On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
> No, there wasn't even something I could buy for it sadly. It's a simple
> CGI, I would have paid $15 for a quickie 'here's your simple cgi just plug
> in your variables here' code.
Been there - more often than not, the cookbook fills any holes. I had a
particular problem with web forums - slashcode being a bit OTT and
wwwthreads cotsing money and then hundreds of PHP and java and asp forums,
then I found mwforum and now I am rewriting it big time to get back into
coding after sitting on my arse for weeks waiting for work or chasing
people up or editing html. If anybody is interested I hope to have a TT'd
version of mwforum on the web some time next week. After that I will
totally hack it apart and rework it to fit my own twisted needs.
> If I wanted Java or PHP however, I could take my pick or reasonably
> quickly useful stuff. I didn't have the same results for Perl it is just
> not out there or my standards are too high and I was looking in the wrong
> place.
A lot of programming is knowing where to look, If I hadn't been given a
good lowdown on where to get decent Notes information I would have spent
months getting anywhere but I was given the course notes for a notes
course, a stack of Notes Magazines and a list of urls. Also bought myself
the SAMs book on Notes Unleashed.
I told my old man he'd learn pretty much all he needed to know from
learning perl and perl & cgi by ORA. Its much better than wasting tiem
learning java or getting muddled with loads of crappy shareware or budget
perl software.
A.
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