Perl

I talked about the joys of running my own mail server last week only to find that my mail server was broken yesterday.

I enjoy using CPAN because it installs Perl modules with a simple interface, fetches dependencies, and warns you when things are about to end badly.

I was working with a CentOS 5 x86_64 installation running VMWare server last week when I stumbled upon this error:

One of the most frustrating aspects of CPAN is connecting to mirrors via FTP.

I received an e-mail from Tim Linden about a post he made in his blog about backing up MySQL data to Amazon’s S3.

Apparently, a recent Red Hat Enterprise Linux update for ES3, 4 and 5 caused some Perl applications to throw errors like these: