Posts Categorized: Perl

A few days ago, had you asked me one big plus of Catalyst over Dancer, I would have said “chained actions”. Chained actions allow to split the logic underlaying an uri into smaller components associated with its segments. A very neat, DRY-friendly ways of doing things. Have a look.

All the tools you need to write a Dancer plugin are contained in he helper module Dancer::Plugin. To invoke them, you just need to ‘use’ Dancer::Plugin within your module — all the inheritance stuff is taken care of behind the curtain

Let’s say you want to serve static http content from a machine. The sensible thing to do would be to install Apache/Nginx/Lighttp. But let’s say — because of insane configuration, red tape, cruel whims of the gods — that you can’t do the sensible thing. Fortunately, there’s a few aces you can pull from out of your sleeve. One of them is to use Dancer as a spur-of-the-moment barebone web server

Say theres a website you would like to tweet directly from. Not via a Twitter client, not using a service like Yoolink, not through a Firefox plugin. No, you really want to be able to have a honest to God “Tweet this” input field on the website itself. It’s a strange requirement, for sure, but it’s a mission that I’d been given a few days ago. Here’s how I did it.

Never the one to turn my back to shameless self-promotion, I mentioned my blog entry and mini-project in the comment section. As luck would have it, my views were very much in line with what the metacpan cabal was envisioning, and I was told that, if I was willing, I was welcome to give it a try. As a subsequent update from Olaf hinted at, that’s an offer I couldn’t let pass. So, in the last two months, I’ve been a busy bee.

Tommy Stanton from the Los Angeles Perl Mongers let me know that he gave a presentation on Galuga in January (slides are available here). He also tinkered with the mozzarella-toned beast, and his patches should soon percolate to the pallid cetacean’s GitHub lair.

Most of the time, I hack applications together because I have an itch that badly needs scratching. But, sometimes, I also build up apps for the sake of trying out and experimenting with new technologies. The process I’m following for those latter apps is what I call Awesome Driven Development, or A.D.D. for short. Here’s how it’s done.

Married Life, a poem