Perl 5.8+ on Windows with mySQL

On the last weekend I was helping a friend getting perl on his computer running. He also needed a mySQL Server. He is using Windows, so we hoped it should become easy, because precompiled versions are almost always available for the Win32 platform. With the help of my favourite remote application LogMeIn.com I connected to [...]

Apache, Perl and Shebang

If you are a devoloper and especially for web, then it could be very comfortable to have a local installed Webserver, primarily Apache2.  With a Mac it is absolutely no big deal, because you just go to the Preferences. In the Internet pane you will find a icon named Sharing and within there you can [...]