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

Tips & Tricks for Databases (Sybase, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite), Windows, Linux, Solaris, Perl, Java, Bash and so much much more

Howto Perl: Crypt::CBC module with the blowfish encryption cipher

by Jason L Froebe on April 9, 2013, no comments

I came up with the following example a few years back. Crypt::CBC is quite easy to use but can be confusing to new users of it. I prefer to use the subroutines encrypt_hex and decrypt as the encoded string is hexidecimal not in binary format. This allows me to work with it as if it [...]

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“Why the perl community is no boy’s club” by tinita

by Jason L Froebe on April 9, 2013, no comments

If you haven’t read tinita‘s blog post, please do so.  As males we often don’t see the harm we do when we are “just joking around” or “teasing” or whatever our justification is for making crude statements.  I know I am not innocent either, most commonly because I wasn’t aware that <insert some comment> was offensive [...]

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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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A Free Online Perl Regular Expression (regex) tester!

by Jason L Froebe on March 28, 2013, 2 comments

David Oswald created a free online Perl regular expression tester.   He describes it in detail over at Perlmonks.org If you’re like me and don’t everything about regular expressions because you’re short on coffee in the morning, print out Regular expressions in Perl

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HOWTO: Building Perl module DBD::Sybase 1.14 on Windows (32bit or 64bit) with ActiveState Perl 5.16, Microsoft Visual Studio and Sybase OpenClient 15.7

by Jason L Froebe on February 20, 2013, 2 comments

Compiling the DBD::Sybase Perl module really requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 or higher. To get started open the “Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt”. You will need to fix the Makefile.PL file: if ( $^O eq ‘MSWin32′ ) { $lib_string = “-L$SYBASE/lib -llibct.lib -llibcs.lib -llibtcl.lib -llibcomn.lib -llibintl.lib -llibblk.lib $attr{EXTRA_LIBS} -lm”; to if ( $^O eq ‘MSWin32′ [...]

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