Vim Tricks for Perl Programmers

Last night was the annual, though this may have been the first, Toronto Perl Mongers Tools Night. People select their favourite tool and do a short presentation or demonstration in hopes of helping their fellow Perl Mongers.

There were a couple of talks that I found interesting. Selenium for web application testing and Jifty::Script::Schema.

I’ve seen talks on Selenium before but this quick demonstration drove home it’s usefulness. I’m hoping to get this implemented for some integration testing I have to do.

Jifty::Script::Schema sounded really interesting, but in order to use it you have to install all of Jifty. I’m a big fan of CGI::Application and the idea of making a move to Jifty doesn’t interest me, and even less so with the Mason requirement. Luckily Jifty::Script::Schema led me to DBIx::DBSchema which I actually can use, and looks to fit into a number of projects.

For my part I did a short presentation of some of my favourite and maybe lesser known Vim Tricks.

Another benefit, I actually got around to creating my presentation page. Now I just need to finish populating it.