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+*** Middleware
+
+After the [[http://journeesperl.fr/fpw2010/][French Perl Workshop]], we
+decided to focus our efforts on bringing middleware into Dancer. As the
+.psgi script is now obsolete, we wanted to simplify the middleware
+configuration for users not familiar with Plack.
+
+It's now possible to load a middleware by adding it to your
+configuration:
+
+#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
+    plack_middlewares:
+        Debug:
+        - panels
+        -
+            - DBITrace
+            - Memory
+            - Timer
+#+END_EXAMPLE
+
+*** YAPC::Eu 2010
+
+During YAPC::EU, I've been happy to meet with
+[[http://github.com/squeeks][squeeks]],
+[[http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/][sawyer]] and
+[[http://github.com/mberends][Martin Berends]]. Sadly, we didn't have
+much time to talk and do some coding.
+
+I had already met Martin during the FPW, where he started to port Dancer
+to Perl6. His first objective is to have
+[[http://github.com/mberends/http-server-simple][HTTP::Server::Simple]]
+work. I was really impressed with his works; if I manage to find some
+spare time soon, I will join his effort.
+
+*** Dancer's application
+
+In august, [[http://www.sukria.net/][Alexis]] brought a big effort to
+refactor the core of Dancer, to add the possibility to "plug" components
+to your application. This required a lot of rewriting, but in the
+meantime, we added more tests to ensure nothing would break.
+
+With this feature, you can do the following:
+
+#+BEGIN_SRC perl
+    package myapp::forum;
+    use Dancer ':syntax';
+
+    before => sub {
+        ...
+    };
+
+    get '/' => sub {
+        ...
+    };
+
+    package myapp:blog;
+    use Dancer ':syntax';
+
+    load_app 'myapp::forum', prefix => '/forum';
+
+    before => sub {
+        ...
+    };
+
+    get '/' => sub {
+        ...
+    };
+#+END_SRC
+
+Now you can request */* and */forum*. The before filter declared in the
+package *myapp::forum* will be executed when the */forum* path is
+matched, and the filter in *myapp::blog* will be executed for */*.
+
+*** QA
+
+The weekend following the YAPC::EU, we held a small hackaton/QA day on
+irc. Not many people were present, but we managed to achieve some
+results:
+
+-  reached the 1K tests
+-  documentation cleanup
+-  added Hooks
+-  improved our code coverage
+
+Today our code average is over 92%, and we have more than 1200 tests.
+
+With the new hook system, two new keywords have been added:
+*before\_template* and *after*. They work as the *before* keyword,
+except the *before\_template* is executed before sending the tokens to
+the template, so you can modify them (a small example can be found in
+the
+[[http://git.lumberjaph.net/p5-dancer-plugin-18n.git/][Dancer::Plugin::i18n]]).
+The *after* is executed before the response is sent to the user.
+
+Sukria has also set up an autobuild system for our two main branches.
+Every 15 minutes, the test suite is executed when there is a new commit,
+and builds a report. Code coverage is also measured, so we can always
+know the state of our various development cycles.
+
+*** WebSocket
+
+This is the question that came back from time to time: when/will Dancer
+support websocket ?
+
+We investigated various ways to do this:
+
+-  new async. handler
+-  writing our own implementation
+-  ...
+
+I didn't want to write a websocket implementation for Dancer, as the
+spec are not yet final and it's not easy to do. Thanks to
+[[http://github.com/clkao][clkao]], we didn't have to care about all
+this, as he already wrote a Plack middleware for this:
+[[http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Web::Hippie::Pipe][Web::Hippie]].
+
+So, what we did, is to use this middleware and add some syntactic sugar
+so people can use it easily in their applications. A small application
+is available [[http://git.lumberjaph.net/p5-dancer-chat.git/][here]].
+
+This is not yet complete, it's only available in the 'devel' branch, and
+subject to change. A small code sample:
+
+#+BEGIN_SRC perl
+    websocket '/new_listener' => sub {
+        my $env   = request->env;
+        my $room  = $env->{'hippie.args'};
+        my $topic = $env->{'hippie.bus'}->topic($room);
+        $env->{'hippie.listener'}->subscribe($topic);
+    };
+
+    websocket '/message' => sub {
+        my $env   = request->env;
+        my $room  = $env->{'hippie.args'};
+        my $topic = $env->{'hippie.bus'}->topic($room);
+
+        my $msg = $env->{'hippie.message'};
+        $msg->{time} = time;
+        $msg->{address} = $env->{REMOTE_ADDR};
+        $topic->publish($msg);
+    };
+#+END_SRC
+
+As you can see, a lot of stuff can be improved quite easily in terms of
+syntax.
+
+*** Deployment
+
+We're also in the process of reworking our current Deployment
+documentation. Lots of people are trying to deploy Dancer using various
+configurations, and not all are well documented, or don't work as
+expected. If you use Dancer, and have deployed an application in a way
+not documened in our Deployement documentation, please join us on irc
+(#dancer on irc.perl.org) or contact us on the mailing list, or even
+better, send us a patch, so we can improve this part.
+
+*** Future
+
+There is also our next Dancer's meeting meeting to organize, at the end
+of Septembre.
+
+In October will take place the 2nd OSDC.fr, where I will talk about
+Plack, and alexis will present Dancer.
+
+I want to thank my company ([[http://linkfluence.net][Linkfluence]]) and
+my boss ([[http://twitter.com/cmaussan][Camille]]) for giving me time to
+code on Dancer at work.
+
+As always, thanks to blob for reviewing my (slightly improving) english
+:)