On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 07:06:16AM -0400, John Scoles wrote: > Yep sounds like a good Idea and I have been using Memcached for aout two > years now with DBD::Oracle but not in the way > you are looking at it. I can offer my help as well but you might want to > look at DBI::Gofer as I think Tim's > plan was to make that compatible with memcached
It already is: http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI/lib/DBD/Gofer.pm#cache Tim. > Cheers > John Scoles > > mikhail maluyk wrote: >> I'm currently very interested in DBI related stuff, and have a few of my own >> ideas, which i'll reveal for your judgement. >> >> I'm thinking about creating a merge between DBI and memcached. So cache >> would be handled automaticly and integration would be seamless. This idea >> occured to me a few times, since i was writing web app's which took >> advantege of memcached. I was always getting tired of manual cache >> management, and if you are using some ORM, it even harder to manage cache >> propely. With plain SQL you could do something like $cache->set($key , >> $value), and then $cache->get($key), where $key would be your SQL statement, >> which work fine in most cases. But using Rose::DB::Object, with it's lazy >> loading, could become a caching nightmare (I'm not advertising against >> Rose::DB::Object, it's really beautiful peace of software). So i think i >> explained general idea of it. >> Also in addition to memcached, i was thinking about adding seamless >> beanstalkd support, but it should be thought over. >> >> So i'm waiting for your judgement, point me out if i'm loosing general >> design in all my thoughts. >> >> >> 2008/3/19, Tim Bunce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> The Perl Foundation is participating in Google's 2008 Summer of Code. >>> >>> http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ >>> >>> This means Google will give "successful student contributors a 4500 USD >>> stipend, enabling them to focus on their coding projects for three >>> months." >>> >>> "In order to participate in the program, you must be a student. [...] >>> enrolled in or accepted into an accredited institution including (but >>> not necessarily limited to) colleges, universities, masters programs, >>> PhD programs and undergraduate programs" >>> >>> There's a page of key information and suggested Perl-related projects at >>> >>> http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_projects >>> >>> Naturally I'm hoping to find someone interested in helping with >>> a DBI-specific project: >>> >>> >>> http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_projects#common_test_suite_for_dbi_and_drivers >>> >>> but there are plenty of other interesting and useful projects. >>> >>> >>> Tim. >>> >>> >> >>
