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September 24, 2004

HOW-TO: Take digital photos from a kite

Filed under:Misc, Technology — sps @ 8:44 pm

…convert that old digital camera you’re got in your closet to one that takes a picture automatically every second until the memory card is full…
read the article

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September 16, 2004

LOAF

Filed under:Perl, Technology — sps @ 10:06 am

Came across this today:

LOAF is a simple extension to email that lets you append your entire address book to outgoing mail message without compromising your privacy. Correspondents can use this information to prioritize their mail, and learn more about their social networks.

[vist http://loaf.cantbedone.org]

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September 12, 2004

Xcode and Subversion

Filed under:Development, MacOSX — sps @ 5:13 pm

here is a couple of tips for getting subversion and Xcode working together.

  • if you have subversion installed in a non-standard location you can set the path like so:
    defaults write com.apple.Xcode XCSubversionToolPath /usr/local/bin/svn
    
  • from: http://www.pycs.net/bbum/2004/2/28/
    Since the pbxuser file tracks window positions, file scroll positions, and other information that tends to change often, the differences between any two revisions of the pbxuser file tends to be large. In the context of automatic change notification emails, this tends to be really annoying in that it is this huge chunk of completely irrelevant noise that obscures the useful bits within the notification email. Given that pbxuser is XML, the changes between two revisions aren’t really readable in diff form anyway. Easy fix: tell Subversion that the file is binary. This is simply a matter of setting the mime-type appropriately.
    cd *.xcode
    svn propset svn:mime-type application/octet-stream *.pbxuser
    svn commit -m 'Set mime-type of pbxuser to application/octet-stream to binary.'
    

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September 11, 2004

Reformed Perl - Third millenium syntax for Perl 5 OOP

Filed under:Perl — sps @ 4:30 pm

I havent tried this out, but it looks interesting: reformed perl. some snips:

Rather than using the cumbersome use base 'Parent' you may write:
package Child < Parent;

It is no longer necessary to fish method parameters out of @_:
    sub method($foo, $bar)
    {
        print "First param: $foo";
        print "Second param: $bar";
    }

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September 10, 2004

CPAN Jr.

Filed under:Perl — sps @ 10:21 am

While reading Lightning Articles over at perl.com (I think lightning articles are an excellent idea), I came across CPAN::Mini which is based on an article Mirroring your own mini-CPAN by Randall Schwartz

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September 1, 2004

binding LWP to a specific interface

Filed under:Perl — sps @ 10:54 am

After search and googleing for an answer a nice fellow in #perl (undernet)
came up with the following:
@LWP::Protocol::http::EXTRA_SOCK_OPTS = ( LocalAddr => q(ip.addr) );

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