The original question pointed out that most application programmers use C/C++.
Well, they're unlikely to use Perl because it probably won't be installed on the client. Also the GUI toolkit is not as sophisticated as the C/C++ GUI toolkit. The customer would be able to view the source code. Also Perl for Windows hasn't been around that long.
The wonderful thing about the web browser is that it is a GUI toolkit written in C/C++. You can write the rest of your code in perl on a web server (since everything is networked nowadays).
That's why I think it would be great if the forms interface of the browser was enhanced to contain many more widgets to make it possible to write a VB-style interface in HTML. All this energy on making sure the fonts look nice amoung browsers is of comparatively little importance compared to what could be done if we got a few more HTML objects we could play with.
presumably ebay wants links to its content, but it also wants to avoid spiders hitting its database frequently. a technical solution would be to provide a file somewhere on the site that lists all updates to the database every minute. then the spider just needs to get that file every minute. the file can be written in a standard format, say XML, that can easily be parsed.
I've seen about 30 different "medical practitioners" for my RSI. The only one I've found who can provide a diagnosis is Dr Robert Markison.
For treatment, the only person who has been abl to help is Dennis Ettare of Biofeedback Associates of California. He is a miracle worker (though even that is not enough to completely cure me yet).
I'm writing a web based personal finance app which runs on my Linux box. It currently uses Oracle and the ArsDigita toolkit as its backend. The only bit working so far is some of the ledger functionality, but you're welcome to take a look and send me feedback. The data model is actually better than Quicken (I support currencies and double entry bookkeeping), so it should be possible to adapt it for small businesses if I ever get it finished.
When I arrived in California I was fairly desparate for work and would have taken pretty much any job. Thankfully I got an offer from an employer who actually did more for me than I asked for.
My salary did go up substantially when they got me a green card after a couple of years. But I'd say that was more down to my girlfriend who taught me how to negotiate American style.
I'm still with the same employer in Silicon Valley after 4 years, and that should say something.
Can someone explain to me why an appserver is more scalable than a solution like mod_perl. Providing I code my application to maintain no state on the web servers, I can just keep adding web servers if I run out of horsepower. Eventually the bottleneck becomes the database. Isn't the same thing true for app servers. You keep adding more of them and eventually the database becomes the bottleneck? Just seems a more complicated way of getting to the same answer.
Imagine that you are a sysadmin grunt at a large corporation. Your boss asks you to send out his "marketing emails". I'm sure a lot of us have faced this sort of request. Does that mean that we are criminally liable if a judge determines it to be spam? Will we end up in court? Will the company be able to shift the blame to the individual who pushed the button? When you look at it that way, I'm sure this law will be against the self-interest of a lot of people reading this thread.
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You can find out how important your home page is by looking at the number in the top left corner. The web site I work on scores 61. Slashdot scores 64. Yahoo has the most important page on the internet that I have seen (scores 87). My home page is not indexed yet.
I found what algorigthm Google uses to rate a page by using Google itself to retrieve a page which had been removed from the net but cached by Google's database. It's a nifty system. See http://www.google.com/cache?q=google.stanford.edu/ %7ebackrub/google.html&docid=19591632
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The original question pointed out that most application programmers use C/C++.
Well, they're unlikely to use Perl because it probably won't be installed on the client. Also the GUI toolkit is not as sophisticated as the C/C++ GUI toolkit. The customer would be able to view the source code. Also Perl for Windows hasn't been around that long.
The wonderful thing about the web browser is that it is a GUI toolkit written in C/C++. You can write the rest of your code in perl on a web server (since everything is networked nowadays).
That's why I think it would be great if the forms interface of the browser was enhanced to contain many more widgets to make it possible to write a VB-style interface in HTML. All this energy on making sure the fonts look nice amoung browsers is of comparatively little importance compared to what could be done if we got a few more HTML objects we could play with.
presumably ebay wants links to its content, but it also wants to avoid spiders hitting its database frequently. a technical solution would be to provide a file somewhere on the site that lists all updates to the database every minute. then the spider just needs to get that file every minute. the file can be written in a standard format, say XML, that can easily be parsed.
For treatment, the only person who has been abl to help is Dennis Ettare of Biofeedback Associates of California. He is a miracle worker (though even that is not enough to completely cure me yet).
I'm writing a web based personal finance app which runs on my Linux box. It currently uses Oracle and the ArsDigita toolkit as its backend. The only bit working so far is some of the ledger functionality, but you're welcome to take a look and send me feedback. The data model is actually better than Quicken (I support currencies and double entry bookkeeping), so it should be possible to adapt it for small businesses if I ever get it finished.
When I arrived in California I was fairly desparate for work and would have taken pretty much any job. Thankfully I got an offer from an employer who actually did more for me than I asked for.
My salary did go up substantially when they got me a green card after a couple of years. But I'd say that was more down to my girlfriend who taught me how to negotiate American style.
I'm still with the same employer in Silicon Valley after 4 years, and that should say something.
Can someone explain to me why an appserver is more scalable than a solution like mod_perl. Providing I code my application to maintain no state on the web servers, I can just keep adding web servers if I run out of horsepower. Eventually the bottleneck becomes the database. Isn't the same thing true for app servers. You keep adding more of them and eventually the database becomes the bottleneck? Just seems a more complicated way of getting to the same answer.
Imagine that you are a sysadmin grunt at a large corporation. Your boss asks you to send out his "marketing emails". I'm sure a lot of us have faced this sort of request. Does that mean that we are criminally liable if a judge determines it to be spam? Will we end up in court? Will the company be able to shift the blame to the individual who pushed the button? When you look at it that way, I'm sure this law will be against the self-interest of a lot of people reading this thread.
You can find out how important your home page is by looking at the number in the top left corner. The web site I work on scores 61. Slashdot scores 64. Yahoo has the most important page on the internet that I have seen (scores 87). My home page is not indexed yet.
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I found what algorigthm Google uses to rate a page by using Google itself to retrieve a page which had been removed from the net but cached by Google's database. It's a nifty system. See http://www.google.com/cache?q=google.stanford.edu
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