Tuesday, June 21, 2011

first commit of perl-command-line-rss

perl-command-line-rss is a perl script that you run from the command prompt (I started it for use in Windows, will add Unix functionality later). Once the list of feeds is pulled back, you can select an article and view it using Lynx.

It is hosted over at GitHub, you can view it at https://github.com/jonaldomo/perl-command-line-rss

md5sum fciv for windows

Windows used to come with fciv.exe which is a File Checksum Integrity Verifier utility. More information is over at the Wikipedia entry md5sum.

The file itself is available from Microsoft Support. Usage is on the same page as the download.

In short it gives the user the opportunity to confirm that the file you are downloading is legit and has not been tampered with.

Monday, June 20, 2011

perl whois client

The below code snippet is a simple WHOIS client in Perl. I spent the majority of the time trying to find an easy syntax highlighter to use. I decided on https://gist.github.com It doesn't have line numbers, but it is only one line compared to SyntaxHighlighter or Google Code Prettify. Also Blogger doesn't allow LINK tags for external CSS.