RE: templating system opinions

2003-07-21 Thread Nigel Hamilton
into a hash, and the keys are merged. Typically a DBI row hash is also merged as there is a 1-1 correspondence between database column names and form attributes. I think the question of templating solution depends on the plan for the content management system ... NIge -- Nigel Hamilton Turbo10

Apache::Registry - String Compaction == Less RAM?

2003-07-07 Thread Nigel Hamilton
- I saw no difference in RAM usage at all! I suspect that mod_perl is stripping them for me. But isn't a large string allocated in RAM prior to the eval? Are there any merits in a comment stripping pre-processing step in a Registry-like handler? NIge -- Nigel Hamilton

Re: Best compression for mod_perl application?

2003-07-01 Thread Nigel Hamilton
. Although, I have not tried it on Apache 2. Kind Rehards, NIgel -- Nigel Hamilton Turbo10 Metasearch Engine email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+44 (0) 207 987 5460 fax:+44 (0) 207 987 5468 http://turbo10.com

Re: Best compression for mod_perl application?

2003-07-01 Thread Nigel Hamilton
, but it had some other problem (maybe, because I used Perl 5.8.0?). But, then I waffled and decided there's also a lot of value in staying current. So, I'm back to 2.0 land, and I'm surviving so far. -=bill -- Nigel Hamilton Turbo10 Metasearch Engine email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel

How big are your Apache kids?

2003-06-30 Thread Nigel Hamilton
configuration ... if so, how big are your Apache children? NIge -- Nigel Hamilton Turbo10 Metasearch Engine email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+44 (0) 207 987 5460 fax:+44 (0) 207 987 5468 http://turbo10.com

GTop gone missing ...

2003-06-27 Thread Nigel Hamilton
can get a reliable version of GTOp? ... is there an alternative way to seeing what is consuming the RAM? NIge -- Nigel Hamilton Turbo10 Metasearch Engine email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+44 (0) 207 987 5460 fax:+44 (0) 207 987 5468

Re: Content compression FAQ

2003-06-23 Thread Nigel Hamilton
formal redirections from that thread to this one. I will continue to answer all that questions here. Let's go ;-) Slava -- Nigel Hamilton Turbo10 Metasearch Engine email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+44 (0) 207 987 5460 fax:+44 (0) 207 987 5468

Perl 6 + mod_perl

2003-06-18 Thread Nigel Hamilton
this is really speculative but I think it would be fun to discuss NIge -- Nigel Hamilton Turbo10 Metasearch Engine email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+44 (0) 207 987 5460 fax:+44 (0) 207 987 5468

Re: Apache is exiting....

2003-02-27 Thread Nigel Hamilton
my web server? Thanks Paolo -- Nigel Hamilton Turbo10 Metasearch Engine email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+44 (0) 207 987 5460 fax:+44 (0) 207 987 5468 http://turbo10.com Search Deeper

Replication + Load Balancing

2003-01-14 Thread Nigel Hamilton
seeks. All transactions are first recorded in 'heap' tables (e.g., searchbucket, clickbucket) on the search nodes, then siphoned off to master tables by a dedicated database machine. Nige -- Nigel Hamilton Turbo10 Metasearch Engine email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+44 (0) 207 987

Re: development techniques

2003-01-10 Thread Nigel Hamilton
, borrowed from XP, seems to be working - the next step will be to put the individual test scripts into a Unit testing framework (e.g., Junit) and run a daily battery of tests ... NIge -- Nigel Hamilton Turbo10 Metasearch Engine email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+44 (0) 207 987 5460 fax

Re: OSCON ideas - more talk ideas

2003-01-10 Thread Nigel Hamilton
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Re: OSCON ideas - more talk ideas

2003-01-09 Thread Nigel Hamilton
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RE: SSL - mod_gzip - mod_perl = mod_proxy error

2002-10-21 Thread Nigel Hamilton
the application more sluggish rather than speed it up (I concede that I have not done any benchmarks) since internal network bandwidth is so cheap. Adam -Original Message- From: Nigel Hamilton [mailto:nigel;turbo10.com] Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 10:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Do all apache childs create persistant mysql connections?

2002-10-18 Thread Nigel Hamilton
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SSL - mod_gzip - mod_perl = mod_proxy error

2002-10-18 Thread Nigel Hamilton
character comment at the start of your longish pages of all spaces (which compresses pretty well, fortunately). -- Nigel Hamilton Turbo10 Metasearch Engine email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+44 (0) 207 987 5460 fax:+44 (0) 207 987 5468

Re: perl script not reloading

2002-10-04 Thread Nigel Hamilton
in the mod_perl_traps man page). Michael Grant -- Nigel Hamilton Turbo10 Metasearch Engine email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+44 (0) 207 987 5460 fax:+44 (0) 207 987 5468 http://turbo10.com Search Deeper

mod_perl SSL compression: Apache-Dynazip vs mod_gzip?

2002-10-03 Thread Nigel Hamilton
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Re: [BUG] Losing GET/POST-data

2002-10-03 Thread Nigel Hamilton
if this might be the problem? Thanks again, Hakan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your .signature file to help me spread! -- Nigel Hamilton Turbo10 Metasearch Engine email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+44 (0) 207 987 5460 fax:+44 (0) 207 987 5468

top for apache? [OT]

2002-09-21 Thread Nigel Hamilton
consumption. Does anyone want to code this up over the weekend? ;-) Nige -- Nigel Hamilton Turbo10 Metasearch Engine email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+44 (0) 207 987 5460 fax:+44 (0) 207 987 5468 http

Re: separating C from V in MVC

2002-06-14 Thread Nigel Hamilton
to 'GOTO considered harmful'. Nige Nigel Hamilton Turbo10 Metasearch Engine email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+44 (0) 207 987 5460 fax:+44 (0) 207 987 5468 http://turbo10.com Search Deeper. Browse

Re: separating C from V in MVC

2002-06-14 Thread Nigel Hamilton
make sure that we change all our SQL. Mark. -- Nigel Hamilton Turbo10 Metasearch Engine email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+44 (0) 207 987 5460 fax:+44 (0) 207 987 5468 http://turbo10.com Search

mod_perl2 Web Application Standard?

2002-06-11 Thread Nigel Hamilton
Vuillemot wrote: I know we are straying WOT, but I would love to get a better feel for XML, XSLT and AxKit. Barrie Slaymaker has written a couple of articles on perl.com that serve as a good intro to AxKit. - Perrin -- Nigel Hamilton Turbo10 Metasearch Engine email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel

Apache2/mod_perl2 an order of magnitude more powerful?

2002-04-24 Thread Nigel Hamilton
be an order of magnitude more powerful than my current set up. Have I got this right? or am I missing a big catch? NIge -- Nigel Hamilton Turbo10 Metasearch Engine email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+44 (0) 207 987 5460 fax:+44 (0) 207 987 5468

Re: Apache2/mod_perl2 an order of magnitude more powerful?

2002-04-24 Thread Nigel Hamilton
. OK. But having 250 worker threads instantiated in memory and ready to use the CPU is surely still better than 50 pre-forked servers? -- Nigel Hamilton Turbo10 Metasearch Engine email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+44 (0) 207 987 5460 fax:+44 (0) 207 987 5468

[OT] Encrypting Embedded URLs

2002-04-18 Thread Nigel Hamilton
with the parameters obfuscated print Simple::URLEncode($url); # that looks like this: http://www.foo.com?params=aJHKJHKJHKJHHGHFTDTDGDFDFGDGHDHG879879 A built-in checksum would be a bonus ... any ideas? Thanks Nigel -- Nigel Hamilton Turbo10 Metasearch Engine email

Re: [OT] Encrypting Embedded URLs

2002-04-18 Thread Nigel Hamilton
, So it's not easy for someone to read the parameters ... and also because sometimes embedded URL's parameters are not interpreted correctly - for example the a parameter below: $url = 'http://www.foo.com?a=1212u=http://www.foo1.com?a=12323'; Nige -- Nigel Hamilton Turbo10 Metasearch

Re: OT: Status Page

2002-04-10 Thread Nigel Hamilton
) the progress bar pop-up is closed. A pop-up is useful in this situation because keyboard/mouse focus is taken away from the credit card processing screen which reduces the likelihood of the user pressing submit twice. Regards, Nigel Nigel Hamilton Turbo10 Metasearch Engine email: [EMAIL

Re: mod_perl Cook Book

2002-04-06 Thread Nigel Hamilton
servlets but this book has reminded me of the benefits of mod_perl and I'm sticking with it. Nigel Hamilton Turbo10 Metasearch Engine email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:+44 (0) 207 987 5460 fax:+44 (0) 207 987 5468 http

[OT] Layers/interfaces/tears, was: Not embedding SQL in perl

2001-08-02 Thread Nigel Hamilton
Here Here I think calling for an abstraction layer for the sake of it is crazy design. I always thought modelling was about getting as close to the subject as possible - distilling the essential - nothing more, nothing less. The more layers/interfaces/tears involved the

1 Billion Bug 1BB - [OT] UNIX timestamp hits 1,000,000,000 thisyear!

2001-03-09 Thread Nigel Hamilton
HI, I'm waiting to see how quickly someone starts the 1 Billion Bug (1BB) Consultancy ... scary. NIge Nigel Hamilton __ http://turbo10.com Turbo10 Search Engine Search Fast. Browse Faster. On Fri, 9 Mar

Microsoft's Remote Scripting - modperl equivalent?

2001-03-03 Thread Nigel Hamilton
and the Applet-ModPerl connection. Is there a mod_perl module out there that does this? If not, is such a thing useful? Regards, NIge Nigel Hamilton __ http://turbo10.com Turbo10 Search Engine Search Fast

Re: httpd takes 86 MB memory

2001-02-18 Thread Nigel Hamilton
. If there is no programming solution ... you can also set the MaxRequestsPerChild in httpd.conf so that after a certain number of requests the child dies and frees its memory. NIge Nigel Hamilton On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Philip Mak wrote: Recently, my machine got an upgrade from 128 MB RAM to 386 MB RAM

Re: Fwd: [speedycgi] Speedycgi scales a better benchmark

2000-12-23 Thread Nigel Hamilton
Sam! NIge Nigel Hamilton __ On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Sam Horrocks wrote: Folks, your discussion is not short of wrong statements that can be easily proved, but I

Re: Mod_perl tutorials

2000-12-14 Thread Nigel Hamilton
Hi, I'm for the minimalist slides approach ... I often think there's an inverse relationship between powerpoint buzz and the speaker's presentation skills --- a good speaker knows that *they* engage the audience not their slides. Some of the best technical presentations I've seen

Re: Help me beat Java.

2000-12-13 Thread Nigel Hamilton
I have written a awsome mod_perl module for Apache and now my companie wants to transform it to Java (ik). Nothing personal against java but 95% of the program is regular expressions. Perl is king in this area. In java they are using Oroinc 3rd party classes for the regexs. With some

More Speed - mod_perl Module for HTML Compression

2000-11-30 Thread Nigel Hamilton
on the client-side. Has anyone come up with something for this? Also for average-sized files, does the time taken to perform the decompression/compression negate any speed increase gained by reduced file size? Nige Nigel Hamilton

Apache::VirtualHostRegistry

2000-11-17 Thread Nigel Hamilton
netween virtual servers --- a sandbox that each virtual host is kept in? NIge Nigel Hamilton __ http://e1mail.come1mail - Encrypted 1st Class Maile1mail: 1001 On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Gunther Birznieks wrote: I

Virtual Hosts, Name Space Clashing and Apache::Registry

2000-11-14 Thread Nigel Hamilton
Hi, I'm encountering name space clashes with two virtual hosts on my server while using Apache::Registry. Both sites use a settings module that returns a hash of configuration parameters (e.g., fgcolour = blue, bgcolour = white). The settings module is called:

RE: database access

2000-11-07 Thread Nigel Hamilton
HI Jason, Have a look at the source of Apache::DBI. An important part of the module is a ping method that ensures the connection handle (e.g., $dbh) doesn't go stale. You can write your own ping method by doing something like:

HTTP Mod_Perl mini-server

2000-11-03 Thread Nigel Hamilton
Hi, I'm contracting for an Ad Serving company and we were mooting the idea of writing our own lean and mean web server for serving the Ads. We would like to hold all the Ads in memory (each Ad is less than 20K). The next thing is to create a pool of mod_perl-esque processes that will handle

Re: Proxy setup w/ SSL

2000-08-08 Thread Nigel Hamilton
Everyone, I have successfully setup the proxy system outlined in the guide, and it seems to be working well. In my instance, the front-end httpd has mod_proxy mod_rewrite, while the backend is only mod_perl. I also have a seperate instance of stronghold/mod_perl for SSL connections.

Re: Session woes -Anyone Please help.????

2000-08-07 Thread Nigel Hamilton
.action = this.action + '?sessionid=' + parent.hiddenframe.sessionid;" The javascript will append the sessionid when the form is submitted. You might choose the third option if you wanted to keep the sessionid semi-secret and you only need to access the session variable

Re: Help needed for using Apache::DBI

2000-07-17 Thread Nigel Hamilton
Hi, I've had the same bug for the past 3 weeks. As far as I can tell mod_perl has been installed fine (EVERYTHING=1 etc..) so I'm at loss to explain why ... A couple of other people have mentioned this bug recently too ... has anyone solved it? NIge On Mon,

Perl Registry ... Memory consumption.

2000-07-03 Thread Nigel Hamilton
Hi, I've been trying to setup mod_perl in an Apache/Red Hat Linux/mySQL environment for the last couple of weeks. When running Apache::Registry on production, mod_perl chewed up all the available memory (at that stage only 64 Meg) and the system started to use swap

Newbie: Apache::DBI Directive bug

2000-05-25 Thread Nigel Hamilton
Hi, I've got a showstopper bug ... Whenever I place the directive to load Apache::DBI in httpd.conf ... I get a config file syntax error. The directive is: PerlModule Apache::DBI I compiled mod_perl with EVERYTHING=1 ... can anyone tell me why this would be the

I've been framed! Losing target frame under Apache::Registry

2000-05-22 Thread Nigel Hamilton
Hi, I've just installed: mod_perl (1.24), Apache (1.3.11) on Red Hat Linux (5.1). As far as I can tell, mod_perl is installed OK. The location directive in httpd.conf contains: PerlSendHeader On. I'm now attempting to migrate my .cgi scripts to run under