Rudoph had long wanted wanted to write a website – he longed to share his hobbies and opinions with all the children, so that they wouldn’t just think of him as a first class pilot and navigator. He knew about Raku and he had skim read some information about Cro and Humming-Bird. But, being quiteContinue reading “Day 8 – HARC The Herald Angels Sing”
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Day 18 – Happy™ Xmas
Christmas was fast approaching and Santa was starting to worry about all the presents being wrapped in time. Ensuring that he could quickly find the Elfmail address for all of the team was important to whip them into shape. Luckily, Rudolph [for it was he] had been learning raku and cro for some years nowContinue reading “Day 18 – Happy™ Xmas”
Day 13 – Content Storage For Raku Distributions
The S22 Content Storage speculation describes how Raku distributions could be stored and accessed by a (possibly federated) Raku ecosystem. The content-storage repository contains an implementation of that speculation, implemented using the Cro framework. This blog post gives a quick overview of the functionalities that are provided by the web-service that is provided by the content-storageContinue reading “Day 13 – Content Storage For Raku Distributions”
Day 3 – Merry Cromas
The elves were keen to have an attractive Christmas tree this year. As usual, they wanted to build it with raku, their favourite programming language. They dug back into the archives of Christmas past and came up with a pretty good way to make a tree – Santa and the Magic Tree. But honestly theyContinue reading “Day 3 – Merry Cromas”
Day 8: I’ll Let You Know Later
Back when the web was young the only way that you could know whether a resource had changed its state was to manually re-request the page, this wasn’t really too much of a problem when there was only static pages which didn’t change all that often. Then along came server-side applications, the CGI and theContinue reading “Day 8: I’ll Let You Know Later”
Day 7: .hyper and Cro
or How (not) to pound your production server (and to bring on the wrath of the Ops) So, I’m a programmer and I work for a government TI “e-gov” department. My work here is mostly comprised of one-off data-integration tasks (like the one in this chronicle) and programming satellite utilities for our Citizen Relationship ManagementContinue reading “Day 7: .hyper and Cro”
Day 6: Declarative APIs, easy peasy with Raku
Raku APIs tend to be easy to read, with named arguments alleviating the need to remember argument order in method calls, for example. But sometimes a library author goes above and beyond to produce extra nice, declarative APIs. One example is Cro, a framework for writing HTTP-based services, which allows you to write things likeContinue reading “Day 6: Declarative APIs, easy peasy with Raku”
Day 2 – CRUD with Cro::HTTP, a tutorial
Greetings! Today we will go through this tutorial about writing a simple CRUD service using Cro. For the impatient ones, link to the sources is at the end of the post. Why would I want to read this piece of text and code? A Cro::HTTP usage for a server-side application with authentication + authorization andContinue reading “Day 2 – CRUD with Cro::HTTP, a tutorial”
Raku Advent Calendar 