What is the use of repeating all that stuff, if you don't explain it as you go on?
The folks over at Creative Commons have released their (free) “guide to sharing your knowledge and creativity with the world, and sustaining your operation while you do,” Made with Creative Commons. This book was announced in the middle of July 2015 on Kickstarter, hit their funding goal a couple of weeks later, and is now available …
Read More New “Made With Creative Commons” Book OutI’m looking for a new gig, so I’m talking to a number of different shops, recruiters, et. al. Over and over again, I’m being told they’re working with very, very old versions of Perl. I recently came back from an interview with a “leading technology company” that is starting a new project in Perl 5.8 and doesn’t want to use …
Read More New Projects, Old PerlsI’m working on a couple of posts about Perl testing and happened to look at the ‘new subscriber’ list. It’s full of junk, so I’m deleting all the folks with zero posts. Apologies in advance to anyone that subscribed but never posted.
Read More Purging Old SubscribersI find it ironic and unhappy-making that I’m writing about my adventures with Perl using software based on PHP. Sadly, the Perl-based options for journal software seem limited. Let’s do a quick “drive by” review and see what’s what at this moment in time…
Read More Is The “Blog Battle” Lost To PHP?I’ve been spending some time converting sites from CGI and HTML::Template to Catalyst. This has been surprisingly easy, which pleases me. Strangely, I’m probably going to get to our site last. See: Cobbler’s Children, Shoes (none). Ah, well… c’est la guerre.
Read More Converting HTML::Template Sites to CatalystOne of the core technologies used in many web sites is some kind of form handling. It’s one of the the basic ways users interact with the site. My travails so far have led me to bump into no less than four packages for Catalyst. Those would be: FormBuilder, FormFu, FormHandler, and something called Reaction.
Read More Form Handling in Catalyst and Whither FormFu?When I’m learning some new thing, if I’m lucky, there’s a bunch of documentation, tutorials, and examples I can use to get started. Once I’m marginally proficient, I like to go back and revisit those items for a variety of reasons. For example: I now have some context for ideas that weren’t clear before, and …
Read More Installing Catalyst Isn’t A Destination, It’s A JourneyCoding simplicity. Comments on how and why to get there. Quotes from Dijkstra. Article from Reinvigorated Programmer.
Read More Simplicity, Elegance, Reliability(I’m Working on taxes this week, so I only have time for a short post.) The other night I happened to be in a room with a PHP dev, a Ruby dev, and a Java dev. (I was the Perl dev. Huh.) This specific mix was no accident and we were discussing how developers think …
Read More Making Modern Perl more visibleSo, let’s start at the top: Why are we using Catalyst? What were we using before? Why did we switch? Our project began as a simple little “we can knock that out in a couple of weeks” kind of thing. (Yeah, I know, insert foreboding music and laugh track.)
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