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.