Connecting the dots…

We have all done this, get a *.tar.gz file from cpan, do a configure, make, test and make install only to realize that the dependencies for the package are missing and then going and fetching them from CPAN and downloading it again and doing the process over and over again. CPAN Shell is one of [...]

I had always been intrigued about IRC Bots and always thought it was quite cool to be able to write one, esp when i would see loads of script kiddies downloading stuff and setting it up on free shell accounts. recently at work it was suddenly a season for writing bots, it seemed like everyone [...]