Re: [cgiapp] Closing the wiki

2012-01-09 Thread David Kaufman
Hi Nic, On 12/8/2011 11:31 AM, Nic Zero wrote: I propose we close the wiki to uncontrolled edits for the time-being. Do you propose to allow no edits? Who should be allowed to edit? How long is the time being? As far as I can see, there's no simple revert button, No, it takes 3 clicks

Re: [cgiapp] Open source applications written using CGI::Application

2011-06-15 Thread David Kaufman
Gabor Szabo wrote: Hi, Hi Gabor! I was looking for some examples of applications written using CGI::Application that are open source and preferable even on CPAN. Here is what I found: I looked at the wiki: http://cgi-app.org/index.cgi?Examples and I keep wondering. - Krang

[cgiapp] The Zero Barrier (was: Re: Anonymous home page editing?)

2011-05-19 Thread David Kaufman
Hi Josh (and cgiapp-ers one and all), I wasn't paying attention back when the choice of Wiki software was made, installed (or skinned so nicely!), but the responsibility has fallen to me to host and (occasionally) maintain it. So when we decommissioned our previous server (last year?) and

[cgiapp] testing 1, 2, 3...

2011-05-10 Thread David Kaufman
Is this thing on? Sorry for the list downage. it needed a: chown mailman ~mailman Seems qmail ignores .qmail control files in home directories that are not owned by their owner thanks, Dan. Whilst yum feels that /usr/lib/mailman should be owned by root, and makes its feelings known

Re: [cgiapp] Weird Perl Internal Errors

2010-08-28 Thread David Kaufman
Hi Jerry, Though off-topic for this list -- DBI appears to be the culprit -- since DBD::* modules usually have XS parts, that's probably where these errors are coming from. You might ask on a DBI mailing list or the appropriate DB Driver list (mysql-devel?) and be sure to include your

Re: [cgiapp] Future of the wiki

2010-02-02 Thread David Kaufman
r...@savage.net.au wrote: Before starting such a project, everyone needs to agree to support the definitive wiki syntax: http://www.wikicreole.org/ Agreed? If you can't even agree on that, forget it. Oh, fine! (deletes his pod-in-progress for Yet Another Mo Better Wiki Syntax)

Re: [cgiapp] Future of the wiki

2010-02-01 Thread David Kaufman
Mark Stosberg wrote: Perhaps the wiki would be more interesting to use if we used a different wiki engine. Kwiki is written in Perl, but certainly never took off [...] There was some interest in building a wiki based on CGI::Application, but that hasn't materialized. I think a cgi-app based

Re: [cgiapp] Future of the wiki

2010-02-01 Thread David Kaufman
Hi Gurunandan, Gurunandan R. Bhat wrote: I had offered Mark to port content on the wiki to Movable Type a few months earlier. At that time, Mark had very valid concerns - that MT does not offer key features required of a wiki. But that was MT4 and a re-evaluation of MT after the release of

Re: [cgiapp] CGI::Application wiki page Examples updated by MarkStosberg

2010-01-28 Thread David Kaufman
Hi Mark, Mark Fuller wrote: Would it make sense to have a mailing list specific to these wiki page notices? Allowing folks who don't want to receive them could opt out? The idea was that the 315 subscribers to this mailing list are the only people in the world with the slightest motivation

Re: [cgiapp] More Kwiki work

2010-01-26 Thread David Kaufman
Hi Emmanuel, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: * David Kaufman wrote: 2. Installed Kwiki::Diff so we can quickly see what was changed, and (hopefully) change it back easily if it's spam. I'm not seeing this. How does one use it? Yeah, Kwiki's default toolbar icons are kind of tiny and non-obvious

[cgiapp] More Kwiki work (was: Re: searching on http://www.cgi-app.org/)

2010-01-19 Thread David Kaufman
with spam-tending duties, I've also: 1. installed Kwiki::Notify::Mail so we can get notices sent here to the list whenever changes are made, and 2. Installed Kwiki::Diff so we can quickly see what was changed, and (hopeflly) change it back easily if it's spam. Thanks, -dave David Kaufman da

[cgiapp] Spam Wars: Episode IV - The Return of the Kwiki

2009-07-30 Thread David Kaufman
In which the spam pages installed by the PHP malware that was injected by the exploit in the Kwiki are smitten and the Kwiki is then returned to power, although less heroically, by upgrading Scalar::Utils. -dave # CGI::Application community mailing list ##

Re: [cgiapp] Re: simple example of CA, jQuery, Ajax added to wiki

2009-07-29 Thread David Kaufman
Hi Mark, Mark Stosberg wrote: [...] the wiki is currently returning a technical error page. I've notified Jesse about this now, and when I have am able to remember my password on that machine again, I may be able to fix such issues myself in the future. It looks as if someone was able to

Re: [cgiapp] Proposed new look and branding for cgi-app.org

2009-04-17 Thread David Kaufman
Mark Stosberg wrote: [...] I'm interested in your feedback before moving forward: http://cosmicsitedesign.com/cgi-app/ The update addresses long standing complaints about the genericness of the name CGI::Application or that the project name includes CGI at all. The words CGI::Application also

Re: [cgiapp] Q: Any guidelines for paging thru db records via CGIparams?

2008-05-28 Thread David Kaufman
Hi Ron, Ron Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks [...] it happens I'm using a per_page of 10 (say) to call get_winemaker_iterator(), so the first call returns records 1 .. 10 to the user. What's a good way to display buttons so the user can page forward to get records 11 .. 18, and

Re: [cgiapp] strategies for decoupling HTML::Template

2007-10-22 Thread David Kaufman
Jason Purdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Late chime-in, but my vote: -1 (Not that this is a democracy, but...) I vote no, too :-) HTML::Template, while it annoys me at times, is a small, fast and easy-to-install. Therefore it is an entirely reasonable default templating engine, which you can

[cgiapp] Welcome to the new server!

2007-10-19 Thread David Kaufman
If you can read this, the mailing list migration was a success. Welcome to Mailman on Qmail on RedHat ES4. (if not, then not). -dave ___ cgiapp mailing list cgiapp@lists.erlbaum.net http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp

[cgiapp] more testings

2007-10-19 Thread David Kaufman
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[cgiapp] The Mailing List is moving!

2007-10-18 Thread David Kaufman
Hi all, We are moving the mailing list to a new server, and also migrating it from ezmlm to Mailman. Expect minor chaos. You should not need to do anything. You do not need to resubscribe. Digest subscribers should still receive the digest version of the list. The list address will not

Re: [cgiapp] Returning XML output for AJAX

2007-01-30 Thread David Kaufman
Hi Bruce, Bruce McKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I want to do is return XML (as an Ajax response) to the jQuery Interface library Autocomplete plugin [...] Of the modules on CPAN that could produce this XML structure, which would be *easiest* to use? Do I need to change the headers of

Re: [cgiapp] RFC: Thumbnail Image Server

2006-12-01 Thread David Kaufman
Jesse Erlbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about: HTTP::ImageAbuser Too obscure? Too cute? Kind of black-hat. Could you include a pragma to load the module with: abuse HTTP::ImageServer; # instead of use? As a few others pointed out, most of the WWW:: space is clients, so HTTP::

Re: [cgiapp] RFC: Thumbnail Image Server

2006-11-30 Thread David Kaufman
Jesse Erlbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This application will dynamically create and cache image thumbnails at request time, among other things. The ultimate goal is a Perl-based implementation approaching Amazon's image server: http://aaugh.com/imageabuse.html That's cool. My favorite

Re: [cgiapp] RFC: Thumbnail Image Server

2006-11-29 Thread David Kaufman
Jesse Erlbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This application will dynamically create and cache image thumbnails at request time, among other things. The ultimate goal is a Perl-based implementation approaching Amazon's image server: http://aaugh.com/imageabuse.html That's cool. My favorite

Re: [cgiapp] RFC - CGI::Application::Plugin::JSON

2006-09-14 Thread David Kaufman
Hey Michael, Michael Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I've found myself putting some very similar code into my base classes of late to more easily deal with sending JSON to my Ajax applications. So of course I thought I should put this out as a plugin. I haven't uploaded to CPAN yet

Re: [cgiapp] blank page printed when using cgiapp_postrun

2006-09-04 Thread David Kaufman
Hi Octavian, Octavian Rasnita [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have made a program using CGI::Application, CGI::Application::Plugin::Authentication and CGI::Application::Plugin::DBH [...] if I use header_props() in cgiapp_postrun, nothing is printed ... That method is just: sub cgiapp_postrun { my

Re: [cgiapp] HTML Compression plugin?

2006-04-07 Thread David Kaufman
Hi Bruce, Bruce McKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi -- I've been enjoying the speed increase for cgi::app applications achieved by CGI::Application::Plugin::CompressGzip. I use CGI::App to generate static web pages with Template Toolkit. Is there a way that's as easy as CompressGZip to get

Re: [cgiapp] A new project name for CGI::Application

2005-12-07 Thread David Kaufman
David Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Stosberg wrote: We need a project name. [snip list of reasons we're stuck with C::A] For the clients I go after, they have only a passing interest in the technologies I use; they want to know if I can build what they want, how much it

Re: [cgiapp] Best practices to keep the robots from shopping ?

2005-09-23 Thread David Kaufman
Mark Stosberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This morning I noticed that robots had been following add to cart links that I created. Oops. [...] But POSTing seems like a pain. Is there an easier way? A sprinkle of JavaScript would do the trick nicely. Here's an equivalent of what I do now: a

Re: [cgiapp] Ruby on Rails and CGI::Application

2005-04-04 Thread David Kaufman
Owain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I am going to have a play with Ruby [...] and Ruby on Rails (http://www.rubyonrails.com/) seems to fell rather similar to cgiapp in a lot of senses. I am reading up on Design Patterns and would like to try out Ruby and this seems to be a good way to try. Has

Re: [cgiapp] XMLHTTPRequest / Remote Scripting / AJAX

2005-03-10 Thread David Kaufman
Steve Comrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you haven't heard of XMLHTTPReqeust aka Remote Scripting aka AJAX it's basically a way for web pages to communicate with the server and return information through JavaScript without having to refresh the page. You can read more about it here:

Re: [cgiapp] Persistent $app object in mod_perl

2005-01-24 Thread David Kaufman
Hi Chad, C. Chad Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking of using CGI::Application in a new project with mod_perl [...] The thing is, I just came from changing my use of Template Toolkit from one instance per request to a single instance (per Apache process) being reused across all

Re: [cgiapp] Installing for perl 5.6.0

2004-09-20 Thread David Kaufman
Joel Gwynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:49am, Michael Peters wrote: Well, the only real dependancy is HTML::Template right? So you want it to build some of the dependancies but not all? Or do you want to install Yes, but HTML::Template depends on Test::More, which depends

Re: [cgiapp] Another framework: CGI::Application::Plus

2004-01-22 Thread David Kaufman
Domizio Demichelis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sam Tregar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see absolutely nothing in your release that couldn't be done better as a sub-class of CGI::Application. OK, so I had to override the run() method, the new() method, and the param() method, just to start to

Re: [cgiapp] How to download a dynamically generated file

2003-09-10 Thread David Kaufman
Steve Hay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would rather do it in one step rather than two, and all inside CGI-Application, if possible. It seems a shame to have to step outside of CGI-Application to achieve something so simple. ... The -attachment parameter [...] would be annoying for PDF files

Re: [cgiapp] directory structure and static pages

2003-09-07 Thread David Kaufman
Andy Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. if you are doing a project with a superclass and several modules, where do you put your templates and how do you organize them? For instance, if /home/ataylor is my home dir, do most people do something like /home/ataylor/project/modules and

Re: [cgiapp] Cookies and mod_perl

2003-08-01 Thread David Kaufman
petersm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sub _GetCookie { my ($self, $cgi) = @_; that's an interesting construct. does it work? i get the cgi request object from CGI::Application instance, like this: sub _GetCookie { my $self = shift; my $cgi = $self-query; this has always worked for me,

Re: [cgiapp] Weird Error with CGI::App and HTML::Template

2003-06-06 Thread David Kaufman
Lance A. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... OK. I don't think I'm doing anything too crazy with these modules, but I keep running into problems with this error: [Thu Jun 5 17:59:49 2003] [error] [Thu Jun 5 17:59:49 2003] null: Error executing run mode 'main': HTML::Template : Attempt to set

Re: [cgiapp] Passing data between run modes?

2002-11-01 Thread David Kaufman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (in part): ...I want to pass some data between run modes to maintain state... [but] the main browser page has links to several function pages, so I don't have any FORM tags on the page at all, just links to specific run modes. ... do you just use

Re: [cgiapp] Forms processing

2002-09-27 Thread David Kaufman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Thanks for taking the time David. you're quite welcome! did it compile? :-) If there is an FAQ being maintained on CGI::Application, I think David's response belongs in it. why, thank you. but alas, another question that ought to be in the FAQ is: Q: where's