Re: [OT] eToys Jingle (was: Where was that success story?)

2002-03-09 Thread Ian Struble
And further still into OT land, Israel is a pretty popular Hawaiian artist. Too bad he does not get play on the mainland. Ian On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Tom Servo wrote: What I really want to know is: what ever happened to that eToys jingle that was on the commercials? It was almost as good as

Where was that success story?

2002-03-06 Thread Fulko Hew
Can someone forward me a URL to the perl/mod-perl success story (from about 6 months ago) that was about some people that went in and re-wrote someones web application and made it run incredably faster in a very short time, but in the end the customer threw it out and went for a competing

Re: Where was that success story?

2002-03-06 Thread Stas Bekman
Fulko Hew wrote: Can someone forward me a URL to the perl/mod-perl success story (from about 6 months ago) that was about some people that went in and re-wrote someones web application and made it run incredably faster in a very short time, but in the end the customer threw it out and went

Re: Where was that success story?

2002-03-06 Thread Fulko Hew
Fulko Hew wrote: Can someone forward me a URL to the perl/mod-perl success story (from about 6 months ago) that was about some people that went in and re-wrote someones web application and made it run incredably faster in a very short time, but in the end the customer threw it out and

Re: Where was that success story?

2002-03-06 Thread Perrin Harkins
Fulko Hew wrote: Hang on. I just found it (by way of Slashdot)... it was about eToys, October 17, 2001, its web 5 pages long, and mentions Randal Schwartz and Damian Conway. I knew I wasn't dreamming! Um, that was my article, and it certainly doesn't say anything like but in the end the

Re: Where was that success story?

2002-03-06 Thread Eric Hammond
Fulko Hew wrote: Fulko Hew wrote: Can someone forward me a URL to the perl/mod-perl success story (from about 6 months ago) that was about some people that went in and re-wrote someones web application and made it run incredably faster in a very short time [...] I'm part of a small

Re: Where was that success story?

2002-03-06 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 02.03.06 10:28 -0800 ) Eric Hammond: I'm part of a small group which recently did something like this, replacing a major NT/IIS/ASP web site with Linux/Apache/mod_perl/Mason in 3 months. Dude- write this up! Submit it to Stas, or the perl.org web site. This is good stuff that we *all*

RE: Where was that success story?

2002-03-06 Thread Jonathan M. Hollin
:: No public story has been written about it, but I would reply to :: private questions about the experience. To summarize, it went :: very smoothly and was a great success (and no part of it has :: been thrown out for any competing technology). Eric, Would you consider writing a paper

Re: Where was that success story?

2002-03-06 Thread Perrin Harkins
Kurt Hansen wrote: What I really want to know is: what ever happened to that eToys jingle that was on the commercials? That song is by Hawaiian performer Israel Kamakawiwo`ole. Here's a link to the CD: http://album.yahoo.com/shop?d=haid=1804600529cf=10intl=us - Perrin

Re: [OT] eToys Jingle (was: Where was that success story?)

2002-03-06 Thread Drew Taylor
Thanks to Gnutella, I'm getting chills all over again. I just love that song. eToys might not have survived, but their marketing sure did. :-) At 02:45 PM 3/6/2002 -0800, Tom Servo wrote: What I really want to know is: what ever happened to that eToys jingle that was on the commercials? It