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An older article, but which I’ve used before, and just re-found tonight. Help optimize your Perl code by finding where the bottlenecks are.

Catalyst is a MVC framework for Perl web application development. It’s similar in concept to Ruby on Rails (for Ruby) and Apache Struts (for Java). It’s been on my TODO list for nearly a year. I’ve started using it this week and am very impressed.

Here’s a good introductory article on what Catalyst is and an example application (using Ajax! so sexy!).

Other useful Catalyst links:

• homepage
• Advent calendar (those wacky herlpackers!)
• documentation
• flowchart
• example projects
• mailing list
• mail list archive
• londom pm tutorial

I call it “cattle-lust” just for fun. There’s a certain mad cow in every web developer.

Always searching for the latest in search engine development.

Some interesting work lately on CPAN.

I had not seen KinoSearch before; a very interesting “loose port” of Lucene written in C and Perl. I need to try it out.

Search::QueryParser also looks promising. I was just thinking that such a thing would be helpful for SWISH::HiLiter and/or HTML::HiLiter … or maybe even Swish-e itself.

Search::ContextGraph is older, one of Maciej Ceglowski’s projects from back before he became a fulltime painter and world traveller.

Search::Estraier is Dobrica Pavlinusic’s pure Perl implementation of the Hyper Estraier Perl API. I know Dobrica’s a big fan of Hyper Estraier, even over Swish-e and Xapian.

Search::FreeText appears to be abandoned, or at least not actively maintained. Last updated in 2003. Too bad; the documentation makes it look interesting anyway. Although it does use DB_File, which I know from experience with Perlfect, does not scale well above 20K+ documents.

Search::Xapian has recently been updated. There’s lots of activity on the Xapian project. It’s at or near the top of candidates for the Swish3 backends.

Search::InvertedIndex is one I had not seen before, but it looks very interesting. I have been thinking about a SwishQL – a SQL backend for Swish3, and Search::InvertedIndex offers a mysql backend. Benjamin Franz wrote it; he also wrote CGI::Minimal, which I used for a while with CrayDoc (contributed a patch too, iirc). I’ll have to come back to this one.

Search::Indexer. Another one I’d not heard of, but which bears investigation. Author Laurent Dami is a familiar name to me, as he also wrote Search::QueryParser (above) and a handy FormBuilder TT patch I’ve been using.

IBM has graciously released a set of Unicode libraries under the X license (compatible with the GPL). I have just started playing with it, but the sentiment alone deserves some praise.

I’m no Javascript wizard by any means, but I find the latest AJAX apps (particularly Google Maps) too cool. Here’s where it all gets defined.