On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Dan Brian wrote:
> All input is welcome; I'll process what I can. :-)
Hmm.
We've just been load testing our new server farm by hitting it with all
the computers we had in the office. This was done by running a POE script
on each one and controlling them with a central GUI (written in POE with
GTK.) Was remarkably easy to write.
As simpler things go, POE is useful even in quick scripts whenever you
want to do more than one thing at once. For example, I recently wrote a
time XML RSS feed script for infobot that can tell you the time in various
cities. It does this by looking up the times on timeanddate.com (I did it
this way so I don't actually have to worry about the times and local times
zones and all that and can easily add and remove cities.) This was done
originally using LWP, but the infobot would time out the request because it
was taking so long to get the two pages from timeanddate.com....enter POE
to get the two pages at the same time and life is suddenly simple.
http://2shortplanks.com/temp/time.txt ( /msg dipsy literal time )
Later.
Mark.
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