The Moose is on fire!

Matt S. Trout suggested 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 of weekly posts. Cross your fingers!

This week I was strongly inspired by all the yummy goodness happening around the Moose project. The Catalyst framework is now officially based on Moose, and John Napiorkowski is writing a Catalyst app in public to show it off. Meanwhile Jonathan Rockway did some showing off too (okay, before this week, but I just caught up on my feeds), using a URL un-shortening service as an excuse to put some swank Moose extensions out front. And chromatic also had some great stuff to say about concision in Perl, a subject on which I have spoken as well.

With both jrock and chromatic writing about how cool MooseX::Declare 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, and that's just bad for a Perl geek's mood. So this week I'm going to make some time for my passion and carve out a script I've been wanting, and I'm going to do it with MooseX::Declare for that warm and fuzzy feeling. So I'm going to take a spin through the new Moose documentation that Dave Rolsky just finished, and then get cracking. If it all works out, you'll hear about it next week!