Everything's OK. I have reasonable documentation!

With the help of about ten different pages, I created a simple handler module and installed it on to a virtual host by throwing stuff into my .htaccess file. I even have @INC pointing to a custom libs location so that I don't have to put it all into the root folder.

Check out mp.ben2.com. Try sticking stuff on the end of the URL.

I've got a job coming up where I'll be writing a bunch of Perl. I had a look at the response of the web server I'll be running on and found that it's running mod_perl. Ooh I thought, I'll go and have a look at that and see what it looks like.

What I found is a tutorial that tells you at great length that you will fall on your arse if you dare to use closures, or destructive subroutines in any way.

Duh!

Closures are interesting, I never really use them. Destructive functions however: that way leads pain. Welcome to the functional age, coders! By functional, I don't just refer to Lisp et al, I mean any code where a function is a black box.

Anyway, I just want to know how to write mod_perl programs that make pages. A great long page that tells me about the traps isn't actually very much use unless I'm in one. This is often a problem with educators. They know the gotchas are more important, but they assume that their students have a large capacity to remember a block of knowledge that doesn't relate to anything else yet.

Once I've written and run my first mod_perl script, I'll have a reference point. Then I will appreciate this advanced knowledge. But until it has something to link to, it's just a discussion on the nature of Perl, and therefore not what I need at all.

And I signed up for an exam to become a Sun certified J2SE programmer.

I've been working on Hypothetical today! I eschewed Lisp for a change and embraced PHP. I got quite a lot done. It's getting to the point now where it's pretty much succeeded the abortive v2, which isn't saying much, but there you go.

Features I implemented today:

• Replies
• Viewing individual messages
• Trucking back through days of messages, a la v2
• My messages in the My Hype area, though this is just a raw dump of message data ATM and will suffer the same problems as the v1 version. My profile page in v1 has grown to several megabytes!

The last warmth of sun
One more hour in the garden
I long to remain

Are really easy to setup! No really:

1. Open Internet Connect
2. Choose "New VPN Connection" from the file menu
3. Enter your VPN server, user name and password details
4. Hit connect

This gave me a connection, but it also jiggered my routing table so that I couldn't see the internet. route made short work of this problem however:

1. route delete default
2. route add default $ROUTER_IP
3. route add $FOREIGN_NETWORK $VPN_IP

Luckily the network I'm connecting to uses a different class C IP range, so the routes were easy to add. If there had been an address space clash I would have had to specify routes for the individual hosts in their network I guess.

Now that's all set up, time to load nmap :-)

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