Beginners' Dance Class: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y64Ynur-veU

Perl turned 20 a couple of years ago. It has been with us since the Web has learned to crawl. Long before php, java beans and web application frameworks. There is tons of old perl out there, but there is also new perl code which runs on modern websites. Sometimes it is hard to find what is what.

I found a new toy: Dancer, the minimal effort perl web framework, see http://perldancer.org. Main advantage: easy to start even without any real webapp experience, good learning curve, nice community (still somewhat small) . Dancer code looks good. Some would even say elegant.

Anyways, I just noticed that I don't even need a session. I can just load info in class variable

our $memory_cache;

Here is a windows xp executable of Tim Brody's oai_browser from cpan.

Recently, I installed search files http://drupal.org/project/search_files and noticed that I still cannot search my docx files. So here my first attempt to solve the problem. A little perl script that reads in docx, unzips it, and displays the content in no particular order using libxml. It's my first attempt. Version 0.001 after a few minutes.

Found a similar project: http://docx2txt.sourceforge.net

which uses

Last time, I reported my problems with cleaning my iTunes library.

In the past, I had various problems with storing my mp3s, hard disk failures and consequent attempts to save them etc. I must have played back my backups more than once, anyways, I  nearly have every file at least twice.

Really, I can't believe it. I am back to my problems with ftp again. FTP is so limited: the in-built security breach with unencrypted password is only the tip of the iceberg. Today, I realized  that the limitation that you cannot transfer from one remote site to another etc. is most likely built in the protocol specification. What I don't quite get is how so many people (including me) still use it? How can web providers still offer only ftp access and nothing else. And above all, if that is the case why are there not better perl modules for ftp around.