Perling the News

So I'm working on a site right now that will be powered by Perl on the back and d3.js on the front.

And here's what I'm loving about d3, I can feed it CSV files. Yup. Not JSON. Not XML. Good old CSV.

I know, it's a bit primitive. And there's a good chance at some point I end up JSONing everything up. But I love me some CSV. And there are 551 CPAN packages for pushing, pulling, parsing, encoding or otherwise mangling it.

Perl was the first language I loved. So, for a project I'm working on it's time to go back to her.

More on the project in later posts. But I'm hoping it's something that will take the world by storm.