Posted by ben
Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:41:27 GMT
TextMate is a rather slick little text editor, with a bunch of cool automation stuff thats great for programmers. You’ve probably already seen it if you’ve watched any of those demo movies for some of the latest web frameworks.
Anyways, as I mainly use Myghty, I needed a syntax highlighting mode for its format. So I made a Myghty bundle for TextMate. This should also be useful for those using Mason as only a few minor adjustments regarding the underlying language highlighter need to be tweaked (Change source.python -> source.perl). This also has a few automation snippets to speed things up.
To install:
- Unzip
- Drag into
~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/
- Restart TextMate (Not absolutely sure this is needed though)
Enjoy!
Posted in Myghty, Python, Perl
Posted by ben
Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:39:00 GMT
I’ve been programming web sites for many years, and have yet to come across a templating language as appealing as Mason / Myghty. To avoid confusion I’m going to talk about Myghty, but since its a direct port of Mason (plus some MVC stuff) all of my comments apply to Mason as well (unless otherwise noted). So if you find yourself stuck using Perl (or you prefer Perl) and something here sounds appealing, by all means use Mason as I did.
Despite Myghty only having come into existence approximately 14 months ago, the code-base is stable, very quick, and has been running in production environments for over 8 months. This is mainly because it started as a very direct port of Mason to Python, it then grew a few additional features that made it great for MVC use. The methodologies present in Mason (thus Myghty as well) are known to scale to very large and complex sites, as this list of Mason-powered sites shows. But it’s the little things added up that really make Myghty my template language of choice.
This is a rather lengthy post as I highlight and explain some core concepts of Myghty, please bear with me… also, if you’d like to follow along and try the examples out, its really easy to get started using Myghty with Paste.
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Posted in Myghty, Python, Perl
Posted by ben
Sat, 18 Dec 2004 18:55:04 GMT
I decided the other day for a variety of reasons, to switch from the mod_perl web-app style to using Fast CGI with HTML::Mason. I only found one application out there that uses Mason with Fast CGI, which was the RT Ticket tracking system. However, the way it was setup didn’t match my requirements, nor the way their handler was configured.
After scouring the Internet some more, I hobbled together a working config section for my Apache+mod_fastcgi along with a template for the mason handler. Since I haven’t seen anything going over these basic steps anywhere else, here’s how I did it.
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Posted in Code, Perl
Posted by ben
Fri, 26 Nov 2004 18:53:31 GMT
How often have you seen those sites with a form, and after you miss a field, it pops up a little message in red under the text box indicating what went wrong? I’m guessing a lot, and when writing web applications this can be a pain to code in.
Typically in Perl/PHP, you’d add this by going through your form, adding little bits of code under each and every form element to display the error on invalid input. I quickly got tired of this, and decided to simplify the process.
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Posted in Code, Perl
