Category: CPAN

  • Timeline Diagrams with Perl

    Timeline Diagrams with Perl

    Two weeks ago, I introduced you to my new module SVG::TrafficLight and hinted that there were more SVG-based modules to follow. Today, I’d like to talk about the next one – SVG::Timeline. It all started over a year ago when I was looking through some of the more ridiculous religious questions on Quora when I…

  • Drawing Traffic Lights With Perl

    Drawing Traffic Lights With Perl

    For a thing (that you may hear more about at some point in the future) I needed diagrams of traffic lights. But Google Image Search didn’t really have what I was looking for. Everything was either too realistic or not CC-licensed so I couldn’t use the images how I wanted. So I decided to do…

  • Version Numbers

    Version Numbers

    Last week I mentioned how I had uploaded a new version of Symbol::Approx::Sub. Because there were pretty major changes to the inner workings of the module (although the interface still looked the same) I decided that I would move it from version 2.07 to version 3. At the same time, I decided that I would…

  • Updating Ogg::Vorbis::Header

    Updating Ogg::Vorbis::Header

    Last night, I uploaded a new version of Ogg::Vorbis::Header – a CPAN module that hasn’t been updated since 2003 and which I strongly suspect no-one at all uses any more. You might be interested to hear what I did or why I did it. About a year ago, I wrote about the dashboard I had…

  • Taming QMail

    Taming QMail

    I run my own email server. It uses QMail. I realise there are at least two problems there – all of the cool kids have been using Gmail for their email since approximately forever, and who the hell uses QMail anyway? Like most of these situations, it’s that way for historical reasons. And, of course,…