Advent Season is upon us..
There's a lot of Perl Advent articles around this year. It's very neat to see this, and rather than add yet another article, I'll instead reference the articles I find to be very useful and stand out.
- How Catalyst Happens
- mst's great writeup on how Catalyst evolves, works with contributors and collaborators. If you're curious how large open source projects handle a large number of contributors, this is a good read (275 contributors at the time of writing)
- RJBS writes about Sub::Exporter
- One thing I think has turned a lot of people away from Perl is the exporting and namespace handling (partially due to the out-of-the-box weakness of Perl's OOP). RJBS thankfully wrote Sub::Exporter, and it cleans up this into a very sane API.
- Convert CGI apps to Plack
- If you haven't heard of Plack, you're missing out. Miyagawa's awesome new reference implementation of PSGI (Perl's WSGI) is simplifying a lot of lives, mine included. This little recipe shows how you can convert your old school CGI apps to a managed and sane Plack-handled set of scripts. Of course, there is a lot more to Plack you should read about.
- Using local::lib
- I love local::lib, and this article by Stephen Scaffidi is a good writeup on setting it up. The big thing to remember with local::lib is to upgrade Module::Install and Module::Build to make sure everything runs as smoothly as possible
That's it for now, I'll post more of my favorite advent articles as we get closer to Christmas.
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