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Apple’s first security update of 2009 for MacOS X may solve some security issues in the OS but it also seriously breaks Perl by installing old versions of some modules along with Perl. It looks like Perl works okay for things that MacOS X uses it for, but if you do development using it or have installed other modules than what it came bundled with you may find that it no longer works.
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I’ve been adding some belated email notifications to UVFood and in the process I ran into a frustrating problem: it wasn’t working at all.

The email notifications are for things like messages people send through the contact form, new user signups, errors. After those are working I’m finally adding welcome emails, confirmation emails and eventually optional weekly summaries of changes to users’ favorites.
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