We have some user images on a server (let's call it 'a') at work and I wanted to automatically inline them on another page on another server (which, for demonstration purposes we shall call 'b') if they exist. This, I felt, was a job for this AJAX malarkey that I'd heard so much about.

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Perl is weird. I mean, I know a lot of people think that it's weird full stop but sometimes it really suffers from the opensource malaise - the glaring holes in functionality that everyone knows about but no-one seems to want to fix -PGP is a particular favourite of mine. SOAP::Lite seems to be another massive bug bear. For ages, until the DateTime ( Read more... )

URI::Title::iTMS is the plugin for URI::Title that copes with Apple's iTunes Music Store URLs. The problem was that it relied on a function from Net::iTMS that was only present in versions less that 0.1, namely

my $info = fetch_iTMS_info( $uri ) or die "iTMS / Not an iTMS url";
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