Inspecting Catalyst

Nov 11, 2019 by David Farrell

web

catalyst

metacpan

What routes does your Catalyst app respond to?

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Spidering websites with Headless Chrome and Selenium

Jan 13, 2019 by David Farrell

web

chrome

selenium

chromedriver

selenium-remote-driver

headless

spider

How I setup and controlled headless Chrome with Perl

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Perl and CGI

Nov 12, 2018 by Dave Jacoby

web

cgi

mvc

catalyst

dancer

mojolicious

template-toolkit

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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Get an in-browser remote desktop with Mojolicious and noVNC

Feb 2, 2016 by Joel Berger

web

mojolicious

websockets

novnc

Using Mojolicious as a TCP/WebSocket Bridge

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Twitter as a datastore

Jan 21, 2016 by brian d foy

web

math

social_media

net_twitter

Using social media platforms for computing applications

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How to send verification emails using Mojolicious

Sep 18, 2015 by Joel Berger

web

mojo

email

verification

automated

Control access to your Mojo app with registration emails

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Cache::Reddit or: how to use social media as a temporary data store

May 4, 2015 by David Farrell

web

cache

reddit

storable

humor

Introducing a suboptimal solution

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Build a Twitter bot with Perl

Feb 23, 2015 by David Farrell

web

perl

reddit

bot

twitter

automation

tweet

Automating tweets can win you more followers!

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Build a Reddit bot with Perl

Feb 9, 2015 by David Farrell

web

xml

perl

reddit

rss

feed

atom

bot

It’s easy and fast to do

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Automated Internet Explorer screenshots using Win32::OLE

Dec 11, 2014 by Sinan Unur

web

windows

perl

ole

screenshot

internet_explorer

win32

With Perl it is always easier than you think

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Controlling Firefox from Perl

Dec 8, 2014 by brian d foy

web

javascript

firefox

mechanize

Form submission, scraping, JavaScript execution are all possible

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Easily check your IP address with Perl

Sep 18, 2014 by David Farrell

web

ip

address

ipinfo

curlmyip

geo_ip

geolocate

maxmind

The WWW::curlmyip module is an API for curlmyip.com

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Generate static websites from dynamic Perl web apps

Jul 15, 2014 by David Farrell

web

nginx

mvc

static

web

wallflower

psgi

framework

App::Wallflower generates static apps from PSGI applications

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Just how much heavier is Catalyst than Dancer2?

May 5, 2014 by David Farrell

web

catalyst

dancer

mvc

We compare the two web frameworks dependencies and test suites

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Simple web framework FastCGI caching with nginx - part 2

Mar 17, 2014 by David Farrell

web

module

nginx

dancer

mojolicious

cache

Safely purge individually cached upstream responses

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Simple web framework FastCGI caching with nginx - part 1

Mar 11, 2014 by David Farrell

web

nginx

catalyst

dancer

mojolicious

cache

How to cache responses from fastcgi apps and how to clear the cache

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Download a YouTube video with one line of Perl

Jan 26, 2014 by David Farrell

web

one_liner

youtube

… and a lot of of help from WWW::YouTube::Download

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Display beautiful Perl code in HTML without JavaScript

Jan 13, 2014 by David Farrell

web

module

syntax

html

javascript

PPI::Prettify makes pretty-printing Perl code as HTML easy

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Consuming RESTful Services with Perl

Dec 31, 2012 by JT Smith

web

When JT Smith ported his web game The Lacuna Expanse to a board game, he used Perl to create the board game itself. Here’s how he built the web service behind The Game Crafter.

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Writing on Walls with Facebook::Graph

Apr 4, 2011 by JT Smith

web

cpan

dancer

facebook

facebook-graph

web-development

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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