I’ve written a Perl program to spider Facebook. I was looking for a way to quickly generate statistics about the University of California, Berkeley student population, and I figured that since almost everybody had a Facebook account, I could dump all of Facebook’s information into a database and generate reports from that information. Since this [...]
I’ve released a new version of my Daily del.icio.us Links Script for Wordpress. This new version introduces the use of the Net::Delicious and DateTime Perl modules to parse del.icio.us links and handle timezone differences between GMT and WordPress. As all known issues have been resolved and all basic functionality implemented, I am tagging this release [...]
Now that I’ve survived my first wave of midterms, I plan on devoting more time to my extracurricular activities.
I’ve noticed that my daily del.icio.us script for Wordpress is broken, so I’ll be updating it to work again, and I’ll be finally addressing the nagging issue of time sync in that script. I also just finished [...]
I’ve released a new version of my Daily del.icio.us Links Script for Wordpress. This new version introduces a code cleanup and the ability to show the tags associated with a link as well as links to your del.icio.us page of those tags. Please refer to the latest “Links” post (see below) to see an example [...]
I wasn’t able to sleep, so I wrote this Perl script to backup a directory and mail yourself a copy. Change the variables in CAPS to suit your needs. It’s best to run this script as a cronjob.
Download a plaintext copy here.
Updated 5/8/2005: I’ve modified the code to use the File::Find library instead of a [...]
I’ve been using this PHP script to generate the daily “Links” posts from my del.icio.us links. Although the script works, it has some annoying bugs. For example, if there are no links for the day, it’ll still make a post which I have to manually delete. Furthermore, it’s written in PHP, a language I haven’t [...]