So where did the Transport Ticketing Authority have the programming for the Mymyki.com.au done?
In Australia, you might think, as we don’t want people’s financial details to be going offshore, particularly with a project being paid for the Victorian Government.
Well you be wrong, try Bangalore. Say hello to “aloknathlight”
10th November 2009, Perl Beginners Mailing List
Hi,
I think I can post the issue related to ‘mechanize’ here.
I am using www::mechanize to login and logout to a particular page.
When I submit the credential(i.e username and password) and try to
view the content, I don’t see anything.
When I view the source, I see it has jscript code in it. Is the
problem because www::mechanize doesn’t supports jscript ?
Is there any work around for the above issue or can Iuse some other
module ?Fyi, my objective is to test the website for 100 or more logins.
Please find the snippet of my script and the source for the page.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
“Fyi, my objective is to test the website for 100 or more logins”. The user base of the Myki system is supposed to be 1 million people, and he only wants to scale the website for 100 logons? And before you ask, how do we know it’s the MyMyki system?
<link id="ctl00_uxMykiCss" rel="stylesheet" href="include/css/myki.css"
1st July 2007, Perl Beginners Mailing List, Parsing a line:
Hi Chas,
Can you please explain the portion ( ([\w ]*\w)\s*= )of the regex.?
And why its stored in $s.Can it be directly stored in hash my %rec.
Thanks
Alok
4th January 2008, Hilpers Perl List
Hi,
I wanted to recursively copy the contents of a directory(both directory and files) from one folder to the other.
The below code does only copy of directories but leaves behind files.
Can anybody help me how to do that ?
Regards,
Alok
Wow. Just… wow. I thought the British government was bad at outsourcing, but this is jaw-dropping.
What staggers me is that they are apparently doing this and asking these questions in November 2009.
And then they want to launch in December, which they did.
No wonder it doesn’t work!
Jawdropping is not the word – but I don’t know what is!!
Some of the mistakes that the Mkyi team have made would have been caught in the development phase, if they had one.
Xenophobic much? Who care if customer data goes “off-shore”? (Is Tassie off-shore?) Have Australian corporations never been in any way dodgy?
It’s not xenophobic to have concerns about the potential for offshore access to thousands of Victorians’ personal information. We have very specific privacy laws. What happens to our information if it’s dealt with elsewhere?
Xenophobic? No. It’s recognising the fact that if you off-shore work to a “lower cost centre”, the temptation to make an easy dollar is going to be much higher.
I’m no fan of Myki, but it seems like you’re drawing some very shaky conclusions from just a few posts.
So why are you saying that this dev is outside Australia? This dev’s profile says “Melbourne” (not sure if that’s been changed since this post went up though).
http://www.myki.com.au itself seems to be hosted in Sydney.
As for the posts, they really don’t tell you a lot – except the timing does seem too tight. If they’re still doing developer testing in Nov 09, and it’s launching in Dec 09, there are issues.
The “100 users” number is fine. While the entire Myki system as a whole should handle 1,000,000 users in total (the ticket machines, not the website, and not all at once), that test looks like it’s checking that the site can handle 100 users hitting just the login page. That seems realistic.
As for the newbie perl questions – yeah, not showing a lot of knowledge in how regex works, but not the end of the world. This to me looks more like a tester writing test scripts rather than a developer writing public facing production code.
Julian, thanks for the comments. They’re worthly of a blog post in reply. Monday most likely.
Myki offshored? No, I don’t think so. I’m guessing some (all?) of the code development was.