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 on Rails will be released as open source it’ll make […]
Talk with you PC
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 “Webâ€, the Perlbox-Voice Control will open the browser of your choice. Desktop plugins to control your Linux desktop […]
Welcome to open source
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 free (and I don’t regret :)). I suspect that popularity […]
Improve Your Perl Programming
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 should be used in all your applications. Persistence […]
Building Web Applications with Gantry and Bigtop
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 are the tools you need to implement complex applications […]
Perl Oneliner: Recursive Search and Replace
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 replacement: Perl -p -i -e ‘s/oldstring/newstring/g’ `grep -ril oldstring *` […]
use Net::Stomp
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 two ways to communicate with ActiveMQ over STOMP: Net::Storm […]
Develop right CGI scripts
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 will do all routine work for you to produce web […]