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.
The Philosophy of WebNano
Why do so many web applications have the same components, yet so few actually share those components as libraries? Perhaps the philosophy of building web frameworks is the culprit. Zbigniew Lukasiak’s WebNano is an attempt to solve that problem.
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Rethinking Everything: Perl and the Web in 201x
Modern Perl developments provide better capabilities for abstraction and reusable code. Rethinking a project more than a decade old with modern techniques demonstrates how much Perl has improved-and how far it could go.
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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….
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Using Amazon S3 from Perl
Data management is a critical and challenging aspect for any online resource. With exponentially growing data sizes and popularity of rich media, even small online resources must effectively manage and distribute a significant amount of data. Moreover, the peace…
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Advanced HTML::Template: Widgets
My previous article, looked at extending HTML::Template through custom tags and filters. This article looks at ways to manage large, more complex pages, by bundling HTML::Template into something like GUI “widgets” (or “controls”). Imagine you have a basic page…
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Advanced HTML::Template: Filters
The CPAN module HTML::Template is a very simple, yet extremely useful module to achieve true separation of presentation and logic when programming CGI scripts. The basic idea is that, rather than having print statements scattered all through your code…
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Rapid Website Development with CGI::Application
This article provides an update on the popular and mature CGI::Application framework for web applications. It assumes a basic understanding of the system, so reviewing the previous Perl.com article about CGI::Application may be helpful background reading. CGI::Application and Catalyst…
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FEAR-less Site Scraping
Imagine that you have an assignment that you need to fetch all of the web pages of a given website, scrape data from them, and transfer the data to another place, such as a database or plain files. This…
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Using Ajax from Perl
If you’re even remotely connected to web development, you can’t have failed to have heard of Ajax at some point in the last year. It probably sounded like the latest buzzword and was one of those things you stuck…
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Debugging and Profiling mod_perl Applications
Because of the added complexity of being inside of the Apache web server, debugging mod_perl applications is often not as straightforward as it is with regular Perl programs or CGIs. Is the problem with your code, Apache, a CPAN…
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Analyzing HTML with Perl
Routine work is all around us every day, no matter if you like it or not. For a teacher on computing subjects, grading assignments can be such work. Certain computing assignments aim at practicing operating skills rather than creativity,…
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Building E-Commerce Sites with Handel
Over the years of doing various levels of web-based programming, I’ve come feel like Dante taking a trip through the nine circles of web programmer hell. There are certain things we must endure over and over, from project to…
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Building Navigation Menus
Navigation menus are a group of links given at one side of the page that allows users to navigate to different places of a website. Navigation menus allow site visitors to explore other pages of the site and to…
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Bricolage Configuration Directives
In my previous article, I provided a guided tour of the Bricolage installation process. If you followed along, you should now have a nice, functioning installation of Bricolage 1.8 all ready to go. But as Mr. Popeil used to…
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Installing Bricolage
Now that Content Management with Bricolage has piqued your interest, you might be wondering what you need to do to install it. I’ll be the first to admit that installing Bricolage is not trivial, given that it requires several…
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Don't Be Afraid to Drop the SOAP
SOAP has great hype; portable, simple, efficient, flexible, and open, SOAP has it all. According to many intelligent people, writing a web service with SOAP should be a snap, and the results will speak for themselves. So they do, although…
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Content Management with Bricolage
If you’ve ever had to manage a web site with tens of thousands of pages of content where many people need to be able to update that content, you’ve no doubt recognized the need for a content management system…
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Web Testing with HTTP::Recorder
HTTP::Recorder is a browser-independent recorder that records interactions with web sites and produces scripts for automated playback. Recorder produces WWW::Mechanize scripts by default (see WWW::Mechanize by Andy Lester), but provides functionality to use your own custom logger. Why Use…
