{"id":8091,"date":"2004-10-21T19:07:58","date_gmt":"2004-10-21T17:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/21\/dont-be-afraid-to-drop-the-soap\/"},"modified":"2005-04-17T07:35:19","modified_gmt":"2005-04-17T04:35:19","slug":"dont-be-afraid-to-drop-the-soap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/21\/dont-be-afraid-to-drop-the-soap\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Be Afraid to Drop the SOAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/20041021-perl.com_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/>Ok, I know that linking to two articles from the same source in a row is bad, but I don&#8217;t do it so often, so here it goes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perl.com\">Perl.com<\/a> has this article called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.perl.com\/pub\/a\/2004\/09\/30\/drop_the_soap.html\">Don&#8217;t Be Afraid to Drop the SOAP<\/a>&#8221; where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perl.com\/pub\/au\/Tregar_Sam\">Sam Tregar<\/a> (the guy from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.about.com\">about.com<\/a>, the author of HTML::Template, HTML:: Pager, Inline::Guile, Devel:: Profiler and few others) explains why he had to drop SOAP from the application and go for something handmade.  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