[Za-pm] woodworkers
Alastair Stuart
al at quirk.co.za
Fri May 16 16:55:47 CDT 2003
Hi All
Great to see some the birth of an african pm list. I read something on the
net comparing PM activity globally and the were some comments launched at the
cape-town (now defunct) PM list as the site was pointing to a "fruit market".
I am a Cape Town based perl developer. I have been developing in Perl since
1999, and have not and probably will not ever use anything else. Other than
Perl, i run Gentoo linux 1.4rc4 - xfs-kernel-patch, on my servers, mysql as
my database, postfix
etc.
Am currently tieing up a a project that we've been working on for the last two
years. It has been a huge learning curve, requiring monstrous amounts of
coding and refactoring, but I feel we're almost there. It has been quite
really fun working in a quasi-XP (Extreme Programming) environment - the
system is based on the classic client/server axis, with a Java (IBM's Eclipse
Platform) client speaking to a mod_perl server in a little XML language that
we have developed called RMX. (Remote Mail Extensions).
Things i like about Perl:
* Mason: not just good for HTML but also text, xml, and code templating .. ;)
* Parse::RecDescent : some mind bending stuff ..
( damian can bend it more than beckham)
* XML::SAX::Machines
* all the other great modules ...
Great to finally learn that Perl is not completely extinct ..
Ciao
Al
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Alastair Stuart
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e: al at quirk.co.za
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