[Catalyst] "Catalyst - The Definitive Guide" and the "Catalyst Cookbook"

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On Friday, December 23, 2005, at 09:53  AM, Charlton Wilbur wrote:
> "Toy" is not meant as an insult; it's meant as a comment on scope and 
> assumptions.  That ecommerce example *will* save people time, because 
> they can jump right to tax calculations and integrating with shipping 
> and inventory management and such instead of dinking around with HTML 
> forms and CGI.pm.  But it's a toy because it really won't work as it 
> stands in the real world, and as soon as you extend the spec to the 
> point where it will, you're talking a development time on the order of 
> magnitude of days or weeks rather than hours.

It would be a toy in comparison to Amazon or eBay but the point is 
obvious b/c they have a couple million hours of development apiece. It 
could be a complete, configure and run, solution for someone doing a 
home shop in a PayPal, Cafépress, I'm-doing-my-own-shipping, idiom. 
Having configurable tax and shipping variables wouldn't be overly 
difficult; it was, by coincidence, the first Perl script I ever wrote, 
after fiddling with "Learning Perl" for two weeks, and it happened to 
be at Amazon.

WordPress is a toy compared to QuarkXpress but it's driving a big slice 
of the web right now. :)

-Ashley
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