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

[J. Shirley]

Here's a minor snag -- I'm doing the CatTube screencast stuff right
now, and I'd like to have a loading indicator... right now, we only
have the powered by/built/catalyst logo images as part of the default
configuration.

This would be a very awkward step in the screencasts... "Now, go to
your web browser and download some spinning activity indicator..."

What do you guys think about this?

-J

On 11/22/06, J. Shirley <jshirley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >
> >  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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