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It’s now on CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/~bmavt/Pikeo-API-1.00/lib/Pikeo/API.pm Project page still available: http://projects.brunotavares.net/projects/show/pikeoperlapi

Some modules like XML::Simple export some functions by default into your namespace. Normally you don’t want this functions since the module has a OO interface; so, how to avoid the auto-export from taint your namespace ? You can, at include time, be careful and explicitly tell the module not to export anything by doing this: [...]

… you really should ckeck out HttpFox : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6647 It provides all the information that Live HTTP Headers do (and more, like request time tracking ) but with better organization.

At work we had the need to interact with Orange‘s Pikeo service. Pikeo is a Flickr like photo management/sharing service that has a REST API. We ended up making a, object oriented, Perl wrapper for the API. The Perl API project is here, will be published to cpan as soon as we finish the documentation. [...]

I still use svn for some projects, some of them are python. Python pre-compiles the python files, so, the first time i run one of this projects i end up with a bunch of .pyc files that i don’t want to add to the repository. Since svn doesn’t know this files the svn status generates [...]

I’ve a lot of code that depends on different versions of the same library, its quite hard to maintain the different versions installed in their specific dirs along with all their dependencies without tainting anything else. To be able to run all of this code in one machine i’ve to make a lot of manipulation [...]