Re: [O] Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-11-03 Thread Perrin Harkins
Tony Bowden wrote: ... but I think that there should be a certain level of ability that should be assumed when coding commercially ... My current situation is somewhat unusual because Perl is not the language that the people I am coding with were hired to write. They are mostly Java program

FW: NTLM module and POST

2002-11-03 Thread Kaye-Smith Adam
I know it has been a while since this thread was active but I am also having the problem with posted variables being losed & it is also consistant with the problems below - ie if I wait 15 sec (keepalive setting) then the variable are posted ok. I took the script that you posted (which I have inc

POD re-written for Apache::DBI

2002-11-03 Thread Lee Goddard
I just read the POD for Apache::DBI, and then rewrote it. Hope no-one is offended, that no meaning is lost, and that the revision is worth looking at and perhaps including on CPAN. Cheers lee (now offlist) =head1 NAME Apache::DBI - Initiate a persistent database connection =head1 SYNOPSIS # Co

Re: [OTish] Version Control?

2002-11-03 Thread Les Mikesell
From: "Steven Lembark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > One quick way to deal with testing things is to tag the releases > with something meaningful and pass the tag to Q/A. They do an > update -d -P -r yourtag and test it. If things work then the update > gets run again in production and life goes on. Since

Re: [OT]: In my Farthers House there are many mansions

2002-11-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Tony" == Tony Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tony> We're drifting further and further off topic here, but the trick to the Tony> Schwartzian Transform is the caching, not the maps. The maps are just a Tony> convenient construct that allows the whole thing to be written in one Tony> com

Re: [OT]: In my Farthers House there are many mansions

2002-11-03 Thread Tony Bowden
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 11:48:55AM -0600, Steven Lembark wrote: > >I'm not sure anyone has actually posited using map for performance, but > >in most cases that would indeed be a pretty stupid reason to use it. > See the Schwartzian Transform for an excellent example of > where you would use map fo

Re: [OTish] Version Control?

2002-11-03 Thread Steven Lembark
-- Rob Nagler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We are transitioning (slowly) between perl 5.005 and 5.6.1. Our trick is to have separate 5.005 and 5.6.1 build/test (and sometimes dev) machines. I'm not sure this solves your problem. Simplest fix is to have two trees. One way to do this is take everythin

Re: [OTish] Version Control?

2002-11-03 Thread Rob Nagler
Michael Schout writes: > example, one time we upgraded Apache::Filter between releases. > Unfortunately, the old version was not compatible with the new version, > so a single machine could run either the current release branch, or the > development branch, but not both simultaneously (because A

Re: [OT]: In my Farthers House there are many mansions

2002-11-03 Thread Steven Lembark
-- Tony Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 12:13:19PM -, Jeff wrote: It sounds like you're saying that you should only use a subset of Perl as some programmers may not understand the other parts of it? That is what I'm saying. I'm aware that this is a controversial opin

Re: [O] Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-11-03 Thread Tony Bowden
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 01:42:45PM -0500, Perrin Harkins wrote: > >It sounds like you're saying that you should only use a subset of Perl > >as some programmers may not understand the other parts of it? > That is what I'm saying. I'm aware that this is a controversial opinion > in the Perl world.

Re: [OT]: In my Farthers House there are many mansions

2002-11-03 Thread Tony Bowden
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 12:13:19PM -, Jeff wrote: >>>It sounds like you're saying that you should only use a subset of Perl >>>as some programmers may not understand the other parts of it? >> That is what I'm saying. I'm aware that this is a controversial >> opinion in the Perl world. Howev