DKIM may be called as PGP successor: PGP has been used by many people for signing their emails at a time when mostly technical related people had been using the internet. Today, few people still use PGP to sign their emails, but email servers took over this part using a technology called DKIM.
Suchergebnisse mit Tag „CPAN“
MovableType is still using the old, deprecated Digest::SHA1 module in some versions. Using the newer Digest::SHA is recommended and MT will switch in future versions, but Digest::SHA1 is currently still required for commentor logins in some versions.
I tried MovableType just before setting up WordPress for this blog. It didn't offer the features I wanted (okay, WordPress still doesn't have them, but it promised to have them and so it won). After trying out MT again, I want to have it. But what about my existing articles, comments, settings? That's (the only reason) why I'm still using WordPress.
Look at the title and you're done. No need to add a text to this post if everything is said in the title. Not really? France is too small to hold half of the world's population? No way! My computer told me that 4.294.967.296 people live in France - and computers don't fail, you know?
I tried to set up a little notification daemon in one of my projects: It should send a message to my GoogleTalk account for special events and that should be easy using one of the huge amount of Jabber/XMPP modules on CPAN.
Azawawi introduced his newest tool to the #Padre channel today: Farabi, a web-based Perl editor/interpreter/everything.
Encoding is fun. A shirt stating "Schei? encoding" is very popular among German developers. My boss discovered a bad encoding problem yesterday and we've been spending hours searching for the reasons and a solution.
I need to encode and decode a complete hash tree (a value which might be a reference which might contain other references which might contain other references which...) and there is no "Encode::Tree" or "Hash::Encode" module on CPAN.
Data is getting bigger and bigger as technology advances. We didn't even think about using something inefficent like XML when I started writing sourcecode on a Datapoint 6600 or even in MS-DOS world, but today? A meg more or less doesn't matter today. But sometimes space is still premium and so it is for my current project. I'm working with short strings (text plus some extra chars, about 6 bit per char) and they should be compressed.
A new problem appeared about a week ago: Perl paniced - something I've never seen before - with an internal error message "attempt to copy freed scalar". The problem occurred in Carp.pm which is a Perl core module.
There are well-written and not-so-well-written modules on CPAN, but I didn't discover any really bad stuff until now. The module I discovered today is also not bad stuff, but just "completely useless" - but it's that good crap that it's worth a blog post :-)
