My talk showing various techniques I used while building iusethis.com, using Catalyst DBIx::Class and TT, updated for Italian Perl Workshop

1. Bag of tricks
from
iusethis.com

2. 6. Who's behind iusethis?
Is it a corporate thingie?
Nah. Iusethis was made
by Arne and Marcus. We're
just these guys, you know?
But we really know where
our towels are.

3. Social
Software
For Software

4. Status after 3 years
• 50.000 registered users
• 10.000 registered apps
• ~ 250.000 page views per day
• 26.000 revisions committed to
SVN

5. Catalyst made such
rapid development
possible

6. While still
keeping it
sane to
maintain

7. Design Philosophies
• Less is More. Keep it Simple
• URLs matter!
• AJAX when it makes sense
• Support standards
• Provide alternative
data-formats
• The user owns his data

8. AJAX