Articles

Various incantations, recipes and observations from the more arcane aspects of technology will be considered here.

• Struggling with Duende
• The state of MaraDNS in Debian
• Mastering your Daemons
• Life in the Debian Perl Group
• Debian doc-base

CPAN

• Together with Cees Hek, I co-maintain the CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication module.
• The Test::CGI::Multipart module tests file uploads to websites.
• Test::Regression facilitates maintenance of regression test output.
• CGI::Application::Plugin::AJAXUpload implements a CGI::Application run mode for uploading images and retuning a JSON response.
• Geo::Google::MapObject provides some server-side glue for Google maps.
• HTML::Acid is yet another HTML cleanser.

Favorite Links

• Understanding benefits of Plack — or why not everyone needs to be concerned with the latest fashion.
• Sed - An Introduction and Tutorial — other text editors are available.
• Debian Repository HOWTO — or how to stack your own Debian packages.
• dpkg triggers, the lost how-to document — or how to set up a chain reaction.
• DateTime home page — is it the precision quartz masterpiece or the cuckoo clock of perl modules?
• Parsing HTML with HTML::PARSER — or a spider's eye view of the world wide web.
• Far More than Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know about Prototypes in Perl — by Tom Christiansen — or where to put your $ (or possibly not your best investment as a Perl programmer).
• The difference between "The Flow" and "Positioning" for Web Pages — or why is my thingy in the wrong place?
• The Z-Index CSS Property: A Comprehensive Look — or how to get on top.