Archive for July, 2009

I’ve been coding in Perl for years and, generally, I think I’m a pretty competent coder. However, every now and again, I fall into a hole that takes me a loooong time to get out of. Invariably, these problems boil down to upload issues, not code issues. As an aide-mémoire for myself and, hopefully, to you, I thought I’d jot down a few problems that I’ve seen and what the solution was.
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syncMess

As an owner of a brand new Palm Pre, I recently got exposed to the vagaries of trying to import my Facebook Calendar into my Pre. It’s not as easy as it should be and the fault lies with Facebook and with Palm. While we’re waiting to sort things out, I’ve written a little application, along with the post, to help myself and others out of this pickle

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