[dbix-connect-general] the start of DBIx::Connect::FAQ...

[Terrence B. <met...@ur...>]

Martin, today I tried to talk an old employer into letting me give a 
talk on DBIx::Connect, but he gave some fairly logical resistance to not 
using it... I can think of a partial answer to this question, but 
perhaps you would like to chime in with a response? I have to move 
residences tonight and will out of internet connectivity until about the 
20th :(.

If you have an answer, then I can slap it into a FAQ and add it to the 
distro.

Begin forwarded message:


>>> [3] Would you or your company like to hear a talk on my module 
>>> DBIx::Connect? I am trying to give it as much exposure as I can. Here 
>>> is a URL to the docs:
>
> We're pretty small (3 developers and one of those wouldn't be too
> interested ;-) so it wouldn't be much of a talk.  I just so happens
> that I'm using AppConfig (very nice) and DBI (of course).  What
> does DBIx::Connect buy me other than shortening something like:
>
> 		my $driver_arg = "dbi:Oracle:$Config{-dbname}";
>         my $dbh;
>         eval
>         {
>                 $dbh = DBI->connect($driver_arg,
>                   $Config{-dbuser},
>                   $Config{-dbpasswd},
>                   { AutoCommit => 0, Warn => 1, PrintError => 1 } );
>
> It seems like it just shifts the typing from Perl to the config file?
>
> Good to hear from you!
>