Once again, things change in the software world. This time it is Windows PowerShell. PowerShell was been around for quite a while now, but I am settling down to start using it regularly. So far it seems to be pretty hit-and-miss with finding documentation online through search engines, but then again I am not too […]
Please, never trust the client. I’m not sure how much this can be stressed. After writing unsupported interfaces for various programs (most commercial) I find that this basic rule is not always followed. Gone are the days where people submit forms and then the server checks the inputs and will return one or more error […]
So what is the business with the following global variable I keep seeing in CPAN modules these days? our $AUTHORITY; So I searched a bit to figure it out, and found it made its way from Perl 6. A description of its use in Perl 6 can be found in Synopsis 11: Modules. Essentially Perl […]
From my earlier post, after talking in #Perl, I have changed the name of the module from Archive::OPC to File::OPC. It is still not on CPAN, as I won’t release it until it can at least read Open Packaging Convention files. The module is being written using Moose.
Recently I installed TortoiseSVN on a Windows Vista machine (though from reading different sources on the Internet, it applies to all platforms TortoiseSVN runs on, like Windows XP) and I was presented with the following error message when trying to connect to a repository over SSH (that is, svn+ssh): I was looking around the Internet […]
I’ve recently been working on reading Open Office XML files using Perl, and I’ve made a lot of progress with the implementation of the Open Packaging Convention specification as a Perl module. I think soon I will be releasing a version of it to CPAN. I am not too sure of what the module should […]
I just installed MySQL 5.0.27 today. I used to use MySQL 4.1.x, but I decided that I’d move to 5.0.x since it is now the GA release. I had all my previous databases backed up in their binary format, and since I didn’t have MySQL 4.1 installed when I installed 5.0.x, it did not update […]
I have traced the mail problem down to the USF Mail server itself and whatever policy it has. I enabled SMTP logging in Thunderbird and was able to see the SMTP conversation Thunderbird was having with the server. It turned out that my Thunderbird is giving the USF mail server (and only the USF mail […]
Recently I started using OpenDNS (a very good service by the way). I have had no problems and the internet is snappier due to less time looking up IP addresses. I have had (and am still having) just one problem: sending mail using my college e-mail address. I use Mozilla Thunderbird for just about all […]
As I was viewing one of the many blogs I read, I noticed a button on the right-hand side about this thing called OpenDNS. OpenDNS? What is that? I clicked the link to find out and found it was a group who sets up public DNS server that people can use. They claim that they […]