All about Perl 6 – interview of Jonathan Worthington (Part 3 of 3)
NV: The JVM has been primarily designed with statically typed languages in mind. The same goes for the CLR, and that is why the DLR (build on top of CLR) came into existence. Have you at some point...
View ArticleAll about Catalyst – interview of Matt S. Trout (Part 1 of 3)
We talk to Matt S. Trout, technical team leader at consulting firm Shadowcat Systems Limited, creator of the DBIx::Class ORM and of many other CPAN modules, and of course co-maintainer of the Catalyst...
View ArticleAll about Catalyst – interview of Matt S. Trout (Part 2 of 3)
Does all that flexibility come at a price? The key price is that while there are common ways to do things, you’re rarely going to find One True Way to solve any given problem. It’s more likely to be...
View ArticleAll about Catalyst – interview of Matt S. Trout (Part 3 of 3)
What about the other Perl frameworks, Dancer and Mojolicious? How do they compare to Catalyst? Dancer’s big strength is making things quick and easy for smaller apps; you don’t have to think in terms...
View ArticleC# Guru – An Interview With Eric Lippert
Eric Lippert’s name is synonymous with C#. Having been Principal Developer at Microsoft on the C# compiler team and a member of the C# language design team he now works on C# analysis at Coverity. If...
View ArticleAll about Dancer – interview of Sawyer X
After we looked into Catalyst, we continue our exploration of Perl’s land of Web Frameworks, with Dancer. We talk about it to one of the core devs, Sawyer X, who kindly answered our questions in a very...
View ArticleAll about Dancer – interview of Sawyer X part 2
NV: Is Dancer 2 a complete re-write and why? what shortcomings of the first version does it address ? SX:Dancer 2 is indeed a complete rewrite of the code, and for good reason. Dancer started as a fork...
View ArticleAll about Dancer – interview of Sawyer X part 3 and last
NV: Dancer and web services, where do I start ? Conceptually, is REST only about web services ? SX: While REST (REpresentational State Transfer) is not limited to web services, it’s most widely used in...
View ArticleAll about Mojolicious – interview of Sebastian Riedel part 1
Our journey into the world of Perl’s Web frameworks would not be complete without Mojolicious, therefore we talked to Sebastian Riedel, Mojolicious’ mastermind and Catalyst’s original founder....
View ArticleAll about Mojolicious – interview of Sebastian Riedel part 2
NV: Does the dependency free nature of Mojolicious act as an invitation to people familiar with other frameworks (i.e. Ruby on Rails) and languages (i.e. PHP)? That aside, what other...
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