http://blogs.aarohan.biz Writings on Linux, Perl and related topics from Aarohan Tech Wed, 27 May 2009 10:05:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In this post I'll go over a simple example on how to use jQuery with AJAX and JSON with your Perl web applications. I've used a plain-old CGI script along with Template Toolkit for this. However, you can very well use this under any web application framework. The main point ... http://blogs.aarohan.biz/2009/05/26/get-started-with-jquery-ajax-and-json-in-your-perl-web-applications/ In spite of programming in Perl for the past eight years, I'm not sure how I missed this book. Extreme Programming in Perl is a wonderful book which teaches you about XP with a focus on Perl. I came upon this website during some Google searches I ran for a ... http://blogs.aarohan.biz/2009/05/19/perl-with-xp-extreme-perl/ Yeah, I know it sounds silly. I've now read the Rose::DB::Object tutorial and the Moose manual several times and can't wait to get started on my current and future projects using these technologies. I find Rose::DB::Object to be a refreshing change over all the ORMs out there, and I especially ... http://blogs.aarohan.biz/2009/05/07/moose-with-rosedbobject-roose-morose/ I use this Perl one-liner to display the version number of a module. This module should be available in your @INC paths. If I need to know the version of CGI.pm $ perl -MCGI -e 'print "$CGI::VERSION\n"' 3.29 I created a shell script so that I can just type the module name. $ cat pm_version.sh #!/bin/sh MODULE=$1 perl ... http://blogs.aarohan.biz/2009/05/02/perl-one-liner-to-display-module-version-info/ Email has now become the tool of choice for quick and effective business communication. From the biggest companies to the smallest start-up, we all use email daily to communicate with Our Clients as well as for internal team communication. Although email does lack the collaborative feature, its the best tool ... http://blogs.aarohan.biz/2009/02/16/using-thunderbird-to-increase-your-email-productivity/ Standard Disclaimer You can accomplish this in Windows too by installing cygwin or the various tools mentioned in this article. This rant is more about the Linux way of doing things, rather than fighting over which OS is better. I'm not implying that I'm smarter or better than you. Thats for you to ... http://blogs.aarohan.biz/2009/01/04/linux-advocacy-editing-multiple-files-quickly/ svn diff the current windows file Put this in your vimrc: map zs :!svn diff % > /tmp/vimsvndiff<CR><CR>   \ :new<CR>:r /tmp/vimsvndiff<CR>   \ :set ft=diff<CR> Say you're editing a checked out file and what to see what changes you've done without leaving your VIM session? Just type zs when in normal mode. This will open the ... http://blogs.aarohan.biz/2008/10/21/some-vim-tips/ We released imsense version 1.0 yesterday. Friday the 13th! Auspicious indeed. version 1.0 is available as an ISO image download. The release info on freshmeat.net is here. We got quite a few downloads already. Must be the automated syndication bots. Hope we get some real users soon! What is imsense? Imsense aims to ... http://blogs.aarohan.biz/2008/06/14/imsense-release-10/ I released Finance::Bank::HDFC version 0.14 recently. The latest release has the all important get_mini_statement() method implemented. Yes! Check your mini account statement (last 20 transactions) from the command line! The Template::Extract module from CPAN was extremely helpful here. The account statements were available as JavaScript code in the source HTML file. ... http://blogs.aarohan.biz/2008/04/17/financebankhdfc-and-templateextract/ Would like to send out my thanks to the Google Adwords API team for selecting me as an Adwords API Guru, specifically geared towards the Adwords API group on Google Groups. I guess this is because I maintain the Perl library Google::Adwords which you can find on CPAN. Time to brush up ... http://blogs.aarohan.biz/2008/02/19/google-adwords-api-guru/