Re: OT: Are things really this bad?

2002-10-12 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Todd Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was looking at jobs.perl.org this afternoon, and there are a lot of things on there like this: Over here, the barometer looks like: http://www.jobstats.co.uk/ And those residual 4000 are agents trolling for leads from CVs. -- Dave Hodgkinson, Wizard

Re: [OT] Better Linux server platform: Redhat or SuSe?

2002-07-04 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Valerio_Valdez Paolini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I never used RH RPMs for Apache and mod_perl, mostly because of DSO issues. I'm running stock RH RPM apache/mod_perl on some fairly hairy sites (hand-crafted mod_perl, slashcode etc.) with _no_ problems. And that was through the current round

Re: [JOB] Crack OOP Perl whitebox tester wanted

2002-06-21 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Phil Dobbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry if I haven't kept up with this thread but, is this really the way the mod_perl list is going to go? I hope so. All these job postings are making me feel warm and fuzzy for the future. -- Dave Hodgkinson, Wizard for Hire http

Re: Problems installing on Solaris 8

2002-03-23 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
should verify what modules really are linked in. -- Dave Hodgkinson, Wizard for Hire http://www.davehodgkinson.com Editor-in-chief, The Highway Starhttp://www.thehighwaystar.com Interim Technical Director, Web Architecture Consultant for hire

Re: 0 being appended to non mod_perl scripts.

2002-03-22 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Per Einar Ellefsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I suspect that you don't get the 0 from static files, or anything which sends a Content-Length header. Look more into the raw transmitted data, and you might find out something. Might it be an HTTP/1.1 KeepAlive artefact? -- David Hodgkinson,

Re: modperl and SQL db select

2002-03-21 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
darren chamberlain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting dreamwvr [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Mar 21, 2002 13:10]: Is there any issue with using modperl with postgres vs mysql for a database driven website? Don't want to bark up the wrong tree in a mod_perl project only to discover I picked the wrong

Re: How to do connection pooling

2002-02-27 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
a two-tier Apache and restrict MaxClients on the back-end. -- Dave Hodgkinson, Wizard for Hire http://www.davehodgkinson.com Editor-in-chief, The Highway Starhttp://www.thehighwaystar.com Interim Technical Director, Web Architecture Consultant for hire

Re: choice of mod_perl technology for news site

2002-02-07 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
on the front-end Apache. Um, that's all I can think of for now. -- Dave Hodgkinson, Wizard for Hire http://www.davehodgkinson.com Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim Technical Director, Web Architecture Consultant for hire

Re: modperl growth

2002-02-05 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
). -- Dave Hodgkinson, Wizard for Hire http://www.davehodgkinson.com Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim Technical Director, Web Architecture Consultant for hire

Re: modperl growth

2002-02-04 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Paul DuBois [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 11:02 + 2/3/02, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Paul DuBois [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mac OS X includes Apache, and mod_perl works there, too. That's another group of potential new mod_perl-ized servers. I think all the recent RedHats come

Re: modperl growth

2002-02-04 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
as phpnuke... ;-) Hmmmactually, there's half a point buried in there. -- Dave Hodgkinson, Wizard for Hire http://www.davehodgkinson.com Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim Technical Director, Web Architecture Consultant for hire

Re: modperl growth

2002-02-04 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Dave Rolsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 4 Feb 2002, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: And if the Slashcode were as easy to install and customise as phpnuke... For OSCON (and hopefully YAPC too), I've submitted a talk on using Module::Build (an ExtUtils::MakeMaker replacement) for modules

Re: modperl growth

2002-02-03 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Paul DuBois [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mac OS X includes Apache, and mod_perl works there, too. That's another group of potential new mod_perl-ized servers. I think all the recent RedHats come with mod_perl as a DSO by default. -- Dave Hodgkinson, Wizard for Hire http

Re: modperl growth

2002-02-02 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Matt Sergeant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However I'm always skeptical of such massive changes - perhaps more likely is a change in SecuritySpace's methodology? Don't Netcraft keep numbers? -- Dave Hodgkinson, Wizard for Hire http://www.davehodgkinson.com Editor-in-chief, The Highway

Re: New mod_perl Logo

2002-01-30 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Ged Haywood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi there, On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Chris Thompson wrote: mod_perl is a lousy name. [snip] mod_perl needs a name. Something marketable, something catchy. How about BigFoot? Sasquatch. -- Dave Hodgkinson, Wizard for Hire http

Re: Dynamically serving an .htaccess file with mod_perl

2002-01-29 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
attempt to access the .htaccess simultaneously... Not if the file is small enough...low level reads are granular up to, I think 8k. Maybe. -- Dave Hodgkinson, Wizard for Hire http://www.davehodgkinson.com Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim

Re: Thumbnail generator

2002-01-21 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
, but cache early, cache often. -- Dave Hodgkinson, Wizard for Hire http://www.davehodgkinson.com Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim Technical Director, Web Architecture Consultant for hire

Re: Fast template system

2001-12-30 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Ryan Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any thoughts? You really have to ask?!!! * _Dave thinks: Template Toolit. -- David Hodgkinson, Wizard for Hirehttp://www.davehodgkinson.com Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Deep Purple Family Tree news

Re: irc

2001-12-22 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Thomas Eibner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 07:21:00AM -0800, brian moseley wrote: i can't believe i never thought to ask this in 4 years, but: do any of you hang out on irc anywhere in particular? shouldn't there be a #mod_perl somewhere, if there isn't already?

Re: load balancing on apache

2001-12-14 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Hemant Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi All   I am planning to host an application and its size is going to be big one , so expect the concurrent number of connection s to be around 2200.To combat the same , want to perform load sharing on 3-4 servers.So the ide is to put one machine

Re: load balancing on apache

2001-12-14 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Perrin Harkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am planning to host an application and its size is going to be big one , so expect the concurrent number of connection s to be around 2200. To combat the same , want to perform load sharing on 3-4 servers. If you really expect 2200 concurrent

Re: mod_perl vs. C for high performance Apache modules

2001-12-14 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Jeff Yoak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi All, Recently I did a substantial project for a client in using mod_perl. That client is happy with the work, but an investor with their company is very angry because of what a horrible choice mod_perl is for

Re: mod_perl vs. C for high performance Apache modules

2001-12-14 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Perrin Harkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I spoke to the technical lead at Yahoo who said mod_perl will not scale as well as c++ when you get to their level of traffic, but for a large ecommerce site mod_perl is fine. According to something I once read by David Filo, Yahoo also had to

Re: mod_perl vs. C for high performance Apache modules

2001-12-14 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Toni Andjelkovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2.x linux kernels too. that was an issue with 2.0.x, since 2.2.x you can do it with That was what I meant...decimal point in the wrong place... :-) -- David Hodgkinson, Wizard for Hirehttp://www.davehodgkinson.com Editor-in-chief, The

Re: ASP.NET Linux equivalent?

2001-12-06 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Medi Montaseri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can also use the tie() feature of Perl to abstract read/write to database. In fact you can write a pretty flexible module to figure out many things, such as table name, col name, etc... I'm a HUGE fan of Tie::DBI for dealing with little lookup

Re: ASP.NET Linux equivalent?

2001-12-05 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Kee Hinckley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 6:55 PM -0500 12/3/01, Vsevolod Ilyushchenko wrote: Hi, Is anyone aware of a Linux product equivalent to ASP.NET from MS? Its most attractive feature is the GUI construction of Web forms and the automatic connection of their fields to a database.

Re: [modperl site design challenge] please vote

2001-12-04 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Stas Bekman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks to Eric Cholet for providing this voting script and hosting it. HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 09:39:28 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.23-dev (Unix) PHP/4.0.6 mod_perl/1.26_01-dev Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

Re: [OT] log analyzing programs

2001-12-02 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any suggestions for favorite ones? wusage seems to require a lot of resources -- maybe that's not unusual? It runs once a week. Here's a about six days worth of requests. Doesn't see like that many. analog - but _do_ read the words that go with it,

Re: [OT] A couple of dubious network problems...

2001-11-28 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Mark Maunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave Hodgkinson wrote: 1. On a RH6.0 (yes, ick) box without persistent DBI connections, the server side of the DBD::mysql connection was successfully closed (netstat shows nothing), but the client side shows a TIME_WAIT state, which hangs around

[OT] A couple of dubious network problems...

2001-11-27 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Chaps, Can I pick the wisdom of the hive here please? I witnessed a couple of mod_perl related network problems yesterday which are kind of mod_perl related: 1. On a RH6.0 (yes, ick) box without persistent DBI connections, the server side of the DBD::mysql connection was successfully closed

Re: [DBI] DBI-install_driver fails

2001-11-18 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Ged Haywood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi there, On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Dau Hee wrote: [snip,snip] I also use up2date to upgraded my glibc to 2.2.4 from 2.2.2. Why? If it ain't broke, don't mend it. Because RedHat will have fixed stuff. For some values of fixed. I normally roll my

Re: Doing Authorization using mod_perl from a programmers perspective

2001-11-14 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Jonathan E. Paton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please don't flame me, I'll go away... honest :P I wonder if you're trying to do too much too soon? If you're concerned about hosting then *gulp* PHP might server you better. I rent a dedicated server because I want absolute control and the ability

Re: Excellent article on Apache/mod_perl at eToys

2001-10-23 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Nathan Torkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Leon Brocard writes: Perhaps a port of JMS is in order. Interestingly, I've been thinking along the same lines. Spread (http://www.spread.org/) can be used for the publish/subscribe messaging domain but queueing seems to be important too.

Re: Mod_perl component based architecture

2001-10-16 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Gargi Bodke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi i have been asked to suggest an architecture to seperate the business logic from the html. how is this done in modperl? i guess by using functions for the business logic. is there any other way? By using one of the many available templaters, my

Re: Programmer Wanted

2001-10-12 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
BuildReferrals.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, You need a decent client side programmer too...all the stupid popups, scripting and crap killed my netscape. -- David Hodgkinson, Wizard for Hirehttp://www.davehodgkinson.com

Re: [VERY OT] What hourly rate to charge for programming?

2001-10-11 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Gunther Birznieks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: America is richer than Australia. Yeah, but the food's better in Oz. Still, the beer sucks in both ;-) -- David Hodgkinson, Wizard for Hirehttp://www.davehodgkinson.com Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star

Re: [VERY OT] What hourly rate to charge for programming?

2001-10-11 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ahh, you have Budweiser in Australia too, then? ;) Worse: Fosters. -- David Hodgkinson, Wizard for Hirehttp://www.davehodgkinson.com Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com All the Purple Family Tree news

Re: Off-topic - Apache Config - Load crises

2001-10-11 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Rafiq Ismail [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: iv) Something else? Two tier Apache. Increase shareability. Read the guide. -- David Hodgkinson, Wizard for Hirehttp://www.davehodgkinson.com Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com All the Purple Family

For hire...

2001-10-01 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
I've got some availability at the moment so if anyone needs anything from a couple of hours sorting out performance issues (and therefore avoiding that costly upgrade!) up to planning and implementing major rearchitectures, let me know. Check my site for recent projects, references supplied from

Re: keeping client images private

2001-09-12 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i'm sure there's more than one way to do this -- and before i take the likely-to-be-most-circuituitous route, i thought i'd cull advice from the clever minds on this list... Take a look at the mod_rewrite cookbook...there's some neat stuff in there.

Re: FW: AuthCookie Woes!

2001-09-04 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Chris Lavin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have used a sniffer and no cookie is being sent! Man this is frustrating! Are you positive the cookie domain is being set properly? -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star

Re: OT: Re: ApacheCon Dublin Cancelled?

2001-07-16 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Nathan Torkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are there any requests other than price for next year? Have it in London. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web

Re: CGI module or Apache

2001-07-09 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just use it in your handlers normally. It'll only be included once per process, . . . right? Put it in startup.pl and it'll get mostly shared too! -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star

Job: Chief Wizard for Hire

2001-05-29 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
All the current projects are done and dusted and the T-shirts are at the printers (really!). I'm looking for the next round of excellent clients to work with. Take a look at my site at http://www.hodgkinson.org/ to see what I'm up to. Thanks, Dave -- Dave Hodgkinson

Re: mod_perl and 700k files...

2001-05-10 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
with mod_rewrite and start dividing up your servers. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy

Re: Is this startup.pl ok?

2001-04-26 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
. If a process starts at 10M and grows to 80M that's 70M per process, _unshared_ for sure. Not good. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy

Re: Is this startup.pl ok?

2001-04-26 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
processes start at 10M, then grow to 80M, that memory is probably _not_ shared. Unless you're mapping in some shared memory or something. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com

Re: Loading Index.pl as the Root File

2001-04-24 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
. Slash is the only program that makes me physically ill. It is the single worst piece of programming ever released upon the world. No, that would be Matt's Script Archive. Have you seen Slash 2.0? Even uses the Template Toolkit. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http

Re: Web forum engine

2001-04-21 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
s taken up the project under a different name, if anyone knows about this, please tell me. mwforum, and a Template Toolkit version may well be in the pipeline. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-

Re: Fast DB access

2001-04-18 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
that were fixed. I don't know if the tests were eventually run against MySQL 3.23. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy

Re: Apache growing.

2001-04-16 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
stuff in the mod_perl guide on tracking down leaks. Both perl and mod_perl have both been extensively tested . It's worthwhile to have done this at least once so you know how to do it when you really need to do it. In addition, profiling your code is a Good Thing to do :-) -- Dave Hodgkinson

Build problems on Mandrake

2001-04-05 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
issue? TIA, Dave -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy

Re: Renegotiate Language

2001-03-21 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
to renegotiate the language with different preferences. How can I do this. Look at the HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE environment variable? I've done this and actually got resistance from Brazilians who preferred the Engligh content. You might be better off with a user preference. -- Dave Hodgkinson

Re: book recommendations?

2001-03-20 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
le getting? Absolutely. Suggestions on good reference books to get? (I have most of the Perl library already). Effective Perl Damian Conway's Object Oriented Perl Data Munging in Perl -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Hi

Re: Apache thrashing my swap...

2001-02-28 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
fat apache would at least get you somewhere near where you want to be. If someone hits stop before something gets passed to the fat apache, will it get tossed completely? Having a maxclients limit on the fat apache will keep memory and CPU usage sane. -- Dave Hodgkinson,

Re: Process Running Even after timeout

2001-02-22 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
g , Dosent apache close the database connection = after it sends a timeout ??? Yes, but mysql is busy doing your query. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sy

Re: newbie mess

2001-02-19 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
... Cheers, Dave -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire -

Re: [JOB] another bloke for hire...

2001-01-22 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
I'm looking at justifying a trip to Japan in late March. If there's anyone who needs some Apache architecture, Apache::Registry-ification of existing CGI code or in depth MySQL tuning work, please mail me. Thanks, Dave -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org

Re: [RFC] modproxy:modperl ratios...

2000-05-03 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Vivek Khera wrote: "DH" == Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DH I'm currently arguing about this very thing with my BOFH - I think we DH should have, effectively, an SSI apache and a mod_perl apache, he's I tend to call mod_perl scripts from my SSI's, so it makes sen

Re: [RFC] modproxy:modperl ratios...

2000-04-28 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Vivek Khera wrote: "MS" == Matt Sergeant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: doing - and the TCP listen queue will hold a few more connections if you are slightly short of backends. MS Is there any benefit of mod_proxy over a real proxy front end like "Oops"? Not being familiar with "Oops",

Re: Proxy front end behind 64k

2000-04-28 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Matt Sergeant wrote: I'm behind a 64k leased line here (net access is *extremely* expensive here in the UK) and I was thinking, a proxy front end is probably really not necessary for me. Worst case scenario: I get 8 clients connecting to my at about 1KB/s - my pipe is maxed out anyway, so

Re: authentication via login form

1999-10-11 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
"Jamie O'Shaughnessy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 11 Oct 99 15:05:23 +0100, you wrote: I was actually looking at a PerlTransHandler that I'd drop into my site-wide files that would do something like the following: my $uri = $r-uri; if ($uri =~ s#/@@(\d+)@@/#/#) {

Re: authentication via login form

1999-10-11 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Michael Peppler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Don't use the IP address. Some proxy systems have a non-static IP address for requests coming from the same physical client (some of AOLs proxies work that way, if I remember correctly...) "...or something..." ;-) -- David Hodgkinson, Technical

Re: Server Stats

1999-10-07 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Matt Sergeant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sadly Phillip Greenspun, while a great writer, isn't that fabulous technically (although he's on the right track by not recommending NT). See how he also recommends HP-UX as the fastest and most stable Unix around. Yeah, but have you seen the kit they