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Modern Perl Web Frameworks

  • Mojolicious light-weight web framework with rainbows and unicorns.
  • Perl Dancer light-weight web framework to rock.
  • Catalyst The MVC web framework of Perl.
  • PSGI/Plack, the low-level superglue between Perl web application frameworks and web servers.
  • CGI, the Common Gateway Interface, for old-school web applications.

Object Oriented Perl

  • OOP, the classic way to write Object Oriented Perl code.
  • Moo, the Minimalist Object Oriented system for Perl.
  • Moose, the 'post modern' Object Oriented system for Perl.

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If you are a beginner, or would like to refresh your Perl programming knowledge, you can go over the Perl tutorial or watch the Beginner Perl Maven video course.

If you need to maintain a large piece of software written in Perl by other people in the last 5-10-15 years, that's a challenge. Especially if you did not get proper training in Perl. You are probably limited to a specific and old version of Perl. Check out, the Perl tutorial! You can probably skip the part about installing Perl, but the rest of the tutorial will be relevant for you.

Perl is often used in Test Automation. If you work in this field, or if you'd like to work in this field (it is much more fun to find bugs in other people's code than in yours :), then you can read the Perl tutorial and the series on Test Automation using Perl.

If you build new web applications - either privately or inside a company - you can start by reading the article comparing CGI, mod_perl and PSGI. From there you can go on reading the generic Perl tutorial or the articles on Mojolicious, Perl Dancer, Catalyst, PSGI/Plack, or even CGI, the Common Gateway Interface, for old-school web applications.

In the off chance you are interested in topics other than Perl, especially related to Test Automation, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, DevOps, then you are welcome to check out the list of DevOps related training courses.

Recent Articles

How To Use TheSchwartz Perl Module (Part 2)

Welcome to the second part of how to setup and use TheSchwartz Perl module. In part one of this tutorial, we covered how to setup the required database and write a script to insert a job for queueing. In this continuation, we will finish things up by adding the worker scripts to process the jobs inserted into the database. Finally we will create a service script to daemonize the runner that does the processing. This will give us a complete queueing system we can use and expand on for many different types of tasks.


How To Use TheSchwartz Perl Module (Part 2)

Collecting errors while parsing Markua in Perl 5 - disregarding empty rows

So far we have only focused on a very limited set of valid Markua tags. As we make progress we'll need to be able to report rows in an input file that we could not recognize. So let's add that error collecting code now. It will make our parsing tighter as it will mean that for every line in the input file we'll have to know exactly what it means.

We can already foresee some trouble with our current examples as we have not handled the empty rows at all.


Collecting errors while parsing Markua in Perl 5 - disregarding empty rows

Exchange values and keys of a hash - how to reverse a hash

How to exchange keys with values of a hash without losing any data even if there a are duplicate values in the original hash?


Exchange values and keys of a hash - how to reverse a hash