Tag Archives: Perl

a busy day, filled with Perlnanigans

Published: 19 April 2007
Today was one of those kick-ass days that went by in a whirlwind. I had a discrete math test at 9:30 this morning and I think I did really well on it. It seemed only slightly harder than his last one, which was the easiest test he’d given us. After that, I [...]
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toilet paper holder engineering and Perl issues

Published: 13 April 2007
How many engineers does it take to design a toilet paper holder? You wouldn’t think such a seemingly simple device would be difficult, but it’s apparently impossible. Think about it: when you go to a public restroom and there’s the big container of toilet paper rolls in the stall, how often is [...]
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using Perl and Apache on OS X

Published: 22 March 2007
What was this /private/etc/httpd/users/sarah.conf that it was talking about? I had never created this file. I checked and it certainly existed. It also had an Options line without ExecCGI--bingo! I simply removed the file because it was just redefining what I had already specified in httpd.conf for Users/*/Site directories (shown above). I then restarted Apache and voila, my scripts worked.
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fungal database project

Published: 24 February 2007
Work has been going all right. I’m converting over an old Perl web interface to Rails. It seems so crazy to write a Perl web interface for a MySQL backend from scratch; the guy didn’t use any kind of framework. The project deals with bioinformatics, specifically a fungal database. The database itself is huge: 1.4G. [...]
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back in Rails work

Published: 9 February 2007
Classes have started again for the spring semester and I’m off my co-op, so I’m back in full-time classes. I do have to pay the bills, though, so I’m working for one of my professors. He called it “undergraduate research,” and it is kinda that because I have to learn a lot of biology/bioinformatics stuff [...]
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extensionChanger.pl

Published: 18 December 2005
This script will rename all files with one extension to another extension. Example: all files in a given directory that end with .php will be renamed to end with .txt. Download the program and instructions The only change you might have to make is if you’re on a Linux machine and Perl is not at [...]
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