Damian writes "Trey Harris has an excellent article on the System Administrators Guild's SAGEwire site. He demonstrates how to transmute a simple Perl snippet from "newbie" to "nuanced" and draws several useful coding rules-of-thumb from the process. Recommended reading for young Perl Jedi." This is the first of a series of columns that explain how the standard Perl idioms work. This first column is about the open or die idiom. Enjoy!
I'll post an update when we're back.
(We are in beta... I guess it's a rule somewhere that when you're in beta, as soon as you get noticed and start getting hits, your site will go down. Ah, well.)
Re:Site is down
mshiltonj on 2002-07-12T17:31:07
it's the 'useperl effect'Re:Site is down
gav on 2002-07-12T19:50:19
The irony that the website of the System Administrators Guild is down is just too much for me to bear:) Re:Site is down
Trey on 2002-07-12T20:01:44
The standard answer (with a tiny bit of truth behind it) is that a nonprofit like SAGE can't afford to pay real system administrators to administer their machines. And those of us who volunteer want to do something other than the busman's holiday of sysadmining for free.:-) Anyway, the machine didn't go down, the backend did. I call that a developer's problem.
;-)
