Re: website development and maintenance, using Perl. Please help!

"Andrew" <hawk007@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:1128099419.845450.253760
@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

> Dear Perl gurus and enthusiasts

Oh, please don't.

> I appeal to you because I seem to be at a significant crossroads as a
> web developer and consultant for a nonprofit educational institution
> who has been, for several years, kindly entrusting me with developing
> web-based database applications, and I have been fairly accommodating,
> with Perl CGI scripts and mostly MySQL backend (sometimes illiciting

Hmmmm ...

> "wow!"s with the power and agility of Perl), and other goodies
> available with Linux and OSS.
>
> Currently, however, there is mounting discussion and pressure in the
> organization to produce a "serious" and comprehensive website, with
> robust and modular design, consistent look and feel, as well as an
> efficient maintenance scheme.
>
> Having mainly focused on database apps, i don't seem to be up-to-date
> on what the latest and greatest web-development strategies implementing
> Perl/OSS are.

I think you have put the cart before the horse.

....

> Also, why this craze over PHP? To me PHP seems to be an inferior
> imposter bullying its way into the sphere of influence, unscrupulously
> shoving aside the real McCoy (Perl) - or did I miss something? (some of
> my colleagues, who may be involved in the said website project, who
> have heard for years that I am a Perl enthusiast, and have witnessed
> Perl's fruitfulness - just a few days ago "slapped me in the face" by
> producing a list of tools they would like to explore for the job -
> which included PHP but not Perl! ?#$!? )

>From the long-winded and imprecise description that I have snipped, I see
no indcation that you (or the others on your team) know what the
requirements are. You each have a pet issue, and you want to win.

Search Google for CMS. Search the archive of this newsgroup for CMS.

See what you come up with.

Sinan
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