Re: decline and fall of modperl?

2009-03-25 Thread Foo JH
David Ihnen wrote: > I think you've got it right there. We've got to get perl taught in > schools. That means perl experts need to be in teaching. And I have a > suspicion that perl doesn't appeal to the pure computer scientist very > well - these are the people who invented hard typed languages

encrypting perl

2009-03-25 Thread Foo JH
Octavian Râsnita wrote: > The actual perl programmers are not important, because they already have > their reasons for using perl. > Are you saying that nobody uses Zend Encoder because PHP also runs using > an interpreter? I'm changing the topic of your discussion because it's gone tangent to the

Re: decline and fall of modperl?

2009-03-25 Thread David Ihnen
Octavian Râşniţă wrote: *From:* David Ihnen > I tried to convince some programmers that Perl is better than PHP, but without any success. > How could they know, if they have never used it? I was far less convinced that PHP was a blight on t

Re: decline and fall of modperl?

2009-03-25 Thread Octavian Râşniţă
From: David Ihnen Octavian Râşniţă wrote: From: Mike Bourdon > The hidden message here is “the more available senior developers, the more likely available > jobs”, an expanding talent pool will lead to an expanding job market. I fully agree. What happends in the regions whe

Re: PerlTransHandler Redirect (2.0)

2009-03-25 Thread David Stewart
Thanks Adam, I was pretty sure about returning the constant, but I didn't see where the location should go. Looks like err_headers_out works, thanks. -David Stewart On Mar 25, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Adam Prime wrote: David Stewart wrote: How do you replicate the redirect functionality of mo

Re: decline and fall of modperl?

2009-03-25 Thread David Ihnen
Octavian Râşniţă wrote: From: Mike Bourdon > The hidden message here is “the more available senior developers, the more likely available > jobs”, an expanding talent pool will lead to an expanding job market. I fully agree. What happends in the regions where there are extremely few perl prog

Re: decline and fall of modperl?

2009-03-25 Thread Adam Prime
Carl Johnstone wrote: Perrin Harkins wrote: TicketMaster is Perl. Ticketmaster switched their UK operation from MS technologies to mod_perl a couple of years back too. (Brought it inline with the US side.) There's a couple of biggies that haven't been mentioned... BBC YouPorn (although I d

Re: PerlTransHandler Redirect (2.0)

2009-03-25 Thread Adam Prime
David Stewart wrote: How do you replicate the redirect functionality of mod_rewrite in a mod_perl 2 PerlTransHandler? I'm writing a PerlTransHandler to overcome some limitation of mod_rewrite and want to redirect requests to canonical URLs in some cases (e.g. replicate the functionality of th

Re: decline and fall of modperl?

2009-03-25 Thread Carl Johnstone
Perrin Harkins wrote: > TicketMaster is Perl. Ticketmaster switched their UK operation from MS technologies to mod_perl a couple of years back too. (Brought it inline with the US side.) There's a couple of biggies that haven't been mentioned... BBC YouPorn (although I don't think they use mod_p

Re: Re: decline and fall of modperl?

2009-03-25 Thread Octavian Râşniţă
From: Mike Bourdon > The hidden message here is “the more available senior developers, the more > likely available > jobs”, an expanding talent pool will lead to an expanding job market. I fully agree. What happends in the regions where there are extremely few perl programmers, no matter if t

Re: decline and fall of modperl?

2009-03-25 Thread Octavian Râsnita
From: "Joel Bernstein" On 23 Mar 2009, at 21:18, Octavian Râsnita wrote: Can I encrypt some .pm modules in such a way that they couldn't be decrypted easier than the PHP files encrypted by Zend Encoder? If yes, please tell us how, because it would be a really important information for the perl

PerlTransHandler Redirect (2.0)

2009-03-25 Thread David Stewart
How do you replicate the redirect functionality of mod_rewrite in a mod_perl 2 PerlTransHandler? I'm writing a PerlTransHandler to overcome some limitation of mod_rewrite and want to redirect requests to canonical URLs in some cases (e.g. replicate the functionality of the [R,L] flags in