The other day I received this email from a user of one of my CPAN modules.
This is what makes participating in an Open Source community really worth it! The tool he's talking about is XML::Rabbit. more »
Recently, I was participating in the Moving to Moose hackathon at Preikestolen
near Stavanger, Norway together with a lot of other Perl hackers. more »
Posted by robin on Feb 05 2012 in Perl, Software Development
I've just published a new project on GitHub, named znc-log-viewer, that might be useful for IRC junkies.
If you use the ZNC IRC bouncer to keep you logged on to IRC all the time, you might've enabled the log module to avoid missing messages when you're not connected to the bouncer. more »
Posted by robin on Oct 18 2011 in Perl, Software Development
After I wrote that big 5-part article on WWW::LastFM / XML::Rabbit I noticed several things that could be improved. One of them was the fact that loading configuration information from a file in the home directory was a pretty generic thing to do. I decided to factor that code out and release it as a separate CPAN module that can be used by any Moose class. more »
Have you ever noticed that the sshd on your publicly facing machines gets bombarded with dictionary attacks several times per day? This problem is mostly an annoyance, as it fills up the logs with lots of "User authentication failed, wrong password for " messages. There are of course several ways to work around this problem, and the most common one is to run sshd on another port than 22. I find that approach cumbersome, because it means you'll always have to configure your client software to connect to a non-standard port, and in lots of cases a firewall at your location might be blocking the traffic as well. Isn't there a way to block these bothersome users instead? more »