Imaginary Robots

My name is Jesse van Herk, and I make imaginary robots for a living. I am a web producer with experience in e-commerce, social networking, and large-scale systems. This site documents my travels both online and across the globe - you can either browse this site directly or follow me on your favourite sites.

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2013 - Banff Camping
Reading RSS in Perl like a DB
My website currently uses RSS feeds as data sources, and I’m trying to replace some custom parsing code with standard CPAN modules. The DBD::AnyData module seems almost perfect, with the exception that I just spent a few hours banging my head on it trying to get it to read RSS properly. Despite trying many different […]
2013 - Finishing Yard
Nodejs in Ubuntu 12.10
I’m trying to play around with AngularJS, but it seems to require node.js for its testing. That’s alright, except for the fact that ubuntu provides a fairly old version of nodejs in the repos. The problem I ran into when running the test script in angular-phonecat tutorial was: Error(config): Config file does not exist Some […]
2013 - Purple Belt Grading
Rooting the Nexus S from Ubuntu
Previously I had posted how to unlock the android Nexus S phone from Ubuntu. This continues that process to completely root the phone. A follow-up entry will explain what to do with root once you’ve got it. Explanation The general process is to replace the default ‘recovery’ mode on the phone with a custom one […]
Fixing (some) photo timestamps in a folder
Having just gotten back from a vacation with 2 different cameras along, I was dismayed to learn that they didn’t agree on the date – a 10h difference! The end result was a strange and disconcerting time-travelling slideshow – something had to be done! I rolled up my sleeves, got ready to write a long […]
2012 - Moscow
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2012 - St Petersburg
2012 - Penticton
2012 - Nordegg Camping

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