Event Suggestions (was RE: news feeds)

[McGlinchy, Alistair]

Hi Greg

> If its not to private I'd love a talk on how M&S use Perl. I 
> don't care if its boring from a technical point as long as I 
> can see how Perl is used on a day to day basis I'm 
> interested, nothing sensitive just an idea of what size of 
> databases you might use with DBI, or how many hits you manage 
> with mod_perl or any victories where Perl solved a difficult 
> problem for other languages within a short time span.

There's not a lot to tell here, no DBI or mod_perl to speak of sorry.
Most of our apps run on Win2K[3]/IIS/SQL Server. The use of Perl is
limited to network management and monitoring with a very tiny bit of
systems management on some unix boxes. 

My own Perl use has grown out of developing MRTG, Netflow and ad-hoc
collection tools.  I could potentially give a talk on network monitoring
rather than the Net::SNMP talk I suggested but I'm not sure that that
M&S-specific aspects of this would be particularly interesting.

Cheers

Alistair

**********************************************************************
Registered Office:
Marks and Spencer plc
Waterside House
35 North Wharf Road
London
W2 1NW

Registered No. 214436 in England and Wales.

Telephone (020) 7935 4422
Facsimile (020) 7487 2670

<<www.marksandspencer.com>>

Please note that electronic mail may be monitored.

This e-mail is confidential. If you received it by mistake, please let us know and then delete it from your system; you should not copy, disclose, or distribute its contents to anyone nor act in reliance on this e-mail, as this is prohibited and may be unlawful.
2005