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d-deDUWhy build yet another video player?d-deDt you ask.Pyro only integrates the core logic of playing video using flash. Yea, sure, you can build your own thing using NetStream and NetConnection, hey , thatd-deOaos basically what Pyro does and thatd-deOaos what professionnals do. They do it over...

Defaults Overrides provides a GUI interface to select 'new' defaults to use instead of those provided by the module.Suppose you are using a module like Total Control which provides several default views for looking at the content on your site. These views are necessarily very generalized. You...

Check if your backups really work Hey there OS X user! Do you back up your files? Of course you do! (Right? Right???) But do your backups work? Really? Are you sure? Have you checked? Backup Bouncer is here to help keep the ugly backup tools out of the club. It's a command-line-based test suite...


Platforms: Mac

I've found that a lot of the blogs I regularly read are discontinuing their blogs for various reasons, and I felt prompted to recontinue this blog. Not having blogged for so long makes me feel like there's a ton I ought to catch this up on, but I figure that can happen with time. In the meantime,...


Platforms: Mac

LongPlayer is a program that automatically fills your Winamp, XMMS or iTunes playlist. It basically replaces the randomization feature of those media players. Those of you who have converted all of your CD's into mp3's (or wma/ogg/..) and try to shuffle songs in your big, static all-containing...


Platforms: *nix

lizard-ui provides a basic Django user interface, so a base Django template and some CSS + javascript. We designed it at Nelen & Schuurmans for our geographical information websites (with water management information). Choices, requirements, assumptions Lizard-ui is opinionated: it makes...


Platforms: *nix

Net::Yadis is a Perl module that performs the Yadis service discovery protocol, and parses XRDS xml documents. Methods discover This constructor performs the discovery protocol on a url and returns a yadis object that parses the XRDS document for you. eval {...


Platforms: *nix

Kwiki::IRCMode is a Perl module that offers colorized IRC conversations in your Kwiki. SYNOPSIS $ cpan Kwiki::IRCMode $ cd /path/to/kwiki $ kwiki -add Kwiki::IRCMode This module registers a ".irc" block, which will format IRC conversations like the following: .irc Hey, is there an IRC...


Platforms: *nix

CGI::Session::Driver::aggregator is a CGI::Session driver to aggregate some CGI::Session drivers. SYNOPSIS use CGI::Session; use CGI::Session::Driver::aggregator::Drivers; use DBI; $dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:mysql:cgi_session;host=localhost', 'root', ''); $drivers =...


Platforms: *nix

Date::Holidays::PT - Determine Portuguese public holidays SYNOPSIS use Date::Holidays::PT; my ($year, $month, $day) = (localtime)[ 5, 4, 3 ]; $year += 1900; $month += 1; print "Woohoo" if is_pt_holiday( $year, $month, $day ); my $h = pt_holidays($year); printf "Jan. 1st is named '%s' ",...


Platforms: *nix

Devel::CheckOS is a Perl module to check what OS we're running on. A learned sage once wrote on IRC: $^O is stupid and ugly, it wears its pants as a hat Devel::CheckOS provides a more friendly interface to $^O, and also lets you check for various OS "families" such as "Unix", which includes...


Platforms: *nix

dirsize' is a simple perl script that displays the size of a given directory recursively... Now, I *KNOW* there must be some other way to do that but hey, it was faster writing down about 40 lines of perl...


Platforms: *nix

FullScreensavers is pleased to present new colorful screensaver of the underwater world. It will surely attract the attention of all underwater kingdom lovers. Here you will find beautiful corals and underwater algae, various fish, dolphins, sea turtles, starfish, jellyfish, crabs and other...


Platforms: Windows, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server