[Buffalo-pm] CGI::Application presentation

[Kevin Christopher]

Jason: I know nothing about Class::DBI, so I'd a appreciate at least a
short primer.

Kevin: A talk comparing mod_perl and FastCGI sounds like a good idea to me.

- Kevin C.

> While I'm quite familiar with Class::DBI, I think it's definitely a
> good topic for part of the talk. Template toolkit is something we just
> had a talk on from Jim Brandt, so maybe just showing how it ties in
> with CGI::Application would be the best route to take there.
>
> Also, I see I'm scheduled to talk about mod_perl in August. That's not
> a problem - I can do it, but I stopped using it in place of FastCGI,
> which is functionally very similar. I'd love to give a talk about the
> general concept and then comparing the two if that sounds interesting.
>
>   - Kevin
>
> On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 03:49  PM, Jason Parker-Burlingham
> wrote:
>
>> Subscribers,
>>
>> I see from Kevin's message today that I'm to give a presentation next
>> month.  The questions I have for the group regard what, exactly,
>> members might like to see---remember that you don't need to turn up to
>> benefit from the presentation (since I'm hoping to have copies of my
>> materials available afterward).
>>
>> What I have to present is a couple of OO perl modules to model posts
>> to a USENET newsgroup.  The database in use is postgres (I'm using a
>> few of the more advanced features such as sequences) with Class::DBI
>> providing a convenient abstraction for record creation, fetching and
>> searching.  I have a script which sucks articles from an NNTP server
>> into the database which shows how to use the objects without all the
>> CGI stuff getting in the way.
>>
>> The other half of the application is CGI::Application; I've written a
>> few apps this way now but the example I have for y'all is the most
>> complex one which I'm allowed to show you---the others have been for
>> clients.  There's no particularly tricky user-authentication or
>> session tracking required---all the session data is in the URL---but I
>> feel it's a pretty good example of what can be done with cgiapp in a
>> few hours, especially the value of templating and instance scripts.
>>
>> The presentation layer is Template Toolkit, which complicates the
>> cgiapp subclass a bit; this is probably what I'll choose to apply a
>> little spit and polish to before showing it to the world since the
>> templates right now are pretty basic and don't show off the full range
>> of functionality I hope to one day support.
>>
>> In my presentation, I can talk about any one third of this for a
>> reasonable amount of time or I can talk about all three parts---I
>> don't mind which it will be.  A few replies to this message will help
>> me to write the presentation for the audience (if you all know
>> Class::DBI to death I don't necessarily want to spend too much time
>> focussed on it).
>>
>> jason, who has other ideas for presentations but this one is probably
>>        closest to ready for prime-time
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