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acme (189)

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Leon Brocard (aka acme) is an orange-loving Perl eurohacker with many varied contributions to the Perl community, including the GraphViz module on the CPAN. YAPC::Europe was all his fault. He is still looking for a Perl Monger group he can start which begins with the letter 'D'.

Journal of acme (189)

Wednesday January 16, 2002
04:14 PM

I won't bite... hard

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Well, everything's fine, baby. For the past week I've been at work, errr, doing work stuff. It's actually quite challenging: we're completely building a new site from scratch (it's based on OpenFrame of course) and some of the bits are trickier than we had thought they'd be. It hasn't helped that James has been away ;-). We're writing lots more tests as we iron out the bugs, though, and I hope we'll be churning out the code soon.

For Christmas, my sister gave my father and I Japanese cookery courses for the next ten weeks. It's called Simple Japanese and it's at Kensington and Chelsea College. I've previously done really stressful cookery courses at Leith's. Simply Japanese is much, well, simpler. The teacher knows a lot and the other students are housewives, so it's all quite fun. She demonstrates and then we get to play in the kitchen. The dishes are simple (we made Kimpira Carrots, for example), but it's the techniques that we'll pick up which will be really useful (although ceramic knives look good too). Of course, I do have to get up early on Saturdays...

Last night I went to Aubergine a wonderful (if slightly expensive) restaurant on Park Walk. The dishes were great, the wine wonderful, and the company super. Of course, I really think Gordon Ramsay is the best restaurant in London. This somehow lead to a small discussion on #london.pm on what exactly British food consists of. Puddings? Suet dishes? Curries?

So, has anyone thought of coding a WWW::UsePerl::Journal so that I can grab my journal entries and put them on my website? Which reminds me: I've finally updated my website (it now runs under OpenFrame) and it has recent holiday photos and 100,478 recipes.

Took me a long time to type them all in...


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  • when are you guys creating a mailing list for OpenFrame? I'm curious to see how other folks are using it and I'm in a period right now thinking about the next version of OpenInteract where I'm very keen on finding code/patterns/etc. that work and can easily borrow...
  • I am thinking of and mapping out a web services API for Slash / use Perl, starting with journals, to allow you to read/post entries. No specific plans or ETA yet.
    • Please.... no SOAP/XMLRPC...

      How about GET /~matts/journal with Accept: text/xml, and it returns an XML representation. And POST to /~matts/journal will put a new journal entry up, accepting both HTML and XML (and maybe even POD!) in the Content-Type field.

      HTTP fucking rocks, I wish people would stop using SOAP and XMLRPC when it's just plain not needed (not implying that's your intention, pudge, just most people see web services == SOAP). Of course I have a talk about that :-)
      • HTTP fucking rocks, I wish people would stop using SOAP and XMLRPC when it's just plain not needed

        SOAP and XML-RPC *are* HTTP. :p

        I agree with your sentiment (when people started talking about this "new" thing called web services, I had similarly virulent reactions), but the key here is interoperability. More people can play this way. Further, this isn't just for use Perl, it is for Slash. I likely will use SOAP or XML-RPC or both, because I see no reason at all not too, and because it gives me the

        • Well I could point you at my slides, but the most important points are:

          1. If you can do SOAP over HTTP you can do plain HTTP. It's not that hard, in fact I submit it's easier for the majority of languages (perhaps Perl excepted [soaplite.com]).

          2. SOAP provides you with zero logging unless you do it yourself. Whereas with straight HTTP the server logs for you. If you use SOAP at http://use.perl.org/soap, then you might log 2000 calls to that URI a day, but you have no idea how they break down. That's bad, m'kay?

          3. No
          • 1. Yes, I didn't say it was hard. However, I wouldn't say it is easier. Construct a POST request and handle authentication and send it, or call a method? While for *me* it is easier to do a simple HTTP request with all that, for most people it is not. Plus, there are already many tools and APIs [blogger.com] out there for dealing with journals via XML-RPC/SOAP web services. For this growing group, hooking into Slash journals would be entirely trivial, if the APIs were compatible.

            2. Slash already handles its own lo
    • In the meantime, I've written WWW::UsePerl::Journal. Grab it from CPAN. Read only at the moment though...
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