Re: recommendations for web/database applications

2009-07-27 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "David Christensen" Dan wrote:> Firstly, I hate web applications with a passion. They're cheap, clunky approximations of desktop applications, Agreed. Nothing beats a good set of native binary widgets for expressiveness and responsiveness. > Gtk2::Ex::DBI, Gtk2::Ex::Datasheet::DBI,

RE: recommendations for web/database applications

2009-07-27 Thread David Christensen
Dan wrote: > Firstly, I hate web applications with a passion. They're cheap, > clunky approximations of desktop applications, Agreed. Nothing beats a good set of native binary widgets for expressiveness and responsiveness. > and are simply not necessary. Unfortunately in this case, a web UI

Re: recommendations for web/database applications

2009-07-27 Thread Dan
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:00:13 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > Perl Beginners: > > I am thinking about a Perl web/ database application for political > organizing and campaigns > I plan to start with the database portion of the application and am > curious what people have to say about object

recommendations for web/database applications

2009-07-27 Thread David Christensen
Perl Beginners: I am thinking about a Perl web/ database application for political organizing and campaigns -- generating precinct walk lists, generating phone banking lists, tracking contacts, etc.. I am using Debian GNU/Linux 5 with Apache 2.2, mod_perl 2, PostgreSQL 8.3, and Perl 5.10. I would

Re: Question on approach

2009-07-27 Thread Jay Savage
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:54 AM, Shawn H. Corey wrote: [snip] > Unfortunately, the data is not directly sortable since the date is in > American format, not Système International (SI).  SI dates are directly > sortable and are the preferred format for storing dates. > > I would use a heap to sort

problems in installing DBD::msql

2009-07-27 Thread Raheel Hassan
I am trying to install DBD::msql i run the under given commandn *$ sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install DBD::mysql'* CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.18) Going to read /home/raheel/.cpan/Metadata Database was generated on Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:26:58 GMT Running install for module 'DBD::mysql' CPAN: Data::Dum

lwp content encoding

2009-07-27 Thread Roman Makurin
I have a problem with lwp. When I retrive pages i use decode_content to access html. Which encoding has the result of decoed_content ? my $ua = LWP::UserAgent; my $resp = $ua->get("http://some.url";); die $resp->status_line, $/ unless $resp->is_success; Im using HTML::TreeBuilder to build html tr