Perl, PHP and Ruby oh my!
This week, I attended the Perl and PHP meetings. Though they were late nights for me, they were good meetings and worth the loss of sleep.
Perl - Catalyst
Catalyst is a MVC framework for Perl. I like Rails — alot, but not just cuz its Rails because its Ruby. I love Ruby. Perl I really like also, but I’m not so sure its a fantastic language to develop for the web. After seeing the presentation I say, thats nice… but.. I will probably use Rails if I were to use a MVC framework. I’m wearing my Perl shirt today!
By the way — if you are south of chicago there’s a Perl meet up in Tinley Park on Jan 24, 7pm
Caribou Coffee
16205 Harlem Ave
Tinley Park, IL 60477
(708) 444-0478
PHP - Firebug
We didn’t really have any topics planned out for this one — but we had some volunteers. Peter did a good overview of the indispensable tool for debugging javascript, css and HTML. Unfortunately, it only works in Firebug, but there is an add javascript to use with IE and get a few features to make your life a bit more bearable in IE. Larry jumped in and showed some Javascript Debugging. Next month at PHP — profiling fest with XDebug, and Valgrind. Should be interesting!
Ruby - no love!
I’ve been moping about this week about Ruby… I haven’t done it in about 4-5 months since being back in PHP-Land? I’m having withdrawals. It all started after I read this article Technologies of the Year 2006 (BTW -I have done all of them!). I was thinking ..awwww… Rails…. and I picked up my Rails book at work that I look at when I am fed up with PHP, just to cheer me up a bit. I skipped the last Ruby meeting, at the last minute the buddies that I thought would go with me backed out.. and.. well.. I was pretty tired and the topic of “Environments” made me think it would be a mac-love fest. I used to want a mac laptop, but… I’ve decided to stick with the PC environment since I am happiest in Ubuntu. I am determined, buddies or no buddies, to go to the next meeting which should prove more interesting. The Chicago Ruby list has been buzzing with topics and volunteers for presentations. There’s even an outbreak of smaller meetups in other areas of the city.. North, South… fun times.