Personally I think Solaris is a waste of bad hardware, but that's just from
my own experience and besides, tonight I have that opinion about most any
platform. As a matter of fact I'm remotely connected to a Sun machine
working on a backup issue... after which I have to work on an HP-UX machine
with another backup issue then an AIX machine for a network issue and a
FreeBSD box for a sendmail issue... and oh goodie, tomorrow I get to play
with a Cisco router for a T1 installation, muck around with Oracle on NT4
and try to get VPN to behave in Win2000 [hey, don't laugh, it can happen ;)]
Don't worry though, I have some time scheduled aside for perl coding too :D
Now if only this script I'm writing would let me just use $foo after
requiring a config file instead of having to use $main::foo I'd be happy.
But thankfully, that's the only problem I have on any Linux machines
tonight.
For those who kindly answered my post "subj: require" on this issue. Well,
more like the parent of this issue. I'd like to follow up... I declared the
variables I intend to use in the script from the required file before I
require file itself like:
my ($foo, $bar, $foobar, $it_was_fubar_until_we_used_perl_to_fix_it);
require '/home/mjbrooks/test/conf/foo.conf';
and and I took away the "my"'s the were in the .conf file now things like:
if ($it_was_fubar_until_we_used_perl_to_fix_it) {
nobel_prize($bar);
}
work just fine. There are just a couple of strange instances where saying
$foo yields nothing, but $main::foo has the information from the config
file... weird. Anyone have a clue?
And now for Elaine:
Book reviews, let's see.. the Camel book is about 6 pounds (I found that out
when I left it in a hotel in Montreal and I had to have them mail it back)
and the way I've shown how I can jabber on and on in this message, my review
would probably weigh in at around 12 pounds. heh
International travel? Can you send me some more information? I couldn't tell
you if I'd be interested, since I don't know that much about them, but I,
like so many others could use a change and I know people [really, I do!] who
I can send it around to.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elaine -HFB- Ashton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 11:31 PM
Subject: [Boston.pm] grab bag of fun
:
: Writing CGI Applications with Perl by Keving Meltzer (Hartford.pm ) and
: Brent Michalski (STL.pm) with a foreward by Herr Dr. Linkenstein has been
: published. It's about 500 pages, 2 colour ( a rather big deal in tech
: books ) that makes the code stand out nicely and absolutely cram packed
: with really useful examples...and pictures of Kevin's adorable kids :) I
: just got a copy, but if my unwillingness to give it away is any indication
: of it's CGI goodness... :) If nothing else, you gotta check out the cover
: close up. Give warm fuzzies to your not-so-local mongers who could use the
: post-book writing ego boosting of good reviews on amazon.com and
: bookpool.com, etc. They did a good :)
:
: We will be having a NYC.pm visitor next week, Michael Fischer who may
: become a Boston.pm person.
:
: ;login ( the USENIX publication ) announced they are looking for attendees
: of TPC ( and maybe suggest YAPC ) to cover the conferences. email
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, Peter Salus is looking for reviewers and someone
: might want to review Perl books for ;login. Contact him at
: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:
: Also, lastly, if anyone is a solaris admin with reasonable Perl skills or
: know of someone with said qualities who is looking for a change, please
: email me as I know of 2 people whom I think are very cool who need good
: SAs. One of the positions involves some travel to Europe.
:
: e.
:
