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…
Configuration file options
For quackjson (a Python implementation of a BBS client) I needed to create a configuration file which allows the user to specify their login credentials and how they want the client…
The BSD family
If you're a regular reader of this blog, chances are that you have at least heard of Linux, even if you don't use it directly on a daily basis. However,…
Writing schedule
One of my goals for this year is to create and stick to a writing schedule for all of my non-personal blogs - currently PHP Developer, Politics Geek and Insurance…