Even tho we haven't got the holy buzz of Rails, people seem to be putting up new Catalyst-powered sites all the time. I'll try to mention some as I hear of them in the future, here's a couple to get you started

www.discvrevolt.com

21:17 <bert_> it is for independent artists to be able to easily sell card at 
              their live shows, and fans use them to dl songs from our site 
              when they get home...
21:18 <bert_> site went from concept to production in 3 months...
21:18 <bert_> you guys here helped us through the rough part, none of us had 
               used catalyst before this...
21:18 <bert_> we really appreciate your help

Let's get dugg

This is a neat blog powered by a new Catalyst-based blog software called Typeface. Typeface is downloadable right now, so feel free to check it out.

I find my self agreeing with Joel On Software on the work situation for programmers. Office sharing, and any other distracting elements affects programmers worse than most other professions.

I've recently been working with Moose, Stevan Little's "I can't believe it's not perl6 OOP' module. In the end, we decided to wait with it in Catalyst until 5.8, because of difficulty in remaining backwards compatibility with Class::Accessor, Class::Data::Inheritable and friends. It's a pity, as I'm really looking forward to get rid of some of these, due to their unfriendly approach to perl error reporting. (No, die inside the constructor is not a good approach to telling the user he passed the wrong kind of arguments.)

Still, I am very impressed with what the module can do, and the maturity of the implementation, and have already been using it outside of the Catalyst project. The reason I feel  confident using Moose as a OOP system is that it's based on a  mature meta object system, Class::MOP. If you want to know more about it, Chromatic of perl.com has written a nice review of Class::MOP here.

Seems Xapian has a wiki online now too. Xapian is currently my favorite search engine library.

If you're stuck with mysql, it might be worth checking out david wheeler's Intelligent MySQL config.