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Perl tutorials and courses

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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Projects and Collections

Code-Maven series

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.

Recent Articles

Echo with plain CGI

After implementing the Hello World with plain CGI, the next step is to implement the Echo.


Echo with plain CGI

Hello World with plain CGI

CGI, the Common Gateway Interface was the real workhorse behind the early years of the Internet and while there are other, more modern alternatives, such as PSGI, we still encounter environments where only CGI scripts are used or only CGI script can be used.

This article for those who are stuck in such environments.


Hello World with plain CGI

Hello World with Plack in CGI mode

Recently I've started to work in an evironment where there are tons of CGI script without any mention of use strict; or use warnings. At this point I don't yet have the political power to set up a PSGI based server, but as I hope one day I'll be I wanted to write my new scripts using PSGI. The problem was, how could I run my PSGI script as CGI?


Hello World with Plack in CGI mode