PERL saying Hello World (Im just getting started!)
PERL programming A story you can skipI have just started programming with the language PERL and let me tell you it is fantastic Theres times in my experimentation that I have wondered why not more websites are programmed with PERL and how PHP has seemed to take the lead on more current web programming choices In my albeit brief research I found that PERL was kind of a derivative of PHP hacks made for PERL programmers But the performance that you lose in the process is astoundingI started looking into some other languages with a side project I have been working on here and there A website that I used to work on had been posting their professional photographs on Flickr About 13000 pictures later they decided to turn that traffic that goes to flickr back to their site But they really liked the look feel and a choice few functions of Flickr so I started building them Flicker It actually has turned out pretty nice IMO You can check it out at wwwvillasienaccI ran across a few challenges along the way The first was transferring the 13000 images from Flickr over to their server Ill talk about that in a different post but basically I set up a PHP script to pull them over via the Flickr API and then set up a cronjob to fire the script every 5 minutes because I could guarantee its failure due to timing out And thats a good cheat when youre in a
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Compiling and Using wav2png on Linux
This little post started because of halloween Most of my friends know that throughout the years if I am going to dress up for halloween Im either a cop or a ninja Almost every year One year I was a soldier which is pretty much a cop in fatigues And one year I wore an orange shirt that read This is my costume Halloween is right around the corner and Im most likely going to be a cop againIve been getting more authentic by the year whilst hanging on to Arizona Revised Statute 132406 I thought it would be cool this year if I made cop noises You know the crackle of a radio followed by a 10 baker adam 692 in progress 4000 block south 15th street respond code 2 or something like thatMy brain started churning and remembered that you can get Tucsons police radio feed streamed to your computer I figured if I could get my computer to record some good busy radio traffic I could either cheap way play it on my phone or not so cheap way build a walkie talkie amplifier from parts at the Good Will and play it from an mp3 playerWhen I found the link to listen to Tucsons radio I was given a playlist for Windows Media Player But inside that was an XML file that had the url from where to stream it I logged into the server and wanted to see if I could stream it directly into a
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