Various utility files to expand the features of MultiMarkdown 3.0 — Read more

Not unlike templates for (X)HTML? "The Phrasebook pattern is a technique to separate expressions in one language (e.g., SQL) from the main code that is written in another programming language (e.g., Perl). This is done by keeping the expressions in a separate file – the phrasebook. Any specific expression is generated by finding the appropriate entry in the phrasebook and substituting application parameters into it. This separation makes maintenance easier both for the main application code and for the foreign language code."

"Back in the early days of the web there was this wonderful Perl library called CGI.pm , many people only learned Perl because of it. It was simple enough to get started without knowing much about the language and powerful enough to keep you going, learning by doing was much fun. While most of the techniques used are outdated now, the idea behind it is not. Mojo is a new attempt at implementing this idea using state of the art technology. "

"What will the world of dynamic programming languages and Web applications look like in five years? This is one of those highly personal and deeply philosophical questions best saved for after dessert is served, the drinks are poured, and the sidearms are safely locked away."

"Chirpy! is an Open Source online quote management system. It allows you to keep a database of quotes by friends and foes. It is most useful for quotes collected on IRC channels."

"Enter the infobot: an autonomous program that converses with users. Infobots are an ongoing experiment in how we can interact as communities with a common institutional memory."

"the goal of mod_perlite is to run single Perl scripts in the Apache process space, caching Perl bytecode as it goes, but flushing script memory after every request. Installation is also incredibly simple, and 100% analogous to PHP installation."

"This little perl program allows you to set the "Ready Message" on HP printers to whatever you'd like."

"Connects to a JetDirect equipped HP printer and uses HP's control language to set the ready message on the LCD display. Takes an IP address and message on the command line. My favorite message is "INSERT COIN"."

"Enter Perl Buzz, a new blog set up by Andy Lester and myself. I think of Perl Buzz as “the shiny, happy Perl blog”, and I’m not ashamed to pimp it out with every web 2.0 gimcrack and widget we can find."

"In presenting Perl features, I tried to find examples that are interesting in their own right, and that encourage the reader to explore Perl's features."

"Daily Kos...using Ruby on Rails instead of mod_perl. Oh brother." Wow. And PHP/Zend ridiculed because Jews are involved. Creepy nutters.

"if you want to check on the latest kink on regsex.com, for example, and forget the 's', you end up at regex.com, and banner-ads for all sorts of geeky stuff jump right into your face -- I mean, what's a young dude supposed to do?"

"FogBugz is written in Wasabi, a very advanced, functional-programming dialect of Basic with closures and lambdas and Rails-like active records that can be compiled down to VBScript, JavaScript, PHP4 or PHP5."

"The solution was to force developers to build separate units of work that can run in a multi-threaded environment without conflicts, and scale to more than one server. What comes naturally to every PHP and Perl developer had to be forced down the throat

"Humans are naturally evangelistic creatures, so it's not surprising that we proselytize for the choices we've made, trying to share them and encouraging others to share our experience."

"DJabberd is a high-performance, scalable, extensible Jabber/XMPP server framework."

"Processes files with Markdown syntax for Apache"

"Tim mentioned the Perl infobot in passing, subject of a great Perl Journal article many years ago."

"Attached is a new version of my s3 perl command line script to access S3 and a new s3sync perl script that has rsync-like functionality."

"This is version 0.9 of the Blosxom 2 annotations, by Frank Hecker <hecker@hecker.org>"

"Plagger is a pluggable RSS/Atom feed aggregator written in Perl. Everything is implemented as a small plugin and you can mash them up together using Plagger core API and plugin hooks."

"It is a complete port of Perl's ubiquitous Template Toolkit."

"XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl."

"Brad released a prototype for Atom Stream server for LiveJournal today, Ben was working on TypePad to support the upstream push from TypePad weblogs."

"A client interface for AtomStream "

"Client interface to blo.gs streaming cloud server "

"but sometimes I like to see a combined view of just her activity in the past couple of days: all of the posts aggregated from her various feeds, combined into reverse chronological order."

" I've hacked up a quick Perl script which scrapes a MailMan list archive and generates an RSS feed of the most recent articles."

"Pugs is an implementation of Perl 6, written in Haskell." What, you couldn't've written it in Perl 5? :)

"Taking inspiration from Merlin Mann's fantastic 43 Folders, here's a quick hint for those of you who are just dying to use John Gruber's Markdown ... on Windows."

"nms is a set of web programs that are intended as drop-in replacments for the scripts at Matt's Script Archive." Wow, someone actually did it.

Umm, insane.

"Enter Reformed Perl, a pragma that pulls Perl 5 OOP syntax into the year 2004." Finally, something interesting happening with perl?

"mod_perl is dying because it solves the wrong problem." It also seems like perl itself has been chasing its own tail for a few years now.

"Open source Perl and Python implementation of Macromedia's AMF protocol" Oooh, must investigate this.

"Randal Schwartz (looks like Randal. Certainly wearing Randal-like clothes. He's the Hooter's guy, right? I always get him and Tom Phoenix confused. Okay, definitely Randal.)"

"...the game is to find the single module with the largest dependency tree, that will bring in the highest number of high quality libraries on a virgin install." All hail the mighty CPAN

"PDL (``Perl Data Language'') gives standard Perl the ability to compactly store and speedily manipulate the large N-dimensional data arrays which are the bread and butter of scientific computing."

Seems like the shine is wearing off Perl these days...

"...if you see a mirror with google ads or other advertising, know that it is not to be called a CPAN mirror."

I see. Someone (namely, the author of Maypole) has thought about making a Movable Type replacement with Maypole.

I'm a bit surprised no one's tried making a clone of MovableType with Maypole

"It's a spectrum emulator! Written 100% in perl! Woo! Yay! Houpla!" Frightening. Truly it is.

"If you're writing an RSS-fetcher in Perl, you should use this module instead of LWP::UserAgent"

Very nifty. ASCII art as perl program

There's More Than One Way to Do It

"cgi_buffer is a group of libraries (for Perl, Python and PHP) that automatically handle performance-improving HTTP features that most Web servers don't implement (at least for scripts)"

Mmm... caching.