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Recent posts

May 2011

• doskey to improve Win command-line
  Some notes how to better utilize Windows command-line.

March 2011

• My indent style for perl
  You can see my indentation style in articles around, but here is a way I am using to automate this layout. It is handy when I get some messy code and also practical to reformat some parts of my code.

December 2010

• Addressbook migration to Nokia
  This christmas I finally decided to upgrade my venerable cell phone to something newer. Old one, Siemens ME45, served me well for eight years, but its second battery life is close to death and I got feeling new gizmo would be nice.
• List of installed programs
  This shows how to get list of installed programs on Windows machines.
• perl method definition benchmark
  Here is benchmark of running methods of perl class defined by three approaches: plain perl sub, with Method::Signatures::Simple and with MooseX::Declare.

November 2010

• Display time from other timezone
  I am still working on packet analyzer I mentioned last time. Another problem to solve - capture happen in different timezone and I need to output correct time regardless of where my script is running.
• Convert hexdump to binary data
  Working on analysis of network packets I needed to convert data dumped in a file to real binary form before processing them further.
• Term::ReadLine::Perl on Windows
  I plan to write simple console application to interface with databases I maintain. Something like mysql command do, but with few advanced features like autocompletion (which does not work in mysql on Windows) or sending output to pager.

October 2010

• Date parsing
  Date parsing is always problematic. For most of my work I prefer canonical YYYY-MM-DD or YYMMDD format that is great for sorting and easy to parse. But data comes from various sources. Recently I got data with all dates in US format: Wed, Sep 17 2003.
• Address alignment
  During recent work on analysis of ELF (Executable and Linkable Format) file format I needed implement proper alignment of data in sections.
• Local jekyll
  Since I started using jekyll for this site, I wanted to have local instance of it installed on my Windows machine for testing. Finally I made it working, here are steps I did.
• Error like printf
  Sometimes it is handy to have single function to quit application with an error message. Even better when it accepts printf formatting.

September 2010

• Repeated match with regex
  I wrote parsing for graphviz dot files today and found interesting feature of perl regex engine. It can match a pattern repeatedly to sections of the string.
• Section numbering with Template Toolkit
  Recently I was working on documentation for web-based intranet application. Every page is created from templates processed by Template Toolkit. So why not move heading definition into separate block and generate TOC automatically.
• Log::Log4perl in multiple processes
  I am using Log::Log4perl to produce logs from my perl fastcgi applications. There is typically several same processes writing into same log. I was wondering if it is possible to lose some messages this way.