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Here is a quick script I wrote for my dad so that when he logs in it will tell him if he’s got any new messages.
If it was anything other than a basic yahoo account (webmail only, no POP or IMAP) I could have used the mail-notification package
#!/bin/bash

#requires packages libnotify-bin, fetchyahoo

# include settings from $HOME/.yahoomail, [...]

One of PHP’s more surprising error messages. It’s in hebrew, ‘paamayim nekudotayim’ means a ‘::‘.

For those of you that read my posts ages ago about parsing Superbase files with Perl (Parsing Progress and Parsing Binary data with Perl), here’s an update
I finally found some documentation of the SBF file format. It has made the work a lot easier.
I had realised before that the data was split into multiples of [...]

I went up to London this weekend for the London Perl Workshop which was run by the London Perl Mongers. The journey there was a bit of a disaster but we finally got there.
I went to several presentations:

Packaging Perl Applications
Dealing with issues surrounding packaging Perl code as a standalone unit.

The Goo
A productivityapplication someone built for [...]

I’ve added a nicer page for the barcode generator that also includes a quick walkthrough on how to read Code 39 barcodes.
I’m also adding visitor logging so I can see how popular it is.

This post is coming to you from Sundown 2005, a demoscene party in Budleigh Salterton.
There are lots of cool demos of pretty shiny things. One of them including graphics being run on iPod (fear the pod for it is shiny). There are also quite a few old skool stuffs like Spectrum music competitions and demos.
The [...]

I am still working on a Perl script to parse the letterbox Superbase file. It has been tricky. Perl allows you to read in a file using specific delimiters as record separators but I couldn’t use this (normally) really useful feature because the record seperator (0×80) sometimes appeared in the data as part of a [...]

Yipes! Another blog post. Yeah, I decided that I’ve been neglecting this blog and not giving it the attention it deserves. So here is another post.
I’ve been writing Perl stuff this morning. A few years ago I bought a CD containing the 100 Club letterbox database as a Superbase (SBF) database file with a Windows [...]

Here is the latest screenshot of my coursework.

Check this out. This is a screenshot of my MEDA302 coursework.
It is a program that allows you to create a 3D object given a profile. The coursework part one required the display of a 3D object on a screen, however it also specified that we weren’t alowed to use a 3D API like OpenGL. The [...]