PIXEL PATINA
Putting an oldtime tint in your digital images
Sep 16, 2009
With the GIMP image editing program, and a little help from Perl, you can enhance your digital photos and transform a modern image into a nostalgic turn-of-the-century shot.
One panel has a neat collection of applets and another has spectacular looks – but a combination of the two is rare. Now help draws nigh for the desktop: PerlPanel is extensible with do-it-yourself widgets.
To identify the geographic regions from which link spam originated, a database locates IP addresses and the Google charts service puts them onto a world map.
Instead of souped up CPUs, simple programming tricks are often all it takes to speed up a program. Profilers can discover bottlenecks that need more TLC from the developer.
CATCHY LOGS
A Perl script implements a singing, musical Internet
Sep 08, 2009
Instead of just monitoring incoming requests in your web server’s logfile, a sound server makes them audible and lets you listen to the tune of users surfing the site.
Mozilla's bug tracker Bugzilla is now available in version 3.4. and developers have worked hard on the major release to make life for the user a lot easier.
Although a USB toy such as a polystyrene rocket launcher only includes a Windows CD, it works fine on Linux with a spot of reverse engineering. With libusb, this doesn’t even require compiling a device driver – Perl controls the device from userspace.
CHECKOUT
A Perl script catalogs books an CDs with the help of barcodes
Mar 30, 2009
Barcodes efficiently speed us through supermarket checkout lines, but the technology is also useful for totally different applications. An inexpensive barcode scanner can help you organize your private library, CD, or DVD collection.
