Re: mod_perl usage stats continue to decline

2004-11-30 Thread Adam Prime
> > What technique to help the scanners were you thinking about? > > How about my X-Powered-By suggestion for a while ago ? > > http://perl.apache.org/advocacy/issues.html#X_Powered_By > i think that's a great idea. - To unsub

Re: mod_perl usage stats continue to decline

2004-11-30 Thread Philippe M. Chiasson
Stas Bekman wrote: Frank Wiles wrote: On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 17:47:26 -0500 Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: for some reason we still don't have the numbers for Oct 2004 from netcraft but regardless it's easy to see that the stats are getting worse all the time: http://perl.apache.org/outstandin

Re: Why people not using mod_perl

2004-11-30 Thread siberian
Yes, reverse proxies are king :) On my hosting servers I have a light proxy fronting 3 modperl servers on a single box (with a total of about 100 vhosts) and one tomcat server(on the same box, haha). Its a pretty nice configuration that really has done us well over the last 5+ years. As far as my

Re: Why people not using mod_perl

2004-11-30 Thread Eric
At 03:34 PM 11/30/2004, you wrote: Eric wrote: ... It is also getting a lot easier to do MVC with PHP. For example a guy ported CGI::Application to PHP and that combined with Smarty template is pretty close to what you wou

Re: Why people not using mod_perl

2004-11-30 Thread modperl
In many casee, the hard part to deploy mod_perl application seem due to the huge memory usage. But this can be solved by using the dual (light+modperl) setup. The dual setup has also another advantage: it allows virtual hosting users to run his own standalone Apache at a given port (have the ligh

Re: Why people not using mod_perl

2004-11-30 Thread modperl
Eric wrote: ... It is also getting a lot easier to do MVC with PHP. For example a guy ported CGI::Application to PHP and that combined with Smarty template is pretty close to what you would be doing with Perl and does

Re: Why people not using mod_perl

2004-11-30 Thread modperl
1) with toolkits, we may pay the price of losing core mod_perl features. The users will then get a tool that is not apprently richer than PHP in functions. 2) TT or HTML::Templates are good in seperating HTML from program. But for Mason and ASP, we still need to put program with the HTML in one

Re: Why people not using mod_perl

2004-11-30 Thread siberian
I second this one. I always find my self fine tuning peoples PHP code before I'll deploy it. Its not that PHP is a bad language but a lot of the people doing it really don't grasp the finer aspects of writing code in a scalable fashion and are new to the scene. They end up doing things like impleme

Re: Why people not using mod_perl

2004-11-30 Thread siberian
One thing people don't talk about much is deployability. I've had to start moving away from ModPerl in some situations for just this reason. For example, my recent projects revolve around a public server that everyone can use with the option to install a local server on their network that deliv

Re: Why people not using mod_perl

2004-11-30 Thread Eric
At 02:38 PM 11/30/2004, you wrote: Hi, there: just subscribed to this advocacy list. First, sorry to Frank. I was replying his email in the user list but was wrongly put his address as the subject. :-( Please let me share some of my experiences in using mod_perl. There are four factors when choose

Re: Why people not using mod_perl

2004-11-30 Thread Frank Wiles
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 22:38:11 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > First, sorry to Frank. I was replying his email in the user list > but was wrongly put his address as the subject. :-( No worries. > 1) easy to program > > cgi is very easy to use, and php is easy. mod_perl and > java servlet a

Re: Why people not using mod_perl

2004-11-30 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 22:38 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 4) avoid toolkits but diretly go to XHTML. What are these toolkits you're talking about? Things like Mason, Apache::ASP, and Template Toolkit? I wouldn't want to tell people not to use templates. These things provide ease of use, whi

Why people not using mod_perl

2004-11-30 Thread modperl
Hi, there: just subscribed to this advocacy list. First, sorry to Frank. I was replying his email in the user list but was wrongly put his address as the subject. :-( Please let me share some of my experiences in using mod_perl. There are four factors when choose a particular language: 1)

Re: Success Stories

2004-11-30 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 16:05 -0500, Marc Slagle wrote: > Including the information that $X million is run through the system in > a day/month/year would be more for the benefit of those who are not > going to be doing the programming. Sometimes it would help for a > developer to go to their boss an

Re: Success Stories

2004-11-30 Thread Marc Slagle
Perrin Harkins wrote: On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 11:35 -0500, Marc Slagle wrote: If there is a way to go back and get the numbers on the total dollar value of the orders run through the EToys system, it would probably be a good bit of information to include. Why would this

Re: Success Stories

2004-11-30 Thread Frank Wiles
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:45:51 -0500 Perrin Harkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think what you're looking for is what Craig McLane (of > Ticketmaster.com) does in his talks at conferences, where he discusses > how much they save by using open source. Check this one out: > http://www.linuxjournal

Re: Success Stories

2004-11-30 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 11:53 -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > Oh, then this was slightly before you? There was a study comparing > mod_perl to three other technologies for the "rewrite" of the site, > and was the reason mod_perl was chosen as the "new technology", not > just because you had legac

Re: Success Stories

2004-11-30 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Perrin" == Perrin Harkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Perrin> In the case of eToys, they used Perl because the two Cal Tech Perrin> students they hired to build the site liked it. Later, they Perrin> ported some of it to Apache::Registry in order to keep up with Perrin> the load. When I j

Re: Success Stories

2004-11-30 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 11:35 -0500, Marc Slagle wrote: > If there is a way to go back and get the numbers on the > total dollar value of the orders run through the EToys system, it would > probably be a good bit of information to include. Why would this be relevant? To show that people trusted r

Re: Success Stories

2004-11-30 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 08:55 -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > Perrin, you know the one I mean, the study of *why* you chose mod_perl > there. With real hard objective numbers about performance and defect > rates and time-to-deploy. But... it wasn't like that. I doubt it ever really is. Technic

Re: Success Stories

2004-11-30 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Marc" == Marc Slagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marc> If there is a way to go back and get the numbers on the total Marc> dollar value of the orders run through the EToys system, it Marc> would probably be a good bit of information to include. I only Marc> mention the EToys article becau

Re: Success Stories

2004-11-30 Thread Frank Wiles
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:35:25 -0500 Marc Slagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While the stories on the site are great, almost none of them make any > mention of the financial success of the project. They are very useful > > in showing other developers what mod_perl has to offer, but are > diffic

Success Stories

2004-11-30 Thread Marc Slagle
While the stories on the site are great, almost none of them make any mention of the financial success of the project. They are very useful in showing other developers what mod_perl has to offer, but are difficult to use in convincing someone who only cares about "revenue generation." If ther