Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-21 Thread Drew Taylor
f them mentions Mason. I'm sure Dave will have more to say on the subject... :-) -- ----- Drew Taylor * Web app development & consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Site implementation & hosting www.drewtaylor.com * perl/mod_perl/DBI/mysql/postgres -

Re: okay, I give, I'm stumped

2002-07-28 Thread Drew Taylor
easy. I guess >I can attempt to build mod_perl in, but keep DSO support and dynamic >load the rest of the modules. Will try that. ====== Drew Taylor | Freelance web development using http://www.drewt

Re: separating C from V in MVC

2002-06-14 Thread Drew Taylor
>feel like that's shooting myself in the foot. ====== Drew Taylor | Freelance web development using http://www.drewtaylor.com/ | perl/mod_perl/MySQL/postgresql/DBI mailto:[

[OT] WebObjects [Was: Re: separating C from V in MVC]

2002-06-14 Thread Drew Taylor
x27;s WebObjects app server. Which has moved on to Java, and thus is OT. :-) But I've heard many good things about WebObjects, so it's on my wish list of technologies to investigate. Drew ====== Drew Taylor

RE: mod_perl/passing session information (MVC related, maybe...)

2002-06-13 Thread Drew Taylor
r session IDs are random. Drew ====== Drew Taylor | Freelance web development using http://www.drewtaylor.com/ | perl/mod_perl/MySQL/postgresql/DBI mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Internet Explorer sending nothing in subsequent posts

2002-06-12 Thread Drew Taylor
the subsequent posts will not >get anything sent. > >Does anyone know why this happens? Is there a workaround for mod_perl or >in the Web browser? ====== Drew Taylor | Freelance web development using

RE: Porting to OS X

2002-06-04 Thread Drew Taylor
ther than more up to date versions IIRC, the latest OS update upgrades perl to 5.6.1. ====== Drew Taylor | Freelance web development using http://www.drewtaylor.com/ | perl/mod_perl/MySQL/postgresql/DBI mailto

RE: Porting to OS X

2002-06-04 Thread Drew Taylor
fix >this gross over-sight. ====== Drew Taylor | Freelance web development using http://www.drewtaylor.com/ | perl/mod_perl/MySQL/postgresql/DBI mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: What causes memory leaks during graceful restarts?

2002-05-21 Thread Drew Taylor
>the week. Or to just compile mod_perl statically. Unless you need the ability to dynamically add in mod_perl, static is better. I'm sure the guide has all kinds of info about the tradeoffs of DSO vs. static. ========

New mod_perl website [Was Re: Modifying @INC via startup.pl]

2002-05-20 Thread Drew Taylor
t;> >>By the way, the release-ready (almost) site is now at >>http://perl.apache.org/release/ ====== Drew Taylor | Freelance web development using http://www.drewtaylor.com/ | perl/mod_perl/MyS

Re: Reloading Library Files

2002-05-17 Thread Drew Taylor
e results. > >Ted > >Drew Taylor wrote: > > > Take a look at Apache::Reload or Apache::StatINC. Reload is more flexible, > > but StatINC has been around a little longer. Both have worked well for me. > > But be sure that you don't use these

Re: Reloading Library Files

2002-05-17 Thread Drew Taylor
nd environment is below. ====== Drew Taylor | Freelance web development using http://www.drewtaylor.com/ | perl/mod_perl/MySQL/postgresql/DBI mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Email

RE: How to disable mod_perl in a subdir (apache)

2002-05-14 Thread Drew Taylor
has more info, but I don't have a link handy. Drew ====== Drew Taylor | Freelance web development using http://www.drewtaylor.com/ | perl/mod_perl/MySQL/postgresql/DBI

Re: filtering mod_proxy output

2002-05-14 Thread Drew Taylor
intra.company.com > >the returned HTML page contains links that must be filtered (IMG SRC, >etc). Read up on the ProxyPassReverse directive of mod_proxy. This will do exactly what you are looking for. Drew ====== Drew Taylor

Re: Content management systems

2002-04-09 Thread Drew Taylor
& customize. http://www.metadot.com/ The developer site is at http://www.metadot.net/. Drew ====== Drew Taylor JA[P|m_p]H http://www.drewtaylor.com/ Just Another Perl|mod_perl Hacker mailto:[

Re: Content management systems

2002-04-09 Thread Drew Taylor
At 08:08 AM 4/9/02 +0100, Matt Sergeant wrote: >On Tuesday 09 April 2002 7:53 am, Matthew Watson wrote: > > Heya. > > > > I was wondering if there are any content management systems around for > > modperl , i'm after a similar kind of thing > > as postnuke for php. I'd much rather something 'out

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-03 Thread Drew Taylor
I can highly recommend PDFLib. It's not quite free in that you have to buy a license if you make a product out of it, but it's still cheap. Matt Sergeant has recently added an OO interface over the PDFLib functions with PDFLib. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=PDFLib There are others that wi

Re: Java???

2002-04-01 Thread Drew Taylor
Think April 1... ;-) At 10:51 AM 4/1/02 -0500, John Von Essen wrote: >Why does CPAN.org say "Comprehensive Java Archive Network" > >-jve

Re: How to get two perl namespaces in apache

2002-03-26 Thread Drew Taylor
Thomas, You can run seperate environments if your coding doesn't reference any hard coded paths. I just setup a dev server at my new job and do exactly what you want. All you have to do is add a "use lib qw(/path/to/modules);" in your startup.pl or make sure the PERL5LIB environment var is set

Re: Non-web use for Apache/mod_perl

2002-03-20 Thread Drew Taylor
DATA') just plain sucks unless you want to >create a very large distributed *single-user* system running on multiple >machines. ====== Drew Taylor JA[P|m_p]H http://www.drewtaylor.com/ Just Another

Re: [OT] eToys Jingle (was: Where was that success story?)

2002-03-06 Thread Drew Taylor
a Wonderful World" >by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole >on the album "Facing Future" > >Enjoy. > >Brian Nilsen == Drew Taylor JA[P|m_p]H http://www.drewtaylor.com/

Re: [OT-ish] Session refresh philosophy

2002-02-20 Thread Drew Taylor
up >for CPAN. > >I'm well aware of the page-state vs. browser-state problem. I was recently >bitten by it again when some consultants built a web app for my company that >puts the search results in a session keyed on a cookie. As soon as the user >opens two windows, it'

Re: [OT-ish] Session refresh philosophy

2002-02-19 Thread Drew Taylor
lm the 4KB cookie limit. In this case, simple was better - simple application, simple session. And I know I can count on every browser implementing forms. :-) Drew Drew Taylor JA[P|m_p|SQL]H http://www.drewtaylor.com/ Just Another Perl|mod_perl|SQL Hacker mailto

Re: [OT-ish] Session refresh philosophy

2002-02-19 Thread Drew Taylor
o it? There has to be some semi-persistent (i.e. inter-request) data > where > > selections are stored before they're confirmed. > >You can for example send a hidden object back and forth between >your Client and the app. Drew Taylor JA[P|m_p|SQL]H http://www.dr

Re: choice of mod_perl technology for news site

2002-02-06 Thread Drew Taylor
all hypothetical - I wouldn't discuss internal >issues like this with the general public ;) >-- >Nate > >"Usenet isn't a right. It's a right, a left, and a swift uppercut to the >jaw." -Computer Museum (Boston) Drew Taylor JA[P|m_p|SQL]H http://www.drewtaylor.com/ Just Another Perl|mod_perl|SQL Hacker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** God bless America! ***

Re: [OT] email attachments - Win32 email reader to replace OE

2002-02-02 Thread Drew Taylor
ising. I don't have any problem with it, but AdAware will tell you you're infected w/ spyware. The best thing about Eudora is that it uses good old mbox format, so you could later move to mutt once you're on unix. Oh, and it's stable and immune to the Outlook viruses too. :-)

Re: Any good WebMail programs?

2001-12-13 Thread Drew Taylor
ature-rich as possible (can be a phase II) Drew Taylor JA[P|m_p|SQL]H http://www.drewtaylor.com/ Just Another Perl|mod_perl|SQL Hacker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** God bless America! *** ICQ: 135298242

Re: [OT] pdf creation

2001-10-28 Thread Drew Taylor
. It's not free, but it does a lot and works very well. http://www.pdflib.com/ Drew Taylor JA[P|m_p|SQL]H http://www.drewtaylor.com/ Just Another Perl|mod_perl|SQL Hacker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** God bless America! *** ICQ: 135298242

Re: [OT] excellent modperl/etoys article by Perrin revisited

2001-10-25 Thread Drew Taylor
hat just validates the decisions the eToys design team made. Even more kudos Perrin! :-) Drew Taylor JA[P|m_p|SQL]H http://www.drewtaylor.com/ Just Another Perl|mod_perl|SQL Hacker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** God bless America! *** ICQ: 135298242

Re: Excellent article on Apache/mod_perl at eToys

2001-10-23 Thread Drew Taylor
page is http://libservlet.sourceforge.net/ and it's available on CPAN. The docs look a little parse at the moment, but kudos to Brian for the work done so far! Now if only I could figure out a good test application to try it with... Drew Taylor JA[P|m_p|SQL]H http://w

Re: [Templates] Re: Excellent article on Apache/mod_perl at eToys

2001-10-19 Thread Drew Taylor
rce projects that we used. We couldn't have done it without you. Drew Taylor JA[P|m_p|SQL]H http://www.drewtaylor.com/ Just Another Perl|mod_perl|SQL Hacker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** God bless America! *** ICQ: 135298242

Re: [OT] Overridding a module's use of a function

2001-10-11 Thread Drew Taylor
glob {@_}; >package Apache::AAM; >. . . > >Is there a better way to do this? Drew Taylor JA[P|m_p|SQL]H http://www.drewtaylor.com/ Just Another Perl|mod_perl|SQL Hacker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** God bless America! ***

Re: [Knowledge Base] First coherent release

2001-10-11 Thread Drew Taylor
At 11:45 AM 10/11/01 -0500, Jim Smith wrote: >On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 11:25:43AM -0400, Drew Taylor wrote: > > I assume that the reason I get the "Can't locate the render_format method" > > is because you're not actually storing any objects yet? > > Not

Re: [Knowledge Base] First coherent release

2001-10-11 Thread Drew Taylor
ans to take advantage of other 5.6 specific features? Either way it would be nice if you included a "require 5.6.0;" in PerlKB.pm so that it would be immediately obvious to the new user. At 03:06 AM 10/11/01 -0500, Jim Smith wrote: >On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 02:53:09AM -0400, Drew Taylor

Re: [Knowledge Base] First coherent release

2001-10-10 Thread Drew Taylor
s starting to come together. > >Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/perlkb/ >+-- >James Smith - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.jamesmith.com/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > http://cis.ta

Re: brochureware perl.apache.org?!

2001-04-28 Thread Drew Taylor
At 04:41 PM 4/28/01 -0400, Philip Mak wrote: >On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Drew Taylor wrote: > > > I agree 100%. If I might throw my $.02 in, IMHO a part of this marketing > > should be a more "brochureware" perl.apache.org. > >If you guys do redesign perl.apache.org, p

Re: an unusual [job request] + taking mod_perl to the commercial world

2001-04-28 Thread Drew Taylor
And if I'm off track, then tell me and I'll go back to lurking. :-) >Such an organization could do (aside from the feature development listed >above): > >- general advocacy: press releases, reference cards, publish > articles and sell a qr/this (article|research) funded by > (ActiveState|VMWare|Covalent|IBM S/390 Marketing Division|.*)/ credit Drew Taylor mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.drewtaylor.com/

[Job Seeker] Looking for a job

2001-04-06 Thread Drew Taylor
Hi all, I've recently been laid off from my dot-com and am looking for a new full-time job. I have several years of perl, as well as mod_perl, programming experience. My resume and more information can be had at http://www.drewtaylor.com/ Thanks. Drew Taylor mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] ApacheCon BOF

2001-03-19 Thread Drew Taylor
#x27;t get to ApacheCon and yet want to proclaim their mod_perl ness? -- Drew Taylor Software Engineer OpenAir.com http://www.openair.com/

Re: Passing data among handlers

2001-01-30 Thread Drew Taylor
ggard wrote: > > We created our own "request" object that gets passed to components that > might need it. We were concerned about pnotes becoming a big, > hard-to-debug global area. > > = > Barry Hoggard > http://www.hoggard.org -- Drew Taylor Software E

Re: [OT] Re: Mod_perl tutorials

2000-12-13 Thread Drew Taylor
t's hard to know. When the > revolution comes, we should probably hang most of those nic people ;) Well, I have registered (through an OpenSRS reseller I might add) modperlnews.com and .org. If anyone is interested in using them, let me know and I can get the DNS taken care of. Matt, are you

Re: Mod_perl tutorials

2000-12-13 Thread Drew Taylor
ber the > URL :-) A quick check of nsiregistry.com shows that modperlnews.(com|org|net) are all available. Those domains are definately a little easier to remember than take23. What are some other alternatives to take23.org that would be easier on the grey matter? -- Drew Taylor Soft

Re: XML::ValidWriter -> \$scaler [Was: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection]

2000-12-05 Thread Drew Taylor
barries wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 05:31:49PM -0500, Drew Taylor wrote: > > > > I've used XML::Checker::Parser with no big issues. Good to hear. Unfortunately, we are using an older version of XML::Parser (2.22), while XML::Checker requires 2.23 (according to ma

Re: Perl vs Java (XML Modules)

2000-12-05 Thread Drew Taylor
Matt Sergeant wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Drew Taylor wrote: > > > I know this goes a little off topic, so I apologize in advance. > > I changed the topic for you :-) But now it seems like flame bait ;-) > > One big sticking point with Perl I'm just star

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread Drew Taylor
barries wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 04:10:01PM -0500, Drew Taylor wrote: > > I know this goes a little off topic, so I apologize in advance. > > > > One big sticking point with Perl I'm just starting to run into is XML. > > Yes, Perl has great XML mo

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread Drew Taylor
ough I do plan on learning other languages in the future. I love perl. As such, I'm definately all for keeping my future job market as large as possible. If getting perl more into the corporate eye helps that goal, then what do I need to do as a "little guy"? -- Drew Taylor Software Engineer OpenAir.com - Making Business a Breeze! Open a free account today at www.openair.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ApacheCon USA 2001: Call For Papers

2000-11-14 Thread Drew Taylor
l module! Has anyone used it in a production environment yet? -- Drew Taylor Software Engineer Phone: 617.351.0245 Fax 617.350.3496 OpenAir.com - Making Business a Breeze! Open a free account today at www.openair.com

Re: redirecting large POSTs

2000-10-05 Thread Drew Taylor
of uploaded data... :-) -- Drew Taylor Software Engineer Phone: 617.351.0245 Fax 617.350.3496 OpenAir.com - Making Business a Breeze! Open a free account today at www.openair.com

Re: $r->header_only question (feeling a newbie!)

2000-10-02 Thread Drew Taylor
martin langhoff wrote: > > ... it made no difference ... :( > > Drew Taylor wrote: > > I believe all you need to add is "return OK;" after your print > > statement. Without that, Apache doesn't know what the status of the > > request should be. Do

Re: $r->header_only question (feeling a newbie!)

2000-10-02 Thread Drew Taylor
roper contents > are sent. Reading the Eagle and `man Apache::Request` led me to thing > that the line is there to stop processing if all the client wants are > the headers (maybe because of a 'If-Modified-Since' parameter?). I believe all you need to add is "return OK;" aft

Re: SELECT cacheing

2000-09-08 Thread Drew Taylor
odule do you blindly use the cache? I ask because in my instance I display the contents of a shopping cart on every page. And while only a few pages change the cart contents, the cart listing does need to be current. How do you handle this situation? -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: [OT?] Cross domain cookie/ticket access

2000-09-07 Thread Drew Taylor
e has another idea I'm listening... The only other way around it is at time of login to do what you described - round-robin redirect to each domain. It's ugly, time consuming (for the user), and it generally sucks. -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: HTML Template Comparison Sheet ETA

2000-09-05 Thread Drew Taylor
"G.W. Haywood" wrote: > > Hi all, > > On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Drew Taylor wrote: > > > > >>>>> "GWH" == G W Haywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > GWH> Do you think this one could go off-List now? > > > No;

Re: HTML Template Comparison Sheet ETA

2000-09-05 Thread Drew Taylor
with mod_perl apps. I'm also finding it useful. There have been many useful ideas/concepts thrown about that I intend to use in the template comparison. -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: HTML Template Comparison Sheet ETA

2000-08-29 Thread Drew Taylor
dules available that it would be almost impossible for me to try them all. But I might give it a try anyway. ;-) -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: HTML Template Comparison Sheet ETA

2000-08-28 Thread Drew Taylor
es and try to keep it to a few paragraphs. But I won't exclude anything if it happens to be long. -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: HTML Template Comparison Sheet ETA

2000-08-28 Thread Drew Taylor
decided I will have a bare minimum draft done within a week. And then, as Matt suggested, people can just send suggestions/corrections/additions and the document will grow. When I have a draft, I'll post it to the list. -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: Proxy setup w/ SSL

2000-08-09 Thread Drew Taylor
Vivek Khera wrote: > > >>>>> "DT" == Drew Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > DT> What I would like is to add SSL to the frontend servers and ditch > DT> stronghold all together. I'm interested in suggestions for how to do > >

Proxy setup w/ SSL

2000-08-08 Thread Drew Taylor
at I would like is to add SSL to the frontend servers and ditch stronghold all together. I'm interested in suggestions for how to do this. Should I try mod_ssl, raven, etc? I am trying to have only 2 servers running instead of three. Does anyone have experience in this area? -- Drew Taylor

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-08-04 Thread Drew Taylor
; like: > > =table args > > =tr args > > =td args > > ... > > =/td > > =/tr > > =/table That might be a useful extension. How do you do tables now? "=for html"? -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: logging out

2000-08-04 Thread Drew Taylor
east then I would have a starting point. My biggest decision right now is whether to use something like mod_auth_ldap compiled into Apache or to use Apache::AuthCookie with LDAP authentication like you used. Does anyone have experience with either situation? -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communi

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-08-04 Thread Drew Taylor
; lot easier to see differences between versions of docs in POD than in HTML > where you have all the formatting tags that interfere with reading diffs. No kidding#!@ :-) -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-08-04 Thread Drew Taylor
and it sounds like the tools are available to do things like the feature checklist. And as luck would have it, I've been swamped this week so I have not written a single word. :-( However, I am planning on banging out a quick outline during lunch today, which I will post on my website (hopefully

Re: logging out

2000-08-03 Thread Drew Taylor
> (using Net::LDAP) but you can use a RDBMS just as easily. I have used Apache::AuthCookie also and liked it. What module did you use to authenticate against the LDAP server? We are setting one up here for internal use and I am still trying to find the best (read easiest) way to authenticate

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-08-03 Thread Drew Taylor
o in a fixed width font. An HTML table would make my life MUCH easier there. Is there something in POD that makes tables easier? -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-08-03 Thread Drew Taylor
Stas Bekman wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Perrin Harkins wrote: > > > On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Drew Taylor wrote: > > > > Gunther, has anyone found a good home for such a comparison to be > > > > hosted? It would be cool if it were at perl.apache.org, or

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-08-03 Thread Drew Taylor
o are they?). Excellent question. I was planning to initially host the document on my home page. But I'm sure that wouldn't last for too long. I guess the initial maintainer would be me, but I would have no problem expanding that list in the future. Which brings up the question - how woul

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-08-03 Thread Drew Taylor
"Randal L. Schwartz" wrote: > > >>>>> "Ron" == Ron Pero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ron> A few days ago I sent this suggestion to Drew Taylor, who is > Ron> preparing a web page comparing the templating systems. He said he > R

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-08-01 Thread Drew Taylor
Matt Sergeant wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Drew Taylor wrote: > > > Bill Moseley wrote: > > > > > > It seems as if there needs to be a general templating mailing list... > > > > > > Here I have a comment about comparing template systems, and

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-08-01 Thread Drew Taylor
"Erich L. Markert" wrote: > > Drew Taylor wrote: > > > > Bill Moseley wrote: > > > > > After all the response the thread generated, I wonder if perhaps we > > (meaning the people who have control over those things :-) really > > _should_ set

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-08-01 Thread Drew Taylor
erhaps we (meaning the people who have control over those things :-) really _should_ setup another list. I will take yours (and everyone else's) thoughts to heart when I'm putting together the comparison document/site. -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street

Re: template kit.....

2000-07-31 Thread Drew Taylor
their situation calls for a $30/month shared hosting solution instead of mod_perl. This is where the plug-in approach works best. We have both types of clients, so choice is good. :-) -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: Templating System

2000-07-31 Thread Drew Taylor
brian moseley wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Drew Taylor wrote: > > > Anything that would make the above scenario easier would > > get a thorough look in future templating system > > decisions. In short, I'm looking for a good, FLEXIBLE > > application

Re: Templating system

2000-07-31 Thread Drew Taylor
Perrin Harkins wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Drew Taylor wrote: > > Andy Wardley wrote: > > > > > > And the REALLY, REALLY smart ones (i.e. TT2) can write the Perl code to > > > disk for persistance of compiled templates. That way, the templates > &

Re: was Re: template kit..... - now session handling

2000-07-31 Thread Drew Taylor
ears that a few other people would want a session handler that can > do this transparent and then they can use Apache::Session to do the > rest. At the risk of sounding like an AOL'er - Me Too! :-) -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-07-28 Thread Drew Taylor
got a new version. A-la > guide. In fact it might be a nice addition to the guide. (here I am making > Stas and Eric's book even longer...) If it turns out to be good enough for the guide, I'll be happy to contribute it. -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-07-28 Thread Drew Taylor
a good sense of the differences between > various systems at a glance. Another great idea! Should we go one farther and have a checkbox for "coming in next version", or is that going to far? I'm thinking it is too easy to get wrapped up in "forward looking statements" by

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-07-28 Thread Drew Taylor
reated should be possible. OK. I will do that and when I have the first draft done, I will post with a link to the document. I'll just grow and evolve the document(s) as needed. -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-07-28 Thread Drew Taylor
ht to the source. :-) Vivek had an excellent suggestion in private email: put together a list of features and let the developers check off the options their system supports. My biggest question is who comes up with the feature list in the first place? -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: Templating System

2000-07-28 Thread Drew Taylor
it would be helpful to newbies who don't > want to slog through the hundreds of search returns on CPAN. -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: The Template Toolkit (Re: Templating Systems)

2000-07-28 Thread Drew Taylor
entation has caught up with > the code (almost there), I'll be releasing V2 gold and it'll find it's > way onto CPAN. Hurry, hurry! :-) -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: Templating system

2000-07-28 Thread Drew Taylor
aded via Perl's require(). What about having a shared memory cache ala HTML::Template? A disk cache is great, but I have RAM to spare at the moment. Any plans for a shared in-memory cache? (Someone had pointed out that TT does have in memory caching, but it is only per-process.) --

Re: Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-07-28 Thread Drew Taylor
If you would like some help with the comparison, please let me know. -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Feature sets [was Re: Templating System]

2000-07-28 Thread Drew Taylor
t it together, but I don't know what the above features are. If the principal maintainer(s) for each system could post a short blurb about it, I would be happy to compile them together for use by all. Would anyone else benefit from a template summary? -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, I

Re: Templating System

2000-07-28 Thread Drew Taylor
community's biggest drawback. But then we also have many systems to choose from, so that is a big benefit. As someone else mentioned, interoperability, even in just it's a most basic form, would be a major feature. Oh yeah, and throw in a CMS to boot ;-) Keep up the _excellent_ work folks

Re: Templating System

2000-07-28 Thread Drew Taylor
David Hodgkinson wrote: > > Drew Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > While I would love to have the session management & form goodies of the > > other template systems, our production people are not ready for it > > (yet). Keep up the excellent wor

Re: Seeking advice on excessive memory usage

2000-07-28 Thread Drew Taylor
or a production site, I can wholeheartedly say, DO IT! I now run about 12 mod_perl processes and about 50 "normal" httpd processes, versus 40+ mod_perl processes which sucked up GOBS of ram. The site runs quite fast, although I have not done any benchmarking with the likes of ab. Remember, mod_prox

Re: Templating System

2000-07-28 Thread Drew Taylor
he session management & form goodies of the other template systems, our production people are not ready for it (yet). Keep up the excellent work on these other frameworks - I might get to use them one day. :-) My $0.02. -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: Templating system

2000-07-27 Thread Drew Taylor
ynamic pages) took a month. Of course, we were killing ourselves to make that deadline, but the point is that Template Toolkit is great! I can't wait for version 2 to come out... -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: Best book

2000-07-11 Thread Drew Taylor
x27;ve read > Damian Conway's "Object Oriented Perl". > > > Scott > > On 11 Jul 2000, at 10:22, Pramod Sokke wrote: > > > Any ideas on which is the best book available out there for mod_perl? I second that! It has been an invaluable source of information

Re: Is variable initialization necessary?

2000-07-11 Thread Drew Taylor
very intriguing. Thanks again. Drew Barrie Slaymaker wrote: > > Drew Taylor wrote: > > > > Does anyone have good evidence either way? > > I don't see how C could ever fail to undef $foo, modulo > bugs in perl. A hell of a lot of code wouldn't work, then.

Re: Is variable initialization necessary?

2000-07-10 Thread Drew Taylor
no longer consider myself a novice. I was merely curious as to the general concensus. It sounds like all the major CPAN modules initialize to avoid warnings under -w, so I'll keep on my previous course. All in all, it was an interesting discussion - it mostly satisfied my curiosity. -- Drew T

[OT] Re: Is variable initialization necessary?

2000-07-10 Thread Drew Taylor
Vivek Khera wrote: > > >>>>> "DT" == Drew Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > DT> My underlying concern is that each time the code is run, I get "clean" > DT> variables. Every variable is a lexical. If that is enough to

Re: Is variable initialization necessary?

2000-07-10 Thread Drew Taylor
variable is a lexical. If that is enough to guarantee emptiness on each run, then initialization is unnecessary (and in fact a performance decrease). -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Is variable initialization necessary?

2000-07-10 Thread Drew Taylor
nitializtion vs. non-initialization where initialization creates a sizable more percentage of calls. So my question is: Is variable initialization necessary? Is being a lexical enough? To date, I've played it safe. But if I don't have to... then I won't. Does anyone have good evidence ei

Re: Using handler for index

2000-07-10 Thread Drew Taylor
the > > others. I'll give it a try again now. OK, I just tried it, and it > > overrode everything else. :-( > > Try Thanks to both of you. I have never used the regular expression part of the directives before. This is exactly what I need. Thanks! -- Drew Taylor Vialogix C

Re: Using handler for index

2000-07-10 Thread Drew Taylor
Matt Sergeant wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Drew Taylor wrote: > > > darren chamberlain wrote: > > > > > > Drew Taylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something to this effect: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > &

Re: Using handler for index

2000-07-10 Thread Drew Taylor
ll give it a try again now. OK, I just tried it, and it overrode everything else. :-( -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

Re: Using handler for index

2000-07-10 Thread Drew Taylor
darren chamberlain wrote: > > Drew Taylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something to this effect: > > Hi all, > > > > I am using an Apache Handler module to create my home page, using > > > > > > SetHandler perl-script > > PerlHandler Modu

Using handler for index

2000-07-10 Thread Drew Taylor
isting. Is there another solution instead of a RewriteRule to redirect "/" to "/index.pl"? Any thoughts would be appreciated. -- Drew Taylor Vialogix Communications, Inc. 501 N. College Street Charlotte, NC 28202 704 370 0550 http://www.vialogix.com/

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