Congrats to Jrockway on releasing Angerwhale. Angerwhale is a filesystem-based blog with integrated cryptography, built on the Catalyst framework.

You can get angerwhale on CPAN.

If you use Catalyst auth with hashed passwords, here's how to create the digest in your DBIx::Class user class automatically.

sub store_column {
my ($self,$col,$val)= @_;
$val=Digest::SHA::sha1_hex($val) if ($col eq 'password');
return $self->next::method($col,$val);
}

Even tho we haven't got the holy buzz of Rails, people seem to be putting up new Catalyst-powered sites all the time. I'll try to mention some as I hear of them in the future, here's a couple to get you started

www.discvrevolt.com

21:17 it is for independent artists to be able to easily sell card at ( Read more... )

I often find myself needing to make actions that should only be dispatched to by the POST method, or writing dispatch logic to distinguish between POST and GET in my various methods. It would be nice if the Catalyst dispatcher could handle this for me directly. However, we should probably support the whole HTTP spec, and adding those would pollute ( Read more... )

Iusethis is one of the more profiled Catalyst sites out there, and people have been asking me what modules I used to build this site. I figured that was worth doing a blog post about, so here goes:

Catalyst::Runtime
Obviously :)

HTML::TagCloud
For /tags , and more recently /user/$user/tags . I've submitted patches to this module so I could generate ( Read more... )

22:52 < Peyomp> Is there somewhere that explains clearly, what benefits
Catalyst gives over straight CGI and TTthat is suitable for
management types?
22:55 < drPoggs> Peyomp: Yeah - go in, say Catalyst and rub your thighs
vigorously at your manager :)
22:56 < drPoggs> Peyomp: Then say CGI and look

Support iTerm on iusethis
This is how a live iusethis count with a logo currently looks. However, I am unable to include that in any blogs I have tested so far. Any suggestions for better ways to make dynamic content that bloggers can include in their posts? For example, I'd like for them to be able to use this in a header for an app review, or to ( Read more... )

Serving a response in Catalyst is pretty easy. Usually, we either stuff a scalar into the response body, or just let the view take care of it like this:
$c->res->body('dude, what's up?'); $c->forward($c->view); # Or just let RenderView handle it # As is the default. However, sometimes this is not practical for your purpose. Maybe you ( Read more... )

Bugged by slow startup times with DBIx::Class and Catalyst? Try upgrading to the latest version of Algorithm::C3 and PathTools.

(This will be the first in a series where I show how I solved some of ( Read more... )