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I have begun work on a plugin for Plex Media Center. This will ultimately allow me to use a remote control (like the Apple Remote or the Harmony One) to control Plex. This ultimately will complete my HTPC needs…. At least for now. Proposed features: List your purchased videos Preview un-purchased videos Search streamable videos by [...]

I’m in the process of getting my Home theater PC in order. One of the many online video services that I use is Amazon Video on Demand. I am in the process of figuring out all of the ways in which I can use a remote control to navigate services and software that I am [...]

I use the blogging features of confluence to capture my thoughts as I think of them just to get them out of my head for review at a later time.A friend of mine stumbled across an OS X Dashboard widget which lets you post blog entries to your confluence area. Unfortunately, it was missing the ability to set [...]

This is not actually related to Perl, the subject I know and love, but I ran into a little javascript issue the other day with Safari.For some reason, I was unable to submit a form programatically using javascript form.submit(). After enabling the safari debug menu and looking at the javascript errors, it was clear that [...]

I just finished reading through Perl Best Practices and was pleasantly surprised to learn about Perl::Tidy and Perl::Critic. I have created a web service for each of these tools: perltidy webservice perlcritic webservice