.
PostgreSQL and Perl DBI
November 17th, 1999, No Comments
All the work with PostgreSQL lately has led to the need to install mod_perl and the DBI Perl modules. In addition to the basic DBI module and a PostgreSQL DBD module, I’m also trying out the ApacheDBI module. Apache DBI provides persistant connections to the database, eliminating the time delays associated with opening and closing [...]
