Dancer (Perl framework)

A new version of Dancer has just been published on CPAN. It was a good time to do it, according to the changelog, as you can see: * Support for multiple method routes at once with 'any' * Templates engines + Bug fixes in [...]

I'm a big fan of Boxee, an open-source media center based on XBMC. The Boxee iPhone application is great for remote control, but what if you're with your laptop in front of your TV? Wouldn't it be great to be able to fire up a browser on your boxee host and be prompted by a web interface [...]

Well, here it is, after five months of development, Dancer is stable and feature-rich enough to be released as a shiny, stable, 1.000 version. Major changes for this version are the following: Support for cookies Support for YAML-file-based sessions ... [More] Support for Memcached-based sessions Support for Syslog logging Less dependencies than ever (only HTTP::Server::Simple and Exception::Class are mandatory to start writing a [...] [Less]

I'm glad to write this blog entry: Dancer now supports sessions. Before giving you all the crunchy details about the implementation of that feature, let's see some working code: post '/login' => sub { my $user = authenticate_user(params); [...]

Last night on IRC: 03:01 < @stevan> sukria: I always think of William Gibson when I see Dancer uploaded Wow, stevan pointed to me that dancer is the name of a drug in a scifi novel written by William Gibson: the Bridge Trilogy: In William Gibson's Bridge Trilogy, dancer is an addictive drug used in the near future [...]

I've finished to polish the error catcher I was working on and thought it was a good idea to push it to CPAN. I did so a minute ago, expect it to be indexed by CPAN within the next hour. The major feature of this new release is the error catching, let's take a glance at [...]