http://zakame.spunge.org/blog Zak B. Elep --- blog, stories, and other stuff Sun, 16 Dec 2007 15:38:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As mentioned last time, I released my first Perl module to the CPAN, called Tie::Amazon::S3. What it does is rather simple: it allows one to treat an Amazon S3 bucket as a Perl hash, like so: use Tie::Amazon::S3; tie my %bucket, 'Tie::Amazon::S3', $my_aws_id, $my_aws_passwd, $my_s3_bucket;   # read a remote file to a ... http://zakame.spunge.org/blog/2007/12/16/tying-perl-hashes-to-amazon-s3-buckets/ Its been a couple of weeks since the Open Source Developers' Conference in Brisbane, but it was only now that I've got the time to blog about it. :) This is due to some work that got piled in my backlog (I haven't been lazy enough to have this ... http://zakame.spunge.org/blog/2007/12/15/to-australia-and-back-osdc-brisbane-2007/ Tomorrow I'll be off to Brisbane, Australia to attend the Open Source Developers' Conference. My thanks to the UNDP-APDIP International Open Source Network and the OSDC organizers for selecting me to participate in their Exchange Grants! I thought I wasn't going to make it, though, as the notice ... http://zakame.spunge.org/blog/2007/11/24/off-to-osdc/ If you're reading mails offline on Linux (or if you're browsing from GMail,) and you have some contacts using a Mac who sends you emails with attachments from Mail.app, you may some of the time get attachments that may seem to be unreadable by the intended application (like, when some ... http://zakame.spunge.org/blog/2007/10/10/working-with-mac-sent-attachments-in-linux/ This weekend, a rather long one due to the observance of the National Heroes' day, got me started into doing some little hacks for WeeChat, an IRC client that I have been using in place of Colloquy on the Macbook which I use at work. I have been using ... http://zakame.spunge.org/blog/2007/08/28/weekend-hacks-growl-notify-and-weeter-for-weechat/ I seriously lack originality on that title above. Nevertheless, that gives some clues on what I'm up to: I rode my first airplane flight ever to Cebu with Jerome last Sunday to meet up with the rest of the pioneering team of Winston's new startup, Morph Labs. Since it was ... http://zakame.spunge.org/blog/2007/07/16/first-day-morphs/ I've been away from blogging. I've been away from doing Debian and Ubuntu work (although there has been a few package updates, as well as a new one.) I've been away from a lot of happenings (like how the excellent Knightlust got to convince my fellow townsfolk at ... http://zakame.spunge.org/blog/2007/07/10/getting-back-to-the-action/ http://zakame.spunge.org/blog/2007/05/04/obligatory/ In a yet futile attempt to write an April Fools' Day joke, Palm Inc. will be offering palm leaves to Christian Palm buyers in observance of Palm Sunday. Palm officials declined to comment. http://zakame.spunge.org/blog/2007/04/01/palm-to-offer-palm-leaves-for-palm-sunday/ [Note: I wrote this more than three weeks ago, but due to me being lazy again (yeah right) I'm just publishing this now. Well, here goes:] Due to a project working on (in Perl,) I'm asking the great Lazyweb for their great insight into the problem of sending outgoing mails. It ... http://zakame.spunge.org/blog/2007/03/28/what-do-you-want-most-in-an-outgoing-mailer/