Re: Templating Solutions
More on XML/XSLT/seperation of roles philosophy http://xml.apache.org/cocoon2/index.html paul Ian Brayshaw wrote: > > > > I was going to stay quiet on this one (still don't know why I am now joining > in). > > I am finding XSLT & XML to be a good alternative to normal templating > techniques. One of the biggest benifits I've found is being able to generate > the one data set and have it rendered in different ways for different > applications. I presume this is possible in TT2. H::T has the drawback of > only allowing substitutions for tags defined in the template. Changing the > template to render say a reduced set of data typically involves changing > code. > > I'm also free to choose my transformation platform, using something like > XML::LibXML or Saxon on the server side, or just throwing it straight to the > user and letting their browser take care of the rest. > > Don't think DW jockeys will like the XSLT, but I'm fortunate in not having > to deal with them. > > My £0.02 > > Ian > (... trying desparately to avoid joining the XML bandwagon ...) > _ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: SQL statements to DB Schema (dia ?)
Aaron Trevena wrote: > > On Wed, 30 May 2001, Leo Lapworth wrote: > > > You might want to check out: > > > > Arron's Autodia - http://autodia.cuckoo.org/ > > > > It's not quite at the stage I think you are after > > but I've lost track of what it can and can't do. > > Last I heard they were putting it up to be > > an candidate in the elections (actually, it's probably > > more intelligent than one of them!). > > > > Though the DB stuff might have been a conversation > > about GraphViz.. woo.. so many choices :) > > > > hmm... SQL to Dia. Shouldn't be too hard to add the only issue would be > which shapes to use, I've never drawn a database scheme in Dia - anybody > care to reccomend some shapes and how they shoudl map to stuff - then I'll > code some DB handling magic into autodia. > Look at the "ER" shapes. paul > btw - the current version of autodia (0.9) now handles c++ (if its very > simple) and perl (extracts *most* info) and has lots of lovelly commad > line options. > > A. > > -- > http://termisoc.org/~betty";> Betty @ termisoc.org > "As a youngster Fred fought sea battles on the village pond using a > complex system of signals he devised that was later adopted by the Royal > Navy. " (this email has nothing to do with any organisation except me) -- Paul Sharpe Tel: +44 (20) 7407 5557 Miraclefish Ltd. Fax: +44 (20) 7378 8711 Studio 12 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 37 Tanner Street http://www.miraclefish.com/ London SE1 3LF UNITED KINGDOM
Re: (Chief) Wizard for hire...
Jonathan Stowe wrote: > > On Tue, 29 May 2001, Paul Sharpe wrote: > > > > Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > > > > > James Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > Ooh that would have been very useful for me at one time. > > > > > > I've got bells ringing in my head about how hard it was to get a C > > > library out of them in the early days. > > > > > > > > > > > "Illustra - Nice ideas, shame about the locking approach > > > > (and lack of outer joins, etc etc)!" > > > > > > Ah, but "Blades" and time series stuff. > > > > Doesn't PostgreSQL carry on the Illustra tradition? > > > > It went to Informix most recently and then of course to IBM. > > /J\ But didn't it come *from* Postgres? paul
Re: (Chief) Wizard for hire...
Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > James Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Ooh that would have been very useful for me at one time. > > I've got bells ringing in my head about how hard it was to get a C > library out of them in the early days. > > > > > "Illustra - Nice ideas, shame about the locking approach > > (and lack of outer joins, etc etc)!" > > Ah, but "Blades" and time series stuff. Doesn't PostgreSQL carry on the Illustra tradition? paul
Re: pc components
Greg McCarroll wrote: > > Does anyone have a recommendation for an online provider of PC components, > i'm looking for a couple of big hard drives (50Gb+). > > -- > Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net www.scan.co.uk paul -- Paul Sharpe Tel: +44 (20) 7407 5557 Miraclefish Ltd. Fax: +44 (20) 7378 8711 Studio 12 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 37 Tanner Street http://www.miraclefish.com/ London SE1 3LF UNITED KINGDOM
Re: [OT] Flecktones in London next month
Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Dave Hodgkinson writes: > > > > > Norman Watt Roy ? > > > > Clive off of (void) told me to mention Billy Sheehan, Stu Hamm and > > > > Jaco Pastorius and see what happened :-) > > > I'll see your Jaco and raise you Dave la Rue. > > > > All good, but if you haven't seen Victor Wooten, you should. He's > > terrifying. > > Damn, I just remembered Ishaq van Niel. Saaw him quite a lot playing > with Hans Dulfer's band in Amsterdam. And Squarepusher if you like Bunny Brunel/Jaco. But remember *nothing* is louder than drum and bass. paul -- Paul Sharpe Tel: +44 (20) 7407 5557 Miraclefish Ltd. Fax: +44 (20) 7378 8711 Studio 12 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 37 Tanner Street http://www.miraclefish.com/ London SE1 3LF UNITED KINGDOM
Re: RPC stuff
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote: I've used Frontier::Client in production FWIW. Cheers, paul > On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 02:54:23PM -, Jonathan Peterson wrote: > > What's the best way forward for RPC / distributed Perl stuff? I don't need > > anything super complicated, but RPC::Simple seems to want to use Tk ?! > > I've just been doing stuff in PlRPC and it works quite well. It's based > on sockets and Storable.pm, so it's quite lightweight. It also plays > nicely with OO, so it's pretty easy to retrofit onto an existing class > library, with a small amount of effort. > > The docs aren't up to much, though. And you'll need something else if > you want to have non-perl solutions calling your servers. As was > mentioned elsewhere, the SOAP::Lite module appears to be very popular > for this purpose, although if you really want to, you could take the > heavyweight route and use something like CORBA::ORBit. > > -Dom > -- Paul Sharpe Tel: +44 (20) 7407 5557 Miraclefish Ltd. Fax: +44 (20) 7378 8711 Studio 12 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 37 Tanner Street London SE1 3LF UNITED KINGDOM
Re: Pubs! (was: RE: Forthcoming Meetings - Summary)
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * dcross - David Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Whilst exploring this area at lunchtime I found a pub called the Elusive > > Camel. > > I don't know what it's like outside, but further investigation has > > revealed that there are others in Victoria and Waterloo. Has anyone tried > > them? Should we investigate further? > > i drank in the elusive camel on occasion near victoria, its ok, its > an office crowd with a wicker chair style deco, i get the feeling > however they wouldn't like 20 drunk geeks - not quite cool enough > if you know what i mean > > its the type of pub that turns into some peoples idea of hell when it > is office party season I don't think it's a chain tho. The one on Tooley Street has an upstairs which is sometimes empty (dunno about Thursdays) with big sofas as well as normal pub furniture. Look out for the coolest washbasins in the men's toilet. paul -- Paul Sharpe Tel: +44 (20) 7407 5557 Miraclefish Ltd. Fax: +44 (20) 7378 8711 Studio 12 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 37 Tanner Street London SE1 3LF UNITED KINGDOM
Re: JOB: Re: Hiring (not another one :) )
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, John wrote: > David Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Mark Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > While hiring seems to be the order of the day, just to let you know that > > > > AL Digital are hiring at the moment .. (permies only at the moment) ... > > > > > > I can't believe that you didn't mention the really cool arcade machine in > > > reception[1] in the sales pitch. I think that most Perl Mongers would be > > > swayed by this as much as by anything else ;-) > > > > > > Later > > > > > > Mark. > > > > > > (Happily Employed) > > > > > > [1] Table top cabinet[2] with a PC running MAME inside. > > > [2] The kind you can rest a pint on. > > > > Reading Room has a PS2 in Dean Street and a pool table and space > > invaders machine in Wardour St. > > Dircon took away their pool table recently to replace it with > office space. G. I think all companies should have at least > something... it helps with team building, ummm, team moral and > I guess wasting time? > > The MAME machine sounds very cool, does it have authentic joysticks? > (BTW, if any one knows where I could pickup some old AsciiWare Nintendo > joysticks please drop me a email) Yes. It's an authentic 2-player table-stylie thing with a bigger brain. Don't challenge Graham to Track And Field tho. nice. > > John -- Paul Sharpe Tel: +44 (20) 7407 5557 Miraclefish Ltd. Fax: +44 (20) 7378 8711 Studio 12 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 37 Tanner Street London SE1 3LF UNITED KINGDOM
