> > For example I had a local phone list on our intranet. Of course it
> > did not change every ten minutes. Once a week maybe.
> > So I did not generate the printable RTF version every time someone
> > wanted it. The CGI you requested checked the datetime of the
> > document, the datetime of the last change in phonebook, regenerated
> > the document if necessary and redirected you to the RTF.
>
> Being environmentally friendly, wouldn't it have been more
> efficient to totally seperate the CGI and the document by
> having the document generated every time the phonebook is updated?.
Well ... the girl who updated the phonebook usualy "batched" the
changes. She usualy made several of them in one go.
So I would either regenerate the document more times than necessary
(after every single change) or had to believe she will not forget to
click [Regenerate] when finished with the changes.
And even though she was a bright girl the basic rule says "Never
believe users!" (Oh f*ck every time I think of her I feel like Stan.
That's the girl that I like, now more than ever she gives me
butterflies .... bleargh)
> I worked on a project where I was asked to develop some very complex
> Javascript for an agency contracted to a multinational megacorp;
> the pages were basically the same, so I used Perl to churn them out
> from the the excel spreadsheet the designers gave me as a brief.
> Basically the same as your example above. Ironically, and extremely
> annoyingly, it turns out that these pages were then cut up and used
> as templates for a Vignette server that would make them up on the fly
> every time they were requested. The data never changed.....
:-}}}
When we are talking about page/code generation.
I'm even generating VB code with Perl. So that I don't have to
do all that ADODB stuff directly.
http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz/perl/SP_COM_generator.1.3.zip
> More Eco-code is needed, and smaller budgets ;)
>
> lee
Agreed.
Jenda
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