Metaplace creating Facebook games

I just saw this Craigslist posting for a new employee at Metaplace (where I worked for a few months):

http://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/eng/1573745326.html

The title of the ad is: “Facebook game company seeking Flash developer”.

This is a great path for Metaplace. They have developed some wonderful game technology that is well suited for a Flash [...]

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Perl function that returns info about a video (uses FFMPEG)

This program contains a Perl function I wrote to extract data about a given video.

It also shows how to parse information from program output and organize it usefully.

This has been used a few times in production systems.

If you use this, please drop a comment! It would be fun to know.

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Create a test pattern video with Perl

I wanted a test pattern video to test a transcoding daemon I wrote for an iPhone application. I wanted to use the classic RCA test pattern image and a tone.

Simply edit the program header with the path to an image you want to use and the name of the output file you’d [...]

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Top 10 Perl Sites

As is typical of my posts, this is another reference for my own use. When I can’t immediately remember something, I look here or on my private wiki. I hope you find this list useful.

perl.org

http://www.perl.org/

The mothership. Includes: Planet Perl : Perl History : Learn Perl : Online Perl Documentation

Home of [...]

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My remote MySQL backup script in Perl - rtar_mysql.pl

Before you can use this script, you need to set up SSH so your local cron can access the remote servers without a password.

One thing to note about this script is that it automatically rotates the archived dump files; keeping a fie for the 1st of the week on a month, 1st [...]

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Perl program for makeiPhoneRefMovie

This creates the small .mov (or whatnot) redirect files that Apple’s makeiPhoneRefMovie generates. This is simply a driver to creat those files with makeiPhoneRefMovie.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w # # gen_mwn_iphone_mov_redirect_files.pl # # This makes the special iPhone .mov rediect files (~ 300 bytes) that the iPhone # uses to redirect to the appropriate actual movie [...]

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Perl script to compare 2 directories

This is a quick Perl script that I wrote to solve a particular problem; I needed to check two directories, one of original files and one of transcoded files, to see which files were missing from the second directory. The files in the second directory have different filename extensions, so the utility needs to [...]

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My file rotating MySQL database dumper

This is a script to be run from a daily cron that created a series of sanely named SQL dump files: weekly, monthly, etc.

Always have that backup ready!

#!/usr/bin/perl -w # # No arguments. The program is to be modified to include each database to be archived. # # use strict; use [...]

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Opening FTP Ports on an Ubuntu Server

UPDATE: This port is obsolete, see: Passive Mode (PASV) FTP client on an Ubuntu server

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Komodo IDE macro to process current file with PHP Beautifier

I use Komodo IDE for dynamic languages. I like it because it works extremely well and you get a license to use it on whatever machine you happen to be sitting at. Also it works well in Ubuntu and Mac OS/X, both of which I use constantly.

Here’s a macro I use in Komodo [...]

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