Re^2: Time for an application portfolio

There are a couple of advantages in putting my portfolio onto a website:

Anyone can look at the application, at any time. That's better than sitting through a video (although the video is something I might do).
The visitor can interact with the application, and may even find it useful.
I'll gain the experience of how to get it running on a shared web host (I'm working on this now, and so far, it's not trivial).
I plan to link from each application to the associated repo on github, so people can look at the code I've written. Code craftmanship is a big deal to me.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

Thanks PJ. We owe you so much. Groklaw -- RIP -- 2003 to 2013.

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Re^3: Time for an application portfolio by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jul 29, 2015 at 15:58 UTC
Your reasons and approach are right on. You will get hired this way and be a better dev for the process. As you have found, deployment is often harder than development and begins to impose a healthy parsimony on both.	[reply]
Re^3: Time for an application portfolio by tangent (Parson) on Jul 29, 2015 at 16:22 UTC
I'll gain the experience of how to get it running on a shared web host (I'm working on this now, and so far, it's not trivial). Do let us know how you get on - I also have shared hosting on Pair but was under the impression that you could not run persistent processes.	[reply]
Re^4: Time for an application portfolio by talexb (Chancellor) on Jul 29, 2015 at 19:14 UTC
I'll write more in a later post, but for now, it's just running as a regular CGI. :( This is probably the worst way to take advantage of `Mojo`; I'd love to run a long-running daemon instead, but that approach is almost certainly out of the question. :) Alex / talexb / Toronto Thanks PJ. We owe you so much. Groklaw -- RIP -- 2003 to 2013.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Time for an application portfolio by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jul 29, 2015 at 21:13 UTC
If you control the server there is no reason not to go whole hog. I highly recommend uWSGI Perl support (PSGI).	[reply]
Re^6: Time for an application portfolio by talexb (Chancellor) on Jul 29, 2015 at 21:57 UTC
Re^7: Time for an application portfolio by einhverfr (Friar) on Jul 30, 2015 at 08:25 UTC
Re^3: Time for an application portfolio by Anonymous Monk on Jul 29, 2015 at 15:36 UTC
Well, if you ever need a demo video of your Paradox database utility made in RealVideo format and pushed across the PointCast network to its subscribers, you now know the man for the job.	[reply]