On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 7:59 AM, James Carman <<a href="mailto:developer@peelle.org">developer@peelle.org</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hey All,<br>
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I would like to know how to speed up project development time. Anyone have some good rapid development tips specific to Perl?</blockquote><div><br>Probably depends on the project.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Things like IDE's, Frameworks, MVC's all sound nice, but it seems like I have to learn them to know if they are worth using. I would rather pick your brains. :-D</blockquote><div><br>I don't find that IDEs actually speed anything up for me. I'm pretty efficient with the non-IDE I have setup over the years that combines my own custom shell scripts, aliases, Andy Lester's ack, and familiarity with vim. There are certain aspects of IDEs that I have found useful in the past, but I've generally felt like I was restricted in the process and spent more time trying to fit my workflow into the IDE than gaining advantages from it. <br>
<br>The only IDE I've tried that came close was Komodo from ActiveState, but even that only lasted a couple weeks of trial before I went back to my existing setup.<br><br>The framework or MVC you want also depends upon your preferences and what you're trying to achieve. For web projects, Catalyst is kind of the do-all, be-all framework since you can plug just about anything into it without a lot of effort. There are other frameworks in the same space that are useful for different kinds of web apps, too. Jifty is great if you want a full-stack framework with a lot of Ajax out of the box, for example. However, if you aren't writing a web project, these frameworks are probably not going to help you.<br>
<br>Cheers.<br></div></div>