Turns out there really are Computer Gremlins!
Ok, this is just too crazy to not record and relate. By now anyone who has read much of my blog or interacted with me should know that I use a significant amount of javascript on my current project at...
View ArticleExceptions with Perl, what a joy!
Today at work I had to do some validation that we haven’t yet had to do for my project at work. I’ve always thought that for validations exceptions are the way to go. I’ll explain everything I did so...
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Do Passwords Right
You all know not to put your passwords into the database in plaintext. Catalyst and DBIx::Class::EncodedColumn make doing this super easy and completely secure. First off, you might want to check out...
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Sensible database testing using Catalyst
I’ve kinda fallen off the blogging horse, but most of that is because I’ve been writing Open Source code in my freetime. I think generally that’s a worthwhile tradeoff, but I like blogging in general,...
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Catalyst Git Conversion
Hello All! Some of you already know that I am working on converting the Catalyst repository to git. I am happy to announce that I am closing in on completion! The current state of the git repo:...
View ArticleUsing Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication with an old setup
Recently I took it upon myself to make Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication know users had logged in after users had logged in in a completely non-Catalyst part of our app. After LOTS of frustration, code...
View ArticleIntroducing Catalyst::Controller::Accessors
Ugh, I first released this eight months ago, but I fell off the blogging wagon pretty badly. It’s so hard to write when I could be writing code, docs, and tests! So anyway, I’m trying to get caught up...
View ArticleIntroducing Catalyst::ActionRole::DetachOnDie
In my last post I introduced Catalyst::Controller::Accessors, which is mostly aimed at users who do a lot of chaining. This module is similarly targeted for chaining users. Anyone who has used chaining...
View ArticleAnnouncing Catalyst::Action::FromPSGI
At YAPC this year I spoke with Stevan Little about his new module, Web::Machine. He mentioned that ultimately he wanted to figure out how to shim it into Catalyst. mst actually implemented something...
View ArticleWeb::Machine + Web::Simple is awesome
I really like “REST,” which the pedantic of you will realize is really just using more than just basic HTTP. I’ve gotten used to a handy REST-y pattern with Catalyst, which, though verbose, is pretty...
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