Perl and Xcode 4

I just bought a new Mac and installed Xcode 4 on it. However, I couldn't build any Perl modules with XS (bits of C) in them. Here's a solution!

Martin Oldfield, 22 Jun 2011

Unicode games with perl, MySQL, and XML

Not for the first time I wasted a few hours getting Unicode things to 'just work' in a Perl project which mixed XML and MySQL. Hopefully these notes will prevent another repetition.

Martin Oldfield, 22 Jun 2011

The Agilent U1272A and MacOS

Brief notes on reading data from an Agilent U1272A multimeter from MacOS.

Martin Oldfield, 22 Jun 2011

Perl tools for MPFS2

Recent versions of Microchip's TCP/IP stack (after version 4.11) use a new filing system and web server: MPFS2 and HTTP2. Microchip supply a Windows program, MPFS2.exe to manage things, but this is quite inconvenient for people on Linux or OS X. These Perl programs try to help.

Martin Oldfield, 16 Jun 2010

Stripboard Templates

A simple Perl script to generate blank stripboard templates.

Martin Oldfield, 16 Jun 2010