whatthefuck.com renders within the Catalyst framework!

After really getting into the idea of Catalyst, I've been inundated with projects that require a quick lead time and implementation. Hence, I've been going with the standard CGI::Application/Template::Toolkit suite within Perl to deploy applications. They're fast and work well, but don't have the raw sex that Catalyst seems capable of.

I've been rewriting the whatthefuck.com codebase over the past who knows how long to reflect the things I've learned in the years since I created the site. The current codebase has a lot of perl code surrounded by a lot of print qq~ ~; statements to render HTML. It's not pretty, it's not 'strict', and it's not mod_perl compliant. This rewrite has happened in CGI::Application, and has changed three times since I started it.

I figured, "screw it," and started rewriting it in Catalyst. I'm using the same templates, and the same general database schema, but moving it into a data modeled system on the Catalyst framework. Milestone 1 was hit tonight: the damn thing renders in Catalyst.