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Posted by CmdrTaco from the whatcha-doin'-rob? dept.
I've been a busy boy- but mostly today has been debugging and optimizing stuff. With the new filterable homepage, the server needs to do a lot more work (those dynamic pages don't just generate themselves people!) But I think I've sorted out the major bugs at this point. (note:mod_perl is so cool). http://slashdot.org/ should automatically route logged-in users to index.pl, but serve everyone else the static page. Hopefully this will help keep things quick. Plus I've done a lot to optimize out SQL where possible. Thanks to everyone who has been helping test this stuff out and sent suggestions- most of the suggestions are coded now. We should be ready for wide scale testing tomorrow. (Assuming no major bugs crop up yet tonight and cause me to miss the X-Files)
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  • Bugs? (Score:2)

    by CmdrTaco ( 1 )
    Those icons have a 30 minute lag.
    Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda
    Pants are Optional
  • Do you have any idea what you're talking about? Have you ever actually used mod_perl?

    The reason it's easy to have "memory leaks" -- or more accuately "resource leaks" is that under mod_perl, the interpreter is persistant, so all the ugly shortcuts and crude hacks that people are used to under CGI won't work under mod_perl.

    Under CGI you can assume your unreferenced variables are undef, your file handles will close themselves, your buffers will flush, etc. None of this is necessarily true under mod_perl. What this means is that (gasp!) you have to close your filehandles after opening them.

    -Pez
  • It's a LOT more than that. See

    http://perl.apache.org/ [apache.org]

  • mod_perl seems cool, but it prevents mod_ssl from linking for some reason.
  • I had no trouble compiling mod_ssl as a DSO and recompiling everything else (mod_perl and mod_jserv in particular) to run under SSL.

    Try it again! Note that I was running Red Hat 5.2 on the server, I shall see what happens under Debian 2.1 when I get a chance later this week. (on my personal workstation)

    It is not too hard if you carefully follow the directions. Making mod_rewrite work with mod_jserv, on the other hand, has proven to be tough, perhaps because we use DSOs.

  • I don't know if it is just me, or what, but I haven't seen any changes yet. I "excluded" Features and Book Reviews, but they still appear. Yes, I am going to http://slashdot.org/index.pl.

    "In true sound..." -Agents of Good Root
  • "Score=2"
    Whoa!
    It pays to have connections!
    t_t_b

    --
  • They need to quit doing world conspiracies and go back to unrelated episodes with closure.

    You seem to forget that no X Files episodes have closure, or at least not much. Remember "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'"? Scully tells Jose that the story they experienced had more closure than most things they encounter. And even then we still don't really have any clue what happened. Where did that guy from the center of the Earth come from?

  • every time I go to 'prefs' I'm logged in as another user...have to re-login

  • okay. i went to the "hidden" link for customizing /. yesterday... and now i can't see the sidebar that normally contains the past couple days' headlines and the poll and such. anyone else run into this? better yet, anyone know how to fix it?

    -rbw

  • I'm logged in and going through the perl script to see pages just fine but the pages that are generated have Next and Prev links that are references to the static pages instead of having them fixed up so they reference back through the perl scripts. I think they should be fixed up so that they point to the same URL that my front page does. Personally I use this to know when I have or have not recently visited a page.

    -- Chad
  • The dancing dwarf at the end of the Black Lodge episode in Twin Peaks is my personal favorite.

    But seriously: Lookin good, as always Rob, keep up the good work :)
  • the right most side bar on my page has completely disappeared...

    anyone have this same error

    and what's that number, when you login, next to your username mean???





  • any plans for a slashdot-to-mail gateway so we can
    more intelligently utilize the comments feature?



    --
  • Wow, those circus midgets must be hard at work. Where do you get circus midgets? When I log in, they custom craft the pages for me. Not anyone else, but ME. I am SPECIAL now.
  • Will the Quake 3 version of the "NudeDude" skin have a penis that bounces realistically as you run?
  • I'm glad there are others than me that can see clear through the illusion American comersialism creates!

    Don't believe it - even after you've seen it!

  • Bugs? (Score:1)

    by DeathB ( 10047 )
    I am noticing that my Icons at the moment don't match the current news ( yes, cleared all caches between me and /. ) Are your icons matching the filtering being done on the articles?

  • Bugs? (Score:1)

    by DeathB ( 10047 )
    Another one... Its telling me that there are 7 comments... I only see 3.
  • Its an addon to Apache (a web server) that
    compiles perl scripts into bytecode the first
    time they are run. That means that Perl does
    less work to run the script the next time.
    This is a big speed improvement on a site like
    Slashdot that probably runs a perl script at
    least once every second.

  • x-files (Score:1)

    by noy ( 12372 )
    dont miss em, they kick ass
  • i don't know if more people have the same trouble
    as i do but, when i log in with my account and
    i click on preferences nothing shows up..
    just any empty slashdot...

    well rob i think you're gonna miss the x-files ;)

    -- hacketti
  • I've had a weird problem -- ever since you put in the new slashdot, my Netscape on my win95 box freezes when I scroll down the screen... and hangs the whole box.. probably not a slashdot problem, just curious if anyone's seen this on theirs....

  • X-Files (Score:1)

    by PDG ( 100516 )
    don't worry, rerun anyway.


    PDG--"I don't like the Prozac, the Prozac likes me"

  • X-Files (Score:1)

    by PDG ( 100516 )
    Screw Schindler--HBO has the Soprano's tontite. That show rox.


    PDG--"I don't like the Prozac, the Prozac likes me"

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