Jason L. Froebe - Tech tips and How Tos for Fellow Techies

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 1.09.01 PPM
extract zip file [...]

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 1.09 PPM
extract zip file to temporary [...]

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 it possible [...]

I just uploaded the Perl module Flickr::Simple2 version 0.03 to CPAN (PAUSE) so it might be a few minutes/hours before it shows up in the CPAN mirrors.
Revision history for Perl extension Flickr::Simple2.
0.03  Wed May 13 11:18:00 2009
- significant changes to the API to make more methods of the Flickr API available.
- using Iterator::Simple so we [...]

Lewis Cunningham has once again given us a gem from the world of Oracle’s relational DBMS!  This time, he has written ORA_Tweet, an API to send/receive Tweets (microblog posts) from within Oracle 11g.  Major kudos to Lewis Cunningham for writing and releasing ORA Tweet to Sourceforge.net
Call the Twitter API from within an Oracle [...]