RE: Cheap and unique

2002-05-01 Thread Homsher, Dave V.
David Jacobs wrote: I'm converting a few CGI scripts that used the PID as a cyclical unique number (in concert with TIMESTAMP - so it was TIMESTAMP.PID). Our goal is to find a replacement function that is extremely cheap (cheaper than say, random(100)) and will never repeat. Any

Re: compiling troubles on Solaris 8

2001-08-07 Thread Homsher, Dave V.
As an aside, Solaris 8 comes with prebuilt versions of Apache and mod_perl, does anyone familiar with HP-UX, AIX, or IRIX know whether this is true of these platforms as well? Whether they are DSO mod_perl or not would also be helpful. HP-UX doesn't consider Perl a supportable piece of

RE: Not embedding SQL in perl

2001-08-01 Thread Homsher, Dave V.
Joe Breeden queried: It would be interesting to know how other people have solved that problem. Currently, we are essentially using embedded SQL in our apps. I have found that stored procedures + perl module wrapper around the procs. is a nice, balanced approach. The procs. give a nice

Apache 2.0 / mod_perl 2.0 / Win NT/2000 ? pipe dream ?

2001-08-01 Thread Homsher, Dave V.
Hi all, We currently use (close to) the latest Apache / mod_perl environment on HP/UX. Our holding company is forcing a move to Win2k :/, but they still want to use our mod_perl apps :). I was looking for more information on mod_perl 2.0 today but didn't come up w/much. I have several

Re: Not embedding SQL in perl

2001-08-01 Thread Homsher, Dave V.
It would be interesting to know how other people have solved that problem. Currently, we are essentially using embedded SQL in our apps. I have found that stored procedures + perl module wrapper around the procs. is a nice, balanced approach. Definitely; stored procedures are hit-and-miss

RE: [OT]: Open Source ... was Re: Advocacy idea ...

2000-12-15 Thread Homsher, Dave V.
OK, you probably don't want it to be another mailing list then. But a web bbs that allows you to post replies to code. kind of ... I would like to see someplace to post _working_ code (complete or snippets) with an explanation of what you are trying to accomplish, and with any issues/special

Advocacy idea ...

2000-12-14 Thread Homsher, Dave V.
Hi all, With all of the advocacy talk on the ML right now I've been mulling around the idea of having a "peer review" forum where one could post code that you are currently working on w/an explanation of what you are trying to accomplish and have the community review/give suggestions warnings,

RE: [OT]: Open Source ... was Re: Advocacy idea ...

2000-12-14 Thread Homsher, Dave V.
Just don't post your code to the list itself. It's rude to bloat the mails on the list. Provide a hyperlink to your annotated code. True, but what happens after you get your answer? You take the code down and move on. It would be nice to have a place to post the code where it can be organized

STDOUT issues ...

2000-12-13 Thread Homsher, Dave V.
Hi all ... I have searched through the archives for an answer and have found a lot of discussion, but nothing concrete enough to help ... I am using Spreadsheet::WriteExcel to create an Excel doc (hence the name) but I keep getting blank documents back. The module can write to a file or to

zlib error?

2000-11-02 Thread Homsher, Dave V.
Hi all, I came in this morning to find my server (semi) down with the following error message in the logs: [error] Out of memory during "large" request for 135168 bytes at /opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.6.0/PA-RISC2.0/Compress/Zlib.pm line 198 This is on an HP-UX machine with several _gigs_ of

Apache::Sybase::CTlib connections dropping (not morning issue)

2000-10-03 Thread Homsher, Dave V.
Hi all, I have an unstable connection to my backend database (I have no control). The connection often blinks which causes the Apache children processes to drop. I am trying to figure out a way to automatically reconnect. I am currently writing a script to run outside of Apache which will make