White papers: Modern Perl 5 tools and best practices
These short articles provide an overview for each topic. They are intended to help you in understanding why modern Perl is a good tool for many different types of project and also to provide pointers for those starting out in Perl.
- Perl database ORM - Making database queries easy and code clean
- Perl web framework - Create the website your company needs
- Object oriented Perl - Clear object syntax with lots of power when you need it
- Perl profiling - Speeding up code with a feature-rich code profiler
- Perl testing - Automated tests for better quality code
- Perl load balancer - Reverse-proxy load balancer and web server
- Perl Plack/PSGI - Simple and flexible web development
- Perl IPv6 - Perl and IPv6 Networks
- CPAN - complete, mature ecosystem for Perl developers
White Papers which we are looking for someone to write:
- Perl::Critic - "quality" for Perl
- Quality - Devel::Cover, Perl::Critic, PerlTidy
- Memcached - caching demon
- Event-driven Programming
- GUI development
Contact leo [at] perl.org if you are interested in contributing
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Tip
Database interfaces DBIx::Class provides an Object Relational Mapper (ORM) to databases (e.g. Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Postgress, Access etc)

