What is the use of repeating all that stuff, if you don't explain it as you go on?
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 …
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