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Headless Raspberry Pi Setup
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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Updated CPAN River available This is an nntp.perl.org archived post from the Perl QA mailing list. Links to this gist.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on cpan-river-1000 )Flight rules for git
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. […]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on Flight rules for git )Firefox Developer Tools | Browser Toolbox
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 […]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on Firefox Developer Tools | Browser Toolbox )Sample Database: Chinook
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 […]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on Sample Database: Chinook )Automated testing on Windows with AppVeyor
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.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on Automated testing on Windows with AppVeyor )Fixing Legacy Perl Functions With Decorators
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 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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