SPUG: May SPUG meet in May?

[C.J. Adams-Collier]

Eep!  I just double-booked myself.  I have to head to the client's
offices next week. :(  Can I take a rain check?

On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 10:44 -0700, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote:
> I've just confirmed with $client that the topic is kosher.  Note that
> I learned the information I will be presenting while working on a "web
> service" that allows users to manipulate their zone data, as well as a
> jQuery front end that calls it via AJAX and exercises it in more ways
> than I care to recall.
> 
> I think you can get an account and try it out free of charge, so long
> as you can convince Liquid Web you have a pulse and a web browser:
> 
> https://www.stormondemand.com/manage/login.html
> 
> I've never made slides before.  I may just plug the monitor in to my
> vga out and let you watch me abuse Net::DNS::RR::* and
> Net::DNS::Zone::Parser via emacs.  I've had to perform some pretty
> abusive tricks in order to retain default TTL values which result in
> spew during test runs that look not unlike this:
> 
> Use of uninitialized value in join or string at /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Net/DNS/RR.pm line 660.
> 
> I've also had to do things like the following in order to avoid FQDN
> resolution/expansion shenanigans.
> 
> $rr->{name} =~ s/^\Q$origin\E\.?$/@/
> 
> I've further discovered that, unlike all of the other field accessors
> in all of the the other Net:DNS::RR::* classes, the Net::DNS::RR::TXT
> package provides a read-only  $rr->txtdata(), and any modification to
> the txtdata field in the Net::DNS::RR object can only be done by
> defiling its $self hash ref thus.
> 
> $rr->{txtdata} = $newVal;
> delete $rr->{char_str_list};
> 
> Again, this will be a talk on how *not* to implement a zone file
> editor.  And there will be LOLCATS.
> 
> Kisses,
> 
> C.J.
> 
> On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 21:13 -0700, Colin Meyer wrote: 
> > DNS zone editor in Perl? Awesome! Let's do it. 
> > 
> > -Colin.
> > 
> > p.s. top posting is teh awesome ... :D
> > 
> > On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 06:32:15PM -0700, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote:
> > > I could do something on how not to implement a DNS zone editor.
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 17:11 -0700, Andrew Sweger wrote:
> > > > I dunno. I got nothing. I heard a rumor that Ingy is in Taiwan. I've
> > > > scared off Noah Rømer.
> > > > 
> > > > Does anyone have anything Perlish they'd like to share in two weeks on May
> > > > 18th at the SPUG meeting? It doesn't have to be just one anyone or two
> > > > hours long. It can be shorter.
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > > Andrew B. Sweger -- The great thing about multitasking is that several
> > > >                                 things can go wrong at once.
> > > > 
> > > > 
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