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Perl

2012


2011


mp4meta - Apply iTunes-like metadata to an mp4 file

·2 mins

Recently I decided to digitise all my DVD’s and add them to iTunes, so I can view them on my iPad and my (soon to be purchased) Apple TV. Getting the videos off a DVD is easy with Handbrake, but iTunes has no idea what video file I have just imported, and therefore just uses its filename as the title. Not great.

2010


Perl, Compiled Regex's and FastCGI

·2 mins

Recently I have been having intermittent problems with various Foswiki plugins when running under FastCGI. Sometimes a plugin would only partially render, or would not render at all. Other times it would be fine. On a test install of Foswiki, it always seemed to work fine. As always with intermittent problems, it can be very frustrating to track down the problem…

2009


Removing Referral URL Using a Perl Proxy Script

·3 mins

When you follow links on the internet, your browser will send a referral URL to the server to let it know where it has came from. This can often be useful to the server administrators, as you can use these to analyse how visitors are finding your site or a particular page.


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