This evening a wrote a Perl script using Mojolicious to generate a RSS and Atom feed for the BlitzMax website. I did this because that website has been lacking it. I use Google Reader to stay up to date with countless websites. Any website that doesn’t provide a RSS or Atom feed I’ve got to visit [...]

In the last year or so I’ve been noticing that a lot of Perl modules contain a .shipit file. As I had no clue what it was about I searched the internet to see what ShipIt was and were to get it. But as you can see Google (or any other search engine) doesn’t return [...]

One of the finest Perl (core!) module I’ve been using lately is File::Find. With File::Find it’s possible to traverse through a directory recursively to find anything you want from it. It comes with a number of options to alter the search behavior and a custom callback has to be supplied to determine what to do [...]

I was looking for a way to use Perl::Tidy with Notepad++ so I can format my Perl code from within Notepad++. Luckily for me someone else already figured out how to do this properly. I just had to modify a few small things to make this work for my needs. My environment is a Windows [...]

A couple of days ago I finished reading The Definitive Guide to Catalyst which for a technical book (or any at all) I read through quite fast. I’m not going to write a full fledged review about it but I can recommend it to anyone interested in working with Catalyst. For those who don’t know [...]

The first time I took a look at Mojolicious was almost a year ago if I’m not mistaken. My Perl was really rusty back then and the Mojolicious’ documentation, or rather the lack of it, didn’t help much either. Still, with interest I followed the project through GitHub. Development on the project, and especially the [...]

I was wondering if there’s a way to have a Perl process share some commonly used modules (such as DBI, DBIx::Class and Template) amongst different users? I’ve looked at FCGI::Spawn but it didn’t seem to me it was capable of it. What I’d like to do is run a single Perl daemon which has some [...]

For over 3,5 years now I’ve been programming professionally in PHP. First in PHP4 and about half a year later we finally converted to PHP5. At first I was excited because I could use a lot of new features PHP5 offered such as proper OOP but also Zend Framework. I started using Zend Framework from [...]

The first time I heard of Gearman was at Stack Overflow where a question was asked on how to stop workers nicely. On which an excellent joke was made by Cletus: “See now I was going to reply “Bitte halten Sie!” ” . Since then Gearman was stuck in my mind. So far I haven’t [...]

I’ve decided I should enter the Iron Man Blogging Challenge. Basically what you have to do is write 4 Perl related posts within 32 days, with a maximum interval of 10 days between every post. What’s in it for me? If I keep up with the frequency I get a cool badge to put on [...]