Re: Re: decline and fall of modperl?

2009-03-25 Thread Octavian Râşniţă
From: Mike Bourdon The hidden message here is “the more available senior developers, the more likely available jobs”, an expanding talent pool will lead to an expanding job market. I fully agree. What happends in the regions where there are extremely few perl programmers, no matter if

Re: decline and fall of modperl?

2009-03-25 Thread Carl Johnstone
Perrin Harkins wrote: TicketMaster is Perl. Ticketmaster switched their UK operation from MS technologies to mod_perl a couple of years back too. (Brought it inline with the US side.) There's a couple of biggies that haven't been mentioned... BBC YouPorn (although I don't think they use

Re: PerlTransHandler Redirect (2.0)

2009-03-25 Thread Adam Prime
David Stewart wrote: How do you replicate the redirect functionality of mod_rewrite in a mod_perl 2 PerlTransHandler? I'm writing a PerlTransHandler to overcome some limitation of mod_rewrite and want to redirect requests to canonical URLs in some cases (e.g. replicate the functionality of

Re: decline and fall of modperl?

2009-03-25 Thread Adam Prime
Carl Johnstone wrote: Perrin Harkins wrote: TicketMaster is Perl. Ticketmaster switched their UK operation from MS technologies to mod_perl a couple of years back too. (Brought it inline with the US side.) There's a couple of biggies that haven't been mentioned... BBC YouPorn (although I

Re: decline and fall of modperl?

2009-03-25 Thread David Ihnen
Octavian Râşniţă wrote: From: Mike Bourdon The hidden message here is “the more available senior developers, the more likely available jobs”, an expanding talent pool will lead to an expanding job market. I fully agree. What happends in the regions where there are extremely few perl

Re: PerlTransHandler Redirect (2.0)

2009-03-25 Thread David Stewart
Thanks Adam, I was pretty sure about returning the constant, but I didn't see where the location should go. Looks like err_headers_out works, thanks. -David Stewart On Mar 25, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Adam Prime wrote: David Stewart wrote: How do you replicate the redirect functionality of

Re: decline and fall of modperl?

2009-03-25 Thread David Ihnen
Octavian Râşniţă wrote: *From:* David Ihnen mailto:dav...@norchemlab.com I tried to convince some programmers that Perl is better than PHP, but without any success. How could they know, if they have never used it? I was far less convinced that PHP was a blight on the

encrypting perl

2009-03-25 Thread Foo JH
Octavian Râsnita wrote: The actual perl programmers are not important, because they already have their reasons for using perl. Are you saying that nobody uses Zend Encoder because PHP also runs using an interpreter? I'm changing the topic of your discussion because it's gone tangent to the

Re: decline and fall of modperl?

2009-03-25 Thread Foo JH
David Ihnen wrote: I think you've got it right there. We've got to get perl taught in schools. That means perl experts need to be in teaching. And I have a suspicion that perl doesn't appeal to the pure computer scientist very well - these are the people who invented hard typed languages,