Re: [Boston.pm] Pretty Graphs with Perl

2005-12-06 Thread Chris Devers
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Alex Brelsfoard wrote: I've got a project coming up that's going to need me to make graphs. I do not yet know what kind of graph (dot, line, bar, etc.). But I am told that it needs to be pretty (and probably with multiple colors). The data needing to be displayed

Re: [Boston.pm] Pretty Graphs with Perl

2005-12-06 Thread johns
hi ( 05.12.06 09:26 -0500 ) Alex Brelsfoard: But I was wondering if you all had any better suggestions. Are there any good, friendly, tested modules for this sort of thing? despite the somewhat dismissive comment put forth in the SVG discussion, GD::Graph is quite workable, and can return

Re: [Boston.pm] Pretty Graphs with Perl

2005-12-06 Thread malia, sean
I've found this module is extremely useful, and they make very powerful graphs. http://www.advsofteng.com/ Easy to install and use. I can provide assistance if needed. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Brelsfoard Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [Boston.pm] Pretty Graphs with Perl

2005-12-06 Thread Ann Barcomb
Alex wrote: Th only problem is that I am going to need to create different dataset and graph them on the fly. Writing files out and then shelling doesn't quite sound like the most efficient way of doing things. Or am I missing things? Basically I will have a HUGE collection of data to pull

[Boston.pm] tpf blog

2005-12-06 Thread Uri Guttman
the perl foundation has a new blog. its goal is to be a primary source of news about what the perl foundation is doing. http://news.perlfoundation.org/ uri -- Uri Guttman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stemsystems.com --Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems

[Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tues, Dec 13, at MIT

2005-12-06 Thread Ronald J Kimball
Boston.pm will have a tech meeting on Tuesday, November 8, at MIT, in building E51, room 376 (directions below), starting at 7:15pm*. Ian Langworth will be presenting Class::Agreement - a behavioral contract system for Perl, a project he is working on. I'll also look for some fun bit of

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tues, Dec 13, at MIT

2005-12-06 Thread Ronald J Kimball
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 02:48:10PM -0500, Ronald J Kimball wrote: Boston.pm will have a tech meeting on Tuesday, November 8, at MIT, in building E51, room 376 (directions below), starting at 7:15pm*. Right after I sent this I realized I'd forgotten to change the date there. That should of

Re: [Boston.pm] Pretty Graphs with Perl

2005-12-06 Thread Tal Cohen
In the past I've tried unsuccessfully to create a multi-part web document using GD. After getting frustrated, I ended up pointing the IMG tag directly to the GD script (i.e. IMG src=myscript.pl), passing all the parameters needed right in the HTML document. The script outputted an image stream to

Re: [Boston.pm] Pretty Graphs with Perl

2005-12-06 Thread Ben Tilly
On 12/6/05, Alex Brelsfoard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone who has/does use GD::Graph know if there's an easy way to embed the output graphs into HTML. Basically I'd like to be able to print a bunch of HTML, then the graph, then some more HTML. I've got the grph coming out all fine and

Re: [Boston.pm] Pretty Graphs with Perl

2005-12-06 Thread Ricker, William
Does anyone who has/does use GD::Graph know if there's an easy way to embed the output graphs into HTML. Basically I'd like to be able to print a bunch of HTML, then the graph, then some more HTML. [WDR] The basic techniques are to either (a) img href=../graphs/123456789.png Generate

Re: [Boston.pm] Pretty Graphs with Perl

2005-12-06 Thread Ronald J Kimball
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 04:28:30PM -0500, Ricker, William wrote: (a) img href=../graphs/123456789.png Generate the graph to a 2nd file named with a random number (for security) or a serial number (if no security needed) (b) img

Re: [Boston.pm] may be OT: Heard of chkinstall, a utility to build RPMs ?

2005-12-06 Thread John Abreau
Ranga Nathan wrote: I believe there is a utility to build RPMs from normal tar.gz distro. In order to keep things consistent, I would like to build an RPM of Nagios 2x beta for SuSE9 (intel). But I could not find any download links for it. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Re: [Boston.pm] Pretty Graphs with Perl

2005-12-06 Thread Ann Barcomb
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Ricker, William wrote: (b) img href=/scripts/imagemaker?x=17y=42title=%22Foo%20Bar%22xname=Xyname= Y Put the code that decides what to do from the Request in a module, and call it from both the CGI or action module that generates the HTML page (which generates the img