Extreme Engineering

It's been quite a week . After a week , getting my hands dirty with Perl ,skimming through the well known Perl Bible i get my first task,build a framework.
Coming from the .NET background and bit of evangelizing on my part i convince my manager to build a framework that would make CGI Webdevelopers lives easier.Come up with something that's as snappy as ASP.Net ,as powerful and easily customizable as what the Redmond guys came up with .
After giving a shot at some of the applications that we would be building in the future ,i am completely convinced that this framework is a must .It would be a nightmare jumbling presentation with code ,spaghetti code what they call ,even though Html Templates do work in the direction of separating code and presentation but then again the Template itself can be cluttered with all the TMPL_vars ,TMPL_LOop constructs. We need to keep the Template as clean as possible. No Code.The only code goes behind in a kind of a code behind file. After all it's about time that i use my knowledge of ASp.NEt in Perl :)

Voila within two hours my desk is piled up with papers , each reflecting the activity i've been through in the last two hours,designing the framework. The most interesting part of the framework is the Page Parser thats going to parse my Template and build the control tree.

(to be continued) in the next episode we'll look at some of the swashbuckling work