Archive for the 'perl' Category

next is… Camping MVC microframework

October 30th, 2007

…next in line are 3 web apps that will me made entirely in Ruby with the help of Why’s very light yet functional Camping, the 4 Kbyte microframework.
Camping lacks things, and its Markaby is a bit slow compared to RoR’s Erb, but the approach taken by _Why looks very interesting for its simplicity.
I changed the […]


muttrc builder

January 13th, 2007

Luke Ross built this Perl web app to help build your ~/.mutt/muttrc file.
Dropdown control helps select pages to fill out. The last page gives you the resource file ready for copy/paste.
…Mutt rocks!


CPAN growth

October 2nd, 2006

“Perl 5 enabled the growth of something amazing; the CPAN. This distributed code repository has grown from a few dozen contributions to over ten thousand reusable components in millions of lines of code, written by several thousand contributors, in ten years. Some people even claim that 90% of any Perl program exists, prewritten, on the […]


Randal ‘Perl’ Schwartz, Guido ‘Python’ van Rossum,… on FLOSS

September 27th, 2006

Chris DiBona, open source program manager at Google, maintains a Netcast at TWiT.TV with Leo Laporte called FLOSS Weekly (Floss as Free Libre Open Source Software). Here’s a list of some of the most interesting ones:
#13: Eben Moglen on GPL 3.0
#12: PHP Creator Rasmus Lerdorf, on origins of PHP, challenges, …
#11: Guido van […]