Perl

I have pushed out a new version of mp4meta which has the following fixes:

• Correctly set the long description attribute
• Fix movies being imported as ‘Home Video’s in iTunes 11

The fix for iTunes 11 should be a welcome one for anyone who has imported movies recently!

As promised, I have pushed out a new version of mp4meta which fixes getting IMDB data by using the IMDB API via WebService::IMDBAPI.

WebService::IMDBAPI is a Perl 5 interface to the IMDB API, a free service which provides a nice API to the IMDB data.

A new version of WebService::TVDB has been released to the CPAN. It features a number of enhancements all of which were initially implemented by Tim De Pauw:

This week I pushed out a new version of mp4meta, my script to apply iTunes style metadata to a video (see my introduction post for information on what mp4meta does).

Note: This module is now called WebService::TVDB, as it’s a more appropriate namespace. Net::TVDB will be removed from the CPAN.

It was unclear at first how best to give something back to Perl. Fortunately there was more than one way to do it.

Recently I have been using Buildbot for continuous integration for a number of my open source projects, including some Dist::Zilla based Perl projects (see http://ci.arjones.co.uk/).

I wanted a script to dump the entire contents of my KinoSearch1 index into a flat file. Turns out this was pretty easy by using the KinoSearch1::Index::IndexReader.

When developing for multiple platforms, its always the little things that catch you out.

Heres one example I found while developing gcal, a Command Line Interface to Google Calendar. On Unix (including Mac OS X shells) wildcard expansion is done by the shell, and then the expanded list of files is passed on to the program being run. On Windows, the shell doesn’t do any expansion, and it’s up to programs to do the expansion¹.