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Headless Raspberry Pi Setup

Posted on December 29, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , |

Headless Raspberry Pi Setup Don’t have an extra keyboard or HDMI cable? Here’s how to do a headless Raspbian install on your Pi. To use headless wireless, edit wpa_supplicant.conf in the boot partition (direct from Windows): ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev update_config=1 network={   ssid=”YOUR SSID HERE”   psk=”YOUR PASSWORD HERE” } (taken from Raspberry Pi 3 Raspbian Jessie with […]

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cpan-river-1000

Posted on December 27, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , |

Updated CPAN River available This is an nntp.perl.org archived post from the Perl QA mailing list. Links to this gist.

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Git PSA: git-rev-parse

Posted on November 30, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , |

Git PSA: git-rev-parse Git has a bewildering variety of notations for referring to commits and other objects. If you type something like origin/master~3, which commit is that? git-rev-parse is your window into Git’s understanding of names

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Flight rules for git

Posted on November 21, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , |

Flight rules for git What are “flight rules”? A guide for astronauts (now, programmers using git) about what to do when things go wrong. Flight Rules are the hard-earned body of knowledge recorded in manuals that list, step-by-step, what to do if X occurs, and why. Essentially, they are extremely detailed, scenario-specific standard operating procedures. […]

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Firefox Developer Tools | Browser Toolbox

Posted on November 17, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , |

Firefox Developer Tools | Browser Toolbox The Browser Toolbox enables you to debug add-ons and the browser’s own JavaScript code rather than just web pages like the normal Toolbox. The Browser Toolbox’s context is the whole browser rather than just single page on a single tab. Also discussed here: Inspect / discover editable css with […]

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Sample Database: Chinook

Posted on November 6, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , |

Chinook Database Chinook is a sample database available for SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, etc. It can be created by running a single SQL script. Chinook database is an alternative to the Northwind database, being ideal for demos and testing ORM tools targeting single and multiple database servers. (Data is music oriented – artist, album, track […]

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Automated testing on Windows with AppVeyor

Posted on October 23, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , |

Automated testing on Windows with AppVeyor AppVeyor is a continuous integration service similar to Travis CI, just on Windows. If you have a Perl module on GitHub, it’s not that hard to have it run tests automatically on Windows; it’s just not well documented.

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Introducing the PAUSE Operating Model

Posted on October 23, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , |

Introducing the PAUSE Operating Model At the Toolchain Summit this year, one of the discussion sessions was to reflect on how the DBIx::Class ownership conflict was handled. We didn’t only discuss DBIx::Class, but how a range of other situations were handled. One of the outcomes of that session was a request that the PAUSE admins […]

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Fixing Legacy Perl Functions With Decorators

Posted on October 21, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , |

Fixing Legacy Perl Functions With Decorators Function decorators give us a way to modify a function’s behaviour without changing its source. This is useful in changing the behaviour of complex or legacy functions that you don’t want to touch. Although perl does not have a built-in syntax for creating or using decorators, typeglob manipulations are […]

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Modern JavaScript Explained For Dinosaurs

Posted on October 19, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , |

Modern JavaScript Explained For Dinosaurs The goal of this article to to provide a historical context of how JavaScript tools have evolved to what they are today in 2017. We’ll start from the beginning and build an example website like the dinosaurs did — no tools, just plain HTML and JavaScript. Then we’ll introduce different tools incrementally […]

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