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WordPress 2009/06/26 1 min read

Massive Migration to WordPress

One of the sites I'm running is a long established community website with zillions of posts and bazillions of comments. The whole stuff is powered by a home made CMS written in Perl, something I did nearly 10 years ago and that is totally outdated today. For instance, there were no such things as "comment spam" back in that time,…

Code 2007/08/17 2 min read

What Chmod ? Symbolic to Octal Notation Perl Script

Have you ever "ls -l" a file or directory, watch its "-r-x–s-wT" symbolic notation and ask to yourself: "what the hell is that chmod ?". This was the case for me several times today, so before I spent 1 minute on thinking about the notation, I decided to spent 5 minutes on a quick Perl script. What Chmod converts those…

Code 2006/04/18 1 min read

Last.fm Stream Ripper

I just found about last.fm-ripper, a Perl CPAN module that saves last.fm radio streams to individual mp3's. How cool does that sound ? The readme even says that with a proper MP3::Tag module, mp3 files are saved with correct ID3 tags, which I haven't tried yet. Usage is cake easy. Once the archive untarred, you just : < View plain…

Code 2005/01/08 1 min read

Deleting all mails with a simple Perl script

Spammed ? Delete all mails in a click !

Paste(): like PHP Pastebin, but better since it handles (and highlights) several languages, from C to XML, not just PHP. This is useful for example to ask for programming help on IRC, instead of spamming a channel with 30 lines of your bugging code.

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Code 2004/09/28 1 min read

Massive Migration to WordPress

What Chmod ? Symbolic to Octal Notation Perl Script

Last.fm Stream Ripper

Deleting all mails with a simple Perl script

Improve your Windows search with Perl

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