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My day job mostly involves Perl, so I've been using it more for my random tasks at home. I've now put a few of them up on CPAN:

• Unix::Uptime - Determine the current uptime, in seconds, and load averages, across different *NIX architectures.
• Remind::Client - class for working with remind's daemon mode

I also have a few other scripts I've been messing around with, for doing some reporting and such:

• git-author-stats.pl - Gives a URL to draw a pretty pie chart of the top 10 committers to the current git repository. Examples:
  • Exherbo:
    • ::x11
    • ::vim
    • ::arbor's multilib branch
  • Paludis
• git-daemon-report.pl - Given some log file, scrape it stats on who is pulling which of your git repos, and from where. Won't work unless you run git-daemon with --verbose.

I migrated my blog from Typo to Movable Type a while ago. I wrote a little script to do it, but I've only just now gotten around to cleaning it up enough so that it's suitable for general use.

It's available now from my git repo, and on CPAN

As always, "patches welcome".

I'm starting to learn perl, and I've found the perldoc intro/tutorial stuff to be pretty useful, but I'd like to get a good printed book or two to read through and use as a reference.

Similarly, while I'd say I'm pretty *NIX savvy, I'm not too familiar with some BSD-isms, particularly where they differ from Linux. Are there any good books out there to help with the transition from Linux to FreeBSD? (No, I'm not abandoning Linux... it's just that my current employer used FreeBSD for many things.)

Any suggestions?