Re: [Catalyst] size of the uploaded file
On Jan 4, 2009, at 17:01 , Octavian Rasnita wrote: And unfortunately other solutions like a Flash uploader are not accessible for screen readers, but I have also read that it is recommended to upload files smaller than 100 MB with the Flash uploader... I forgot to say: you might want to take a look at http:// swfupload.org/ for instance. -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ Feel like hiring me? Go to http://robineko.com/ ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
Re: [Catalyst] size of the uploaded file
On Jan 4, 2009, at 17:01 , Octavian Rasnita wrote: And unfortunately other solutions like a Flash uploader are not accessible for screen readers, but I have also read that it is recommended to upload files smaller than 100 MB with the Flash uploader... You can make Flash uploaders accessible, at least in the case of screen readers that plug into a sighted browser (which I'm guessing is the case you're thinking of). Basically you have a piece of Javascript that calls into a non-visual SWF, you can keep your page regular, pretty much as if you were relying on a browser built-in function. You might even be able to use an ARIA role for it, though I'm not entirely sure which one. -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ Feel like hiring me? Go to http://robineko.com/ ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
Re: [Catalyst] create search engine friendly uri from string
On Dec 16, 2008, at 12:20 , > wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:51:28 +0100, Robin Berjon wrote: Before putting that into a module though you might want to think about what should happen to characters outside the [a-z0-9] range as \W will match differently based on locale. I'm not sure what the recommended behaviour is for such cases. That's what I'm thinking about right now. I couldn't find a reference which says that \W matches differently based on locale. From perlre A "\w" matches a single alphanumeric character (an alphabetic character, or a decimal digit) or "_", not a whole word. Use "\w+" to match a string of Perl-identifier characters (which isn't the same as matching an English word). If "use locale" is in effect, the list of alphabetic characters generated by "\w" is taken from the current locale. Ptyhon can convert an utf8 string to an ascii string and replaces characters like "ä" with the most equivalent character "a". Is there such a thing for perl? There's a host of modules on CPAN that do things like that, but I don't know if one is accepted as the better way to go. The problem is that if you want to cover all your bases it can become a rather extensive problem. For instance you might want to convert "é" to "e", but do you want to map "北京" to "beijing"? The simple solution is probably to have one option that encodes to IRI friendly, and another to URI friendly, and let people who want something more complicated roll up their own. See http://annevankesteren.nl/2004/08/uri-design for some thoughts related to this, or http://www.w3.org/International/iri-edit/draft-duerst-iri-bis.html . But that doesn't address the locale issue. For that be sure to toss in a no locale (which is lexical) or to define your own character classes instead of \w, \s, and friends. -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ Feel like hiring me? Go to http://robineko.com/ ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
Re: [Catalyst] create search engine friendly uri from string
On Dec 15, 2008, at 21:53 , Johannes Plunien wrote:
My not very elegant, but working solution:
my $str = " Beta Launch Invites: Kwyno Brings The Web Into Your IM
And (Soon) SMS Inboxes ";
$str =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
$str =~ s/\W/ /g;
$str =~ s/\s{1,}/ /g;
$str =~ s/\s/-/g;
$str = lc($str);
print "$str\n";
A wee bit shorter:
my $str = " Beta Launch Invites: Kwyno Brings The Web Into Your IM
And (Soon) SMS Inboxes ";
$str =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
$str =~ s/\W+/-/g;
$str = lc($str);
print "$str\n";
Before putting that into a module though you might want to think about
what should happen to characters outside the [a-z0-9] range as \W will
match differently based on locale. I'm not sure what the recommended
behaviour is for such cases.
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Re: [Catalyst] vote for Catalyst in Enterprise Open Source Directory
On Dec 11, 2008, at 18:20 , Rodrigo wrote: Perl 5.10 is also listed, so vote to make a great-looking language look even better. http://www.eosdirectory.com/project/61/Perl.html And if you have spare cycles, try to figure out which scoring systems gets PHP 4 stars out of 4 but Perl only 3, and Cocoon only 1. I'm not against pushing Catalyst everywhere just in case it helps (and I did vote) but that site seems to be powered by crystal meth more than anything else. I pity the company in which someone in charges gives it any credence. -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ Feel like hiring me? Go to http://robineko.com/ ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
Re: [Catalyst] BerkeleyDB session storage
On Dec 11, 2008, at 11:52 , Jonathan Rockway wrote: Anyway, I have written Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Store::BerkeleyDB as a drop-in replacement. It is based on BerkeleyDB, and will never lose any sessions (unless your disk fails). It is safe to share between multiple processes, and even multiple machines with the right environment setup. It can also integrate with your existing BDB database, which is good for KiokuDB users. (And by default, it requires no configuration.) In related news I have a Session::Store::KiokuDB and an Authentication::Store::KiokuDB hitting CPAN later today when I get a little time to finish wrapping them up. -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ Feel like hiring me? Go to http://robineko.com/ ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
Re: [Catalyst] Extra characters inserted into PDF output
On Dec 2, 2008, at 17:02 , Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: My PDF files are being uploaded and saved in the database apparently correctly. Then what seems to be happening is that somewhere in the binary stream of PDF, there is a (random) sequence of "somewhere later there is a ">". And something is inserting a "--" before the ">". My debugging statements show that Catalyst is outputting the correct size of the file, which suggests that the insertion is happening elsewhere. The one thing you're not saying is under what Catalyst is running when it's producing that. Are you running FastCGI? Mod_perl? Stand-alone development server? If it happens in all of those then the bug is probably in your code (though after your debugging statements). If the insertion is indeed happening outside that pretty much just leaves the Web server, or perhaps a proxy. Wild stab in the dark: do you happen to have SSI turned on? -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ Feel like hiring me? Go to http://robineko.com/ ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
Re: [Catalyst] Xml data to html
On Sep 15, 2008, at 21:53 , Pedro Guevara wrote:
Well I thought to make a script but It's going to take me a lot of
time.
Because is a complex tree of data, so I supossed that some module of
Catalyst would do it for me.
It's like
And it retrieves: like html
Libraries
Library : Wolf
Books: The King,The Queen
Library : Fox
Books: The Castle,The Dragon
Like everyone else I can only say that this has nothing to do with
Catalyst. But what the heck. It's a trivial conversion, so simple that
you don't even need XSLT (though you can still use it, I probably
would). Old school approach:
use XML::LibXML;
my $doc = XML::LibXML->new->parse_file('libraries.xml');
print "\n";
for my $lib ($doc->getElementsByTagNameNS(undef, 'library')) {
print " \nLibrary:" .
$lib->getAttributeNS(undef, 'name') .
"\nBooks:" .
join(', ', map { $_->getAttributeNS(undef, 'name') } $lib-
>getElementsByTagNameNS(undef, 'book')) .
"\n \n";
}
print "\n";
I haven't tested the above, but if it doesn't work something a lot
like it will.
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Re: [Catalyst] XPath, DOM problem
On Jul 8, 2008, at 12:23 , Herr Verdieck Götz wrote: But I think it is curious that XML.Simple finds the path and XPath/ DOM not. If you look at the code for XML::Simple you'll see that it has a fair bit of wiring to locate XML files passed as relative paths. I haven't looked into the details but that's probably why it's finding it. -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
Re: [Catalyst] Re: Catalyst site design drafts feedback thread
On Jun 12, 2008, at 10:40, Simon Wilcox wrote:
Kieren Diment wrote:
Subjectively speaking, I think that all the sites you mention
above are horribly ugly with the exception of the rubyonrails one
which is quite nice. Mainly the other sites lose me in a
technicolour yawn (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?
term=technicolor+yawn) of blocky colour.
I rather liked the cakephp site. Strong bold colours give an
impression that it's a fun product.
But I think that it depends on who you are appealing to. In the
case of the PHP sites you're largely looking to attract designer/
developers so it is important that you "speak" their visual language.
In the perl world you find that developers are far less concerned
with design aesthetics. cf. masonhq.com, maypole.perl.org and all
the perl community sites in general.
I think there's more to it than that: there's attracting (and
reassuring) decision makers too. As a developer I don't really care
if the site looks good or not, I'll just look at the documentation,
at the features, and to see if there are active mailing list and IRC
channel. But to someone not necessarily extremely technically fluent
(but not PHB stupid either) who has to pick between several options
it matters. Not that the decision might be based solely on that, but
once you've been through your checklist (major language, Web
libraries, AJAX, MVC, reusable components...) given the cost of an in-
depth analysis looks matter. You might not pick the winning system
based on looks, but if you intend to give several a spin you'll
probably want to try the one with the "freshest" site a go first. And
if that one happens to work, well what's the point in checking the
others?
Based on that approach, today, I'd go CakePHP.
As a general rule, the Perl community has been inordinately good over
the past decade at hurting itself by not wanting to appeal to people
outside those already in the gang. It's a shame.
I don't think there's anything significantly wrong with the design
of the current site. The IA & content needs work but the design is
perfectly servicable.
Agreed, I vote to keep it :) Some tweaks I'd suggest:
- the "Development" box isn't so much about development as it is a
manifesto about KISS and DRY and TIMTOWTDI. This could be made
clearer by calling it "Manifesto" and giving nice little headings or
some boldness for the leading ideas. Perhaps also making it more
prominent.
- by a similar token, "Deployment" isn't exactly what I'd call
enticing. Perhaps just calling it "Universal Deployment" and moving
the OS logos above the fold would be enough.
- the quotes on the side could be made sexier with minimal effort,
just a touch of design and perhaps some rotating. Proof-reading
wouldn't hurt ("totaly rad").
- the top links are wrong in two ways: they're not labelled right,
and they don't stay when you move between pages. "Documentation"
should stay in-site rather than link to CPAN. "Developer" is a bit
useless by pointing to the SVN log (that's hardly a top-level link is
it?) and "Community" is really about development; I'd call it
"Development" or "Development Community", and if possible get that
part of the site in the same template. "Download" should be a big
prominent button, and it also shouldn't lead to CPAN: rather it
should go to a page that explains how to obtain Catalyst, either as a
direct download or through the CPAN shell. "Planet" is fine except
that it doesn't use the same template as the index page (some of the
details change) which feels unprofessional. The Advent Calendar is
great, but it should also be in-style with the rest (and it should be
easy to use it as a cookbook rather than as a day-by-day thing).
Personally, I'd do that first, then we can look at tweaking the
design. Since presumably it would cause the site to be templated
properly, designers could even get their designs tested in-situ,
which is a lot easier than through screenshots.
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