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MP3 ID3 tagging in PERL

I want to do some MP3 tag manipulation in PERL, so these notes from husk.org will come in handy, and so will the notes on MP3-ID3Lib... Most useful stuff is always on CPAN...Aha, room for TWO pool tables!...

Google API's

I'm using the Google API's to query Google for pages related to my pages...

Perl / Excel

Programming idea for the day! Instead of me trying to convince everyone to stop using bloody spreadsheet for everything, and use a system of mine instead, why not modify my systems to read a real excel spreadsheet! It's going to be impossible to conv...

Perl and Excel

Found some handy documentation at IBM.com of all places.

Ongoing Excel / PERL stuff

The PERL Excel project is coming along nicely, it takes a long time to parse an Excel file, they're enormous... I've been working with a month's worth of gigs, just in partner venues in the UK, and that comes to about 1.1MB, so I opened it in Excel a...

How to convert an Excel date to a UNIX date

Excel stores a date as the number of days since the start of 1900, and UNIX as the number of seconds since the start of 1970, so the sum is:

$unixTime = ( $excelDate - 25569 ) * 24 * 60 * 60;

Freevo

Just got a bundle of new ideas from Kosso and others, doesn't this look like it will play a nice part in the new flat..? Attached a couple of links as repolies, to keep this looking peachy...Sorry for the recent disturbances RSS fans, I made some cha...

Bleb.org

Loads of TV listings available as XML at bleb.org...

BBC RSS feeds

Lots of RSS feeds from the BBC here...

Harvard guide to RSS

It's probably based on something else, but I found this helpful in learning about RSS, I've made some changes to my RSS feeds based on this... Going to use this on more of the work sites too.PopEx is behaving well today, and I'm feeling quite spritel...

URL Encoding

Had a hiccup when trying to make content management system convert any content that's past through it to be valid HTML... my code for converting ampersands in URLs was messing about, making some bad URLs... so how do I convert & into & without co...

But I opened the window!

Interesting and helpful article on opening new windows in a standards compliant manner here...

MySQL Pattern Matching

I like realising things, been using % symbols everywhere in mysql for too long...Missed Lovejoy Cowboys last night, I was tricked into watching Buffy instead... It's not even out on DVD yet, we'll be getting it when it is, oh yes...Busy at work, roll...

Sage and PERL

Had enough success getting Excel and PERL talking, but now onto something trickier; integrating my PERL with Sage accounting software... anyone out there got any advice?Googling is a bit tough so far because of the Sys Admin's Guild and something cal...

Doc Searls' IT Garage

News, ideas and real world stories about how IT folks solve their own problems

RSS Enclosure malarkey

Trying to put enclosures in my RSS using XML::RSS, but no matter what I try to add, the enclosure is ignored...%item = ( 'enclosure' => { 'type' => 'text/html', 'length' => '877', 'url' => 'http://www.lauraashley.com/' }, 'link' => 'http:...

Girl with a PERL earring

Nice advent calendar!On a programming tip, my hosting company uksolutions.co.uk just upgraded my account, I've now got half a GB of storage, and five times the data transfer at no extra cost! Up to 25 GB now I think....

Mail::Bulkmail - Platform independent mailing list module

MP3 and PERL aggro

Trying, and failing, to install MP3::Splice and Audio::MPEG on a machine here at work, why does none of this go smoothly? It's making the day REALLY CRAPPY... MP3::Splice looked to be GREAT for getting an MP3, and chopping out a sample of it, but I c...

RE: MP3 and PERL aggro

time was that you could just cut them - they have no main header, and are arranged in a series of frames. Players didn't used to complain about half chopped intro or outro frames...Actually - you probably still can - depends what you are trying to do...

Dodgy referers

Just written some code to plug into my refererCode scripts to stop this referer spam nonsense... it's sure to be a bit too strict at first, but what it's going to do is check each new referer I get in my logs, request that page to see if there really...

Upload a file

search.cpan.org: PDF::Reuse - Reuse and mass produce PDF documents

Don't take your love to town

Why is this ruby script getting links to it? Is it all people like me who can't believe it's getting links to it and so they're linking to it? Am I missing something here? Is it people who are too young to have heard of shell scripts and the like? I ...

Thanks but I am a bit busy at the moment

Guessing it's not all redundancies at the BBC

Does this sound like the BBC to you? It might not be I guess. I got this job ad seven times today, once recruitment companies get your details they WILL NOT EVER unsubscribe you. I have to report each one as spam now, it's for their own good...Hope y...

They properly out did you

Now, if my GCSE Double Award Science serves me right, Richter's very handy scale is logarithmic. Which means that the quake in Lincolnshire was TEN TIMES the magnitude of the one you had. Just think how much bigger those cracks could have been....

PHP 4 to 5 migration

Bit of an all encompassing thing this, I use PHP for work and for home, I've pretty much abandoned perl since I joined Holiday Extras a year and a half ago. PHP4, widely used everywhere, (including on this blog) is about to die. It's been on it's way...

More vino

Clare did not open that Peter Lehman in the end, she took my cold into consideration, my taste buds have been shot... I did not even try any of the Roggeri Barolo that was out for tasting in Karl's. Maybe next weekend. Had a nice valentines day, took...

Suede

Suede are properly back...

pre-sale tickets - on sale 9am, Wednesday 21st April, general on-sale tickets - on sale 9am, Friday 23rd April