http://blog.zerodogg.org Geeky comments on geeky things Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:42:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's a very simple one-liner REPL for perl, it's not very advanced (like ie. re.pl) but does well in most cases: perl -MData::Dumper -MTerm::ReadLine -e '$r = Term::ReadLine->new(1);while(defined($_ = $r->readline("code: "))){$ret=Dumper(eval($_));$err=$@;if($err ne ""){print $err;}else{print $ret;}}' It uses Term::ReadLine, which gives a simple session history if you have a Term::ReadLine::* implementation that ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2010/03/02/a-very-simple-one-liner-repl-for-perl/ About two weeks back I released SWEC version 0.4. The largest new thing in this release is an updated file format for writing test definitions. Thew new format is a lot more flexible, and will also allow me to extend its syntax with more capabilities more easily later on. ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2009/10/15/swec-0-4/ I prefer writing in Perl or Ruby, but sometimes the choice of language has been made by someone else, a position I have found myself in lately. When using perl and ruby, there's always perldoc and ri, so documentation is a quick command away in any of my terminals, which ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2009/10/14/fixing-php-documentation-woes/ I have found myself doing quite a bit of mason at work lately, both maintaining old legacy stuff and as the view in a catalyst app. While doing this I found myself missing the old 'perl -c' to quickly sanity check code, however naturally that won't work on Mason - as ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2009/10/13/sanity-checking-mason/ I have to admit, I love git. It has really made me more efficient, and I can't honestly think of ever switching back to ie. svn. My shell is bash, and up until now I used a very simple bash completion for git, but at times I do see myself wanting ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2009/10/12/dynamically-loading-git-bash-completion/ Disclaimer: This is a political post. If you're not interested in politics (or not interested in Norwegian politics), please ignore it. The date for the Norwegian general election is closing up fast, and I would like to urge my readers to vote for the Socialist Left Party (SV). The last chance ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2009/09/10/vote-for-the-socialist-left-party-on-the-14th-of-september/ Last week I released mussort version 0.2. This release is a huge update from version 0.1 that I released back in early 2008. mussort is a simple command-line music sorting program. It recursively processes a directory tree, and then sorts whatever music files it finds there, renaming the files and putting ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2009/08/14/music-sorting-0-2/ Day Planner 0.10 was released on the 25th of March! This release is, imho, a great step forward from 0.9. It fixes various minor bugs, cleans up parts of the UI, handles strange or broken iCalendar files better, enforces UTF-8 encoding on the calendar and adds a plugin system. The largest ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2009/04/16/day-planner-010/ Last year, the 21st of December I had to send in my GF's cellphone for repairs (bought online), incredibly enough the repairs went smoothly and fast, and on the 29th of December it was shipped back to us, using the Norwegian postal system. Little did we know that it wanted ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2009/02/18/the-happy-travels-of-a-postal-parcel/ I've just written my first blog post for Linux Game Publishing on the new LGP blog. The post is about the LGP community. You can head over to the LGP blog to read it. http://blog.zerodogg.org/2009/02/13/blogging-for-lgp/ I've got some plans for SWEC in the future. One of its primary limitations at the time is that it can't really do advanced tests using things like POST or specific pattern matching. So I'm planning a simple command-based file format where you can define advanced checks for sites, to ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2009/02/09/swec-future-plans/ I've been doing some web development lately, and the old question of testing has of course come up (and some might say, of course I had to roll my own solution). I wanted a simple way to sanity check a site, to ensure that my article changes didn't suddenly break comments ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2009/02/02/simply-checking-my-web/ The new Linux game turned out to be Sacred: Gold an action-RPG similar to Blizzard's Diablo 2. The package includes the original Sacred, a free (official) expansion pack called Sacred Plus and the Sacred: Underworld expansion pack. I for one can't wait for this port to be released. http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/05/14/sacred-gold-announced-for-linux/ Linux Game Publishing has announced a competition where one can win the first copy of their new unnannounced game for Linux. The winner will be the first person to guess which game it is, based upon the slowly revealing image on http://competition.linuxgamepublishing.com/. The chance to know what new game is coming out ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/05/03/new-linux-game/ Day Planner 0.9 has been released. It is available for download as a Mandriva RPM, Ubuntu deb, Debian deb, generic installer and source tarball. The release focused primarily on fixes and cleanups. A bunch of minor bugs were fixed, and I rewrote most of the iCalendar back-end. It should be faster ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/05/03/day-planner-09-and-looking-forward/ (Re: Proprietary Webcam driver wonders). I recently discovered a free driver for my GF's builtin Microdia webcam. It works very nicely (better than the crappy proprietary one did when I tested the "trial"). So if you've got a Microdia webcam, at least the 0c45:624f one, now you can have it working ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/04/27/microdia-0c45624f-webcam-on-linux/ I've added automatic development snapshots of Day Planner to the Day Planner homepage. There are currently three different branches (trunk, next stable, current stable) being built, in two flavours (tarball and installer). The snapshots are updated twice each day and are available at http://www.day-planner.org/index.php/download/snapshot. Feel free to take them for ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/04/25/automated-day-planner-development-snapshots/ An e-mail dumped into my inbox today, from the CEO of the MP3Tunes service, that I use for backing up my music collection. It stated that EMI claimed that this use was illegal and had sued MP3Tunes (this happened a while ago, I know). This isn't even a case of ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/04/23/mp3tunes-and-emi/ Today is the second anniversary of the Day Planner project. So hurray for Day Planner, and here's to all the great releases to come. In other related news, I've just released a development snapshot of Day Planner 0.9. It is available at http://www.day-planner.org/index.php/download/devsnapshot. It contains all of the developed features for 0.9 ... http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/04/19/day-planners-second-anniversary-and-a-development-snapshot/ Everyone else is doing it! [0 zerodogg@firefly ~]$ history | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head 279 cd 185 vim 117 ssh 75 screen 74 svn 66 wget 64 ls 60 perldoc 59 rm 58 cget http://blog.zerodogg.org/2008/04/15/history-meme/