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Hi, Monks. I've been trying to add a MS Windows shell context entry to enable me to alternate-mouse click on a file or folder in Windows Explorer GUI, and have the file name as Cygwin sees it placed on the Clipboard. Because the Perl tool I wrote to help me accomplish this was used it for enhancing my enjoyment of Cygwin, this qualifies in my book as a CUFP.

Interesting to note that ExtremeProgramming has emerged as a methodology for programming; it appears to be based in trial and error programming! Without tests and refactoring, it is not workable at all. So why not design first, write tests to that design, then program, test, perform refactoring and iterate? That's exactly what ExtremeProgramming is, friend. Just do it in tiny increments. "The differences between XP and trial-and-error are basically two-fold: first, you solve each error as it comes up, so that it doesn't compound with later errors. And second, you meant to do it that way in the first place, rather than being forced to come back and deal with unforeseen complications.

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CheckGmail is an alternative Gmail Notifier for Linux and other *nix systems. It is fast, secure and uses minimal bandwidth via the use of Atom feeds. CheckGmail is a system tray application that checks a Gmail account for new mail. When new mail is present the tray icon changes, an optional animated popup is displayed and a tooltip displays the number and details of new messages. Configuration is GUI-based and the application is designed to be simple, elegant and unobtrusive.

PerlMagick is an objected-oriented Perl interface to ImageMagick. Use the module to read, manipulate, or write an image or image sequence from within a Perl script. This makes it very suitable for Web CGI scripts. You must have ImageMagick 6.2.0 or above and Perl version 5.005_02 or greater installed on your system for either of these utilities to work.