Re: Potential for new database driver

2013-03-04 Thread Travis Elliott Davis
Hi John and Lyle, John, Apologies for the link not coming through. The Blueprints documentation can be found at https://github.com/tinkerpop/blueprints/wiki. Also, I apologize if I got the terminology mixed up. My indention is to write a DBD for Blueprints in pure perl. Lyle, thank you for

Potential for new database driver

2013-03-04 Thread Travis Elliott Davis
Hi All, My name is Elliott Davis and I am relatively new to this list. I am interested in writing a driver for Blueprints. I imagine this working similar to the ODBC or the JDBC driver for DBI currently. I have read the DBI::DBD documentation (only once, not twice as instructed) and have fo

[Koha-devel] My role as QAA

2013-02-25 Thread Travis Elliott Davis
Good morning. I recently accepted a job at a local software company, and starting on March 18 I will no longer be working full-time on Koha. I would like to complete my term as QAA, but I may not have as much time to devote to the project and I wanted to make sure there were no objections from

Re: [Koha-devel] [QA] QAing and signing off

2012-11-28 Thread Travis Elliott Davis
Well this is what I wanted to do several months ago when I first said I wanted to do QAA so you know I'm all in. +1 from me Travis Elliott Davis Development Support Specialist 903.571.4257 elli...@bywatersolutions.com On Nov 27, 2012, at 7:08 PM, Mason James wrote: > > On 201

Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] ldap / uid

2012-11-21 Thread Travis Elliott Davis
That will try and bind on the username without joining any other strings. Best, Travis Elliott Davis Development Support Specialist 903.571.4257 elli...@bywatersolutions.com On Nov 21, 2012, at 3:34 AM, Samuel Desseaux wrote: > Hi, > > I've a technical question about ldap. &g

Re: [Koha-devel] ldap / uid

2012-11-21 Thread Travis Elliott Davis
That will try and bind on the username without joining any other strings. Best, Travis Elliott Davis Development Support Specialist 903.571.4257 elli...@bywatersolutions.com On Nov 21, 2012, at 3:34 AM, Samuel Desseaux wrote: > Hi, > > I've a technical question about ldap. &g

[Koha-devel] Testing Idea

2012-11-17 Thread Travis Elliott Davis
I have been exploring the idea of automated UI testing for awhile now and have come up with a few different solutions. My top two picks currently are: WWW::Mechanize in conjunction with HTTP::Recorder, or the FOSS project Selenium. Both ideas have merit in my opinion but my favorite is Seleni

Re: [Koha-devel] Koha and MariaDB - lets switch and start testing

2012-11-12 Thread Travis Elliott Davis
Not to jump on the Oracle bashing bandwagon but the Chris' and Mason have a point. I would have to agree with Chris Cormack in that furthering the DBIx::Class work would not only help this issue but also help mitigate issues that we may run into with db dependence in the future. That all bein

Re: [Koha-devel] update Koha download pages, with some info for beginners

2012-11-12 Thread Travis Elliott Davis
As someone who fumbled about with the package install of Koha his first time I always advocate for packages over tar ball. +1 from me! Elliott Davis On Nov 11, 2012, at 7:54 PM, Liz Rea wrote: > +1 from me - the packages are mature enough at this point and well > documented enough to encourag

Re: [Koha-devel] IRC Meeting Reminder: 7 November 2:00 UTC

2012-11-06 Thread Travis Elliott Davis
Thanks for the reminder Owen! But seriously, how am I supposed to watch election coverage in the US and follow the channel ;) Elliott Davis On Nov 6, 2012, at 1:13 PM, Owen Leonard wrote: > The next general IRC meeting is coming up in a few hours: > > 7 November 2012 2:00 UTC > > http://ww

Re: [Koha-devel] Unit tests and mock module

2012-09-14 Thread Travis Elliott Davis
I have been writing some new unit tests and have had some success using Mock. I have found that it allows me to have more control over some of the more unwieldy modules. So +1 for Mock On Sep 7, 2012, at 8:36 AM, Colin Campbell wrote: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 02:41:18PM +0200, Paul Poulain

Re: [Koha-devel] Unit tests and mock module

2012-09-07 Thread Travis Elliott Davis
I have been writing some new unit tests and have had some success using Mock. I have found that it allows me to have more control over some of the more unwieldy modules. So +1 for Mock On Sep 7, 2012, at 8:36 AM, Colin Campbell wrote: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 02:41:18PM +0200, Paul Poulain

Re: [Koha-devel] Koha Catalyst Work

2012-07-26 Thread Travis Elliott Davis
slef, Both good thoughts. On the issue of performance you are correct catalyst is big. I am not sure if there would be a performance loss or not. My inclination would be to say about the same but that is just my intuition. Having used Catalyst several years ago as well there were some thing

[Koha-devel] Koha Catalyst Work

2012-07-19 Thread Travis Elliott Davis
Hi Everyone, I have semi-recently been working on a port of Koha to the Catalyst framework. I started right after school was out and didn¹t get a chance to spend much time working on it. I am taking my last class this summer and will be done in August and would like to pick my work back up on th