Re: [Boston.pm] Template toolkit and floats

2013-01-10 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
currencies). But thanks very much for thinking of this and providing the link. That's a nice clean collection. --Alex On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Alex, > > On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:17:06 +0000 > Alex Brelsfoard wrote: > > > Nevermind... Sorry...

Re: [Boston.pm] Template toolkit and floats

2013-01-10 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Nevermind... Sorry... Turned out to be a JS problem actually parseInt vs parseFloat Ugh. On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Alex Brelsfoard wrote: > Hi All, > > I am working on a custom shopping basket, and using Template to multiple > the quantity of each item by it

[Boston.pm] Template toolkit and floats

2013-01-10 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Hi All, I am working on a custom shopping basket, and using Template to multiple the quantity of each item by its base price, and then also summing it. But I'm losing the floating points. It's coming out as flat INTs. Any idea of how to fix this? Thanks in advance. --Alex

Re: [Boston.pm] Could use some feedback

2012-11-08 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Wow.. these messages got sent to my spam folder so I'm only now reading them.. Ugh. Jason, Thank you very much for your thoughts. And you are not alone in thinking this way. Your right, the biggest problem I have is that MoDomhan can do SO much. So how do I create a short video to explain it.

Re: [Boston.pm] Could use some feedback -- typo fix

2012-11-08 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
t > have it now is part of your problem. > > Just my $0.02. Hope it helped and good luck with the site. > > -- > > David > > > > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Alex Brelsfoard < > alex.brelsfo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> URL was incorrect. Corre

[Boston.pm] Could use some feedback -- typo fix

2012-10-13 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
URL was incorrect. Correction: http://www.indiegogo.com/modomhan Thanks. --Alex On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Alex Brelsfoard wrote: > Hi All, > > Sorry for the slightly off-topic message, but I could really use some > feedback. > I'm trying to go live with a big new p

[Boston.pm] Could use some feedback

2012-10-13 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Hi All, Sorry for the slightly off-topic message, but I could really use some feedback. I'm trying to go live with a big new project (written in Perl), and I'm using crowd sourcing to get it off the ground (http://indeigogo.com/modomhan ). I'm really keen on pushing the open source technology

Re: [Boston.pm] Converting Microsoft Word Special Characters

2012-05-18 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Thanks Uri, Yeah I found that one when I was Googling. Sadly it only converts a few special characters (smart quotes and M and N dashes). I need something that does as many as can be thought of/found. --Alex On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Uri Guttman wrote: > On 05/18/2012 07:55 PM, A

[Boston.pm] Converting Microsoft Word Special Characters

2012-05-18 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Hi All, I was wondering if I could get some help here. I am looking for an existing function/method/module that will properly convert all special characters (like those from Microsoft Word: smart quotes, mdash, ellipses, bullet points, etc.) to either a matching simpler character, or an HTML

Re: [Boston.pm] Login error with SFTP

2008-07-31 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Thanks Tom. I have tried specifying first SSH2, and then SSH1. Interestingly I get the same result. Though I have tried turning on the debug mode, I have not gotten any >> different results (though I'm not so sure how to USE the debug mode really). >> > > Are you saying nothing is written to

Re: [Boston.pm] Login error with SFTP

2008-07-30 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
on so too much to paste here. --Alex On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Tom Metro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Brelsfoard wrote: > >> "Cannot connect to SFTP Server. Permission denied at >> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Net/SFTP.pm line 62" >> >&g

[Boston.pm] Login error with SFTP

2008-07-30 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
I wrote up some code to perform SFTP file downloads for my company. It is now working for all but one of our clients that have chosen to use this method. But I need to get it working for ALL of them. For the life of me I cannot figure out why it's not working for this one machine. Here's the info:

Re: [Boston.pm] Dealing with different EOL's

2008-01-24 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Uri, Bernado, all, Thanks for your thoughts. Here's a more detailed explanation: We are reading in feeds (typically TSV or CSV files), parsing them, reformatting the data, and spitting it out as another file. These feeds can come from all sorts of people/places/things. So sometimes they are

[Boston.pm] Dealing with different EOL's

2008-01-23 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Hi all, I am currently trying to work on a system that reads in all kinds of feeds. These feeds can be created on a PC, new/old mac, or a *nix machine. And I need to be able to deal with them all. Here's the kicker, these feeds sometimes have inline breaks, and we need to keep them. Does anyone

[Boston.pm] converting utf-8 to unicode from XML text gathered by XML::Twig

2007-12-05 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Hi All, I am currently using XML::Twig to read in some XML. This XML's text is in utf-8. So there are smart-quotes and such in there. I need to unicode-ify the text. I tried using most of the methods that are part of XML::Twig, but came up dry. The best I could do is convert all unsupported chars

Re: [Boston.pm] IE7 and JS image object

2007-11-13 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
that the problem is not directly with my code. Thanks for all the help. --Alex On Nov 13, 2007 3:40 PM, Tom Metro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Brelsfoard wrote: > > This JS is being called through a perl script: > > So file.pl spits out "Content-type: text/JavaScript

Re: [Boston.pm] IE7 and JS image object

2007-11-12 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
that this does not make sense. But this IS what I am faced with.. I've tried to disprove this as many ways as i can think of... --Alex On Nov 12, 2007 4:28 PM, Ben Tilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/12/07, Alex Brelsfoard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey all, >

[Boston.pm] IE7 and JS image object

2007-11-12 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Hey all, I know this is not so much a JavaScript group, but I figured someone might have heard of what I am running into. If not, feel free to ignore this message. Situation: I am using JavaScript to create an image. It needs to be loaded, and i need to see its request in the apache logs.

[Boston.pm] merge and compare help

2007-08-27 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Hi All, I'm back and with a new algorithm/solution I need help with. I have two csv files, sorted by the first column (ID). Each file may have all the same, none of the same, or some of the same ID's. I would like to take these two files, and make one out of them. Two tricks: - When I come

Re: [Boston.pm] quick XML::Twig / variable scope problem

2007-08-27 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
will post again to sa what I finally went with. Thanks again. --Alex On 8/27/07, mirod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alex Brelsfoard wrote: > > > sub main { > > my $catalog_timestamp; > [...] > > > my $catalog_settings = XML::Twig-&g

[Boston.pm] quick XML::Twig / variable scope problem

2007-08-24 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Hi all, I'm trying to do something I see as relatively simple. I would like to call a function that declares a few variables and then runs some XML::Twig processes which in turn access & update said original variables. But I'm getting an error from my twig functions when they try to access the

[Boston.pm] [job] WEB DEVELOPER - PERL, JAVASCRIPT, CSS & MYSQL

2007-08-08 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
unded by Brian Smith and Jeremy Horn. Contact me, Alex Brelsfoard, with immediate questions and info on how to apply. ___ Bos

[Boston.pm] CRYPT::RSA problem

2007-07-16 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Hi All, I'm just trying to run the example code to test out for functionality, but I'm getting an error: Can't call method "encryptblock" on an undefined value at RSA.pm line 97 This is the example code I'm using (straight from CPAN):

Re: [Boston.pm] Reading a variable CSV file with embeded newlines

2007-06-10 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:26:56PM -0400, Alex Brelsfoard wrote: > > > > I have a CSV file where each line may NOT have the same number of > > > > fields. > > > > One item per line. > > > > > > xSV is line o

[Boston.pm] Reading a variable CSV file with embeded newlines

2007-06-08 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
OK, so I thought we'd talked about something like this before, but I couldn't find it. I have a CSV file where each line may NOT have the same number of fields. One item per line. But occasionally a field in an item will have one or more newlines in it. How can I break this up correctly?

Re: [Boston.pm] Calling a function that will return to where the grandparent called the parent

2007-06-01 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Thank you all very much. This has been a big help. This is what I was looking for. --Alex On 5/31/07, Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From: Gyepi SAM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 15:22:32 -0400 > >Hi Alex, > >What you're asking is possible, especially

[Boston.pm] online learning sites

2007-03-22 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
I am looking for a website like elementk.com that offers a lot of online courses to learn programming languages, desktop applications, network/system utilities, etc. It's fine for the site to be a pay-for site (like elementk). I'm just looking for a list of sites that I might be able to use.

Re: [Boston.pm] Finding UNIX username

2006-09-21 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
rrors after an > attempted >change. > >(Mnemonic: it's the uid you went to, if you're running > setuid.) >$< and $> can be swapped only on machines supporting >setreuid(). > > Then you can use getpwuid() to

Re: [Boston.pm] LARGE MySQL Database

2006-05-11 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Thanks all for the feedback. It's comforting to know that other people have had large mysql databases. As things stand, my database is setup well enough (I'm confident with the indexes and normalization). As for the proper engine to use for my situation, I found this quote: "InnoDB has been

Re: [Boston.pm] LARGE MySQL Database

2006-05-11 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
the long > term. > > On May 9, 2006, at 5:52 PM, Steve Revilak wrote: > > >> Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 17:24:17 -0400 > >> From: Alex Brelsfoard > >> To: boston-pm@mail.pm.org > >> Subject: [Boston.pm] LARGE MySQL Database > > > >

[Boston.pm] LARGE MySQL Database

2006-05-09 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Howdy all, I know this isn't specifically a Perl question. But I AM using Perl with this project. Basically I am dealing with using, storing, and sorting a LOT of data in a mysql database. With all the data in the table it makes for 404.8 Million rows. In a backup sql file that makes just

[Boston.pm] parsing CSV string with a comma in it

2006-02-28 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Hello all, I know there's gotta be a nice and easy way to do this. Basically take, for example, the following file: --FILE-- item1a,item2a,"item3a part1, item3a part2",item4a,item5a,item6a item1b,item2b,"item3b part1, item3b part2",item4b,item5b,item6b ..

[Boston.pm] one more upload question

2006-01-04 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Hello All, I know that I have asked a couple questions along this line before, but I think I can be a little more specific with my question this time. Basically, I want to do the following lines withOUT using the CGI.pm qery method: my $query = new CGI; my $file = $query->upload('file');

Re: [Boston.pm] Pretty Graphs with Perl

2005-12-07 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Just replacing my dataset collection method with your dataset collection method seems to have fixed things up. Wonderful. Now I can really get testing! Thanks all. --Alex On 12/7/05, Ronald J Kimball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 09:39:45AM -0500, Alex Brel

Re: [Boston.pm] Pretty Graphs with Perl

2005-12-07 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
OK, so I now have the graph being built and being displayed in my html through an image tag. I'm still trying out GD::Graph printing through an IMG tag calling my script for now. I will try other methods next. However, I'm having some difficulty putting dynamic data into the plots. For example.

Re: [Boston.pm] Pretty Graphs with Perl

2005-12-06 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Thanks all. Makes sense. Guess I'm probably just going to have one cgi call the other (probably from within an IMG tag). Again, I'll let you know how it all turns out. --Alex On 12/6/05, Ben Tilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 12/6/05, Alex Brelsfoard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: [Boston.pm] Pretty Graphs with Perl

2005-12-06 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Does anyone who has/does use GD::Graph know if there's an easy way to embed the output graphs into HTML. Basically I'd like to be able to print a bunch of HTML, then the graph, then some more HTML. I've got the grph coming out all fine and dandy. Thanks. --Alex On 12/6/05, Ricker, William

Re: [Boston.pm] Pretty Graphs with Perl

2005-12-06 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Wonderful feedback! I've got my research cut out for me now. I'm going to poke around and see if I can get a couple tests done on some of these. I'll let you all know what I end up going with. Thanks again. --Alex On 12/6/05, Richard J. Barbalace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: [Boston.pm] Pretty Graphs with Perl

2005-12-06 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
this help. I have a feeling this is going to be one of the largest/trickiest apps I've had to create. --Alex On 12/6/05, Ronald J Kimball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 09:35:18AM -0500, Geoff Rowell wrote: > > Alex Brelsfoard wrote: > > > &

[Boston.pm] Pretty Graphs with Perl

2005-12-06 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Hey all, I've got a project coming up that's going to need me to make graphs. I do not yet know what kind of graph (dot, line, bar, etc.). But I am told that it needs to be pretty (and probably with multiple colors). The data needing to be displayed will be anywhere from 5 points, to many

Re: [Boston.pm] re PHP Succeeding / Perl vs Python / etc

2005-11-08 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Where's a good place to go to start learning Ruby? On 11/7/05, Ben Tilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/7/05, Bogart Salzberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > I would be curious to hear from someone who actually knows Python/ > > Ruby and Perl. Which one would he/she rather use to

Re: [Boston.pm] XML::XPath

2005-11-03 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Heh, thanks. Yeah I trimmed my code for display. But thanks for the link, useful. I'm still in prelim for my code, so I'm sure I could do some more checks along the way. Thanks again. --Alex On 11/3/05, Ricker, William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alex, > > > I figured it out. > >

Re: [Boston.pm] XML::XPath

2005-11-03 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
nt "Item #".$item->find('ITEM_NO')->string_value."\n"; # Title print "Title:".$item->find('TITLE')->string_value."\n"; # Keywords print "Keywords:"; foreach my $kw ($item->find('KEYWORD')->get_nodelist){ print $kw->string_value."\

Re: [Boston.pm] XML::Twig RE: XML::XPath

2005-10-27 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Thanks Bill, But my server does not have Twig installed. And I doubt they will. I might try and install it in my own space (don't know how much they'd like that...). But for now I'd like to see if I could make either XML::DOM or XML::XPATH work. Thanks. --Alex On 10/27/05, Ricker, William

[Boston.pm] XML::XPath

2005-10-26 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
OK, so I'm new to handling XML in Perl. I think I've got most of what I need figured out, but I'm running into some difficutly in handling one situation. Each DOC has more than one KEYWORD entry. How do I pull out multiple KEYWORDs from this XML file using this style code? use XML::XPath; my

Re: [Boston.pm] Using Perl to communicate to a Palm device

2005-10-26 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
, Kenneth A Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 10:00, Alex Brelsfoard wrote: > > Has anyone here used Perl to communicate to a Palm device? > > What I am primarily concerned with is updating the calendar with a > specific > > event. > &g

[Boston.pm] Using Perl to communicate to a Palm device

2005-10-26 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Has anyone here used Perl to communicate to a Palm device? What I am primarily concerned with is updating the calendar with a specific event. I have a scheduling system, calendar system, and event's registration system that I'd like to create functions for. Basically someone would view an event

[Boston.pm] Printing files with SSI's using Apache 2

2005-10-05 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Our servers are upgrading to Apache 2 soon, and I wanted to get a head start on one feature that I know you can do using Apache2. I need some of my scripts to read in HTML header and footer files, process ALL the SSI stuff in them, and print them out accordingly. I am currently doing this with the

Re: [Boston.pm] setting "file save as" type

2005-09-26 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Thank you very much! Yes this was for a browser. Using content-disposition I was able to do exactly what I wanted. Beautiful. --Alex On 9/26/05, john saylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi > > Alex Brelsfoard wrote: > > I have created a script that o

[Boston.pm] setting "file save as" type

2005-09-26 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Hey all, I have created a script that outputs a simple csv file to then be imported into Excel. I get the save file as dialog box, but I was wondering if there's anyway I can suggest a filename for it or at least a file type. The users for this system are really not all that technically savy.

Re: [Boston.pm] DBI connection to an Oracle db

2005-09-16 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Thanks very much. With some small changes from my dba I was able to get things working nicely. yippee. --Alex On 9/16/05, Ricker, William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Do we need this installed? > > > Probably. I don't think you can even build DBD::Oracle without having > the > > Oracle

Re: [Boston.pm] DBI connection to an Oracle db

2005-09-15 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
ot; Do we need this installed? Thanks. --Alex On 9/15/05, Ronald J Kimball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 02:22:19PM -0400, Alex Brelsfoard wrote: > > Thanks that does clarify quite a bit. > > Would I get the sid from the database administrator

Re: [Boston.pm] DBI connection to an Oracle db

2005-09-15 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Thanks that does clarify quite a bit. Would I get the sid from the database administrator? Or is this something else? Thanks. --Alex On 9/15/05, Ronald J Kimball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:30:54PM -0400, Alex Brelsfoard wrote: > >

[Boston.pm] DBI connection to an Oracle db

2005-09-15 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
OK, I know this should be easy and straight forward. But I'm having difficulty connecting to an Oracle database. I am working on a machine that is connected, by lan, to the oracle server. This is some of the code I've tried: my $databaseName = 'nameOfDatabase'; my $dbuser = 'me'; my $dbpass =

[Boston.pm] taking in info from command-line command

2005-07-05 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
OK, so I know there's an easy-ish way to handle this situation. But I'm currently running in circles, not finding the solution. Basically what I'm trying to do is run a system command (with either `command` or system("commnad") ) and retrieve the printed result form the command into a variable

Re: [Boston.pm] Reading Cookies

2005-06-30 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Thanks everyone for your help. I played around with the location of some of the code and some of the parameters of the cookies per your suggestions. Things seem to be behaving now. Thanks very much. --Alex Quoting Kenneth A Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 12

Re: [Boston.pm] Writing Cookies in Safari --update

2005-06-28 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
{"$COOKIENAME"}->value; -- I get an error on the second line of that code: "Can't call method "value" on an undefined value at functions.pl line 45." My brain is melting. any help would be much appreciated. Thanks. --Alex

Re: [Boston.pm] Writing Cookies in Safari

2005-06-28 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
OK, So I mangled things around and now I can get the cookie written using CGI.PM It looks something like this: my $q = new CGI; my $cookie = $q->cookie( -name=> $COOKIENAME, -value => $cookieContent,

[Boston.pm] Writing Cookies in Safari

2005-06-28 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
OK, so my code for writing cookies works in every browser except Safari. I have tried using two different methods of using CGI.PM. In both cases the cookies continue to write correctly in all browsers except Safari. Here is the code I started with and have reverted back to:

Re: [Boston.pm] GoogleGeoCoder

2005-06-15 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Very cool. This could be VERY useful. Nice work. --Alex Quoting Joel Gwynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Allow me to add the latest "Me Too!" to the Google Maps frenzy. I > cooked up a simple wrapper around GoogleMaps to provide a geocoding > function. > >

[Boston.pm] Image Uploading

2005-06-08 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
I know I asked a similar question a while back, but I'm compelled to try again. I have an existing script, not using CGI to take in parameters handed to the script. I would now like to have this script upload a file to the server, but not be forced to convert the entire file to using CGI. This

Re: [Boston.pm] Empty radio and checkboxes not passed to perl script

2005-05-26 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Well, it's all moot for me anyways. Many of my users will have javascript turned off. So I am used to NOT relying on javascript for anything. --Alex >> "CD" == Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > CD> On Thu, 26 May 2005, Uri Guttman wrote: > >> [...] the common falacy of using

Re: [Boston.pm] Empty radio and checkboxes not passed to perl scr ipt

2005-05-26 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
of fields is a bit safer (though still not the answer I'm looking for). --Alex > On May 26, 2005, at 11:22 AM, Alex Brelsfoard wrote: > >> This is indeed the case. > > If browsers reliably submitted form fields in the same order they > were listed in the HTML source, the

Re: [Boston.pm] Empty radio and checkboxes not passed to perl scr ipt

2005-05-26 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
y; > > return($hash); > } > > HTH > Thanks > > Sibu Thomas > Liaison Inernational Inc > Watertown, MA > > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Alex Brelsfoard > Sent: Thursday

Re: [Boston.pm] Empty radio and checkboxes not passed to perl scr ipt

2005-05-26 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
> On Thu, 26 May 2005, Alex Brelsfoard wrote: > >> Picture a web form that is some sort of a survey. When that survey is >> submit the perl script writes out the answers onto a file. That file >> is tab delimited. > > Stop right there, doctor, I think we've

Re: [Boston.pm] Empty radio and checkboxes not passed to perl scr ipt

2005-05-26 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
> Forgive my ignorance, but why would it be a problem not to have these? > Picture a web form that is some sort of a survey. When that survey is submit the perl script writes out the answers onto a file. That file is tab delimited. Now picture the first person going to the form and filling

Re: [Boston.pm] Empty radio and checkboxes not passed to perl scr ipt

2005-05-26 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Thanks. It's good to know that someone else has noticed this oddity. Sad to say that mny of my user turn off javascript. So I'm am going to have to deal with this on the perl side I've created a script to build a hidden field for me that lists all the non-hidden form fields. So for the

[Boston.pm] Empty radio and checkboxes not passed to perl script

2005-05-26 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
OK, so I figured out, the hard way, a while ago that when you submit a form with a checkbox or radio button with nothing checked, said checkbox or radio button's field name does NOT get sent, via the browser, to my perl script. It's as if it does not exist. Is there a way to guarantee that the

[Boston.pm] exporting environmental variables

2005-04-22 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
OK, so I've got an interesting idea/situation. Let me show you want I want to do first. I know this doesn't work but it's the quickest way to explain what I am trying to do. "--> I didn't think that would work, but I had to try. The second thing you should know is that Apache 2 is out of the

Re: [Boston.pm] sending a user to the middle of a page from a form post

2005-03-08 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
. --Alex > On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Alex Brelsfoard wrote: > >> Is there any way to have the content all spat out and then send some >> sort of message to the browser telling it to go to a specific anchor >> point on that page? > > Yes. > > The html uses a Foo n

[Boston.pm] sending a user to the middle of a page from a form post

2005-03-08 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
OK, so here's what we've got. We have a perl CGI that spits out a form based on some info in a db. A user will fill out that form and hit submit. the submission actually goes to the same CGI which now interprets what it needs to do (basically its handed search criteria). It then spits out a

Re: [Boston.pm] HTML Renderer

2005-03-08 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
You might also want to lookin into Image::Magick. It does some pretty impressive things and I could have sworn I read somehwere that it could do just that. I have used Image:Magick before and it's very fun and easy. I would definitely suggest looking into it. I will too if I get some time

Re: [Boston.pm] (also) Perl --appologizing

2005-03-01 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
I'm sorry everyone. When I first brought up the question of certification I was really just looking for a way to communicate to people who don't know anything about Perl. I love Perl. I think it can and does do some wonderful things. When I heard the sad story of someone arguing with his

Re: [Boston.pm] (also) Perl

2005-03-01 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
> The crux of the problem, is that these questions aren't getting answered: > - Can we create a certification that will deliver benefits X, Y and Z? Yes. No one said it would be easy or happen tomorrow. > - Is certification a necessary precondition for X, Y and Z? > - Aren't problems X',

Re: [Boston.pm] advocacy

2005-03-01 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
> Strictly speaking I don't think advertisement did much for Java. Sure, > you see lots of ads for Java related products now, which maintains a > high visibility for Java, but they exist because the Java market exists. Sure it did. Again, we're talking more about managers and boss types. When a

Re: [Boston.pm] academic use of Perl

2005-03-01 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
> Adam Turoff wrote: >> - Another reason why Perl is a minority language is that it's not >>used in academic curricula. > > An interesting point. > > > Sean Quinlan writes: >> I agree. I'd love to hear suggestions how to work on that. We teach some >> Perl at BU, both under the

Re: [Boston.pm] advocacy

2005-03-01 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
> When it comes to large companies, that real estate becomes > valuable territory and they're not going to donate it for free. > The technology you use is an internal decision. It has no > relevance to the customer. What is the business case for > putting it out there? If you're going to ruin

Re: [Boston.pm] advocacy

2005-03-01 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
See, now we're talking > Alex Brelsfoard wrote: >> What about a website advertising scheme? Make a really >> neat/interesting/technological website based out of Perl and then see if >> we could get some companies to advertsie it (such as O'Reilly, Apache, >> a

Re: [Boston.pm] (also) Perl

2005-03-01 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
I think we're still getting ahead of ourselves here. YES, we are all Perl programmers and love Perl. That doesn't mean we have to see eye-to-eye on ANYTHING else. It'd be nice. But who are we kidding. We're all different. I bring this up to help wash over some of these extraneous issues: >

Re: [Boston.pm] (also) Perl

2005-02-25 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Yay Perl! Sorry, needed to get that out I'm better now. What about a website advertising scheme? Make a really neat/interesting/technological website based out of Perl and then see if we could get some companies to advertsie it (such as O'Reilly, Apache, and Google)? There have been several

Re: [Boston.pm] (also) Perl

2005-02-25 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
. Even if we did have a bunch more doofs walking around with useless certificates, at least more people would know about Perl. And then I wouldn't need to explain things so much ;) Again, thanks. --Alex > Alex Brelsfoard said: >> So no Perl certification? > > Alex, > >

Re: [Boston.pm] Simple switch statement question

2005-02-25 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
>> I have a quick (hopefully) question on how to do a simple switch >> statement. > > The term you want is substitution, rather than switch, which usually has > other meanings in a programming context. True, sorry. I was typing in a hurry. Looking back that IS a bit misleading, and uh wrong.

Re: [Boston.pm] (also) Perl

2005-02-25 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
So no Perl certification? ;) joking. I'm glad this was discussed though. It's always nice to know that there are other people out there who realize that good coding happens from good general knowledge of programming principles, not knowing all the syntax in a language. Plus I had no idea

Re: [Boston.pm] (also) Perl

2005-02-25 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
lt. Still, it makes you wonder if it would be possible... --Alex >>>>>> "AB" == Alex Brelsfoard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > AB> I like this idea. I think Perl certification WOULD make the world > happier. > AB> Then again, I like Gre

Re: [Boston.pm] (also) Perl

2005-02-25 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
>> True programmers aren't the ones we need to tell about Perl. > > I meant budding web programmers. Are these true programmers? I hope so. > "Web scripter" just doesn't sound as good. We'll call them true programmer's in training. ;) But honestly, MOST "true programmers" have already heard

Re: [Boston.pm] DBMS books, and (also) Perl

2005-02-25 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
I just wanted to throw in one quick thing here: > Anyway, my thinking is that if Perl could play to its strength as a FOU > (friend of Unix) more effectively, programmers would get into the habit > of adding it to their bag of tricks, True programmers aren't the ones we need to tell about Perl.

Re: [Boston.pm] short-listing languages for applications software development

2005-02-22 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Well, perhaps we should look at this not so much in the manner of logic, but perhaps scare tactics. For example, WPI recently went through its statistics on hack and hack attempts against the school servers (I know not really a corporate environment, but I'll get to my point). It turns out that

Re: [Boston.pm] Need to open a new window in perl

2005-01-14 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
or images, javascript or other object) back to the browser. It's javascript that can open a new window. Try googling for "bookmarklets". They are clever bits of javascript that are embedded in bookmarks. But you need to give more detail or an example. -Sam Alex Brelsfoard wrote: OK, so

Re: [Boston.pm] Re: Need to open a new window in perl

2005-01-13 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
nderstood your question. I hope this helps. > > --- > Stephen ~runester~ Jarjoura > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: "Alex Brelsfoard" > Subject: [Boston.pm] Need to open a new window in perl > Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:18:01 -0600 (CST) > To: boston-pm@ma

[Boston.pm] Need to open a new window in perl

2005-01-12 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
OK, so here's what I'm trying to do: 1. A link sends you to my script. 2. My script immediately sends that page back to where it came from. 3. My script creates a new window, and continues to do stuff on it. Make sense? I know there's some way to do this with CGI but I'm not at all sure how. In

Re: [Boston.pm] reading in a directory

2004-12-08 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Sounds like a neat idea. But I am very inexperienced in TK. Can you point me to a good place online to do some studying? --Alex >>>>>> "AB" == Alex Brelsfoard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > AB> I have an online photo album that all my fri

Re: [Boston.pm] reading in a directory

2004-12-08 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
the use of a FTP client. But the idea of this is that everyone is lazy and busy. So I need to make this dreafully easy for the uploader or uploads will not occur. Sad but true. --Alex > Alex Brelsfoard wrote: >> Yeah, I'm not too excited about creating a connection to a user's &

Re: [Boston.pm] reading in a directory

2004-12-08 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
, 2004-12-07 at 16:31, Alex Brelsfoard wrote: >>> Wow, well it's good to see we're all on the same page. Three replies >>> all >>> suggesting the same option.. zipped files. Yeah here's the >>> trick. >>> I'm trying to make this process easie

Re: [Boston.pm] reading in a directory

2004-12-08 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
platform independent. I know I could be wishing upon a star here. But I gotta try. --Alex > On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 16:31, Alex Brelsfoard wrote: >> Wow, well it's good to see we're all on the same page. Three replies >> all >> suggesting the same option.. zipped fi

Re: [Boston.pm] reading in a directory

2004-12-07 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
, and submit them in the form as hidden fields (somehow). Well, if anyone else comes up with a neat idea, let me know. I'll let y'all know if I come up with something interesting myself. Thanks for all the feedback. I appreciate it. --Alex > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 02:13:16PM -0600, Alex Brelsfoard wr

Re: [Boston.pm] reading in a directory

2004-12-07 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
(as opposed to selecting a directory)? Or am I simply going to have to get inventive with the use of several languages? Thanks for the feedback. --Alex > Alex Brelsfoard wrote: >> I would like to create a form (html) that...give[s] the user >> an option to select a directory from t

[Boston.pm] reading in a directory

2004-12-07 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Howdy all. I have a quick (hopefully) and easy (hopefully) question you might be able to help me with. I would like to create a form (html) that takes in a little bit of info. Most importantly I want it to give the user an option to select a directory from their hard drive. Much like the

Re: [Boston.pm] anyone with gmail account? Is the spam filter good?

2004-10-12 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
I have had my gmail account for only a few months. but I have not had ANY spam yet. I have not done much to test it. But one of my friends has been using it longer and for his main email address. He still is raving about it (in a good way). As far as I have heard it's doing a pretty good job.

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech/Social Meeting Followup, Kwiki, & Randal

2004-09-23 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Can I just say that I HATE traffic?! I was planning/trying to make it last night. However my 1 hour commute ended up taking 2 1/2 hours. Then, in order to save time (I thought), I tried to take the green line to Lechemere and then walk from there. However I am apparently last to know that the

Re: [Boston.pm] Setting cookies in different browsers

2004-09-01 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
Thanks. Good stuff. --Alex - Original Message - From: Jeremy Muhlich To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 3:30 PM Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Setting cookies in different browsers On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 14:53, Alex Brelsfoard wrote: > I am m

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