Free Online Perl Workshop 13
signlink writes "A new online workshop starts today, March 30th, and the first topic is posted. We are running a free perl workshop which will take place over the next ten weeks at http://linux.biondosmith.com . Although free, registration is required - you need to use a valid email address. This will be an interactive online workshop - we will learn to install, read and modify freeware cgi-scripts, and using the skills this teaches us we will write our own. Emphasis will be on the reusability of code, and the course will complete a class project - we will write a form-mail program that executes some user-validation features."
Argh. Matt Wright. Argh. (Score:3, Informative)
How do people get so clueless, and yet have such a strong desire to share what they (don't) know?
My response to the fairly rude comment (Score:4, Informative)
It is obvious that Randall is a talented programmer, and that he DID actually skim the workshop before proceeding to flame me, but I don't understand why he had to do so in such a negative way.
He even posted his own "code hack" on my website to show that he could do things better than Matt Wright. But I did have a good reason for using this particular Matt Wright script. (This isn't formmail, or wwwboard - both of these scripts are full of holes and are regularly targeted by script kiddies.) I used a cookie script from Matt's archive because it is well documented, neatly written and contains code that I can re-use and build. I will also contrast Matt's use of a library later when I build a .pm that does the same thing.
Randall is a perl guru - I am not. But I do know some perl, I am a pretty good teacher - and yes, I want to share the knowledge that I have. I am not interested in portraying myself as a perl-god, I simply find it helpful (helpful to me and helpful to others) by conducting these workshops. It is a nice way to meet other web designers. I would have appreciated help if any were offered in a constructive way. This is only heckling. It isn't helpful, it only serves to inflate Randall's image of himself (see his hacking escapades on his website - this guy loves himself).
MattPS - I ask for real email addresses as a way of keeping things honest - (Response to second question). I am giving people access to post information and upload files.
Re:My response to the fairly rude comment (Score:1)
I, too, would rather see you use the NMS versions. It hurts the back of my eyeballs to see anyone teaching using Matt's code in 2003. Why? Well, just ask Matt Wright:
from http://www.scriptarchive.com/nms.html [scriptarchive.com]
Re:My response to the fairly rude comment (Score:1, Funny)
registration (Score:2, Insightful)
Why exactly is that? I don't seea P3P policy covering the use of harvested email addresses.
hardly a plug, but... (Score:2, Redundant)
Re:hardly a plug, but... (Score:1)
Signing up for a class gives you a schedule to keep, people to work with and compete with. This works better for a lot of us.
I can read the book and learn things too. But I attend classes because it get me out of the office and forces me to spend the time learning insead of dealing with whatever today's crisis is.
Then I go home after class, connect to the office and fix the crisis. But at least I spent time learning something new
Re:hardly a plug, but... (Score:2)
My only gripes are that mod_perl is given short shrift (a chapter on getting standard CGI scripts to work under Apac