http://rambles.bearcircle.net Programming, Poker, and Politics. Just Another voice in the electronic wilderness Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:53:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://rambles.bearcircle.net/2009/06/05/moving-on/ http://rambles.bearcircle.net/2009/06/05/moving-on/#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:02:40 +0000 Lance http://rambles.bearcircle.net/2009/06/05/moving-on/ I just unsubscribed from the CGI::Application mailing list.  I no longer use CGI::App and the mails were just cluttering my inbox. My first Perl CGi script was written using plain ol’ CGI.pm many years ago.  I ran across it again recently and winced when I read the code.  I saw messes of nested function calls to generate the HTML, manually processing form data, etc.  Scary stuff, but it worked.  Then I found CGI::Application and HTML::Template and gleefully jumped on board.  It made my life much easier.  About 2 years ago I encountered Catalyst and started learning it.  The applications I was writing were growing more complex and CGI::Application was becoming part of the problem instead of the solution, so Catalyst was attractive to me and offered a very flexible, powerful platform for developing web applications.  I’ve been using it ever since and have deployed several large application using it.  So, with a fond farewell, I signed off the CGI::Application mailing list.

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