[ANNOUNCE] Gestinanna 0.02

2004-07-26 Thread James G Smith
I am happy to announce the next release of the Gestinanna application framework. This release consists of the following packages on CPAN: Apache::Gestinanna 0.03 Gestinanna 0.02 Gestinanna::POF 0.07 Gestinanna::POF::Repository 0.04 Gestinanna provides an XML-based language for creating

Why I use mod_perl (PR stuff)

2004-06-09 Thread James G Smith
While we're talking about mod_perl, perhaps I can throw out a few reasons why I have chosen it over other languages and technologies. This might help us figure out where we need to do some intial PR work. We currently have our account management code using PHP (this is for about 100k accounts).

Re: Why I use mod_perl (PR stuff)

2004-06-09 Thread James G Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James G Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For many applications, you are correct. However, some situations require support of the most basic systems. Part of the problem with XHTML is that it is a page description language instead of a semantic markup

Re: Why I use mod_perl (PR stuff)

2004-06-09 Thread James G Smith
Chris Shiflett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to discourage any PHP bashing (I'll often join in), but a few things on your list aren't really that accurate: --- James G Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: o No support for testing o No support for documentation o No way to declare variables

Re: Why I use mod_perl (PR stuff)

2004-06-09 Thread James G Smith
Rafael Caceres [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 13:58, James G Smith wrote: Chris Shiflett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to discourage any PHP bashing (I'll often join in), but a few things on your list aren't really that accurate: --- James G Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Why I use mod_perl (PR stuff)

2004-06-09 Thread James G Smith
Chris Shiflett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- James G Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PHPUnit is available, first release was April, 2002. First production release was mid-March, 2004. I didn't say this stuff was old or mature, just that it exists. :-) Truly, PHP feels like it is just now

Re: mod_perl presence at OSCON (and other CONs) is at danger

2004-06-08 Thread James G Smith
Perrin Harkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 12:27, Arnaud Blancher wrote: i dont understand why the apache fondation dont talk more about perl (whitch is faster) but always of java/xml. If people can keep track of a few places where they would like to see more Perl coverage,

Re: Fw: Re: mod_perl presence at OSCON (and other CONs) is at danger

2004-06-08 Thread James G Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Occasionally, I thought we might start up with a new application server that has features like these: 1) MVC model; 2) XHTML templates; 3) backend programming based on XML (e.g. parsing parameters like STRUTS), so other java, .NET applications can be translated as easy

Re: Ticket-based access control across multiple domains?

2004-03-24 Thread James G Smith
Larry Leszczynski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all - I've been looking into designs for a mod_perl cookie-based single sign-on kind of authentication system that would use a central authentication server across multiple products. I've been looking at things like Apache::TicketAccess,

[ANNOUNCE] Gestinanna (Application Framework) 0.01

2004-02-24 Thread James G Smith
After many months of working through design and code issues, I have finally uploaded to CPAN a very alpha version of a new application framework. This framework consists of the following modules and their dependencies: Apache::Gestinanna 0.02 Gestinanna 0.01 Gestinanna::POF 0.06