What is the use of repeating all that stuff, if you don't explain it as you go on?
One 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.)
Read More Why Catalyst?Thus begins my journal about my exciting adventures with Technology! Right now, I’m working on a “secret” project (no code name) and we have decided to move to the Perl-based Catalyst application framework, with all that entails. Several of the usual suspects and members of the secret project have opined that my perspective as 1) …
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