SimpleIdeas

Yeah, I know I haven't been around much. I don't see that changing in the immediate future, but should get better in a few weeks.    (6BO)

Over the last week or so I've been working on a POE script I've been calling Netscan for the upcoming Dayton LANFest. It simply scans a network and collects a little data about each host and sticks it into a MySQL db. It goes to great pains to keep the db updated as well as process things in parallel.    (6BP)

This has been a wickedly fun app to write. I've had to bend my mind in all sorts of new ways to get this thing to work well. The POE::Component::JobQueue stuff really threw me for a loop. I spent an enormous amount of time trying to understand how to make it work.    (6BQ)

This exercise has given me lots of insights into how POE works. I really need to write more stuff like this.    (6BR)