[Catalyst-dev] Tutorial updates...

hkclark at gmail.com hkclark at gmail.com
Mon May 19 16:05:43 BST 2008


Good point.  The original idea was that because all the form stuff is in the
final part of the tutorial ("Advanced CRUD"), it would be relatively easy to
have multiple alternatives for that part without any changes needed on the
other parts.

There are 9 parts to the existing tutorial, but in the work I was doing
yesterday, I split "Part 2", "Catalyst Basics" into two different parts
("Catalyst Basics" and "More Catalyst Basics" [so Part 2 and Part 3 in the
new layout]) since it was getting too big as one part... I didn't want the
first "hands on" section of the tutorial to overwhelm people and turn them
off before they even got started.  (In short, the new "Catalyst Basics"
covers the "create=3Ddynamic" helper option and "More Catalyst Basics"
switches over to the "create=3Dstatic" where we auto-generate the schema fi=
les
and then hand-edit to include the relationship info).

In any event, that now means there are 10 parts in total, with Part 10 =3D =
the
Appendices and the form management stuff in Part 9 =3D Advanced CRUD.  My p=
lan
was to make the initial Part 9 be FormFu or maybe FormBuilder.  But, we
could call that 9A and have as many other approaches we want in 9B, 9C, etc.
(and all of those could be done without changes to Parts 1-8 and Part 10).
That seems like the best approach to me, but let me know if someone things a
different approach would be better.

Thanks,
Kennedy

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Zbigniew Lukasiak <zzbbyy at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 5:22 PM,  <hkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Sorry I have been out of the loop so long.  It has been tough keeping up
> > with the work schedule lately. :-(  Gotta pay those bills. :-)
> >
> > I think I have a window of time to do an update an long as I don't get
> too
> > bogged down in too many changes that are too major.  Changing from
> > HTML::Widget to formfu or FormBuilder would be the main goal of the
> update
> > (along with a general freshing up of things and making sure everything
> works
> > with current versions).
> >
> > Did anyone start working on this or any any information about anyone
> working
> > on an update?  If so, please let me know as soon as possible.
> >
> > Many thanks!
> > Kennedy
> >
> > PS -- If anyone has any other recommendations/suggestions on the update,
> > please let me know.  I'm sure I won't have time to do all of the
> > suggestions, but I can try to fit in some of them on this pass (and
> > hopefully it won't be so long before the next update).
>
>
> Please try to make it at least a bit form processor agnostic - there
> are many options there (see
> http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?form_processing) - and
> the fashions come and go.
>
> --
> Zbigniew Lukasiak
> http://brudnopis.blogspot.com/
>
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