One of the good and user friendly web browsers Opera (in my hierarhy it’s on second place, right after Firefox) celebrates tenth anniversary and gives all unregistered users free registration codes! Just simple click here! This offer is valid from 12 a.m. Tuesday, August 30 to 12 a.m. Wednesday, August 31 2005 (PDT). Don’t miss your chance!
I’d like to congratulate all Opera developers, promoters and users! Good work! Keep on going!
I’ve released WWW::Yahoo::Movies which is a Perl extension to the Yahoo! Movies. I found many Perl modules related with Yahoo! and I decided to create another one which can help people to get information about movies. WWW::Yahoo::Movies has basic functionality. It can retrieve movie information (title, prodaction date, distributor name, plot summary, cover image file address etc) by its title or Yahoo! Movies ID.
I’m going to extend WWW::Yahoo::Movies functionality to provide getting information about actors, actresses, directors etc. Fell free to get it, test it and send me your suggestions or bug reports.
SmugMug Maps is a free map service based on Google Maps API:
smugMaps is easily one of the most fun features we’ve added to smugmug. Through the power of Google’s publicly available Maps API and smugmug’s huge photo database, we’ve enabled location-based searching for photos all over the world…In fact, we built smugMaps as a proof-of-concept and hope that other people take the idea and built even cooler ideas on top of it. To that end, we’ve tried to document our javascript well, so you can see what we’re doing…
It’s increasingly difficult to get lost yourself 
Open Office 2.0 Kicks MS Office Around the Block is an article by Alice Hill. I’m agree Open Office 2.0 is much much better than Open Office 1.1. I remember my first impression of it: terrible slowly, poor compatibility with MS Office documents, ugly interface. But during 2 years Open Office has grown and it continues to grow. Now we can compare it with MS Office. One of useful features of OO is convertion documents in the different formats like PDF, XML, DocBook etc. MS Office cannot do it without installation of specific plugins.
But there is an one thing which presents in MS Office and which is lacking in Open Office (I need that when I copy some artcle from browser to the text editor). It’s an intergration with web browser. Try to copy some text with tables, styles and pictures from Firefox to OO Writer. You’ll see only text! In my mind it’s useful feature and it’ll be great if Open Office developers implement it.
Try OpenOffice.org 2.0 Beta 2 now! It’s available for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Windows and Macintosh
I have a lot of work now. I still have to work for two person. I cannot find a time to develop my work stuff. I don’t talk about my open source projects and Perl modules. Thank God, I need to hold out only 5 days! I feel like I work ten years without the rest!
Thank God, after three weeks we go to St Petersburg on vacation!
Recently I’ve found a simple DBI wrapper – DBIx::DWIW – Do What I Want. It seems this module contains a set of methods which have more native syntax and original features.
There are a couple methods which I have seen and found interesting:
- FlatArray(sql_string) – passes a SQL string and returns a record set as simple flat array. It’s very useful for example if a query returns one column and many rows (SHOW TABLE)
- Scalar(sql_string) – passes a SQL string and returns a simple scalar. It’s a case when query returns only one value (SELECT count(*) FROM table)
- CSV(sql_string) – passes a SQL string and returns values as CSV (Comma Separated Value) string.
Have a look that module. Hope it will help you in your work.
One of my colleagues left to vacation. Now I have to work with his stuff. I found one of the hardest task is replication of two MYSQL servers. They work both as master and as slave. So, everytime I have to check their statuses to know replication is alive or not. Unfortunatelly, I haven’t faced with MYSQL replication before. That’s why it was novelty for me . I’ve discovered a very useful book – “High Performance MySQL” on O’Reilly site.
As you can know there is a sample chapter for every O’Reilly books. I was amazing! The sample chapter of “High Performance MySQL” was “Chapter 7: Replication”!!! That chapter helped me. I found there some useful receipts how to check a process of replication. You can use my simple Perl script which check status of master and slave and create a report. The script is based on receipt from “High Performance MySQL”.
check_repl_status.pl
One of the best way to find quickly command, programming language fuction etc is using Quick Reference Cards. I’ve found today a good set of Quick Reference Cards for Perl, PHP, SQL etc. They are very helpful! Try to test it!
