[Catalyst-dev] It's getting on for Xmas time and Xmas means Advent calendars

[Kieren Diment]

On 23/11/06, J. Shirley <jshirley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/22/06, Kieren Diment <diment at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi everybody.
> >
> >
> > Just by way of pre-preparation I'd like to kick-start the process of
> getting
> > this years advent calendar up and running.  This means 24 recipes about
> > useful techniques and interesting things you can do with Catalyst.  It
> would
> > be nice to keep several days ahead with this so that we get enough
> material
> > to make it right the way through December.
> >
> > The categories I have  listed for advent calendar entries are as
> follows:
> >
> > Basics
> > Controllers
> > Models
> > Views
> > Testing
> >  Deployment
> >
> > Here's the contributions I have thought of so far:
> >
> > 1.  "Static deployment" - basically wget -r -k http://localhost:3000 -
> why
> > and how. (kd)
> > 2.  Testing with an external server - I can write up what I've done so
> far
> > with Catalyst::Helper::FastCGI (kd)
> > 3.  Streaming - basically update the streaming server in svn
> trunk/examples
> > and wrap some words around it (?)
> > 4.  A simple example applicaition demonstrating the use of Chained
> (phaylon
> > - code, kd words)
> > 5.  Setting up a daemon to handle long running jobs which originate from
> a
> > catalyst application (?)
> > 6.  How to set up a start-stop daemon for a fcgi handler (silly I know,
> but
> > I don't know how that's done, and I guess there are others too).
> > 7.  Messing around with the content type headers, file name etc, i.e.
> > $c->res->header('Content-disposition', 'attachment;
> > filename=3D'.$filename);
> >
> > Right, that's 25% of it.  Can I have some volunteers and/or ideas for
> more
> > please?  We're not looking for huge amounts here - 2-400 words is fine,
> in
> > pod format I guess.
> >
> >
> > Some other stuff that might be useful is clever things to do with
> sessions
> > and session data,  catalyst::plugin::formbuilder, maybe some "clever
> usage"
> > of tt for particular use cases
> >
> > Anyway, any suggestions, volunteers etc?
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
>
> I'll be doing two Catalyst apps, along with screencasts:
> "CatTube" - Integrating with YouTube, providing search results.  I'm
> still tweaking the app to make it easy.  It uses Prototype to be more
> analogous to a Ruby on Rails screencast.
>
> "Catalicious" - Integrating with Del.icio.us via webservice.  Again,
> very basic but it shows how to construct a few different Catalyst
> applications.
>
> Then, for Reaction I am working on an Address Book (with help from
> Penguin and mst) -- really hoping I can get this done by the due date
> :)  It is pretty big, so may be better to break into multiple days.  I
> see it like:
> Day 1: Bootstrapping a Reaction App
> Day 2: Moosifying your schema classes
> Day 3: Reflectors and Reaction
> Day 4: Putting it Together
>
> What do you guys think?



Sounds ambitious to me, but would be a great addition to the Advent
Calendar.

I can test the write-up to make sure that it's followable.  It would be good
to get the source into the svn repository as well as a reference
implementation.
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