A Website For Yancy
This month, Doug Bell (preaction) () gave a talk about the Mojolicious web framework, the Yancy CMS, the PODViewer documentation renderer, and the Mojolicious export command.
This month, Doug Bell (preaction) () gave a talk about the Mojolicious web framework, the Yancy CMS, the PODViewer documentation renderer, and the Mojolicious export command.
This month, Doug Bell will be talking about a CSS feature newly-supported by browsers: The flexible box (flexbox). Flexboxes makes laying out rows or columns fast and easy. Simple things become much easier, and even complex layouts become simple and responsive for a variety of display devices like phones and tablets. If you haven't learned anything about CSS in the last few years, or if you know the pain of using CSS floats, come learn about flexbox!
Doug Bell has been developing websites since the time of table layouts and spacer GIFs (pronounced "jifs"). He's developed websites professionally for 10 years, and is the organizer of the #css support community on the Freenode IRC network.
This month, William Lindley ( blog) will talk about writing a test harness for modern Perl programs using Test::More, Test::Mojo for the API, and DBIx::TempDB for the database.
Building, testing, and deploying actual systems is more complex than merely writing a program. Real testing often needs to be done against databases of known large or problematic datasets. A test environment cannot affect production data. Staging even minor changes, so we can preview and find errors before moving to production servers, can prevent expensive errors. The "best practices" in this field are relatively new and still changing, and we look at the first steps from "I built this mockup last night" by building the test suite for a simple database-driven file-upload service with Mojolicious.
William Lindley has been hacking computers (in the good sense) since 1977, a database advocate since dBase II and PostgreSQL-predecessor Ingres in the 1980s, a Perl monger since 1994, and a free-software promoter since first getting Linux to run XWindows in 1995.
If time permits, Doug Bell (preaction) () will show a simple app to mock JSON REST APIs for testing using Mojolicious.
This month, Noel Rappin will be talking about accepting payments on the web:
Your customers have money, and youâd like them to give it to you. Payment gateways, such as Stripe, Braintree, and Paypal, make it easy to start charging credit cards and get the money flowing. But charging cards is only the beginning. You need to worry that your app responds gracefully to service failures, since charging a customer for a failed transaction is bad. You need to guard against fraud and security breaches. You need administrative tools that are flexible but secure. You want to test against external services. And youâll run up against the law. Learn from some of my mistakes and build a robust financial application.
Noel Rappin is the Director of Development at [Table XI]. Noel has authored multiple technical books, including "Rails 4 Test Prescriptions", "Trust-Driven Development", and the forthcoming "Take My Money: Accepting Payments on the Web". Follow Noel on Twitter @noelrap, and online at http://www.noelrappin.com.
For episode 3 of Gabor Szabo's CMOS Podcast, Joel Berger talks about the Mojolicious Perl web framework.
Gabor Szabo started a podcast called CMOS: Code Maven Open Source news and interviewed Jason Crome for his first episode.
Listen to Code Maven Open Source (CMOS) interviewing Jason Crome about Perl Dancer 2
Jason Crome has announced a new release of the Dancer2 Perl web framework. This release includes some improved security best practices and bugfixes.
Read more about the Dancer2 release on Jason's blog at blogs.perl.org
Joel Berger wrote a blog post about using LetsEncrypt in your Mojolicious application. LetsEncrypt is a free, automated SSL certificate authority, and allows you to get SSL encryption on your website without the hassle and expense of dealing with the current style of CA.
Read Super Easy SSL Certs for Mojolicious Apps on blogs.perl.org
We've got a couple short talks scheduled for this month, and we've got a new venue, generously provided by ServerCentral.
Joel Berger is going to give a talk on testing any PSGI application with Test::Mojo, Mojolicious's excellent web testing library.
And, Doug Bell is going to give a talk on some simple websocket tricks with Mercury, a WebSocket message broker, Mojolicious and Mojo::UserAgent.
Due to the holidays, our meeting will be on December 10. RSVP on the Chicago.PM Meetup
(EDIT: Slides from the simple WebSocket tricks talk are now available)