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 [...]

Yesterday, I posted Howto: Convert your mp3 tags (id3v2 to id3v1) so your Playstation 3 can play your MP3s! and it worked fine but there was one little problem with it.
When we processed the files, namely running eye3D, we did so synchronously. Essentially, the file notification came in from the Linux kernel and we [...]

Run the converter on your media server: ps3_mp3_converter.pl -d {directory}
Copy your mp3 collection wherever you told ps3_mp3_converter.pl to run in.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Basename;
use File::Find ();
use Getopt::Std;
use Linux::Inotify2;
use POE;
$|++;
#######################################
#######################################
our @found_dirs;
sub watch_add_dir {
 my ($heap_ref, $session, $dir_name) = @_;
 $heap_ref->{inotify}->watch($dir_name, IN_CREATE|IN_CLOSE_WRITE, $session->postback("watch_hdlr"));
 print " Watching directory $dir_name\n";
}
sub watch_hdlr {
 my ($heap_ref, $session, $event) = ( $_[HEAP], $_[SESSION], $_[ARG1][0] );
 my $name [...]

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 [...]