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personal internet banking, no less) and my phone bill with a release of
Tony Bowden's L<Data::BT::PhoneBill>. 

L<Finance::Bank::LloydsTSB> was meant to go with L<Finance::QIF>, my
Quicken file parser, to produce another now-abandoned idea, a Perl
finances manager. It seemed that I'm only capable of producing modules,
not full standalone applications - or at least, it seemed that way until
I produced L<Bryar>, my blogging software, based on the concepts from
Rael Dornfest's C<blosxom> and beginning my adventures with Andy
Wardley's Template Toolkit. Bryar also tuned me in to the
Model-View-Controller framework idea, of which more later.

Another project I briefly played with was a personal robot, using the
C<Sphinx>/C<Festival> speech handling and recognition modules from
Cepstral and Kevin Lenzo. I didn't have X10, so I couldn't shout
"lights" into the air in a wonderfully scifi way, but I could shout
"mail" and have a summary of my inbox read to me, "news" to get the
latest BBC news headlines, and "time" to hear the time. Of course,
getting computers to tell the time nicely takes a little bit of work. I
don't like "It's eleven oh-three pee em", since that's not what someone
would say if you asked them the time. I wanted my robot to say "It's

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Of course we then had to replace C<Mail::Audit>, so
L<Email::LocalDelivery> and L<Email::Filter> appeared. This is another
module I don't use, because my C<Mail::Audit> setup works and I'm
terrified of breaking it and losing all my mail. But I'm told that
C<Email::Filter> works just fine too.

By this stage, C<Mail::Miner> was getting crufty. It was replaced by a much
more modular and beautiful L<Email::Store>; this is extended with
plug-in modules like L<Email::Store::Summary>, L<Email::Store::Plucene>
and L<Email::Store::Thread>. I had to write the plug-in framework
myself, since neither C<Module::Pluggable> or C<Class::Trigger> did
quite what I wanted, and so the C<Email::Store> project also produced
L<Module::Pluggable::Ordered>.

Now C<Email::Store> naturally uses C<Email::Simple> objects, since
it's the most efficient mail representation class on CPAN.
Unfortunately, C<Email::Store> also wants to make use of some modules on
CPAN like C<Mail::ListDetector> which don't want to know about
C<Email::Simple> objects and want to talk C<Mail::Internet> or whatever.
To get around this, I wrote L<Email::Abstract> which provides module

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L<CGI::Untaint::upload> and L<CGI::Untaint::html>, 
I also wrote a whole plethora of C<CDBI> extensions:
L<Class::DBI::AsForm>, L<Class::DBI::Plugin::Type>,
L<Class::DBI::Loader::GraphViz> (reflecting my penchant for data
visualization), and L<Class::DBI::Loader::Relationship>, which applies
the "as simple as possible and a bit simpler" approach to defining data
relationships.

The whole culmination of C<CDBI>, TT, and all these other technologies
came when I sat down and wrote L<Maypole>, a Model-View-Controller
framework with, again, emphasis on making things very simple to get
working. The Perl Foundation's sponsorship of Maypole development has
been one of the proudest achievements in my CPAN career, and lead not
only to a stonking big manual, loads of examples, but also
L<Maypole::Authentication::UserSessionCookie> and L<Maypole::Component>.

Template Toolkit and XML came back together again in a recent project
where I've had render some XML as part of a Maypole application.
Amazingly, there wasn't an XSLT filter for the Template Toolkit, so
L<Template::Plugin::XSLT> was born.