Re: Sticky pnotes conclusion

2003-01-09 Thread Ged Haywood
Hi there, On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, John Heitmann wrote: Over the weekend I posted here with questions about a problem where variables stored in pnotes did not get garbage collected. Thanks to some very helpful hints I was able to determine that mod_perl was leaking pnotes in a request with an

Re: OSCON ideas

2003-01-09 Thread Valerio_Valdez Paolini
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Perrin Harkins wrote: (http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2003/create/e_sess). I'm thinking about possible talks to submit and I want a little feedback on what people are most interested in. Here are two options I'mconsidering: 1) Database Objects in Perl I would

Re: OSCON ideas - more talk ideas

2003-01-09 Thread Nigel Hamilton
HI, I'd really like to see talks on: 1. Web Server Compression - a comparison, between mod_gzip, DynaGzip Compress etc, pros / cons, SSL compression, and example configurations 2. Application Server Options - a comparison between pure-perl, Apache/mod_perl, POE, SpeedyCGI etc

Re: OSCON ideas - MVC talk

2003-01-09 Thread Gunther Birznieks
Andy Wardley wrote: Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: I am planning to submit a proposal for a introduction talk on MVC in a web environment. [...] Like Perrin I would like feedback on the idea before putting in my proposal. I like the sound of it, but I should warn you that I have a personal

Re: OSCON ideas - more talk ideas

2003-01-09 Thread Gunther Birznieks
Nigel Hamilton wrote: HI, I'd really like to see talks on: 1. Web Server Compression - a comparison, between mod_gzip, DynaGzip Compress etc, pros / cons, SSL compression, and example configurations 2. Application Server Options - a comparison between pure-perl, Apache/mod_perl, POE,

Re: OSCON ideas - MVC talk

2003-01-09 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Nathan Torkington wrote: Ask Bjoern Hansen writes: On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Perrin Harkins wrote: Like Perrin I would like feedback on the idea before putting in my proposal. I've also been asked if anyone has a wishlist of talks they'd like to see at the conference.

Re: OSCON ideas - MVC talk

2003-01-09 Thread James G Smith
Nathan Torkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ask Bjoern Hansen writes: On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Perrin Harkins wrote: Like Perrin I would like feedback on the idea before putting in my proposal. I've also been asked if anyone has a wishlist of talks they'd like to see at the conference. Ideally

Re: OSCON ideas

2003-01-09 Thread Jonathan M. Hollin
Perrin Harkins wrote: (http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2003/create/e_sess). I'm thinking about possible talks to submit and I want a little feedback on what people are most interested in. Here are two options I'mconsidering: I would be extremely interested in talks covering any work

Re: OSCON ideas - MVC talk

2003-01-09 Thread Rob Nagler
Andy Wardley writes: I like the sound of it, but I should warn you that I have a personal crusade against inappropriate use of the phrase MVC in relation to web development. So how about a panel discussion. I would gladly represent the MVC camp. :-) (see http://www.bivio.biz/hm/why-bOP

Re: OSCON ideas

2003-01-09 Thread Larry Leszczynski
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Perrin Harkins wrote: 2) The Perl Pet Store This would be a discussion of porting the J2EE Pet Store reference application to Perl. It would cover Perl equivalents for various J2EE features, and talk about what was easier or harder to do in Perl. I think this could

Re: OSCON ideas

2003-01-09 Thread Perrin Harkins
Larry Leszczynski wrote: On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Perrin Harkins wrote: 2) The Perl Pet Store This would be a discussion of porting the J2EE Pet Store reference application to Perl. It would cover Perl equivalents for various J2EE features, and talk about what was easier or harder to do in

Re: OSCON ideas

2003-01-09 Thread Jonathan M. Hollin
Perrin Harkins wrote: Several people have brought up benchmarking in reference to the pet store. I don't think it will possible to do a good benchmark of this application, partly because it's so big (it's a reference app that uses lots of functionality just to demonstrate it) and partly

Re: OSCON ideas

2003-01-09 Thread Larry Leszczynski
Hi Perrin - If people are more concerned with seeing something that would dispel myths about Perl performance, rather than a talk on feature portability from J2EE to Perl, I agree benchmarks would be a valuable marketing tool, but personally I prefer the feature portability angle - I don't

RE: OSCON ideas

2003-01-09 Thread Narins, Josh
Some of you will find this interesting, but I'd be hesistant placing too much emphasis on it, since it's really just one programmer's view of the cubes he can see. Java programmers are dime a dozen they must breed like rabbits we've got tons of them but where do you get a corporate

Re: OSCON ideas

2003-01-09 Thread Geoffrey Young
but where do you get a corporate experienced, clean-cut (75%, at least) person willing to put on the tie 5 days a week and do mod_perl? I suspect that there are actually quite a few people on this list that would _love_ to do mod_perl full time. after talking to a few employers over the

Re: OSCON ideas

2003-01-09 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Jonathan M. Hollin wrote: Perrin Harkins wrote: (http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2003/create/e_sess). I'm thinking about possible talks to submit and I want a little feedback on what people are most interested in. Here are two options I'mconsidering: I would be

RE: OSCON ideas

2003-01-09 Thread FFabrizio
I suspect that there are actually quite a few people on this list that would _love_ to do mod_perl full time. open up to telecommuting and I suspect you would soon find yourself fully staffed. Definitely. Put me in this category. I'm faced with having to relocate at some point in

[OT] Re: OSCON ideas

2003-01-09 Thread Larry Leszczynski
but where do you get a corporate experienced, clean-cut (75%, at least) person willing to put on the tie 5 days a week and do mod_perl? Josh: I was with you right up to the part about wearing a tie :-) I suspect that there are actually quite a few people on this list that would _love_

Re: [OT] Re: OSCON ideas

2003-01-09 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Larry Leszczynski wrote: But even if Perrin's OSCON talk (hint hint) gave me some valuable ammunition to show that I could just as easily design on top of a Perl-based application framework as on J2EE, we still come back around to the perception that it's easier to find

Re: OSCON ideas

2003-01-09 Thread wsheldah
I agree. There are probably more of us than might be immediately obvious, too. If a mod_perl programmer doesn't see too many mod_perl jobs in their area, they're likely to highlight other areas when they go job hunting even if they'd rather do mod_perl and could do it well. I wonder if

RE: OSCON ideas

2003-01-09 Thread FFabrizio
I wonder if telecommuting plus occasional travel for face-to-face would sell better than pure telecommuting. Is this done very often in telecommute situations? This is exactly what I hope to propose if the need arises in my situation. Would love to hear from others who have had success

development techniques

2003-01-09 Thread Jim Martinez
The start of a new year has me thinking of how I can improve things. Like the way I develop, debug and test code. Do you develop with an xterm tailing the logs, an emacs window (or other editor) to edit the script and/or the packages (and on some occassions httpd.conf), and a web browser (on an

RE: development techniques

2003-01-09 Thread FFabrizio
Do you develop with an xterm tailing the logs, an emacs window (or other editor) to edit the script and/or the packages (and on some occassions httpd.conf), and a web browser (on an alternate virtual desktop)? Bingo. :-) Do you pepper code with : print option: . $option{$foo . br

Anyone ever have Apache::Session::File files getting corrupted?

2003-01-09 Thread FFabrizio
This is going to be a somewhat preliminary feeler post because we are not yet able to fully describe or recreate the bug we're seeing, but I'm hoping some of you have seen something similar. We use Apache::Session::File as the storage module for our Apache::Session sessions. I have written an

RE: development techniques - specifically debug methods

2003-01-09 Thread C. Jon Larsen
There is a good technique in the mod_perl cookbock that talks about using a Debug module with exported constants. If you program to the API where all of your code is compiled into bytecode at server startup into discrete packages then this means that all of your debug if() sections sprinkled

Re: development techniques

2003-01-09 Thread Andrew Wyllie
On Thu, 09 Jan 2003, Jim Martinez wrote: The start of a new year has me thinking of how I can improve things. Like the way I develop, debug and test code. Do you develop with an xterm tailing the logs, an emacs window (or other editor) to edit the script and/or the packages (and on some

RE: development techniques

2003-01-09 Thread Narins, Josh
-- I find ab to be very quick to type ab('processing...');ab(\%whats_in_here); use Data::Dumper; sub ab { return if exists $ENV{SERVER} $ENV{SERVER} eq 'PRODUCTION'; my $msg=shift; if (ref $msg) { print STDERR

Re: development techniques

2003-01-09 Thread wsheldah
I use HTTP::WebTest for that sort of regression testing, just to make sure nothing breaks along the way. I also use LWP and HTML::LinkExtor to check some dynamically generated pages to make sure it's still generating valid links. (It broke once, so after fixing I added a test for it... ) For

Re: development techniques

2003-01-09 Thread Rob Nagler
mpm writes: Debugging of the applications now looks like: $ced-log('warn',No price for this product) Here's an an alternative that we've evolved from Modula-2 to C to Java to Perl :-) Firstly, I try to distinguish between stuff I always want to see and debugging messages. The former we call

Re: Anyone ever have Apache::Session::File files getting corrupted?

2003-01-09 Thread Larry Leszczynski
I think most people don't use Apache::Session::File in production. It's more of a testing thing. In your situation, you would probably get great performance from MLDBM::Sync with SDBM_File. I'd suggest trying that if you can't determine the cause of the Apache::Session::File issues.

RE: OSCON ideas - missing proceedings

2003-01-09 Thread Mark Schoonover
Any chance they will bring it back to San Diego?? :) .mark -Original Message- From: Robert Landrum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 2:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OSCON ideas - missing proceedings One of the other things I disliked about the last

Re: OSCON ideas

2003-01-09 Thread Gunther Birznieks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if telecommuting plus occasional travel for face-to-face would sell better than pure telecommuting. Is this done very often in telecommute situations? This is exactly what I hope to propose if the need arises in my situation. Would love to hear from

Re: development techniques

2003-01-09 Thread Thomas Bolioli
I use my debugging module (http://cpan.perl.org/authors/id/T/TB/TBOLIOLI/Log-AndError-0.99.tar.gz) which prints to stderr (hence I got bit by the mod_cgi issues with read/write deadlocks on pipes) while tailing the logs, etc. I am looking to include a syslog and other output drivers to my mod

Re: development techniques

2003-01-09 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Thomas Bolioli wrote: I use my debugging module (http://cpan.perl.org/authors/id/T/TB/TBOLIOLI/Log-AndError-0.99.tar.gz) which prints to stderr (hence I got bit by the mod_cgi issues with read/write deadlocks on pipes) while tailing the logs, etc. I am looking to include

Re: development techniques

2003-01-09 Thread Stas Bekman
Jim Martinez wrote: [...] At apachecon, a speaker (who neither bragged nor rambled) mentioned lwp use instead of (or to complement) the web browser portion. Will the use of lwp instead of a browser improve my coding ability (either in terms of speed or just improving my perl coding)? Seems like

Re: mod_perl pre-install questions

2003-01-09 Thread Stas Bekman
Richard wrote: I had a brand new server setup yesterday, which has SuExec installed. I read somewhere, I don't remember where, that mod_perl won't work with SuExec. Is that true? Or did I just think I read that somewhere? It's true. It's all explained here:

RE: OSCON ideas - missing proceedings

2003-01-09 Thread Nathan Torkington
Mark Schoonover writes: Any chance they will bring it back to San Diego?? :) Not for two years at least (the duration of the contract with the Portland hotel). The San Diego hotel was much more expensive and remote, compared to the Portland hotel. I think people are really going to enjoy being

Re: OSCON ideas - missing proceedings

2003-01-09 Thread Nathan Torkington
Robert Landrum writes: One of the other things I disliked about the last OSCON was the missing Perl Conference Proceedings. They didn't appear because we didn't have time at O'Reilly to do it. They're prepared in Framemaker, to fit with our style guide, and take a huge and painful amount of

Re: OSCON ideas - more talk ideas

2003-01-09 Thread Slava Bizyayev
Hi Nigel, OSCON is so far away from the Web Content Compression features. They discarded my proposal to talk about Effective Content Delivery over the Web. You know, O'Reilly itself delivers uncompressed web content to date (indeed, they have mod_gzip and mod_perl installed on Apache): C05 --

Re: Passing CGI environment to subprograms

2003-01-09 Thread Stas Bekman
I don't see any reason why your `` invoked process doesn't see the CGI env vars. For example: #!/usr/bin/perl print Content-type: text/plain\n\n; $ENV{'PATH'} = '/bin:/usr/bin'; delete @ENV{'IFS', 'CDPATH', 'ENV', 'BASH_ENV'}; print qx{printenv |grep REMOTE_ADDR}; prints: REMOTE_ADDR=127.0.0.1

An URL is not Invoking the Anticipated Perl Module

2003-01-09 Thread Steve D
The problem: Apache is generating “File does not exist” within its error.log and the message “Object not found” (The requested URL was not found. Error number 404.) while attempting to call a perl module from a brower. Since I am new with mod_perl, and somewhat with familiar perl, I must

Re: An URL is not Invoking the Anticipated Perl Module

2003-01-09 Thread Stas Bekman
Steve D wrote: The problem: Apache is generating “File does not exist” within its error.log and the message “Object not found” (The requested URL was not found. Error number 404.) while attempting to call a perl module from a brower. [...] Location /CurrDate SetHandler per-script

ANNOUNCE: Bricolage-Devel 1.5.0

2003-01-09 Thread David Wheeler
The Bricolage team is pleased to announce the release of Bricolage-Devel 1.5.0, a development release for what will eventually become Bricolage 1.6.0. In addition to all of the bug fixes included in the 1.4.6 release, this version of the 100% Perl content management system adds many new features.

Re: OSCON ideas - MVC talk

2003-01-09 Thread Andy Wardley
Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: I am planning to submit a proposal for a introduction talk on MVC in a web environment. [...] Like Perrin I would like feedback on the idea before putting in my proposal. I like the sound of it, but I should warn you that I have a personal crusade against

mod_perl pre-install questions

2003-01-09 Thread Richard
I had a brand new server setup yesterday, which has SuExec installed. I read somewhere,I don't remember where, that mod_perl won't work with SuExec. Is that true? Or did I just think I read that somewhere? I see mod_perl in my RPM package installer, with the options of ignore

Re: OSCON ideas - missing proceedings

2003-01-09 Thread Robert Landrum
One of the other things I disliked about the last OSCON was the missing Perl Conference Proceedings. I still have very fond memories of reading about Damians very sick, very twisted, Coy.pm in the 1999 Perl Conference Proceedings. Did anyone else notice that they weren't made available at the

Re: development techniques

2003-01-09 Thread mpm
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Jim Martinez wrote: Do you develop with an xterm tailing the logs, an emacs window ... Yep. print option: . $option{$foo . br if $debug; Fairly low tech, huh. We used to do this. Along with the move from registry to full mod_perl, We changed the way that we did this.

Re: Anyone ever have Apache::Session::File files getting corrupted?

2003-01-09 Thread Perrin Harkins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, my question for now is whether anyone has seen corruption like this with Apache::Session::File in your typical multi-user mod_perl web app environment? I think most people don't use Apache::Session::File in production. It's more of a testing thing. In your