Writing About Perl

[Leo Lapworth]

On 23 August 2011 13:02, Simon Cozens <simon at simon-cozens.org> wrote:

> On 23/08/2011 19:39, Dave Cross wrote:
> > If a popular Linux magazine had given you the opportunity to write a 3000
> word
> > article giving a practical project-based demonstration of how Perl had
> moved
> > on in the last ten years, what would you do? What would you write about?
>
> What's changed in the past ten years?


10 years?... in no particular order..

Core Perl:
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Regular release cycles

Setup stuff:
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CPAN::Mini
CPAN::Mini::Inject
CPAN::Webserver
local::lib
cpanm
perlbrew

Best practices:
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Task::Kensho
DBIx::Class
Modern Perl (the book as well as the ethos)
Moose / Moo
MooseX::App::Cmd

Testing / test results:
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http://www.cpantesters.org/
Test::Most

Websites:
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https://metacpan.org/
http://perldoc.perl.org/
http://www.perl.org/about/whitepapers/ might also be useful to link to,
although we should probably get some more sysadmin related papers in there
(anyone interested let me know).

Frameworks:
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Dancer
Catalyst
Plack with both of them + 160 Plack::Middleware modules to help Sysadmins
not worry about server specific configuration.

Web server infrastructure:
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Starman (very fast)
Mogilefs - distributed redundant file system

These two work great for us at work (although there are
more alternatives now):
Perlbal - load balancer / proxy
TheSchwartz - queue manager
*
*
Sorry - I don't have time to write anything more than a cursory list, but
there's at least a
couple of articles in there,

Leo