One of the things I like most about the journals on use.perl is that I read something interesting and keep it tucked away in the back of my mind. I've just had a cunning idea about pipelines (I may be stealing what OpenFrame does, I must download and investigate).
Basically what I'm thinking is:
I'm working on what we like to call the 'editor'. It's a tool that allows clients to basically work on and modify services they have. At the moment it is a scary 11k lines of perl. It doesn't use templates and most of the client code is stuck in the single .pl file. I'm trying to work out a nice solution that uses templates and is more modular.
I also did a bit of thinking today about patterns. Basically I'm not sure if this whole pattern business is any cop. I'd rather think about the problem and try to think of a solution rather than trying to fit a solution to the problem. It seems like banging square blocks into round holes. Sure you can get it in but you end up having to use a big hammer.
