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Perl one-liner to sort a hash and return the top most key/value

October 17, 2007 – 3:32 pm

A while ago Deepz asked me whether we can sort a hash and print the top most key or value or both in a single line, in PERL. After a little permutation & combination, I wrote the following piece. I’m sure there must be a more elegant and efficient way of doing it, but this [...]

By Naveen | Also posted in Perl, Technology | Comments (0)

Install Perl Modules without root

October 16, 2007 – 11:58 pm

How many times Perl developers have to scratch their heads when they find that there is a module dependency which is breaking their code. Worse, they do not have sufficient privileges to install the required modules on the system. And the worst - there is no immediate way to get the module installed and [...]

By Naveen | Also posted in Perl, Technology | Tagged Hacks, linux, modules, Perl, programming, root, Technology, unix | Comments (5)

My First JAPH!

October 15, 2007 – 11:23 pm

Finally after procrastinating for long, I decided to tread the path traversed only by the GODs of PERL - writing JAPHs!! And my brain storming for about 6 hours finally ended with a JAPH, not too bad for a debut, albeit a little amateur. For those of who are still wondering what the heck is [...]

By Naveen | Also posted in Fun, Perl | Tagged hack, japh, Perl | Comments (1)

Multiple Yahoo Messengers simultaneously

October 1, 2007 – 10:49 am

I just received this forwarded email with instructions on how to activate multiple instances of Yahoo! Messenger on the same machine without the use of any software. I tried it out and its awesome! Working really fine. Just follow the instructions below and you are all set:

Go to Start —-> Run . Type regedit, then [...]

By Naveen | Also posted in Fun, Technology, Yahoo | Comments (0)

Ajax Yahoo! Mail for FireFox!

January 4, 2006 – 5:07 pm

Another Ajax Wonder we have for our disposal. For all Yahoo! Mail+Firefox users theres this cool plugin that saves you from entering the inbox for every message. All you need is to click on the ‘+‘ sign beside every mail, which is put by this plugin, and wow..! you have a drop-down preview of that [...]

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