Things I do With Perl

[Arthur Corliss]

On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Tony wrote:

> 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.

Good, another one.  :-)  DBI is just the area I need to get more familiar
with.  What version of Oracle are you using?

> 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.

On the subject of ftp, is there a local CPAN mirror in AK?

	--Arthur Corliss
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