A Intermittent Problem: I wrote a Perl script for Nagios that would figure out the bandwidth of an interface by parsing TX (transmit) and RX (receive) bytes from /proc/net/dev. The proc file system is a virtual file system that provides the ability to view various kernel statistics as well as modify some kernel parameters. My… Continue Reading
The Module This new module I have written provides an object oriented interface to TVRage’s XML service which allows you to get episode and other information for television shows. It is written very similarly to my previous module, WebService::UPS, and also uses XML::Simple and Mouse. You can get the module from CPAN here. You can… Continue Reading
Introduction: O’Reilly’s Mastering Algorithms with Perl is written for programmers who are already quite familiar with Perl. I thought it might help myself and maybe others to walk through the code for selection sort that is on Page 120 because the code isn’t the clearest Perl. My analysis is not meant to explain selection sort… Continue Reading
The Module: I have made a Perl object oriented module for tracking UPS shipments. To use this module you will need to get a developer key for the UPS online tools here. This module makes a XML request to the online tools, and then parses the response using XML::Simple. The module has methods to get… Continue Reading
Introduction: I think of the American government as a democratic republic. The government is run by a small group of people, a republic, that is elected by the public to represent them, a democracy. Congress, and the bills they pass, should have oversight from the people. Although the bills are made available to the public,… Continue Reading