A talk from the London Perl Workshop 2014

1. Return
to the
Kingdom of
the Blind

2. Last year

3. The
Kingdom of
the Blind

5. Told a few
stories

7. We laughed

8. Invited you
to help
me out

9. Some of
you did

10. Thank you

11. But the
problems
didn't
go away

12. In some ways
they got
worse

14. It's almost
like a five
minute talk at
a conference
isn't enough

15. (Probably
should have
Tweeted
about it too)

16. One
particular
problem

17. CGI

18. CGI is Dead

19. But people
don't know
it yet

20. (It's like the
opposite
of Perl)

21. People ask
for help with
CGI programs

22. Other people
suggest PSGI

23. “PSGI is too
complicated”

24. Wrong

25. “CGI is the
simplest
solution”

26. Wrong

27. “CGI is still
good for a
quick solution”

28. Wrong
Wrong
Wrong

29. So much
misinformation

30. We have allies

31. Lee Johnson

32. New CGI.pm
maintainer

33. “HTML
Generation
functions
should no
longer be used”

34. CGI::Alternatives

35. CGI.pm
removed
from
Perl 5.22

36. e9fa5a80

37. Why don't
people know
this?

40. All out of date

43. Catalyst

44. (Bit of a
leap from
CGI.pm)

45. As I'm
countering this
misinformation
...

46. ... I find
myself having
worrying
thoughts ...

47. ... and writing
worrying
things

48. “I really wish
there was a good
book that
covered this
stuff”

49. “Why doesn't
someone just
write a book on
this?”

50. “Perhaps I
should just write
this bloody book”

51. Sigh

52. An
Announcement

53. Perl Web
Book

54. A Guide to
Modern Web
Programming
Techniques in
Perl

55. PSGI/Plack

56. Web::Simple

57. Mojolicious

58. Dancer

59. Catalyst

60. Etc...

61. http://perlwebbook.com/

62. http://perlwebbook.com/
(registered in 2009)

63. http://github.com/davorg/perlwebbook

64. @perlwebbook

65. Free
download

66. Also
available
through
Amazon

67. (Happy to
speak to
publishers)

68. Conference
Driven
Publishing

69. Available
at the next
LPW

70. (Hopefully)

71. Note to mdk:
Please make
next LPW as
late as
possible

72. I will need
your help

73. Advice

74. Suggestions

75. Reviewers

76. Patches
welcome

77. Please
spread
the word

78. See you
next year

79. Thank you

80. Dave Cross
dave@perlhacks.com
@davorg