Tatsuhiko Miyagawa's Blog

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April 07, 2010

Sunaba - Perl web apps in the cloud

It is a great pleasure that my 4 hour hack last night lets me now introduce: Sunaba the perl sandbox environment to run any PSGI/Plack applications.

March 31, 2010

The future of cpanminus

I started developing cpanminus one night in February when i got stuck with running CPAN.pm on linode VPS, and you may have noticed from its name, it’s rather some kind of toy/fun project that’s not meant to be serious. I was even considering to put it under Acme:: namespace.

March 26, 2010

PSGI standalone web servers

Now we have 4 (or actually more) PSGI standalone web servers. Here’s a quick cheat sheet to compare them:

March 25, 2010

Plack Blog

There is no main project on github that gathers people, even though we can see a fair amount of MooseX:: projects. Most of the developers will work on different modules, that may not have the same purpose. Lately we have seen a fair amount of work on various Plack stuff, mainly middleware, but also HTTP servers (twiggy, starman, …) and web framework (dancer).

March 19, 2010

"Practical" modern Perl for Ruby/Python people

“Modern Perl” people usually focus on stuff like Catalyst, Moose and DBIx::Class – they’re awesome modules and Web/ORM thing you should look at, but here’s another take to show off what “recent” perl would look like to Ruby/Python web developers who are familiar with Rack and WSGI.

March 16, 2010

Perl and Plack: Big in Japan (and TechCrunch compliant!)

Japan has been known as a country where a shiny new technologies such as weird USB gadgets, cellphone TV/wallets or RFID devices are introduced first and adapted in a really early stage. Plack is not an exception.

March 02, 2010

On cpanminus

The Perl community seems abuzz about the cool new cpanminus client by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa. After about two weeks of development, this is a reasonably functional CPAN client with just a fraction of the overhead, complexity and verbosity of the CPAN and CPANPLUS clients that come with the Perl core.

January 29, 2010

Plack 0.99* (and 1.0) milestones

I am pleased to announce that i’ve just shipped Plack 0.99_01 to CPAN, the first dev release towards Plack 1.0.

January 28, 2010

Japan: Stop the ridiculous "experiments"

 総務省は28日、若い女性らに人気がある「ケータイ小説」で、作者に自分の作品を評価してもらう実証実験を行うと発表した。表現の自由を確保しつつ、ネット上の有害情報の拡大を食い止める手法として注目されている「セルフレイティング」の普及が狙いだ。