Rohan Almeida’s Blog
Perl Developer. Linux Advocacy. Practicing Guitarist.

Yeah! Finally got midi working on Linux (Fedora Core 4). My apologies earlier for cursing how FC4 did not support midi output while my windows installation did.
It seems I needed to get by basics clear about software synthesizers, which I did. The sound card I have is an integrated Intel card (Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM). […]

I managed to download the ISO for the DeMuDi Distribution of the AGNULA project. Will install it today.
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I purchased Advanced Perl Programming by Simon Cozens yesterday. Just a cursory glance through it, and I was hooked. I read a couple of chapters, and the title is apt. This is not a book for beginners. The topics covered are interesting and have many practical applications.
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The other day I had the need of converting a hash structure to XML format. The XML::Simple CPAN module is the best tool for this. However there are some options you need to be aware of to get your XML the way you want. The default options for the XMLout function may leave you confused […]

The Linux distro I use (Fedora Core 4) does not support reading windows NTFS partition by default. Note that this is just Fedora’s choice (there are some legal issues I suppose), and you can very well compile a kernel with NTFS read as well as read/write support.
But no need for you to figure out how […]

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Added ibmonitor to the Software Downloads section.
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What would you do if you wanted to test (using Test::More) whether a certain method call returns a list of objects?
Maybe use a while loop and test each element with an isa_ok($_ , ‘Object’)
But that would just increase the number of tests and if the method call returns an unknown number of objects then you […]