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

[J. Shirley]

I have a repo setup for the Reaction Address Book, but I'd like to put
it into a Catalyst-related repo instead.  I'll bug mst about getting
space for it somewhere, I also need to put the write-up in a Reaction
path as well.

I've made good progress on it, but can't imagine it will be "ready"
for another 2 weeks.  I just have to keep harassing Penguin and mst to
assist :)  I'm happy to setup a section on one of my colo'd boxes to
host the applications, too, or wherever...

On 11/22/06, Kieren Diment <diment at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
> > > $c->res->header('Content-disposition', 'attachment;
> > > filename='.$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?
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>  Sounds ambitious to me, but would be a great addition to the Advent
> Calendar.
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> 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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