Category Archives: Programming

DBD::mysql, MySQL and OS X Lion

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Simon

I downloaded and installed MySQL Community Server 5.5.15 from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.5.html Using CPAN, I then tried to install DBD::mysql on a fresh install of OS X Lion and was presented with an error saying it was unable to load the library. … Continue reading →

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Shartak internals – Maps and movement

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Simon

The map for Shartak is held in a database table with over 140,000 rows in it. Each row corresponds to a single location on the map, also called a tile. The initial island map was generated automatically based on a … Continue reading →

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IPv6 and Shartak

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Simon

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been trying to figure out IPv6. Having worked through some of the IPv6 certification at http://ipv6.he.net/ I now have an IPv6 enabled web server and mail server as well as IPv6 connectivity at … Continue reading →

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Programming language that’s a little bit different

Posted on June 16, 2007 by Simon

Came across this tonight, I’ve seen lolcats before, but not the programming language lolcode. http://lolcode.com/

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Merging two hashrefs in Perl

Posted on March 3, 2007 by Simon

I came across an interesting and very simple way to merge the contents of two hashrefs today. A hash is made up of pairs – a key and a corresponding value. As an example, the following can be pasted into … Continue reading →

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Greasemonkey

Posted on March 9, 2006 by Simon

Up until now I’ve normally used Safari when browsing the web on my mac, but today I decided to try something new and installed the latest version of Firefox and an extension called Greasemonkey from http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/. Greasemonkey allows you to … Continue reading →

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mod_perl & session ids

Posted on August 4, 2005 by Simon

I’ve been trying out a few things in mod_perl just recently, getting together a small basic framework that handles sessions and generates an entire site (apart from images) from a bunch of Perl modules. It’s a lot harder than I … Continue reading →

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Network programming tutorial

Posted on June 23, 2004 by Simon

Updated my network programming tutorial to answer a question that someone emailed me about it. Tried to compile the library on my mac last night and found that half the makefile was wrong, some of the includes didn’t exist on … Continue reading →

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Compiling DBD::mysql on OSX10.3

Posted on April 27, 2004 by Simon

Having installed MySQL for OSX from Apple’s UNIX & Open Source downloads section and Server Logistics, I found that the Perl module DBD::mysql wouldn’t compile and install. The solution it seems is to compile it by hand (oh, the horror!)

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Template Toolkit (Pt 3)

Posted on April 12, 2004 by Simon

Doh! It seems that Apache::Template (the mod_perl interface for Template Toolkit and a cool looking module) isn’t compatible with mod_perl 1.99 and Apache 2.0.x.

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