Disabling output buffering in Perl
In one of my Perl modules, WWW::BrokenLinks, I wanted to push lots of small log messages to standard output, which I would then redirect to a file. Unfortunately, the combination…
Reinstate logging after upgrading to Debian Wheezy
Recently I noticed that Postfix had stopped logging information about emails which I sent through my VM (I run mutt locally over SSH in a screen session). On closer inspection, it turned…
WordPress 3.9
A new release of WordPress has come out in the past fortnight, taking the blogging software up to version 3.9. I've finished upgrading my sites and haven't noticed much of…
My first CPAN module
Last Friday I uploaded my first module to the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). For those who haven't used Perl before, CPAN is a repository of thousands of reusable modules providing…
Sending email in Perl
If you've been writing Perl for a few months, chances are good that at some point you will need to send emails from your scripts. As always with Perl, there's more…
WordPress 3.8.2
A new version of WordPress was released this week, which includes some important security updates. If you're running a WordPress site, you should upgrade as soon as possible. There don't…
Raspberry Pi at the University of Manchester
This academic year (starting September 2013), the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester (where I obtained my BSc and MPhil degrees) gave a Raspberry Pi to each new undergraduate…
Valgrind warning: client switching stacks
Recently I was writing code in Python and C to find prime numbers using a simple implementation of the Sieve of Eratosthemes (implementation details will follow in a later post).…
Shallow cloning with Git
Sometimes when you clone a Git repository, you just want a snapshot of the code without all the history associated with it. This is known as a shallow clone and…
Akismet 2.6.0
A new version of Akismet, the WordPress plugin which protects your site from spam comments, has been released. This is a relatively mature plugin so the fixes are minor, but…