Re: suggestions for perl as web development language [EXT]

helluva lot easier to install, manage, develop on, and maintain. -- Steven Lembark Workhorse Computing lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508

Re: suggestions for perl as web development language [EXT]

ake a look at the servers listed on Plack's website. -- Steven Lembark Workhorse Computing lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508

Re: Building mod_perl2.pm

ew of your favorite beverages a month to maintain and induces far less annoyance... Enjoy -- Steven Lembark3646 Flora Place Workhorse ComputingSt. Louis, MO 63110 lemb...@wrkhors.com+1 888 359 3508

Re: which framework is best suitable for modperl?

from twiggy to starman to apache when you are done. -- Steven Lembark 3646 Flora Pl Workhorse Computing St Louis, MO 63110 lemb...@wrkhors.com+1 888 359 3508

Re: recompiling perl

l do this on linux (env may be "/usr/bin/env" on BSD, Solaris). One advantage is that this allows you to install a test version of perl in, say, /opt/perl/5.24 then update your path to include that directory for testing. -- Steven Lembark 3646

Re: Thread-safe & vars scope clarification

p to the level of Perl (vs. C) you are probably better off dealing with the work using forks (at least on *NIX) in order to avoid all of the locking, memory, and pool-manglement issues. -- Steven Lembark 3646 Flora Pl Workhorse Co

Re: Converting a String of bits into a binary number in perl?

with the storage on the architecture you are using (low- or high-endian) or you have to force the bits into network order before making the bitstring. -- Steven Lembark 85-09 90th Street Workhorse ComputingWoodhaven, NY 11421 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1 888 359 3508

Re: RegEx Hell

> this kind of question would best go to your local perl mongers chapter Er... no. Unless the issue is splitting up a path to the nearest beer, I'd suggest keeping it out of ny.pm.org :-) -- Steven Lembark 85-09 90th Street Workhorse C

Re: RegEx Hell

> Better yet, somebody please profer a solution? :-) perldoc File::Basename; perldoc File::Spec; -- Steven Lembark 85-09 90th Street Workhorse ComputingWoodhaven, NY 11421 [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: making versioned libraries work on the same server

-- Ron Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Folks You can use FindBin and set it relative to your script's directory. Is FindBin::Real a better choice? FindBin::libs will locate the lib dir's based on your path (using FindBin). -- Steven Lembark

Re: Advocacy and Talking Points

nal blocks at the top levels. The Test::* modules support both styles of coding well, which allows for complete coverage. Take a look at the Phalanx project's results for a good overview on the wonderfulness of testing in all its forms. All of this applies to Perl in general,

Re: how to share data among modperl processes

issue: NFS does not handle locking well at all. -- Steven Lembark 85-09 90th Street Workhorse ComputingWoodhaven, NY 11421 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1 888 359 3508

Re: Persistent storage (storable preferred as mechanism)

> My gripe with Storable is that it is not possible to access into the Break the structure into smaller pieces (e.g., a heavily nested hash into separate values) and store them individually. This works nicely with a database backend using blobs to manage access to the frozen data. -- Ste

Re: Persistent storage

ween platforms. -- Steven Lembark 85-09 90th Street Workhorse ComputingWoodhaven, NY 11421 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1 888 359 3508

Re: Persistent storage

ut needing to use Apache::Reload or other avoidable overhead. <http://search.cpan.org/~ams/Storable-2.15/Storable.pm> -- Steven Lembark 85-09 90th Street Workhorse ComputingWoodhaven, NY 11421 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1 888 359 3508

Re: OOP or functional?

asking yourself how the thing really works and what sort of methods are useful (vs. just using Class::Foo on a hash to generate accessors by key). -- Steven Lembark 85-09 90th Street Workhorse ComputingWoodhaven, NY 11421 [EMAIL PR

Re: measuring shared memory on linux (was [Fwd: Re: /proc/*/statm, exactly what does "shared" mean?)]

ng a limit based on sum(virtual - shared) + shared will usually work; it just leaves the amount of acceptable swap use up to the user. That use sum(RSS) as the cutoff, leaving a fudge factor for shared (which tends to be fairly consistent) and acceptable swap use. -- Steven Lembark

Re: [mp1 and mp2] Grokking memory

tion for the proc's, Does it grow if you use the hash? If so then the O/S is sharing the hash until its written. -- Steven Lembark 85-09 90th Street Workhorse ComputingWoodhaven, NY 11421 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1 888 359 3508

RE: Using home-grown modules in mod-perl

portable (on *NIX at least). -- Steven Lembark 85-09 90th Street Workhorse ComputingWoodhaven, NY 11421 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1 888 359 3508

Re: DBI memory usage

the query or build some incremental data structures using row-by-row iteration instead of fetchall_arrayref. -- Steven Lembark 85-09 90th Street Workhorse ComputingWoodhaven, NY 11421 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Free Software as a "Security Hole"

there ARE people who do look through the source for them than trusting most proprietary development efforts. At least with OSS (e.g., apache, mod_perl) any problems will be publically reported and tend to get dealt with. -- Steven Lembark 85-09 90th Stree

Re: Tar process not dying after user hits "stop"

ss the stuff being tarballed is already squished (e.g., .gz files or jpeg) you can gzip the output on the fly, at which point the archive and filesystem overhead will get balanced by any squish factor. -- Steven Lembark 85-09 90th Street Workhorse Com

Re: Urgent justification for perl

lse about their internal workings) but our language does the deed on Wall Street. The perl advocacy group's 'success stores' page has quite a few more. -- Steven Lembark 85-09 90th Street Workhorse ComputingWoodha

Re: [OT] System for development support

-- Carlo Pecchia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi all, I apologize for the OT... Can anyone suggest some development support tool (something over the classical CVS, or AEGIS, etc.) well utilizaed with mod_perl (and derivative like HTML::Mason) ?? subversion. -- Steven L