Archive for April, 2011
Perlish – List Utilities
Introduction There are two CPAN modules that provide some nice utilities for working with and manipulating lists: List::Util and List::MoreUtils. This article quickly covers a few of these utilities that I have found useful.
Perlish – DBIx::Simple
Introduction Over the years, I’ve spent a lot of time with Perl DBI. It’s a great interface for working with databases, but sometimes I find it a little too heavy. A few months ago I found DBIx::Simple and now all is right with the world.
Caching RPMs with automirror
Introduction In a previous article, I wrote about how to use pkg-cacher to cache requested RPM files. Since then, the website for pkg-cacher has become unavailable and coincidentally I wrote my own tool that provides the same functionality called automirror. This article describes how to use it.