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Perl on Rails

Friday, December 7th, 2007

BBC developers has announced its own Perl MVC framework - Perl on Rails. As you can understand from its name the new framework is similar to Ruby on Rails. The BBC Programmes was developed using the Perl on Rails.
Actually, there is a few Perl MVC frameworks like Catalyst, Ganty, Maypole or Jifty. If Perl [...]

Talk with you PC

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

If you’d like to control your Linux PC using voice commands than Perlbox Voice is what do you need. It’s a pure Perl application which features:

Text to speech (Thanks to the Festival speech synthesizer)

Voice control to open user specified applications. For example, if you say “Web”, the Perlbox-Voice Control will open the browser of your [...]

Welcome to open source

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

Open source is the future of software IMHO. Many of you know Movable Type - Perl platform to create blogs or sites. Today it started be completely open source! When I decided to move my blog from Nucleus I thought about Movable Type because it was based on Perl. But I chose Wordpress because it’s [...]

Improve Your Perl Programming

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

Brian Foy - the author of Mastering Perl and one of the famous perlmonks, wrote an article on the ONLAMP where described five ways to improve Perl programming:

Cleaning up your code - I also hate to read unformatted code -without tabs, proper style etc.
Use configuration - sure, my favorite module - Config::General.
Logging - log4perl [...]

Building Web Applications with Gantry and Bigtop

Monday, May 7th, 2007

Here is a new book - Building Web Applications with Gantry and Bigtop, which describes all aspects to develop Perl powered web applications using modern Perl framework Gantry and its part - a web application data language processor Bigtop:
Gantry and Bigtop make starting a Perl powered web application almost painless. After initial start up, they [...]

Perl Oneliner: Recursive Search and Replace

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

I like Perl and I use it every day. It’s cool to make a simple scripts in one line to do some routine work. For example, my first Perl oneliner formats Apache log to be easy readable. Here is another good example of Perl onliner (it isn’t my actually). It makes a recursive search and [...]

use Net::Stomp

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Some of you know about ActiveMQ - an open source (Apache 2.0 licensed) Java Message Service 1.1 (JMS) message broker packed with many enterprise features. One of the way to communicate with it from none-Java programm languages is STOMP (Streaming Text Orientated Messaging Protocol). STOMP is very simple and looks like HTTP-protocol.
Perl has at least [...]

Develop right CGI scripts

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

I came across Ovid’s CGI Course. It’s definitely good tutorial. Both experts and beginners will find there something interesting and helpful. I found the third part - Basic Security the most important and interesting for me. I’d like to add that you can find many useful extensions for CGI like CGI::Forms, for example. This module [...]

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