[32370] in Perl-Users-Digest
Perl-Users Digest, Issue: 3637 Volume: 11
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Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:09:04 -0700 (PDT)
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Perl-Users Digest Sun, 11 Mar 2012 Volume: 11 Number: 3637
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Re: First Commercial Perl Program <ronaldljohnson@gmail.com>
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Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:06:17 -0800 (PST)
From: "tbb!/fbr!" <ronaldljohnson@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: First Commercial Perl Program
Message-Id: <0d5a2a44-7b36-41ac-b96a-d6c31eda0bb9@to5g2000pbc.googlegroups.com>
On Mar 10, 5:48=A0pm, mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote:
> >>>>> "tbb" =3D=3D tbb!/fbr! =A0<ronaldljohn...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> tbb> Yeah, I got paid $100 for that, and that's just the beginning. I
> tbb> wanted to write the guy a routine to automatically parse $stdout,
> tbb> trigger on regex match, and then alert, but they were not
> tbb> interested.
>
> Like "swatch"? (Google for "swatch perl" for links.)
>
> --
> Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 00=
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> <mer...@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/>
> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc.
> Seehttp://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/for Smalltalk discussion
You have no idea how many times I have read your books. I would have
loved to take the courses, but outside of my budget. But I did get a
lot of satisfaction teaching myself with the help of you, brian, tom,
et al through the Oreilly books. I have read lots of books on manu
subjects, but the Intermediate Perl books descriptions of references
(or pointers in other languages for that matter) is the absolutely
BEST description (through the teaching) of the subject matter ever
written. And I have read many others books. IMO.
That little script I will modify on my own for the alerting stuff. I'm
so sick of the overengineered monitoring tools out there (except for
the original Unix version of Big Brother) that I want to write
something tight and fast on my own for my own purposes.
I'm familiar with swatch as I've many years in Unix. Logfile parsing
is older than dirt. I've spent the last year devoted to learning perl,
and I am glad I invested that time. There's a big move in the industry
for custom monitoring and alerting mechanisms due to the bloated
offerings from Nagios, Netsaint, Openview, Sun Management Center etc
etc etc etc, which simply do not work out the box for large
enterprises due to the fact that when you point a 400 node hostlist at
one of these monitoring softwares, you'll spend the next two months
tweaking false positives, and another 2 months of fighting with
developers who want some custom conditional monitoring solution.
I've much to learn in perl. I read learning perl until i had the whole
book memorized (it's how i learn). I did the same with Intermediate
Perl. Next is 'Advanced' and 'Mastering'. It takes me about 3 months
to memorize a book cover to cover. Well sub 300 page books anyways.
I'm honored by your post, btw. I know, no big deal, but your name is
on books all over my house and your a celebrity to me. :)
Ron
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