Posted on 26 April 2010, 0:29, by Douglas Wilson, under
Perl.
I work a lot with Perl 5 under Windows and have loved Strawberry Perl so much. I’ve been using ActiveState’s ActivePerl since 2001 and welcomed the UNIX-like experience Strawberry Perl gave me, especially because it was sometimes very hard to get some modules for ActivePerl. Anyhow, in Windows Vista and up the User Account Control [...]
Posted on 8 April 2010, 21:32, by Douglas Wilson, under
Perl.
Earlier today I released an important bug fix to my distribution Authen-CAS-External (under version 0.06). The bug caused the distribution to fail on CAS deployments where the application was not deployed at the root URL (i.e. https://cas.domain.com/login worked fine, but https://cas.domain.com/cas/login did not work at all). The reason was because the LWP::UserAgent handler rules had [...]
Posted on 7 April 2010, 11:48, by Douglas Wilson, under
Perl.
I was contacted by Peter van Eijk who was interested in getting performance data support added to Nagios-Plugin-OverHTTP and I quickly moved to add it in. Version 0.14 added performance data support and a major overhaul was made to the class layout. I was inspired by the layout of Plack and thought that it was [...]
Posted on 22 March 2010, 0:27, by Douglas Wilson, under
Perl.
I am using two of my distributions as tests for using Module::Build instead of Module::Install. So far they have only been released as development versions, but I hope to get them out as actual releases. So far I have chosen not to generate any Makefile.PL in the distributions, but I think I will in the [...]
Posted on 9 February 2010, 12:18, by Douglas Wilson, under
Perl.
Recently I have been adding my own bug list and todo list to the RT queue of my CPAN modules to track them and help me remember over a longer period of time. I also figure that if they are visible to everyone, perhaps someone may help fix or add a feature.
Posted on 5 February 2010, 17:12, by Douglas Wilson, under
Perl.
I usually get e-mails about my Nagios::Plugin::OverHTTP asking about little things being added here and there. The last e-mail I got was from Peter van Eijk asking for support for performance data. I looked over the code and realized that it really needs some refactoring before I can easily add support for performance data, and [...]
Posted on 31 January 2010, 21:15, by Douglas Wilson, under
Perl.
I have just uploaded a new module to the CPAN: Test::Override::UserAgent. This is geared toward developers that use LWP::UserAgent in their modules and want to easily test their code without having a live Internet connection or starting up a test server to make requests against. Just about every single module I have on the CPAN [...]
Posted on 25 January 2010, 20:57, by Douglas Wilson, under
How To,
Perl.
I have published my interface to the University of South Florida online directory to the CPAN as WWW::USF::Directory. This is a start to my USF-oriented modules to go up on the CPAN for public use. This module allows you to interact with the USF online directory. It can be used to make a simple directory [...]
Posted on 19 January 2010, 21:49, by Douglas Wilson, under
Perl.
I am going to be publishing several of my Perl 5 modules that relate to the University of South Florida systems to the CPAN. This will allow anyone to use the modules as they please. I am planning on putting them in the namespace WWW::USF::*. I know that USF may be ambiguous, but feel it [...]
Posted on 3 January 2010, 16:29, by Douglas Wilson, under
Computers.
This is mostly an update to my previous post on my HP Pavilian tx 1000 issues. As time goes on, the laptop won’t boot up more. Today was the worst of all, though. I have determined that the problem is the same that lots of other people are having, which is where the nVidia GPU [...]