The history of the IMDB is fascinating and I have a really awful feeling that it'd be impossible to replicate nowadays. Which is a shame because there's no equivalent for music.

I remember talking to a a few people about 6 months ago, one of whom was connected with Musicbrainz which, I suppose is the closest equivalent to IMDB.

I wondered out ( Read more... )

Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable has a gen-u-wine third party plugin - Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable::Module::Delicious from Franck Cuny. In fcat it has two, he also did the slightly scarily named Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable::Module::HTTPIRCGW.

Apart from slightly weird vars setting stuff they look cool. I guess I should have released my version earlier - it's ( Read more... )

One of the ever more infrequent articles on CPAN to go up recently was this one to do with .ics files and graphing. Interesting enough as it was it also thoroughly failed to use CPAN.

I sort of see the point of teaching people how to do something (in this case glueing disparate data sources together, something Perl is very good at) even when ( Read more... )

Apparently Email::Store doesn't work under Postgres - there are various issues, some trivial some serious. The most pressing, I think, is that Postgres doesn't cope with the CREATE TABLE UNLESS EXIST syntax which, I suppose isn't the most difficult thing to catch in the world - either check in advance or catch the exception. Possibly even have a ( Read more... )

For ages I've wanted a plugin for Siesta that, given the public keys of subscribers and a public-key/private-key pair for a list will reject any non-signed, non-encrypted mail posted and then sign and encrypt each mail sent out to list members.

I even sat down and tried to do it a couple of times.

Then Simon Cozen's mentioned that it'd be ( Read more... )

I use nano which, without unsupported patches, can't auto convert tabs to spaces. Which sucks. So Mr Clamp has a an svn-commit hook that matches incoming diffs against

/^\+.*\t.*$/
and rejects the commit if it gets a hit. Which is lovely but when you commit 20 or so files it's a pain no knowing which one failed. Which means using one of the ( Read more... )