Plack Blog

Plack FastCGI and lighttpd changes

If you use Plack's FCGI handler with lighttpd, show up on IRC #plack to discuss further changes

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I've been receiving questions and trouble reports around Plack's FastCGI handler and lighttpd, and the actual code in there to workaround lighttpd bugs is not necessary if you're using recent lighttpd versions. We're trying to deprecate the workaround and instead document how to configure lighttpd correctly, or lets you write middleware if you need to use older versions of lighttpd.

If you're using lighttpd and Plack over FCGI handler, feel free to discuss this issue on IRC #plack. I also updated the github issues to include our email exchanges for the record.

Comet application with Tatsumaki and Twiggy

NicoLiveAlertStream

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Very nice tiny Comet application using Tatsumaki and Twiggy combined with beppu's jquery-ev. This app connects to Nico Nico Live (like ustream.tv) and gets latest live program info over XMLSocket and post the information locally. This is quite like what Stardust does and something we need to port over to Tatsumaki or Hippie.

LoadBalancer middleware for Plack::App::Proxy

Now, Plack::App::Proxy got LoadBalancer middleware! (Thanks to @franckcuny) http://bit.ly/b1mpXh

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Plack::App::Proxy is one of the example Plack application that has lot of contributions. It started as leedo's project but @hiratara and I have been contributing lots of patches and improvements, one of which is the big revamp to be able to take middleware to change the behavior of Proxy itself.

Now @frankcuny and @hiratara jointed their efforts to make the simple round-robin based LoadBalancer to pick which backend to connect to when App::Proxy is running as a reverse proxy. Pretty simple and nice. The commit is on github and will be available in the next CPAN release i believe.

Plack::Middleware::ETag

Plack::Middleware::ETag adds automatically an ETag header. You may want to use it with Plack::Middleware::ConditionalGET.

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What's new In Perl?

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Leon Brocard presented What's new in Perl? last week at London.pm tech meeting and he has a dedicated slide for me showing my recent CPAN contributions, most of which are Plack related :)

Plack Middleware for your iPhone

I started playing with HTML5 iPhone apps this week, and as a result there is a new piece of Plack middleware sitting on CPAN called Plack::Middleware::iPhone. It’s a (borderline ACME) module that rewrites html on the fly to make it play nicer with iPhones.

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Jifty on Plack

As some of you might know, we (and lots of other framework developers) have been porting jifty to PSGI.

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clkao and Jifty developers have been working on porting Jifty to run on Plack and now it's ready for testing.

Plack::Middleware::iPhone

Plack::Middleware::iPhone does some silly rewriting of any html content returned by your app (mostly just the head block) to make it play nicer with iPhones. This is just a toy, for real HTML5 mobile web apps you should be writing the HTML yourself.

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Another Patrick Donelan release on CPAN -- this is a tiny but interesting hack to use Plack as a content filter for iPhone using Plack::App::Directory which is a pretty simple file server running on Plack.

Padre::Plugin::Plack

With the plugin installed, opening *.psgi files causes some special things to happen.

PSGI files are really just ordinary Perl files, so Padre does its normal Perl lexing/syntax highlighting magic on them, but the real fun starts with the Plack-specific features that appear in the per-file graphical plackup control panel that shows up.

The panel lets you run your web app in a Plack server at the click of a button, view server output, configure plackup options and launch a web browser on the appropriate port.

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Patrick Donelan released 0.04 of Plack plugin for Padre, the perl IDE. Read more about the plugin announced earlier on his blog.

Training in Pisa

I'm hoping to run a new course called "An Introduction to Modern Perl". In this course we'll be looking at some of the tools that form the basis of all modern Perl programming. This will include Template Toolkit, Moose, DBIx::Class, Catalyst and Plack.

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Dave Cross is hoping to run a Perl training course in Pisa at YAPC::Europe 2010 and that will include Plack, in addition to TT, Moose, DBIC and Catalyst.