Rob Hammond

• Website: robhammond.co/
• About: I blog mostly about SEO, but sometimes about Perl.

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• Posted Social bookmarking in Mojolicious to Rob Hammond

  I've spent the last year or so of my daily commute building a social bookmarking site that for me has now replaced my use of delicious, and I think offers more than other services such as diigo, Google Bookmarks et al.

  The original site at bkmrx.com was mai…

• Commented on Web Scraping with Perl & PhantomJS
  Ok cool thanks for the comments - admittedly this was a bit of a hack as I needed something I could quickly plug into a Mojo based script without too much hassle, and this seemed like a good fit for...
• Posted Web Scraping with Perl & PhantomJS to Rob Hammond

  PhantomJS is a 'headless' WebKit browser, mainly intended for use as a web testing framework, and is controlled by a JavaScript API. The 'headless' aspect of that also makes the framework extremely useful for scraping JavaScript heavy websites.

  The probl…

• Commented on Running a Mojolicious non-lite app on a cPanel VPS server
  Fingers crossed for that... I remember seeing on their forums about a year ago that they had that slotted in for 11.34 :/...
• Posted Running a Mojolicious non-lite app on a cPanel VPS server to Rob Hammond

  I've used cPanel/WHM for a very long time as a personal server manager, and up until recently it's served my purposes pretty well.

  However since getting into the Mojolicious framework and a few other Perl modules that require a Perl version greater than the 5.8 that cPanel is currently ti…

Comment Threads

• Krasimir Berov commented on Running a Mojolicious non-lite app on a cPanel VPS server

  On simple shared hosting but with SSH access
  One can also use ActivePerl with the same success.
  Here is an example: http://goo.gl/AaSMr
  In your scrips you can simply have:
  #!/usr/bin/env perl
  provided that you have added the folder with your perl to your $PATH environment variable

• awwaiid (Brock Wilcox) commented on Web Scraping with Perl & PhantomJS

  Sounds totally cool, I'll check it out.

  You might also look into WWW::HtmlUnit, which is perl bindings for the java library. I've been using that at work for a long time now and like it quite a bit.
  

• sillymoose commented on Web Scraping with Perl & PhantomJS

  Thanks for writing this article - I do a lot of QA testing with Selenium, but wasn't aware of Phantom.js.

  Also the comments were helpfful too - can't believe there is an HTMLUnit Perl binding ... I didn't think to look for it and all this time I have been writing the Java code directly :(