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(a.k.a. I'm cheap when it comes to hosting my hobby sites; I'd like to use Rails, but PHP on shared hosting is much cheaper and less work; suggestions?) I've recently been working on a small, "hobby" web app -…

I'm adding a "register->confirm email->reg. complete" functionality to a web app I'm writing. I'd like to be able to unit/integration test my email-sending code. I don't want to actually send emails. In fact,…

Has anyone encountered or written a Perl framework that is lightweight, yet at the same time includes a lot of useful (for web development) libraries, and most importantly, is fun? Compare/contrast with PHP: In my mind,…

When somebody asks you "Who are your competitors?", how do you find the answer? Some are obvious - Yahoo vs. Google, Emacs vs vi, etc. But if I'm making a "website that does X", and X is pretty narrow, how do I find the…

Becuase the Indians are going to beat the Red Sox, and pg & co. don't want to hang their heads in shame. :-) (And not that I'm really a sports fan, but I do currently live in the Cleveland area.)