Re: mod_perl marketing

2004-12-01 Thread modperl
I wrote an application which might be worth of sharing with you. This is a httpd chat server in mod_perl. One uses a browser to chat, no Java or Flash or download. No refresh tag in HTML META, yet, the chatting messages move up quietly in a continuous flow. Chatters can join or leave rooms as re

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

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

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)