This is the personal blog of Neil Ang. Simple and interesting technology articles written by a developer for developers. Feel free to comment on posts or link to this site. Constructive feedback is always welcomed.

Things to know before going to WWDC

As most of you know I spent last week in San Francisco attending WWDC ‘08. I had a great time thanks to the AUC, and highly encourage others to attend this conference next year if they have the opportunity. It is worth it. Read more →

Converting seconds into a readable format in Perl

Here is a short and easy Perl function to convert the difference between two time stamps, into something that is more human readable. There are Perl modules that can do this as well, however I thought I would share what I wrote incase someone finds it useful. Read more →

Title case names in perl

While I was at work today I came across a script I wrote a couple of years ago to title case names in perl. This script will transform names to a nice, readable title case equivalent. E.g. "JOHN SMITH" to "John Smith", "JOHN O'BRIAN" to "John O'Brian" and "JOHN MCCOOL" to "John McCool" etc. Read more →

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