Re: cgi or new stuff?

2011-02-04 Thread Brandon McCaig
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Jim Green wrote: > Hello, > I wrote simple cgi scripts before but want to go further, I want to > learn a little bit systematic web programming, I found catalyst and > ORMs, do you guys think with those I don't need to learn javascript, > ajax etc? Disclaimer: I'm

Re: cgi or new stuff?

2011-02-04 Thread jbiskofski
eventually your webapps are going to need some type of interface functionality. something really basic can be, having a checkbox that selects all the checkboxes in a group. that kind of thing you can only do with javascript. catalyst is going to introduce a lot of new concepts to you if youre new t

cgi or new stuff?

2011-02-04 Thread Jim Green
Hello, I wrote simple cgi scripts before but want to go further, I want to learn a little bit systematic web programming, I found catalyst and ORMs, do you guys think with those I don't need to learn javascript, ajax etc? Thanks! Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For

Re: Win32::Job, wait until timeout, but capture all output

2011-02-04 Thread C.DeRykus
On Feb 3, 7:36 am, filip.sne...@gmail.com (Filip Sneppe) wrote: > Hi, > > I am writing a script that executes external command that may hang. > I want to capture all output produced by the external command and > continue with my perl code after a certain execution timeout for the > external program

Re: Renaming with a specific spec

2011-02-04 Thread Uri Guttman
> "SHC" == Shawn H Corey writes: SHC> On 11-02-04 02:22 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: >> this comes from 35 years of coding and 18 years of perl. it isn't >> something i just came up with last week and it is also a common convention >> thing in perl so it is best to stick with that style. th

Re: Renaming with a specific spec

2011-02-04 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 11-02-04 02:22 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: this comes from 35 years of coding and 18 years of perl. it isn't something i just came up with last week and it is also a common convention thing in perl so it is best to stick with that style. there are plenty of conventions in perl coding and using // f

Re: Renaming with a specific spec

2011-02-04 Thread Uri Guttman
> "JD" == John Delacour writes: JD> At 13:00 -0500 04/02/2011, Uri Guttman wrote: HP> Yet they seem to be carefully avoided. That is what I nearly always HP> use. Is there some reason to avoid `//' as delimiters? JD> [ I really object to the backtick being used instead of an openin

Re: Renaming with a specific spec

2011-02-04 Thread John Delacour
At 13:00 -0500 04/02/2011, Uri Guttman wrote: HP> Yet they seem to be carefully avoided. That is what I nearly always HP> use. Is there some reason to avoid `//' as delimiters? [ I really object to the backtick being used instead of an opening quote mark. The only possiblt excuse for i

Re: Renaming with a specific spec

2011-02-04 Thread Brandon McCaig
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > I notice that in the OPs code and in your examples, the forward slash > is not used at all When you say above that "all the normal > delimiters [...]" .. but forward slashes `//' do not have special > meaning inside and would seem then to

Re: Renaming with a specific spec

2011-02-04 Thread Uri Guttman
> "HP" == Harry Putnam writes: HP> Jim Gibson writes: >> On 2/4/11 Fri Feb 4, 2011 8:02 AM, "Harry Putnam" >> scribbled: >> You can use other characters to make it more readable. However, all >> of the normal delimiters such as {} and [] have other meanings >> within the regu

Re: Renaming with a specific spec

2011-02-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Jim Gibson writes: > On 2/4/11 Fri Feb 4, 2011 8:02 AM, "Harry Putnam" > scribbled: > >> >> One further question. In your formulation shown below: >> , >> | unless($filename =~ m(.+\.(bmp|gif|jpg|png|psd|tga|tif)$)) >> | { >> | print STDERR "The filename {$filename} has

Re: Renaming with a specific spec

2011-02-04 Thread Jim Gibson
On 2/4/11 Fri Feb 4, 2011 8:02 AM, "Harry Putnam" scribbled: > > One further question. In your formulation shown below: > , > | unless($filename =~ m(.+\.(bmp|gif|jpg|png|psd|tga|tif)$)) > | { > | print STDERR "The filename {$filename} has an unsupported > | extension. Sk

Re: Renaming with a specific spec

2011-02-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Brandon McCaig writes: > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> May I ask how that formulation servers the purpose better?  Is it >> processed more easily or quicker in that formulation as against the >> one I posted? >> >> Or does mine leave too many possibilities for poor resul

Re: repost : installing CPAN modules as part of application stack

2011-02-04 Thread Michiel Beijen
You CAN do this, but there are some drawbacks. Some CPAN modules required the availability of a C compiler. Some CPAN modules have external dependencies on for instance database libraries. Some CPAN modules require build flags. Obviously I don't know what your "applicaton stack" looks like and wha