While I know many of you have CPAN Day projects, some of you might still be searching. There is a very well known benchmark from TechEmpower which compares web frameworks. It gets plenty of press and generates much interest. Unfortunately, the Perl results look like this:

We all know the reputation that Perl has to the outside world, and sadly these results would tend to reinforce it. The person or persons who added these apps seems to have long since forgotten about them. At least the Mojolicious app was a port of one of the others and did not exemplify either the style or power of the framework. The others likely share those traits.

But all is not lost! TechEmpower has recently made it much easier to contribute, and I have fixed the deployment and toolchain problems. I have also updated the Mojolicious app. Would you like to improve the submission of your favorite framework or add your own? Read on!

Just a quick reminder that noted perl luminary brian d foy will be at Chicago Perl Mongers tonight. He will be running his Become a CPAN Author Workshop which is a great way to start contributing to this famous repository. So if you have wanted to start playing with CPAN or you just want to meet brian then come on over! It is free as in beer AND there will be free beer!