Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-21 Thread Drew Taylor
Mason. I'm sure Dave will have more to say on the subject... :-) -- - Drew Taylor * Web app development consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Site implementation hosting www.drewtaylor.com * perl/mod_perl/DBI/mysql/postgres -

Re: okay, I give, I'm stumped

2002-07-28 Thread Drew Taylor
to build mod_perl in, but keep DSO support and dynamic load the rest of the modules. Will try that. == Drew Taylor | Freelance web development using http://www.drewtaylor.com/ | perl/mod_perl/MySQL/postgresql/DBI

[OT] WebObjects [Was: Re: separating C from V in MVC]

2002-06-14 Thread Drew Taylor
server. Which has moved on to Java, and thus is OT. :-) But I've heard many good things about WebObjects, so it's on my wish list of technologies to investigate. Drew == Drew Taylor | Freelance web

Re: separating C from V in MVC

2002-06-14 Thread Drew Taylor
. == Drew Taylor | Freelance web development using http://www.drewtaylor.com/ | perl/mod_perl/MySQL/postgresql/DBI mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Email jobs at drewtaylor.com

RE: mod_perl/passing session information (MVC related, maybe...)

2002-06-13 Thread Drew Taylor
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Re: Internet Explorer sending nothing in subsequent posts

2002-06-12 Thread Drew Taylor
will not get anything sent. Does anyone know why this happens? Is there a workaround for mod_perl or in the Web browser? == Drew Taylor | Freelance web development using http://www.drewtaylor.com/ | perl/mod_perl/MySQL

RE: Porting to OS X

2002-06-04 Thread Drew Taylor
. == Drew Taylor | Freelance web development using http://www.drewtaylor.com/ | perl/mod_perl/MySQL/postgresql/DBI mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Email jobs at drewtaylor.com

RE: Porting to OS X

2002-06-04 Thread Drew Taylor
to date versions IIRC, the latest OS update upgrades perl to 5.6.1. == Drew Taylor | Freelance web development using http://www.drewtaylor.com/ | perl/mod_perl/MySQL/postgresql/DBI mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: What causes memory leaks during graceful restarts?

2002-05-21 Thread Drew Taylor
statically. Unless you need the ability to dynamically add in mod_perl, static is better. I'm sure the guide has all kinds of info about the tradeoffs of DSO vs. static. == Drew Taylor | Freelance web development using

New mod_perl website [Was Re: Modifying @INC via startup.pl]

2002-05-20 Thread Drew Taylor
, the release-ready (almost) site is now at http://perl.apache.org/release/ == Drew Taylor | Freelance web development using http://www.drewtaylor.com/ | perl/mod_perl/MySQL/postgresql/DBI mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Reloading Library Files

2002-05-17 Thread Drew Taylor
. == Drew Taylor | Freelance web development using http://www.drewtaylor.com/ | perl/mod_perl/MySQL/postgresql/DBI mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Email jobs at drewtaylor.com -- Speakeasy.net

Re: Reloading Library Files

2002-05-17 Thread Drew Taylor
. Ted Drew Taylor wrote: Take a look at Apache::Reload or Apache::StatINC. Reload is more flexible, but StatINC has been around a little longer. Both have worked well for me. But be sure that you don't use these modules on a production server. :-) httpd.conf == PerlInitHandler

Re: filtering mod_proxy output

2002-05-14 Thread Drew Taylor
page contains links that must be filtered (IMG SRC, etc). Read up on the ProxyPassReverse directive of mod_proxy. This will do exactly what you are looking for. Drew == Drew Taylor | Freelance web development

RE: How to disable mod_perl in a subdir (apache)

2002-05-14 Thread Drew Taylor
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Re: Content management systems

2002-04-09 Thread Drew Taylor
At 08:08 AM 4/9/02 +0100, Matt Sergeant wrote: On Tuesday 09 April 2002 7:53 am, Matthew Watson wrote: Heya. I was wondering if there are any content management systems around for modperl , i'm after a similar kind of thing as postnuke for php. I'd much rather something 'out of the

Re: Content management systems

2002-04-09 Thread Drew Taylor
. http://www.metadot.com/ The developer site is at http://www.metadot.net/. Drew == Drew Taylor JA[P|m_p]H http://www.drewtaylor.com/ Just Another Perl|mod_perl Hacker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** God

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-03 Thread Drew Taylor
I can highly recommend PDFLib. It's not quite free in that you have to buy a license if you make a product out of it, but it's still cheap. Matt Sergeant has recently added an OO interface over the PDFLib functions with PDFLib. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=PDFLib There are others that

Re: Java???

2002-04-01 Thread Drew Taylor
Think April 1... ;-) At 10:51 AM 4/1/02 -0500, John Von Essen wrote: Why does CPAN.org say Comprehensive Java Archive Network -jve

Re: How to get two perl namespaces in apache

2002-03-26 Thread Drew Taylor
Thomas, You can run seperate environments if your coding doesn't reference any hard coded paths. I just setup a dev server at my new job and do exactly what you want. All you have to do is add a use lib qw(/path/to/modules); in your startup.pl or make sure the PERL5LIB environment var is set.

Re: Non-web use for Apache/mod_perl

2002-03-20 Thread Drew Taylor
to create a very large distributed *single-user* system running on multiple machines. == Drew Taylor JA[P|m_p]H http://www.drewtaylor.com/ Just Another Perl|mod_perl Hacker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2002-03-06 Thread Drew Taylor
Enjoy. Brian Nilsen == Drew Taylor JA[P|m_p]H http://www.drewtaylor.com/ Just Another Perl|mod_perl Hacker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** God bless America

Re: [OT-ish] Session refresh philosophy

2002-02-20 Thread Drew Taylor
. browser-state problem. I was recently bitten by it again when some consultants built a web app for my company that puts the search results in a session keyed on a cookie. As soon as the user opens two windows, it's absolute mayhem. - Perrin Drew Taylor JA[P|m_p|SQL]H http

Re: [OT-ish] Session refresh philosophy

2002-02-19 Thread Drew Taylor
before they're confirmed. You can for example send a hidden form object back and forth between your Client and the app. Drew Taylor JA[P|m_p|SQL]H http://www.drewtaylor.com/ Just Another Perl|mod_perl|SQL Hacker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** God bless America! ***

Re: [OT-ish] Session refresh philosophy

2002-02-19 Thread Drew Taylor
. In this case, simple was better - simple application, simple session. And I know I can count on every browser implementing forms. :-) Drew Drew Taylor JA[P|m_p|SQL]H http://www.drewtaylor.com/ Just Another Perl|mod_perl|SQL Hacker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** God

Re: choice of mod_perl technology for news site

2002-02-06 Thread Drew Taylor
to the jaw. -Computer Museum (Boston) Drew Taylor JA[P|m_p|SQL]H http://www.drewtaylor.com/ Just Another Perl|mod_perl|SQL Hacker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** God bless America! ***

Re: [OT] email attachments - Win32 email reader to replace OE

2002-02-02 Thread Drew Taylor
is that it uses good old mbox format, so you could later move to mutt once you're on unix. Oh, and it's stable and immune to the Outlook viruses too. :-) Drew Drew Taylor JA[P|m_p|SQL]H http://www.drewtaylor.com/ Just Another Perl|mod_perl|SQL Hacker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OT] pdf creation

2001-10-28 Thread Drew Taylor
well. http://www.pdflib.com/ Drew Taylor JA[P|m_p|SQL]H http://www.drewtaylor.com/ Just Another Perl|mod_perl|SQL Hacker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** God bless America! *** ICQ: 135298242

Re: [OT] excellent modperl/etoys article by Perrin revisited

2001-10-25 Thread Drew Taylor
Perrin! :-) Drew Taylor JA[P|m_p|SQL]H http://www.drewtaylor.com/ Just Another Perl|mod_perl|SQL Hacker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** God bless America! *** ICQ: 135298242

Re: Excellent article on Apache/mod_perl at eToys

2001-10-23 Thread Drew Taylor
a little parse at the moment, but kudos to Brian for the work done so far! Now if only I could figure out a good test application to try it with... Drew Taylor JA[P|m_p|SQL]H http://www.drewtaylor.com/ Just Another Perl|mod_perl|SQL Hacker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** God

Re: [Templates] Re: Excellent article on Apache/mod_perl at eToys

2001-10-19 Thread Drew Taylor
it without you. Drew Taylor JA[P|m_p|SQL]H http://www.drewtaylor.com/ Just Another Perl|mod_perl|SQL Hacker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** God bless America! *** ICQ: 135298242

Re: [Knowledge Base] First coherent release

2001-10-11 Thread Drew Taylor
://www.jamesmith.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://cis.tamu.edu/systems/opensystems/ +-- Drew Taylor JA[P|m_p|SQL]H http://www.drewtaylor.com/ Just Another Perl|mod_perl|SQL Hacker mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Knowledge Base] First coherent release

2001-10-11 Thread Drew Taylor
features? Either way it would be nice if you included a require 5.6.0; in PerlKB.pm so that it would be immediately obvious to the new user. At 03:06 AM 10/11/01 -0500, Jim Smith wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 02:53:09AM -0400, Drew Taylor wrote: I've run into a WEIRD problem that I think

Re: [Knowledge Base] First coherent release

2001-10-11 Thread Drew Taylor
At 11:45 AM 10/11/01 -0500, Jim Smith wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 11:25:43AM -0400, Drew Taylor wrote: I assume that the reason I get the Can't locate the render_format method is because you're not actually storing any objects yet? Not sure. It should be able to see it. Can you give

Re: [OT] Overridding a module's use of a function

2001-10-11 Thread Drew Taylor
to pass file names that have spaces in them and glob does not process them. So I did the following override (I do not need to expand the file names): package Apache::AAM; . . . package File::NCopy; use subs qw(glob); sub glob {@_}; package Apache::AAM; . . . Is there a better way to do this? Drew

Re: an unusual [job request] + taking mod_perl to the commercial world

2001-04-28 Thread Drew Taylor
advocacy: press releases, reference cards, publish articles and sell a qr/this (article|research) funded by (ActiveState|VMWare|Covalent|IBM S/390 Marketing Division|.*)/ credit Drew Taylor mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.drewtaylor.com/

Re: brochureware perl.apache.org?!

2001-04-28 Thread Drew Taylor
At 04:41 PM 4/28/01 -0400, Philip Mak wrote: On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Drew Taylor wrote: I agree 100%. If I might throw my $.02 in, IMHO a part of this marketing should be a more brochureware perl.apache.org. If you guys do redesign perl.apache.org, please, PLEASE take usability into account

Re: [OT] ApacheCon BOF

2001-03-19 Thread Drew Taylor
their mod_perl ness? -- Drew Taylor Software Engineer OpenAir.com http://www.openair.com/

Re: Passing data among handlers

2001-01-30 Thread Drew Taylor
wrote: We created our own "request" object that gets passed to components that might need it. We were concerned about pnotes becoming a big, hard-to-debug global area. = Barry Hoggard http://www.hoggard.org -- Drew Taylor Software Engineer OpenAir.com - Making Business a Br

Re: Mod_perl tutorials

2000-12-13 Thread Drew Taylor
com|org|net) are all available. Those domains are definately a little easier to remember than take23. What are some other alternatives to take23.org that would be easier on the grey matter? -- Drew Taylor Software Engineer OpenAir.com - Making Business a Breeze! Open a free account today at www.openair.com

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread Drew Taylor
although I do plan on learning other languages in the future. I love perl. As such, I'm definately all for keeping my future job market as large as possible. If getting perl more into the corporate eye helps that goal, then what do I need to do as a "little guy"? -- Drew Taylor Software

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread Drew Taylor
barries wrote: On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 04:10:01PM -0500, Drew Taylor wrote: I know this goes a little off topic, so I apologize in advance. One big sticking point with Perl I'm just starting to run into is XML. Yes, Perl has great XML modules, and many more promising ones. But where

Re: Perl vs Java (XML Modules)

2000-12-05 Thread Drew Taylor
Matt Sergeant wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Drew Taylor wrote: I know this goes a little off topic, so I apologize in advance. I changed the topic for you :-) But now it seems like flame bait ;-) One big sticking point with Perl I'm just starting to run into is XML. Yes, Perl has

Re: XML::ValidWriter - \$scaler [Was: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection]

2000-12-05 Thread Drew Taylor
barries wrote: On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 05:31:49PM -0500, Drew Taylor wrote: I've used XML::Checker::Parser with no big issues. Good to hear. Unfortunately, we are using an older version of XML::Parser (2.22), while XML::Checker requires 2.23 (according to make test). I'm not going

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ApacheCon USA 2001: Call For Papers

2000-11-14 Thread Drew Taylor
it in a production environment yet? -- Drew Taylor Software Engineer Phone: 617.351.0245 Fax 617.350.3496 OpenAir.com - Making Business a Breeze! Open a free account today at www.openair.com

Re: redirecting large POSTs

2000-10-05 Thread Drew Taylor
... :-) -- Drew Taylor Software Engineer Phone: 617.351.0245 Fax 617.350.3496 OpenAir.com - Making Business a Breeze! Open a free account today at www.openair.com

Re: $r-header_only question (feeling a newbie!)

2000-10-02 Thread Drew Taylor
are the headers (maybe because of a 'If-Modified-Since' parameter?). I believe all you need to add is "return OK;" after your print statement. Without that, Apache doesn't know what the status of the request should be. -- Drew Taylor Software Engineer Phone: 617.351.0245 Fax 617.350.3496 O

Re: $r-header_only question (feeling a newbie!)

2000-10-02 Thread Drew Taylor
martin langhoff wrote: ... it made no difference ... :( Drew Taylor wrote: I believe all you need to add is "return OK;" after your print statement. Without that, Apache doesn't know what the status of the request should be. Doh. I missed what Tim caught. I believe Apache w

Re: SELECT cacheing

2000-09-08 Thread Drew Taylor
few pages change the cart contents, the cart listing does need to be current. How do you handle this situation? -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: [OT?] Cross domain cookie/ticket access

2000-09-07 Thread Drew Taylor
around it is at time of login to do what you described - round-robin redirect to each domain. It's ugly, time consuming (for the user), and it generally sucks. -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: HTML Template Comparison Sheet ETA

2000-09-05 Thread Drew Taylor
been many useful ideas/concepts thrown about that I intend to use in the template comparison. -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: HTML Template Comparison Sheet ETA

2000-09-05 Thread Drew Taylor
"G.W. Haywood" wrote: Hi all, On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Drew Taylor wrote: "GWH" == G W Haywood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GWH Do you think this one could go off-List now? No; I find it quite useful to help form my own descision on what sort of templating system

Re: HTML Template Comparison Sheet ETA

2000-08-29 Thread Drew Taylor
. ;-) -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: HTML Template Comparison Sheet ETA

2000-08-28 Thread Drew Taylor
people can just send suggestions/corrections/additions and the document will grow. When I have a draft, I'll post it to the list. -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: HTML Template Comparison Sheet ETA

2000-08-28 Thread Drew Taylor
t to a few paragraphs. But I won't exclude anything if it happens to be long. -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Proxy setup w/ SSL

2000-08-08 Thread Drew Taylor
would like is to add SSL to the frontend servers and ditch stronghold all together. I'm interested in suggestions for how to do this. Should I try mod_ssl, raven, etc? I am trying to have only 2 servers running instead of three. Does anyone have experience in this area? -- Drew Taylor Vialogix

Re: logging out

2000-08-04 Thread Drew Taylor
something like mod_auth_ldap compiled into Apache or to use Apache::AuthCookie with LDAP authentication like you used. Does anyone have experience with either situation? -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-08-04 Thread Drew Taylor
That might be a useful extension. How do you do tables now? "=for html"? -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-08-03 Thread Drew Taylor
"Randal L. Schwartz" wrote: "Ron" == Ron Pero [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ron A few days ago I sent this suggestion to Drew Taylor, who is Ron preparing a web page comparing the templating systems. He said he Ron likes the idea. The Categorical "Congratulations: yo

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-08-03 Thread Drew Taylor
be me, but I would have no problem expanding that list in the future. Which brings up the question - how would it be maintained? CVS? I'm all ears... -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-08-03 Thread Drew Taylor
Stas Bekman wrote: On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Perrin Harkins wrote: On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Drew Taylor wrote: Gunther, has anyone found a good home for such a comparison to be hosted? It would be cool if it were at perl.apache.org, or even better at www.perl.com or something (since it's

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-08-03 Thread Drew Taylor
. An HTML table would make my life MUCH easier there. Is there something in POD that makes tables easier? -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: logging out

2000-08-03 Thread Drew Taylor
can use a RDBMS just as easily. I have used Apache::AuthCookie also and liked it. What module did you use to authenticate against the LDAP server? We are setting one up here for internal use and I am still trying to find the best (read easiest) way to authenticate against it. -- Drew Taylor

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-08-01 Thread Drew Taylor
the people who have control over those things :-) really _should_ setup another list. I will take yours (and everyone else's) thoughts to heart when I'm putting together the comparison document/site. -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-08-01 Thread Drew Taylor
"Erich L. Markert" wrote: Drew Taylor wrote: Bill Moseley wrote: After all the response the thread generated, I wonder if perhaps we (meaning the people who have control over those things :-) really _should_ setup another list. I could see the efficacy of

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-08-01 Thread Drew Taylor
Matt Sergeant wrote: On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Drew Taylor wrote: Bill Moseley wrote: It seems as if there needs to be a general templating mailing list... Here I have a comment about comparing template systems, and then I solicit advice on which system to use... snip Bill

Re: was Re: template kit..... - now session handling

2000-07-31 Thread Drew Taylor
do this transparent and then they can use Apache::Session to do the rest. At the risk of sounding like an AOL'er - Me Too! :-) -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: Templating system

2000-07-31 Thread Drew Taylor
Perrin Harkins wrote: On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Drew Taylor wrote: Andy Wardley wrote: And the REALLY, REALLY smart ones (i.e. TT2) can write the Perl code to disk for persistance of compiled templates. That way, the templates never need to be re-compiled (i.e. from TT syntax to Perl

Re: Templating System

2000-07-31 Thread Drew Taylor
brian moseley wrote: On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Drew Taylor wrote: Anything that would make the above scenario easier would get a thorough look in future templating system decisions. In short, I'm looking for a good, FLEXIBLE application framework. I'm tired of writing it all myself

Re: template kit.....

2000-07-31 Thread Drew Taylor
n approach works best. We have both types of clients, so choice is good. :-) -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: Templating System

2000-07-28 Thread Drew Taylor
for it (yet). Keep up the excellent work on these other frameworks - I might get to use them one day. :-) My $0.02. -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: Seeking advice on excessive memory usage

2000-07-28 Thread Drew Taylor
, DO IT! I now run about 12 mod_perl processes and about 50 "normal" httpd processes, versus 40+ mod_perl processes which sucked up GOBS of ram. The site runs quite fast, although I have not done any benchmarking with the likes of ab. Remember, mod_proxy is your friend -- Drew Taylo

Re: Templating System

2000-07-28 Thread Drew Taylor
David Hodgkinson wrote: Drew Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While I would love to have the session management form goodies of the other template systems, our production people are not ready for it (yet). Keep up the excellent work on these other frameworks - I might get to use

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-07-28 Thread Drew Taylor
to look at this technology. I'm currently using SSI to call mod_perl scripts to handle the dynamic parts of the pages but this is getting very unwieldy when I start doing form handling. If you would like some help with the comparison, please let me know. -- Drew

Re: Templating system

2000-07-28 Thread Drew Taylor
require(). What about having a shared memory cache ala HTML::Template? A disk cache is great, but I have RAM to spare at the moment. Any plans for a shared in-memory cache? (Someone had pointed out that TT does have in memory caching, but it is only per-process.) -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications

Re: Templating System

2000-07-28 Thread Drew Taylor
to newbies who don't want to slog through the hundreds of search returns on CPAN. -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-07-28 Thread Drew Taylor
of features and let the developers check off the options their system supports. My biggest question is who comes up with the feature list in the first place? -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-07-28 Thread Drew Taylor
draft done, I will post with a link to the document. I'll just grow and evolve the document(s) as needed. -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-07-28 Thread Drew Taylor
between various systems at a glance. Another great idea! Should we go one farther and have a checkbox for "coming in next version", or is that going to far? I'm thinking it is too easy to get wrapped up in "forward looking statements" by having "coming soon". -- Drew

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-07-28 Thread Drew Taylor
t be a nice addition to the guide. (here I am making Stas and Eric's book even longer...) If it turns out to be good enough for the guide, I'll be happy to contribute it. -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: Templating system

2000-07-27 Thread Drew Taylor
version 2 to come out... -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: Is variable initialization necessary?

2000-07-11 Thread Drew Taylor
. Thanks again. Drew Barrie Slaymaker wrote: Drew Taylor wrote: Does anyone have good evidence either way? I don't see how Csub { my $foo ; ... could ever fail to undef $foo, modulo bugs in perl. A hell of a lot of code wouldn't work, then. My practice is to never init lexicals

Re: Best book

2000-07-11 Thread Drew Taylor
ented Perl". Scott On 11 Jul 2000, at 10:22, Pramod Sokke wrote: Any ideas on which is the best book available out there for mod_perl? I second that! It has been an invaluable source of information. And it is very readable as well. :-) -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501

Using handler for index

2000-07-10 Thread Drew Taylor
he default directory listing. Is there another solution instead of a RewriteRule to redirect "/" to "/index.pl"? Any thoughts would be appreciated. -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: Using handler for index

2000-07-10 Thread Drew Taylor
darren chamberlain wrote: Drew Taylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something to this effect: Hi all, I am using an Apache Handler module to create my home page, using Location /index.pl SetHandler perl-script PerlHandler ModuleName /Location I have DirectoryIndex set

Re: Using handler for index

2000-07-10 Thread Drew Taylor
again now. OK, I just tried it, and it overrode everything else. :-( -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: Using handler for index

2000-07-10 Thread Drew Taylor
Matt Sergeant wrote: On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Drew Taylor wrote: darren chamberlain wrote: Drew Taylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something to this effect: Hi all, I am using an Apache Handler module to create my home page, using Location /index.pl SetHandler

Re: Using handler for index

2000-07-10 Thread Drew Taylor
just tried it, and it overrode everything else. :-( Try LocationMatch ^/$ Thanks to both of you. I have never used the regular expression part of the directives before. This is exactly what I need. Thanks! -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202

Is variable initialization necessary?

2000-07-10 Thread Drew Taylor
-initialization where initialization creates a sizable more percentage of calls. So my question is: Is variable initialization necessary? Is being a lexical enough? To date, I've played it safe. But if I don't have to... then I won't. Does anyone have good evidence either way? -- Drew Taylor Vialogix

Re: Is variable initialization necessary?

2000-07-10 Thread Drew Taylor
cessary (and in fact a performance decrease). -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

[OT] Re: Is variable initialization necessary?

2000-07-10 Thread Drew Taylor
Vivek Khera wrote: "DT" == Drew Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DT My underlying concern is that each time the code is run, I get "clean" DT variables. Every variable is a lexical. If that is enough to guarantee DT emptiness on each run, then initialization is unne

Re: Is variable initialization necessary?

2000-07-10 Thread Drew Taylor
concensus. It sounds like all the major CPAN modules initialize to avoid warnings under -w, so I'll keep on my previous course. All in all, it was an interesting discussion - it mostly satisfied my curiosity. -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370

Re: Browser Sniffing

2000-06-30 Thread Drew Taylor
. ;-) Thanks for the links. HTTP-BrowserDetect looks especially useful. -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: Browser Sniffing

2000-06-30 Thread Drew Taylor
a quick dirty PerlFixupHandler which I'm currently using (and it works :-). Would anyone be interested in the code? -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Browser Sniffing

2000-06-29 Thread Drew Taylor
the user-agent strings are terribly inconsistent... -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: Browser Sniffing

2000-06-29 Thread Drew Taylor
'; } print STDERR "BrowserPlatform: Browser=$browser Platform=$platform Version=$version\n" if $DEBUG; return ($browser, $platform, $version); } -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: Browser Sniffing

2000-06-29 Thread Drew Taylor
Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Drew Taylor wrote: I'm hoping it's been done already, because the user-agent strings are terribly inconsistent... I needed something like that once and ended up with this: snip Cool! I ripped off the browser version code. It seemed much

$r-path_info question

2000-06-27 Thread Drew Taylor
l tree. I currently am using my $filename = (split /\//, $r-path_info)[1]; but it seems like such a hack. What is the "suggested" way to get the "A1234567.jpg" part of the above URL? -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: $r-path_info question

2000-06-27 Thread Drew Taylor
David Kenzik wrote: Drew Taylor said... I currently am using my $filename = (split /\//, $r-path_info)[1]; but it seems like such a hack. What is the "suggested" way to get the "A1234567.jpg" part of the above URL? Since Apache sets path_info by s

Re: [OT] Apache Bench (ab.c) written as perl XS module?

2000-06-21 Thread Drew Taylor
such software would be useful to others. I'd love to see such a thing. I need to put together a benchmark program myself. Why not build on the backs of giants? :-) -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: Platform list

2000-06-19 Thread Drew Taylor
on some high-end SGI hardware. So the answer is yes, it does work - and pretty well from what I remember. :-) -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

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