Around OHM2013 I started using Xchat again to manage all the IRC networks I have to be on.
Pidgin simply could not do the job.
However I have to constantly authenticate my self against services. Unfortunately I have lost my ns-authenticate.pl plugin so I wrote a new one
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
Xchat::register(’NS Identify’, ‘0.2′, ‘Identify against NickServ’);
Xchat::hook_server( [...]
For a project that I’m working on I had to create MAC generator. Initially I decided that I will do it in BASH.
function gen_mac() {
mac_vars=(0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f)
[...]
Today I decided to play a bit with my Raspberry Pi and one of my Relay shields that I have for the Arduino.
I was surprised to see how easy it was to control and read the GPIOs on the Raspberry. So I decided to make it even easier by writing a simple bash script [...]
For the past 3 times when I was teaching Linux System and Network Administration at the Sofia University I’m using a tool to generate the tests.
Since today I had to again fix some issues in the generator I decided that I will publish it on GitHub.
So here is the repository.
For a few years I was thinking about controlling the (un)locking and start/stop of my car via GSM. Two weeks ago, me and a friend of mine finally did it. Using a simple Arduino Uno plus GPRS Shield and Relay Shield we were able to call the Arduino and trigger a relay to open or [...]
Here is one pretty easy and useful one liner in Perl:
perl -MDevice::SerialPort -e ‘Device::SerialPort->new(”/dev/ttyACM0″)->pulse_dtr_on(300);’
And here is a fully functional perl script that I wrote for the same purpose:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Device::SerialPort;
sub find_dev {
my $test = shift;
my $dev = ”;
[...]
Last week I was in Rust, Germany at the WorldHostingDays conference & expo. The biggest problem we had, was that there was almost no Internet
The organizers made a very poor design of their network and so, most of the time there was no connection at all.
We were exhibitor there and as such the expo [...]
Today’s event was a real success. We had more then 40 people in the morning and something around 30 after the lunch break.
The talks were really interesting and inspiring. Alexey’s talk about ThinPacker was really inspiring and it captured my attention, so we will work together on that.
We made a really good discussion about the [...]
Next Saturday I’m organizing the annual Bulgarian Perl Workshop. One of the biggest challenges for this event is making people come and talk at the conference. And I’m not talking about international guests. I’m talking about Bulgarian speakers.
We have a lot of people working with Perl every day and it is strange to me that [...]
So on 26th of February the Bulgarian Perl Workshop will take place.
This year I decided that I’ll cover something I consider very nasty, Embedding Perl into C and using C from Perl. Two really annoying things with a lot of horrible solutions and half written documentation.
