It's a saturday morning, and it's my first free weekend in months. I feel like unloading some static. Don't read this, it's silly! My bozo bit seems to be stuck today, so I need a coredump.
Perl gets a bad rap
First item is
this post: it tickles me, because i think it's weird to turn some cracker's actions into bad publicity for one of his tools.
"Gary told me over a couple of Heinekens [Heineken involved in NASA cracking attempt!!] that he used emacs to type his perl script." -- Anonymous bartender
Emacs is evil! Had he used vi, he wouldn't have been caught!
web frameworks
Jifty is doomed!
Paul Graham
holds a patent on using continuations to fake subroutines in web applications -- and he suspects they have been made obsolete by Ajax anyway.
Catalyst lost its Mojo
Inspired by the recent upheaval, I'm building a whole new framework from the ground up, and I'm calling it Devil::Fork. It'll take all the bad design decisions of all frameworks in existence, and extends them for all eternity. I'm already making a mockery of MVC with Devil::Fork::Trident.
The most important factor in the success of any framework is marketing, so I'm currently sketching Devil::Fork::Pitch. I wonder if
Keanu and Al are interested in a sequel...
When HTML just isn't rich enough
I have plans for a gooey toolkit for a richer experience, and this will be its entry in the module list: Devil::Fork::You -- GUi toolkit based on Curses.
The good guys are winning!
Apparently there aren't enough object factories yet. I was quite thrilled when the butchers came in to turn Perl objects inside out. But when a
moose weazeled its way onto the CPAN, I got worried. And now I see
more religion being considered for inclusion!
Listen, there are only four classes: Nobility, Bourgeoisie, Proletariat and Pariahs. It's worked forever. And they never mix. No need to go tampering with establishment!
Form validators
Another area with lots of false prophets. CGI, Data::Formvalidator, CGI::Untaint, HTML::Widget, and more recently, Class::CGI all claim to make web data access safe. Nonsense! I have the definitive one, and it's going to be released as CGIx::Class. I really hope I can make fun of Ovid, Tony Bowden, Matt Trout _and_ Sebastian Riedel all in one fell swoop!
Templating systems
Haha. That's too funny even for this clown. My work here is done.
Nice!
Shlomi Fish on 2006-05-06T21:12:09
Your entry gave me a good laugh. Thanks for sharing it.
