Category Archives: perl

Building Apache and Mod Perl on Mac OS X

I’ve finally had my work laptop upgraded to Leopard!!! As such, I’ve just spent the last couple of days getting things all set-up nicely so that I can get on with my work. Most of the work that I do … Continue reading

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Ack, a Grep Replacement

Ack is a grep alternative, written in pure Perl, using Perl’s regular expressions to do your searches (just one of the long list of reasons to use this over grep). I think i’ll be using this then… ack is a … Continue reading

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Adding/Deleting Rows in TableKit Tables Revisited

TableKit is a great javascript library for making your HTML tables fully editable. However, one problem is that you can’t add or delete rows from the tables… I came up with a solution to this not so long ago, but … Continue reading

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Visualizing Your DBIC Schema

What a great idea - will give this a bash next week… If you want a somewhat pretty picture of your DBIC schema (with relationships drawn, of course), install GraphViz, SQL::Translator, and DBICx::Deploy from the CPAN, and then run: $ … Continue reading

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Remove Case-Sensitivity in Oracle

Oracle is a great RDBMS, but the fact that searches against the database are case-sensitive can be a pain in the butt. Here’s how you can make searches case-insensitive…

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Adding/Deleting Rows in TableKit Tables

This post has now been updated. Please head over to the new post for something better… Following on from my previous post on how to integrate the excellent TableKit into your Catalyst webapp (to make your data tables dynamically editable), … Continue reading

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Some Useful Catalyst Tips

Found this small selection of tips that can come in use whilst working with Catalyst… read more

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Making Editable Tables With Catalyst and TableKit

Catalyst is an MVC web-development framework for Perl, very similar in concepts, ideas (and even some of the implementation) to Ruby on Rails. I’m using Catalyst a lot in my job now, and one of the first challenges that i’ve … Continue reading

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