In this beginner level article, Dave Cross introduces the Template Toolkit.
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Creating Data Output Files with the Template Toolkit
The Template Toolkit is one of the most powerful Perl tools for the creation of data that is a mixture of fixed and variable content. This obviously makes it very suitable for the production of web pages. In this article Dave Cross looks at its wider potential for creating output data files.
– May 2, 2013
Training Debrief
I’ve spent a lot of the last seven days running training courses. It might be interesting to share some thoughts about how they went. Last Saturday was Perl School 4. A week before the course I was a little worried about ticket sales, but I did a bit of marketing early last week and managed [...]
– February 15, 2013
Perl School 3
Yesterday was the third Perl School. Twenty-one students converged on Google Campus in London and spend a day learning about Moose. The day seemed to go well. People asked intelligent questions and seemed to understand what I was telling them. Hopefully the feedback forms will tell a similar story. No more training now for a [...]
– December 9, 2012
Why Corporates Hate Perl
This is a reprint of an old blog post. A few years ago I was writing blog posts (semi-)regularly for O’Reilly. This is the one that probably got the most feedback. I’m reprinting it now because a) it’s pretty hard to find on the O’Reilly site and b) it’s relevant to a couple of conversations [...]
– November 26, 2012
Perl School 2
Yesterday was the second Perl School course. Once again it was at Google Campus and once again it was on Modern Perl for Non-Perl Programmers. The big difference this time though was that people were paying £30 a time to attend. And that did make a difference. While the previous (free) version sold out in [...]
– October 7, 2012
Google Currents
Google Currents is an application for viewing content on Android and iOS devices. It reformats content (based on web feeds) to look like a magazine. It looks great on my HTC One X and I’m expecting it to look even better on my Nexus 7 when it arrives. It’s possible to subscribe to web feeds [...]
– July 2, 2012
XML::Feed
XML::Feed is the module that does most of the heavy lifting for Perlanet and, as such, it powers some important parts of the Perl community’s infrastructure. Unfortunately, for a while now it’s had a rather long list of outstanding bugs that weren’t getting fixed. Sometime last year, Matt Trout got co-maintainership on the module and shortly afterwards [...]
– March 13, 2012
Perl News
Remember use.perl? It’s moth-balled now, but for years it provided two valuable services to the Perl community. Firstly it provided a hosted blog platform which many people used to write about many things – sometimes even Perl. Of course we now have blogs.perl.org which provides a very similar service. And secondly, it provided a place [...]
– March 17, 2011
Learning About Traits
I’ve been teaching basic Moose in my training courses for several years now. And, as I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been slowly converting some of my CPAN modules to use Moose. But there are still bits of Moose that I haven’t really needed to get to grips with. One such area is Moose’s support for Traits. [...]
– August 23, 2010
Ironman and XML::Feed
Sam Graham complains that since the Ironman feed switched to using Perlanet, the entries have been “mangled”. By that he means that in some cases any HTML in feed entries is lost. I think they’re running up against this bug in XML::Feed (which is one of the modules that Perlanet uses to process the feeds [...]
– April 26, 2010
Perlanet Update
Maybe it’s just me, but when I know that people are using my code it galvanises me into improving it. Following the discovery that people were actually using Perlanet, I’ve made quite a few releases over the last week or so. I thought people might be interested in what I’ve been doing. Release 0.30 was [...]
– October 12, 2009
Greenwich Mean Time
Some of you might already know that I run the nms project. We supply drop in replacements for the CGI programs from Matt’s Script Archive in an attempt to raise the average quality of Perl on the web. Having my email address associated with a project like that brings me some… er… interesting mail. Here’s [...]
– September 11, 2009
Perl Twitter Feed
Last August, when I was writing my talk Proud to Use Perl for YAPC::Europe, I wanted to get a feel for what real people were actually saying about Perl. It’s all very well claiming that people say Perl is dead, but I wanted to get some real quotations to use in the talk. I came [...]
– September 8, 2009
CPAN Web Feeds
I’m still thinking about adding stuff to this blog. I’d like to add some web feeds to the sidebar. In particular, I’d like a feed of my CPAN uploads. I don’t expect it to be a particularly busy feed (although having such blatant evidence of my laziness might galvanise me into being a bit more [...]
– June 5, 2009
Testing Syntax Highlighting
Right. I think I might have got this cracked now. Here’s some Perl code. #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; print “Hello World\n”; That’s pretty cool, isn’t it. I wonder what it’ll look like in the web feed. I’ll try to feed my fixes back to the author of the plugin.
– June 4, 2009
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