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

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 [...]

Flickr::Simple2 is an XML::Simple based Perl API to communicate with Flickr.  It is in the early phases of development… comments are welcome
You will need to supply your own Flickr API key.
I released version 0.02 to Perl’s CPAN repository this morning after several delays related to the birth of my son a week ago.  As [...]

I love perl, I really do. The problem is that I need to also work with XML as well. CPAN has numerous modules that work with XML to one degree or another.
Producing XML is simple and easy. Reading or manipulating it involves loading the XML through a parser. The parsers will create a myriad of [...]

brian d foy and crew release another amazing Perl Review magazine issue.  If you haven’t subscribed yet, please please do so, it is a treasure trove of information!  You can even claim the subscription on your 2009 taxes as a business expense.  How cool is that?!?

Issue 5.1, Winter 2008
Surviving Your First Week of Perl (sample)
José [...]

On my media server, I wanted to set up Perl’s CPAN but when I ran install Bundle::CPAN, I ctrl-c’d out of it when I noticed that bzip2 wasn’t installed.  Silly me.  Soon after I started receiving:
Can’t call method “value” on an undefined value at /usr/share/perl5/IO/Uncompress/RawInflate.pm
Reinstalling Perl and all the related ubuntu packages doesn’t fix it, [...]