Popular Perl web applications, part 1

Movable Type

Movable Type is premium publishing and blogging software which is developed using perl.It is used for developing blog websites, content managed websites along with  social communities. Latest version of Movable Type runs on perl 5.8.1 or above.

Unlike wordpress, another popular open source blogging software, movable type supports both static and dynaminc content publishing, but dynamic publishing requires PHP4 or PHP5. And also Movable type does not support mod_perl with Apache web server version 2.x. Movable Type is available under both open source and commercial licenses.

Internet Movie Database (IMDb.com)

Full form of IMDb is “Internet Movie Database”. IMDb.com websites is a huge collection of movies, tv and video shows. Till date it has collected over 15 million movie/tv shows information. This site has a more than 57 million monthly visitors with 17 million registered users. And no wonder this great website been developed using perl, apart from perl they also uses java and python programming languages.

BugZilla

BugZilla is a software bug tracking system. This projects mainly uses mod_perl and DBD::mysql modules for development. Major software companies across the globe uses this tool to track the software defects/bugs and effectively manage their projects.

It is a open source and free solution avaible to any one at no charge. Bugzilla also provides additional  features like tracking code changes, submitting patches and effecive communication among team members.