I must second the motion. And I must also say that I'm surprised there has not been much mentioned about Mason.
If you want the power of Perl, that you can embed into your HTML documents, Mason is wonderful. The component design works wonderfully and cuts hours off your design and implementation time over straight CGI.
A couple of other strengths not previously mentioned:
Mason does an excellent job of allowing you to embed your code in a way that does not mess up things for designers / non technical folks.
Components encourage a write once, use many attitude. I can't stress enough how much time this saves in the long run.
Open source. Built upon an open source language (Perl) for that "get under the hood" feel:-)
Handlers give you the ability to apply global behaviour to pages etc. Also gives you a level of control that you won't find with other languages.
Much, much more...
But don't take my word for it. If you have not already done so, try it out. You won't be sorry. (http://www.masonhq.com)
It does seem silly to me that a group would release an entire distro just to include a driver for newer hardware. I guess if they have the time and money to waste that's certainly their prerogative. Seriously... Who will install this? No one.
Perhaps before long we will have individual Linux companies releasing multiple distributions under completely different names just to suck real estate on the store shelves, literally or virtually.
It will be akin to shopping for a can of diced beets at your local supermarket. You may have 5 choices, but three of them are manufactured at the same company.
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If you want the power of Perl, that you can embed into your HTML documents, Mason is wonderful. The component design works wonderfully and cuts hours off your design and implementation time over straight CGI.
A couple of other strengths not previously mentioned:
- Mason does an excellent job of allowing you to embed your code in a way that does not mess up things for designers / non technical folks.
- Components encourage a write once, use many attitude. I can't stress enough how much time this saves in the long run.
- Open source. Built upon an open source language (Perl) for that "get under the hood" feel
:-) - Handlers give you the ability to apply global behaviour to pages etc. Also gives you a level of control that you won't find with other languages.
- Much, much more...
But don't take my word for it. If you have not already done so, try it out. You won't be sorry. (http://www.masonhq.com)Perhaps before long we will have individual Linux companies releasing multiple distributions under completely different names just to suck real estate on the store shelves, literally or virtually.
It will be akin to shopping for a can of diced beets at your local supermarket. You may have 5 choices, but three of them are manufactured at the same company.
(This post brought to you by the cumulative efforts of 100monkeys)