Weblog entry #118 for Steve

Development articles?

Posted by Steve on Tue 18 Jul 2006 at 18:30

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A few times in the past I've posted articles about programming stuff, most notably using perl.

I'm wondering if thats a valid thing to do? On the one hand a lot of sysadmin people are capable of writing software. On the other hand it is mostly tangential to being a system administrator.

(I'm thinking of writing a piece about about XML::RPC and/or Net::HTTPServer.)

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Re: Development articles?

Posted by simonw (84.45.xx.xx) on Tue 18 Jul 2006 at 18:49
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I was thinking of documenting my experiences of getting Catalyst to party under Debian, although I think mostly for my own benefit.

So yes, if it is Debian specific in some way, or even discussed Perl modules on Debian slightly tangentially I want to know. As you can be sure no matter how big or small my contribution to the Catalyst based development project, I'll be the guy who has to get, and keep, it all running when it goes live.

If we never touch some topic ourselves someone will eventually ask the System Admin to install it, and if we have no idea what it is, they'll get one of those "follow every step in the manual verbatim" type installs, and the experienced admin knows how well they work. Of course the reason they work so well, is the unwritten final step - "fiddle with it till it appears to work and then leave well alone till someone complains loudly enough that you can't put it off any more".

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Re: Development articles?

Posted by mangler (24.84.xx.xx) on Tue 18 Jul 2006 at 23:53
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An xml::rpc article would be great. I've been wondering how to get perl to work nicely with XML. (I'm more of a PHP developer, with only small pieces of perl)

Thanks

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Re: Development articles?

Posted by Steve (62.30.xx.xx) on Tue 18 Jul 2006 at 23:56
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OK I've got something almost ready with some simple code, and I'll post it later in the week.

I have to say that I don't actually care too much about the XML stuff - all of that is kinda seamless behind the background. I know that I could use tcpdump / tcpflow to see the actual XML which was generated as it passes through the network but I've not really needed to get into that level of detail yet.

Steve

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Re: Development articles?

Posted by Steve (62.30.xx.xx) on Thu 20 Jul 2006 at 10:34
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Well I hope this is useful/relevant.

Steve

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Re: Development articles?

Posted by Nilshar (195.200.xx.xx) on Thu 20 Jul 2006 at 17:20
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Yes, add dev. artciles, all is useful :)

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