Porting a Dancer plugin to Dancer2
How I ported a plugin without having to know it all first
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Perl and CGI
The CGI module helped Perl grow when the web first blew up. Now it’s out of Core and discouraged. What happened?
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A Perl Review of the ODROID-C1
This little board shows a lot of promise for Perl-based hardware projects
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Just how much heavier is Catalyst than Dancer2?
We compare the two web frameworks dependencies and test suites
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Perl web application security - HTTP headers
Instantly upgrade your web application security with these headers
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Simple web framework FastCGI caching with nginx - part 2
Safely purge individually cached upstream responses
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Simple web framework FastCGI caching with nginx - part 1
How to cache responses from fastcgi apps and how to clear the cache
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Writing on Walls with Facebook::Graph
JT Smith shows how to write Facebook applications with offline permissions to post to user walls with Perl and Facebook::Graph.
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Facebook Authentication with Perl and Facebook::Graph
In the first of a series on writing Facebook applications with Perl, JT Smith demonstrates how to register an application and authenticate users with Facebook::Graph.
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A Website in a Minute Using Dancer, the Effortless Web Framework
While Perl has a few heavy hitters in the web framework world (Catalyst, Jifty, CGI::App), sometimes they can seem like overkill. When writing a light web service or a high-end but not-as-complex website, you might want something smaller and simpler….