Re: Recommendations for learning Perl

[Birgitt Funk <birgitt@hamburg.citde.net>]

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> mike wrote:
> 
> Those are all wonderful solutions that you've presented, and I am
> grateful for your admission.  My problem; however, is not that I
> don't have the ability to document the process, rather it is that I
> haven't been able to get the program to work on NT.  Please believe
> me.  I will write down every step that I do when I get it running.
> However, as of today, I've worked for nearly 4 months, and still
> have only the basest, most rudimentary knowledge for setting this
> up.  
> Its not that your existing documentations isn't good, its that
> it only takes you to a certain point, after which it kind of leaves
> one in the air.
> 

[snip]

You definitely got something wrong here, which shows me also that you
didn't read too much of the documentation or archives. 8-)

I have nothing to do with any part of the MiniVend software or
documentation. I am sorry to see you got that misconception. My
catalog is/was hosted by minivend.com and I am/was a happy customer of
Mike Heins for a catalog project which turned out to be beyond my head
and finances.

So far I haven't contributed ONE technical answer to this list and am
embarrassed that someone could have wrong perceptions about this.

I do have though learned a lot from the whole project, as I am
following closely how MiniVend
was developed and I am genuinely interested to see it going and become
a very useful package
in whatever format.

I am following MiniVend since over two and a half years and it is only
since a couple of weeks that I decided and am able to become one day a
self-taught person concerning Perl and MV and System Administration.
May be too long of a time in these days, where you can count the a www
year like dog years, i.d. one www year = seven man years. 

Then on the other hand, if MiniVend would be a package which has no
place in one www year from now on, why would the author Mike Heins
invest thousands of hours of work in it and customers months of
figuring it out ?

It's a decision everyone has to decide for himself, but in my
experience you get out of it with
many things learned and it is very worth while going through the
process of trying it out.

> 
> Whatever I can do to make this process easier, please tell me.  I
> only want to figure this thing out, and have reached the end of my
> rope here.
> 

It's time to look for someone to help you out. You could decide to run
it on Linux, couldn't you ? 8-)

Birgitt Funk

> From: Birgitt Funk [mailto:birgitt@minivend.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 1999 4:16 PM
> To: minivend-users@minivend.com
> Subject: Re: Recommendations for learning Perl
> 
> ******    message to minivend-users from Birgitt Funk
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> 
> On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, mike wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >
> > It has a lot of potential, I just can't seem to get by the catalog
> setup
> > part.  I've set up a special IP address under IIS4.0, and even
> started
> > taking apart the actual Perl Code to see what may be stalling this
> 
> > process.  The worst part is that even after "Reading the Fricking
> > Manual" for Minivend, I still feel as if this is basically an
> > undocumented program.  At least from the NT point of view.
> >
> 
> hmm, may be you can attribute that to side effects GPL licenses have
> on
> talented programmers....
> 
> And on the other hand, why not participating in writing a
> documentation
> more suitable to your liking and needs and then donating it to the
> MiniVend community ? We got the program with open source ... right
> ?
> 
> There is something called the documentation project. Join it at
> minivend-docs@minivend.com.
> 
> Birgitt Funk
> 
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