Articles in English

Here's a list of articles I wrote for Linux Magazine, which is availabe in Europe, the US (check Fry's, Barnes & Noble), Canada, and many other places.

Articles appear online (as PDF) approximately 5 months after the print issue comes out.

• "Get on D-Bus" (available online soon) Start automatic backups after a USB Stick gets inserted, Linux Magazine 05/2011
• "At the Press of a Button" (available online soon) A Perl script creates PDFs from magazine articles by automating a process triggered by the simple press of a button, Linux Magazine 04/2011
• "Hindsight" (available online soon) Analyze historical data with Perl and R, Linux Magazine 03/2011
• "Whispers from Beyond" (available online soon) A listening bot on an IRC channel wakes up when it hears certain keywords and notifies a defined user via instant messaging, Linux Magazine 02/2011
• "Meeting Time" (available online soon) A Perl daemon reads iCalendar files with meeting dates and alerts the user before the meeting is due to start., Linux Magazine 01/2011
• "Quick Approval" (available online soon) Hurdle Wifi splash pages, Linux Magazine 12/2010
• "Within Bounds" (available online soon) Monitor a temperature sensor and find outliers with rrdtool, Linux Magazine 11/2010
• "Bulls And Bears" (available online soon) Pidgin Plugin for stock market alerts, Linux Magazine 10/2010
• "Projects Everywhere", Replicate your Git repositories with a meta repo, Linux Magazine 09/2010 (cached PDF),
• "Tunnel Vision" (available online soon) A daemon to manage dynamic mail tunnels, Linux Magazine 08/2010
• "Type Less" (available online soon) Add an easy history function to scripts, Linux Magazine 07/2010
• "Serial Player" (available online soon) Manage video files like a Tivo, Linux Magazine 06/2010
• "A More Complete Completer" (available online soon) Write your own bash completion functions, Linux Magazine 05/2010
• "Topsy Turvy" (available online soon) Run microphone recordings backwards, Linux Magazine 04/2010
• "Listen to the Signals" (available online soon) Configure Pidgin to Play Personal Sounds, Linux Magazine 03/2010
• "Opening Credits" (available online soon) Prepending Video Files with Static Title Images, Linux Magazine 02/2010
• "Bowling for Perl" (available online soon) A Popular Interview Puzzle solved with Perl, Linux Magazine 01/2010
• "Minutes Taker", Record IRC sessions with a Perl Bot, Linux Magazine 12/2009
• "Twittering for Geeks", Perl Script Sends Log Messages to Twitter, Linux Magazine 11/2009
• "Image Sharpener", Sharpen Images with Perl and Gimp, Linux Magazine 10/2009
• "Back to the Heartland", OSCON 2009, Linux Magazine 10/2009 (cached PDF),
• "Removal Helpers", Migrating Open Source Repositories from CVS to Github, Linux Magazine 09/2009
• "Painting by Data", Have Google draw diagrams, Linux Magazine 08/2009
• "Watching the Delivery Man", Keep track of online orders with git and Perl, Linux Magazine 07/2009
• "Replacing Tin Soldiers", Controlling the RocketBaby USB launcher from user space with Perl, Linux Magazine 06/2009 (cached PDF),
• "Pixel Patina", Program the Gimp in Perl to produce sepia-toned photos, Linux Magazine 05/2009 (cached PDF),
• "Games for Speculators", Extending PerlPanel, a window-manager-independent launchbar, with Perl applets, Linux Magazine 04/2009 (cached PDF),
• "Sniffing out Spammers", Locating spammers on a world map with Google Charts, Linux Magazine 03/2009 (cached PDF),
• "Run-Time Speedo", Perl Performance Analysis with the NYTProfiler, Linux Magazine 02/2009 (cached PDF),
• "Catchy Logs", Monitor logfiles with a POE-based sound server, Linux Magazine 01/2009 (cached PDF),
• "Checkout", Digitize your library with a barcode scanner and a database, Linux Magazine 12/2008 (cached PDF),
• "Quiz Master", A web application written with Catalyst, Linux Magazine 11/2008 (cached PDF),
• "Card Trick", Correct color casts on digital images with reference cards, Linux Magazine 10/2008 (cached PDF),
• "Color Play", Digital image corrections with Perl and Gimp, Linux Magazine 09/2008 (cached PDF),
• "Quick Starter", Spotlight-like desktop launch utility with Perl/Tk, Linux Magazine 08/2008 (cached PDF),
• "Bargain Hunter", Get Amazon Price alerts with Perl, Linux Magazine 07/2008 (cached PDF),
• "Process Spy", Use Ptrace within Perl to watch syscalls in a Process, Linux Magazine 06/2008 (cached PDF),
• "Scetching Curves", Display components of a stock portfolio graphically over time, Linux Magazine 05/2008 (cached PDF),
• "Network View", Create a top-like application to monitor the Network with Perl, Linux Magazine 04/2008 (cached PDF),
• "Lifeline", Reconfigure a home-grown highly-available network with Perl, Linux Magazine 03/2008 (cached PDF),
• "Mind Games", Determine the weekday of any given date in your head, Linux Magazine 02/2008 (cached PDF),
• "Test Questions", Simple Perl vim plugins, Linux Magazine 01/2008 (cached PDF),
• "I think in Perl", The private life of Mike Schilli, Linux Magazine 12/2007 (cached PDF),
• "Free Fall", Skydiving Simulation Game with Perl, Linux Magazine 12/2007 (cached PDF),
• "Appetizers", Send out one Tip a Day by Email, Linux Magazine 11/2007 (cached PDF),
• "Electrickery", Reading voltage and current from a Multimeter, Linux Magazine 10/2007 (cached PDF),
• "Chat Collector", Collect your Gaim logs and store them on an IMAP server, Linux Magazine 09/2007 (cached PDF),
• "Alphabet Soup", Dealing with character encodings in Perl, Linux Magazine 08/2007 (cached PDF),
• "Prolonged Life", Nagios plugin for an uninterruptible power supply, Linux Magazine 07/2007 (cached PDF),
• "One in A Million", Do-it-yourself OCR to monitor a SecurID, Linux Magazine 06/2007 (cached PDF),
• "Home Switcher", Remotely reset your Router with YUI, Linux Magazine 05/2007 (cached PDF),
• "Don't Blame the Gardner!", Perl-controlled irrigation system, Linux Magazine 04/2007 (cached PDF),
• "Light into the darkness", Monitorin LAN devices with Perl, Linux Magazine 03/2007 (cached PDF),
• "Digging Down into Perl", Debugging a crashing Perl Interpreter with gdb, Linux Magazine 02/2007 (cached PDF),
• "The Listener", Alternative Call Waiting Service with Perl, Linux Magazine 01/2007 (cached PDF),
• "Perl Rescue", Protecting data with a Perl-based Rescue CD, Linux Magazine 12/2006 (cached PDF),
• "Remotely Controlled Browser", Test complex web apps the easy way with Perl and Selenium, Linux Magazine 11/2006 (cached PDF),
• "Spam Stopper", Protects forums from spam postings, Linux Magazine 10/2006 (cached PDF),
• "Video Organizer", List, watch, and expire downloaded videos, Linux Magazine 09/2006 (cached PDF),
• "Hike Pilot", Putting GPS Data on Yahoo Maps, Linux Magazine 08/2006 (cached PDF),
• "Fishing for Images", Grabbing frames from a Video camera using Video::Capture::V4l and the Imager module, Linux Magazine 07/2006 (cached PDF),
• "The Watcher", Building your own Nagios Plugins, Linux Magazine 06/2006 (cached PDF),
• "Compilation Artist", Programming Lexers und Parsers with Parse::Lex and Parse::Yapp, Linux Magazine 05/2006 (cached PDF),
• "How Cool is Perl?", Reading Temperature Sensors on a One-Wire Bus, Linux Magazine 04/2006 (cached PDF),
• "Counting Out Time", Extreme Date Calculations with DateTime, Linux Magazine 03/2006 (cached PDF),
• "File Rescue", Detecting file system changes with Dnotify and Perl, Linux Magazine 02/2006 (cached PDF),
• "Ajax Power", More dynamic websites thanks to AJAX and Perl, Linux Magazine 01/2006 (cached PDF),
• "Testing Tools", A Perl toolbox for regression tests, Linux Magazine 12/2005 (cached PDF),
• "Seeking Wisdom", Get the news from perlmonks.com with a Gaim plug-in, Linux Magazine 11/2005 (cached PDF),
• "Go Get It!", Destop Search in Perl, Linux Magazine 10/2005 (cached PDF),
• "Spoiled for Choice", Comparing Perl XML parsers, Linux Magazine 09/2005 (cached PDF),
• "Lazy Typing", Using the Vim editor for programming with Perl, Linux Magazine 08/2005 (cached PDF),
• "Tapping in", Using the Yahoo! Search API with Perl, Linux Magazine 07/2005 (cached PDF),
• "Librarian", Scanning magazines and archiving them as PDFs, Linux Magazine 06/2005 (cached PDF),
• "Bug Doctor", Working with the Perl Debugger, Linux Magazine 05/2005 (cached PDF),
• "The Bottom Line", Tracking your investments with Module::Pluggable, Linux Magazine 04/2005 (cached PDF),
• "Perl Shell Scripts", Run Bash commands in Perl with Sysadm::Install, Linux Magazine 03/2005 (cached PDF),
• "Spot Reporter", Perl: Creating RSS feeds of Websites that don't have one, Linux Magazine 02/2005 (cached PDF),
• "Inside", Sending x10 commands via instant messages, using a Perl Jabber bot, Linux Magazine 01/2005 (cached PDF),
• "Traffic Control", Build a Network Sniffer with GUI using Glade, Linux Magazine 12/2004 (cached PDF),
• "Mail It!", Create OpenOffice Documents with Perl, Linux Magazine 11/2004 (cached PDF),
• "Pack your Bags,", Creating portable installation archives and self-contained scripts with PAR, Linux Magazine 10/2004 (cached PDF),
• "Easy Algebra,", Solving and plotting formulas with Perl), Linux Magazine 09/2004 (cached PDF),
• "DJ Training", A Gtk based GUI controls an MP3 player and a preference database, Linux Magazine 08/2004 (cached PDF),
• "Limiting Data", Storing data in a round-robin database with RRDTool and Perl, Linux Magazine 07/2004 (cached PDF),
• "Global Memory", Manage globally accessible Web browser bookmarks, Linux Magazine 06/2004 (cached PDF),
• "Winning Team Player", Multitasking Gtk-GUI with POE fetching Yahoo stock quotes, Linux Magazine 05/2004 (cached PDF),
• "Simple Screen Scraper", Web site scaping with WWW::Mechanize, Linux Magazine 04/2004 (cached PDF),
• "Compressed Links", Serving compressed URLs from a CGI script, backed by a Cache::FileCache, Linux Magazine 03/2004 (cached PDF),
• "E-Baywatcher", Monitoring Ebay auctions with a Perl agent and Jabber, Linux Magazine 02/2004 (cached PDF),
• "Quantum Casino", Using Quantum::Superpositions for implementing states in a game of Blackjack), Linux Magazine 01/2004 (cached PDF),
• "Post Letter Perfect", Print mail envelopes from CSV address data as PostScript documents with Perl, Linux Magazine 12/2003 (cached PDF),
• "Perl Diving", Making Perl documentation searchable with swish-e, Linux Magazine 11/2003 (cached PDF),
• "Music on the Move", Categorizing MP3s and setting up a Web-Jukebox with Apache::MP3, Linux Magazine 10/2003 (cached PDF),
• "Retire your debugger, log smartly with Log::Log4perl!", Log::Log4perl Tutorial, perl.com 09/2002
• "Thanks for all the fish!", Translating with WWW::Babelfish, Linux Magazine 04/2001 (cached PDF),