Yggdrasil Content Management System by gerard on Thu Dec 11 00:00:00 PST 2003 Yggdrasil is an intriguing pure Perl content management system, based on Text::Template. [read more...]

RSS Feed Fixed by gerard on Wed Apr 30 00:00:00 PDT 2003 The RSS feed for this site has been repaired (the embedded URLs referenced an old web host). The URL of this site's RSS feed is http://home.san.rr.com/lanois/perl/site.xml

Computer Science & Perl Programming - Best of The Perl Journal by gerard on Tue Nov 19 00:00:00 PST 2002 O'Reilly has published Computer Science & Perl Programming - Best of The Perl Journal. This is a compilation of articles originally published in The Perl Journal. Chapter 57, "Spidering an FTP Site", is an article I wrote for The Perl Journal which describes how to recursively upload/download files and directories to/from an FTP site. [read more...]

Convert::yEnc 1.00 released by gerard on Sun Nov 17 00:00:00 PST 2002 Convert::yEnc decodes yEncoded files and writes them to disk. File parts are saved to a temporary directory; when all parts of a file have been received, the completed file is moved to its final location. [read more...]

'ydecode' - A better, faster yEnc decoder. by gerard on Sat Mar 2 00:00:00 PST 2002 I rewrote somebody else's yEnc decoder and posted it on perlmonks.org. In addition to actually working, my version is quite a bit faster than the original. Be warned that there is a Convert::yEnc module on CPAN, but it is non-functional (and the author isn't exactly in a big hurry to make it so). [read more...]