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Perl and Flickr: Flickr::Simple2

by Jason L Froebe on April 2, 2013, no comments

I’m in the process of cleaning up Flickr::Simple2 and adding in support for oauth.  There are several Perl modules providing oauth which I will test for ease of use and maintainability.  Just an fyi at this point

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Howto: Unable to start Catalyst web applications using the built in development server? We have the answer

by Jason L Froebe on May 16, 2010, 3 comments

If you’re getting the “Can’t locate Catalyst/Engine/HTTP/Restarter.pm” error message, it is very likely you’re running a recent version of Catalyst: script/lolcatalyst_lite_server.pl -r Can’t locate Catalyst/Engine/HTTP/Restarter.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /home/jason/catalyst-book-code/Chapter_3/LolCatalyst-Lite/script/../lib /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .). at /usr/lib/perl5/Class/MOP.pm line 116 Class::MOP::load_first_existing_class(‘Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::Restarter’) called at /usr/lib/perl5/Class/MOP.pm line 121 Class::MOP::load_class(‘Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::Restarter’) called at /usr/share/perl5/Catalyst.pm line 2634 [...]

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Get it here! Perl DBD::Sybase 1.09.01 for Active State Perl 5.10 and 5.8 on Windows XP/Vista/7 32bit

by Jason L Froebe on March 9, 2010, 10 comments

Assuming that you installed Sybase OpenClient 15.5 from the 15.5 PC Client: Install ActiveState Perl from http://www.activestate.com (free) and install DBI if it isn’t already installed.  It should be but you never know… Start -> ActiveState Perl -> Perl Package Manager install DBI exit Now, the easy part.  Install the DBD::Sybase 1.09.01 PPM: download DBD::Sybase [...]

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Get it here! Perl DBD::Sybase 1.09 for Active State Perl 5.10 on Windows XP/Vista/7 32bit

by Jason L Froebe on February 17, 2010, 6 comments

Assuming that you installed Sybase OpenClient 15.5 from the 15.5 PC Client: Install ActiveState Perl from http://www.activestate.com (free) and install DBI if it isn’t already installed.  It should be but you never know… Start -> ActiveState Perl -> Perl Package Manager install DBI exit Now, the easy part.  Install the DBD::Sybase 1.09 PPM: download DBD::Sybase [...]

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Developing games with Perl and SDL

by Jason L Froebe on September 12, 2009, 3 comments

Andy Bakun over at Ars Technica wrote an excellent “HowTo” on writing games with Perl and the Simple DirectMedia Library: Developing games with Perl and SDL Get ready to dive into game development! Ars explores the art of SDL game programming with Perl. A dynamic, high-level scripting language and powerful open source SDL bindings make [...]

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