I’ve recently been pushing for greater support for Catalyst and MojoMojo on Debian. For the uninitiated, Catalyst is a Model-View-Controller Framework designed for writing web applications. MojoMojo is a Wiki application based on Catalyst that provides a lot of neat features; while it seems less popular than Wikimedia’s MediaWiki software, it’s still got plenty of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Perl’
Catalyst and MojoMojo on Debian
Posted in Computer Science, Software Engineering, tagged Catalyst, CPAN, Customer Experience, Debian, Debian Packaging, Licensing, MojoMojo, Perl on 13 November 2009 | 1 Comment »
Debian Perl Packaging: Where I Lied
Posted in Computer Science, Software Engineering, tagged Best Practices, Computer Science, CPAN, Debian, Debian Packaging, Perl, Standards, Support, System Administration, User Experience on 15 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, so this is a long-awaited follow-up to my first post on the topic of Debian Perl Packaging. Some of you might note I was pretty extreme in the first post, which is partially because people only really ever respond to extremes when they’re new to things. When you first begin programming, the advice you [...]
Debian Perl Packaging
Posted in Computer Science, Software Engineering, tagged Best Practices, Computer Science, CPAN, Debian, Debian Packaging, Perl, Standards, Support, System Administration, User Experience on 12 June 2009 | 6 Comments »
If you are a Debian user, or a user of its derivatives, there is absolutely no need for you to create your own packages. None. Just don’t do it; it’s bad. Avoid it like the goto statement, mmkay?
