Re: Looking for good MP2 reference material

2005-10-04 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Perrin Harkins wrote: Hmmm, not sure where you got that idea, Philip. The site has been around for many years. I don't even know how old it is because when I first heard of mod_perl (in 1998) it already existed. However, the nice design it has now (thanks to hard work by a few generous peopl

Re: Looking for good MP2 reference material

2005-10-03 Thread Foo Ji-Haw
uesday, October 04, 2005 12:56 PM Subject: Re: Looking for good MP2 reference material > Foo Ji-Haw wrote: > > Ok, I did remember reading an interview with Tim O'Reilly about how he was > > talking about lowered sales of Perl books. But I dug the web and I can't the > &g

Re: Looking for good MP2 reference material

2005-10-03 Thread Perrin Harkins
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: The perl.apache.org site is also /relatively/ new... I think early 2004 it saw creation? Hmmm, not sure where you got that idea, Philip. The site has been around for many years. I don't even know how old it is because when I first heard of mod_perl (in 1998) it alr

Re: Looking for good MP2 reference material

2005-10-03 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Perrin Harkins wrote: However, there is no mention of a sales slump in that, and the graph he links to there doesn't show any significant decline in sales of Perl books. The perl.apache.org site is also /relatively/ new... I think early 2004 it saw creation? News is getting out and it is the m

Re: Looking for good MP2 reference material

2005-10-03 Thread Perrin Harkins
Foo Ji-Haw wrote: Ok, I did remember reading an interview with Tim O'Reilly about how he was talking about lowered sales of Perl books. But I dug the web and I can't the reference. Maybe you mean this one: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/ask_tim/2004/perl_0707.html However, there is no me

Re: Looking for good MP2 reference material

2005-10-03 Thread Foo Ji-Haw
> That's completely untrue. No mod_perl development is waiting for Perl6 > in any way. I agree on your point on mod_perl development. I am glad that it has finally moved out of 1.999 and into its own namespace this year. I'm still experiencing some problems with Apache2::Cookies, but that's anothe

Re: Looking for good MP2 reference material

2005-10-03 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 14:27 -0500, Boysenberry Payne wrote: > Isn't mod_perl 2 an Apache 2.0 Module, so that even if the book doesn't > talk about > MP2 directly, an understanding of how MP2 fits with Apache2 might be > gleamed? Sure, but I thought you were looking for information about Perl mod

Re: Looking for good MP2 reference material

2005-10-03 Thread Boysenberry Payne
On Oct 3, 2005, at 12:40 PM, Perrin Harkins wrote: It's not clear if this book will be talking about mod_perl or not. Isn't mod_perl 2 an Apache 2.0 Module, so that even if the book doesn't talk about MP2 directly, an understanding of how MP2 fits with Apache2 might be gleamed? That's how I

Re: Looking for good MP2 reference material

2005-10-03 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 12:30 -0500, Boysenberry Payne wrote: > On that note, I would love any help or feedback on where to get > started on writing > a good tech book for MP2. Write an article or tutorial. See how it goes. Get them published somewhere. Then write a few more. Then talk to a book

Re: Looking for good MP2 reference material

2005-10-03 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Boysenberry Payne wrote: http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/index.html and http://httpd.apache.org/apreq/docs/libapreq2/ You could build the docs site locally and then take all the pdf files.. They make a book. -- END What doesn't

Re: Looking for good MP2 reference material

2005-10-03 Thread Boysenberry Payne
On Oct 3, 2005, at 10:35 AM, Perrin Harkins wrote: There is no "slump." It takes a long time (years) and a lot of work to write a good technical book. mod_perl 2.0 came out a few months ago. If you want mod_perl 2 books, ask your favorite publishers for them. Don't expect any soon though, unless

Re: Looking for good MP2 reference material

2005-10-03 Thread Geoffrey Young
books are more about getting the big picture and learning where to look for solutions. it's worth mentioning as well that "the big picture" is practically the same for mod_perl 2.0 as it is for mod_perl 1.0, so any/all of the mp1 books out there are still pretty relevant and contain required

Re: Looking for good MP2 reference material

2005-10-03 Thread Perrin Harkins
Foo Ji-Haw wrote: I have this feeling that Perl is generally 'frozen' until Perl 6 comes out. That's completely untrue. No mod_perl development is waiting for Perl6 in any way. Publishers (O' Reilly) are complaining that Perl is not a sellout it used to be. Alison Randal recently mention

Re: Looking for good MP2 reference material

2005-10-02 Thread Foo Ji-Haw
. - Original Message - From: "Boysenberry Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "mod_perl" Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 12:58 AM Subject: Re: Looking for good MP2 reference material > I practically live there at times. > > What I'm looking for actually is

Re: Looking for good MP2 reference material

2005-10-02 Thread Boysenberry Payne
I practically live there at times. What I'm looking for actually is something that will be up to date more when it comes to using perl modules with mod_perl. I've noticed a lot of time either me or someone else mentioning examples given from Practical mod_perl, etc. Then someone on the list

Re: Looking for good MP2 reference material

2005-10-01 Thread Fred Moyer
On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 10:50 am, Boysenberry Payne wrote: Anyone know of some good apache2 mp2 related reading material that I could purchase for more up to date info than the stuff I'm getting from my old O' Reilly books? http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/index.html is free. Thanks, Boysenberry

Looking for good MP2 reference material

2005-10-01 Thread Boysenberry Payne
Anyone know of some good apache2 mp2 related reading material that I could purchase for more up to date info than the stuff I'm getting from my old O' Reilly books? Thanks, Boysenberry boysenberrys.com | habitatlife.com | selfgnosis.com