Things I do With Perl
Tony
tonyt at ptialaska.net
Mon Mar 8 19:33:51 CST 1999
Mr. Corliss suggested we write about our use of Perl. Dandy suggestion.
So, just to throw my Perl life into the mix:
I work at SEARHC in Sitka, as the financial DBA/hack/sysadmin. We use an
application called Banner (From SCT-- it's the same stuff UA uses) which
is an app that runs on the Oracle db. So, naturally I use Perl/DBI.
I first started using Perl about 18 months ago, when I started getting
hammered with report requests. I guess Banner does not come with a
plethora of reports, even stuff necessary for mandatory federal reporting.
Yikes. So I created a web site, whipped up some forms, and used Perl to
create the CGI/db hooks.
I'm now working on a generic log-in-once system that allows the DBA to
just drop reports in somewhere on the report path. I'm finished with the
infrastructure; now I'm just converting my old reports to the new, generic
format.
Anyway, that's my Perl-life.
As an aside, I will have FTP/web space on our corporate machine outside
the firewall; this machine is in Juneau. I may be able to host some
services there; maybe an FTP repository or a small, ancillary web site.
- Tony
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