Paul Lukas : Inconspicuous Consumption
"It's about deconstructing the details of consumer culture -- details that are either so weird or obscure that we'd never see them, or so ubiquitous that we've essentially stopped seeing them. ... Every month, this column will use products like these -- some of them eccentric, many exceedingly ordinary, but all worthy of close inspection -- as a way to look at consumer culture in excruciating detail." This month's topic is the almost forgotten, but amazingly topical, hole puncher.
Me : Favorites::Convert.pm
The other day I came across a Perl script on Freshmeat that
converts your IE (Win) favorites into a Netscape bookmarks file. I tried it out and thought wouldn't it be cool if I could make other bookmarkish files from my IE favorites. [I am no big fan of Microsoft but the fact remains that they have the best browser on the market right now.] So I chunked out the code and put it in a module and told it load other modules depending on what kind of output file you're after. As of this writing Favorites::Convert will generate plain old HTML, XBEL and OPML files. Still to do : proper documentation ( don't worry there's a test script that calls the single public method ), indentation / pretty-printing and moving the bookmark definition information into XML files so they can be read by other languages.
Kip Hampton : Simple XML Validation with Perl
"Now what does Test.pm have to do with validating an XML document? The answer lies in its combination with the XML::XPath module. The XPath language provides a simple, powerful syntax for navigating the logical structure of an XML document. XML::XPath allows us to take advantage of that power from within Perl."
Jeff Rowan : Creating a Log Class in Perl
"What did all those spooler daemons do while I was at lunch?"
Jonathon Eisenzopf : RSA Encryption in Perl
"using the Crypt::RC4 module."