It's been thirteen years since I updated this site. That's crazy! Who the heck's been paying the hosting fees for more than a decade to keep this dead site up? Oh, right -- me.

What took so long?

A good example of an event emitter needs three things:

• A thing that emits events
• A thing that listens to, and handles, those events
• Something that drives the two, causing events to be emitted.

Using node v0.4.11-pre, here is a small example illustrating custom event handling using EventEmitter.

I wanted to use a more OO approach to error handling in perl instead of just plain old eval, so I did some looking around. I wanted it to be easy, so I looked at these modules:

• Exception
• Error
• Exception::Class