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    <updated>2009-05-03T18:33:14Z</updated>
    <summary>In which our hero counts off the list of inspirations and irritations encountered while blogging with Movable Type.  </summary>
    <author>
        <name>Vince Veselosky</name>
    </author>
    <category term="perl" label="Perl" />
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    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><h1 id="thingsilovehateaboutmovabletype">10 Things I Love/Hate About Movable Type</h1>
<p>I have a love/hate relationship with my blogging tool. Here are ten aspects of Movable Type about which I am emotionally conflicted.</p>
<ol>
	<li>
		<p><strong>Love:</strong> Movable Type is implemented in Perl. Yay, Perl! <br /><strong>Hate:</strong> Movable Type is implemented in "old school" Perl, not <a href="http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2009/01/why-modern-perl.html">Modern Perl</a>. (...
	</li>
	<li>
		<p><strong>Love:</strong> Movable Type's publishing engine supports many publishing modes, including scheduled posts, and publishes static HTML files by default for efficient hosting. <br /><strong>Hate:</strong> The only option for dynamic publish...
	</li>
	<li>
		<p><strong>Love:</strong> Movable Type is themeable. <br /><strong>Hate:</strong> The default theme is ugly. Replacement themes are not much better, so I'm still using the default.</p>
	</li>
	<li>
		<p><strong>Love:</strong> Movable Type fully supports post metadata, without overwhelming you with interface inputs (not a unique feature of MT, but a nice one). <br /><strong>Hate:</strong> MT has three distinct metadata items called Categories, T...
	</li>
	<li>
		<p><strong>Love:</strong> Input filters allow you to compose your posts using <a href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/">Markdown</a>, <a href="http://textile.thresholdstate.com/">Textile</a>, or plain HTML. <br /><strong>Hate:</strong>...
	</li>
	<li>
		<p><strong>Love:</strong> Plugins and The Registry - Everything revolves around this central "registry" data structure. Once you understand that structure and how to tweak it, you can do some pretty cool things without a lot of code. As a matter of...
	</li>
	<li>
		<p><strong>Love:</strong> The flexible template system. Once you get the hang of it, it's easy to make template tags produce all kinds of nifty things. And it is possible (though not trivial) to create new tags via plugins if you need additional fu...
	</li>
	<li>
		<p><strong>Love:</strong> Every template is customizable, and you can make as many as you want. <br /><strong>Hate:</strong> As soon as you customize a template, you have to start worrying about your changes getting clobbered if you "refresh" to ge...
	</li>
	<li>
		<p><strong>Love:</strong> Movable Type supports multiple blogs/sites in the same installation, and as a result it is possible to craft queries in your templates that aggregate multiple blogs. <br /><strong>Hate:</strong> Each blog always gets its o...
	</li>
	<li>
		<p><strong>Love:</strong> Movable Type's default template set is built with web standards: XHTML, CSS, and even <a href="http://microformats.org/about/">microformats</a>, with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement">progressi...
	</li>
</ol>
<p>Glad I got that off my chest. What's <em>your</em> boggle?</p>
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</entry>
<entry>
    <title>The Moose is on fire! </title>
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    <id>tag:www.webquills.net,2009-04-26:the-moose-is-on-fire</id>
    <published>2009-04-26T21:38:26Z</published>
    <updated>2009-04-26T22:14:54Z</updated>
    <summary>In which I am inspired by my fellow Perl hackers to write blog posts and code using the Moose object system for Perl.  </summary>
    <author>
        <name>Vince Veselosky</name>
    </author>
    <category term="perl" label="Perl" />
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    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><h1 id="themooseisonfire">The Moose is on fire!</h1>
<p><a href="http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/blog/matt-s-trout/iron-man/">Matt S. Trout suggested</a> that we Perl people should be posting to our blogs weekly, rather than weakly. It's hard to argue against that, so here's my first in an attempted string ...
<p>This week I was strongly inspired by all the yummy goodness happening around the <a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Moose">Moose</a> project. The <a href="http://www.catalystframework.org/">Catalyst framework</a> is now <a href="http://jjnapi...
<p>With both jrock and chromatic writing about how cool <a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?MooseX::Declare">MooseX::Declare</a> is, it got me itching to try it out for myself. I've been way too busy for hobby coding in the last couple of months,...
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<entry>
    <title>What do you get if you cross Perl CGI with Mod-PHP? </title>
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    <id>tag:www.webquills.net,2008-12-16:cross-perl-cgi-with-mod-phphtml</id>
    <published>2008-12-16T23:14:11Z</published>
    <updated>2008-12-16T23:39:00Z</updated>
    <summary>One possibility is mod_perlite, an Apache module that aims to make Perl as easy as PHP for users to deploy and for service providers to host.</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Vince Veselosky</name>
    </author>
    <category term="perl" label="Perl" />
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    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><h1 id="whatdoyougetifyoucrossperlcgiwithmod-php">What do you get if you cross Perl CGI with Mod-PHP?</h1>
<p>One possibility is <a href="http://www.modperlite.org/">mod_perlite</a>, an Apache module that aims to make Perl as easy as PHP for users to deploy and for service providers to host.</p>
<p>I love <code>mod_perl</code> and use it every day, but the fact is that most web hosts don't give their customers access to it, precisely because it is so powerful (and complex). But old-school CGI scripts with their fork-and-exec model are slow a...
<p>The <abbr title="Just Another Perl Hacker">JAPH</abbr>s over at <a href="http://www.modperlite.org/">modperlite.org</a> are looking for some help. If you know your way around Perl and/or Apache internals, or are looking for an excuse to learn, the...
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