Getting My Geek On

The last few days I've been digging on some projects I've been meaning to get to for a while, but just haven't. Here' the rundown:.

• I run my own mail server, and it's always bothered me that I would have to update the access file if I wanted to send mail from a new IP address. There's an easier way, however: SMTP AUTH. I got this working today, and the documentation is here.

• I've finally updated this site's software to work with Apache 2/mod_perl 2 as well as Apache 1.3/mod_perl 1. The code changes themselves were minimal, but there were some difficulties that took a while for me to figure out. The latest version of MasonX-App is here. Next on the to-do list: implement testing with Apache::Test and work on a more flexible session management framework.
• I failed, however, in upgrading my laptop to MySQL 4.1 from source RPM. This is a known bug with Fedora Core 3. Information on that bug is here, but I couldn't get the fix mentioned at the end to work for me. I did, however, learn a lot more about working with source RPMs, and added to my section on that topic here.

We now return to our regularly scheduled program.

Update: Testing with Apache is done. New improved version is here.