I've been working on the next generation of the Fozzolog weblog framework for a while now. This new generation is likely to be worth showing the rest of the world (*crosses fingers*).

The new framework makes use of mod_perl and many of my latest favorite Perl modules including, but probably not limited to:

• DBIx::Class
• Apache::Session
• Template Toolkit
• Data::FormValidator
• Cache::Cache
• Image::Magick

One issue I ran into in development was how long it took to render a listing of all weblog entries, especially if there are many entries. My thoughts first went to the database, so I tried a couple things to optimize data retrieval. First, I dropped the body text from the entries in the SQL query so the results were smaller. That seemed to make things a tiny bit faster, but not much. Next, I used Cache::Cache to cache the results because a listing of all weblog entries doesn't change very often. That made a difference, but it still took six seconds to list all my entries.