[Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

Mon Apr 28 22:03:18 BST 2008

Andrew Kornak wrote:
> Personally, I would like any book on Catalyst, even if it was only a
> single chapter in a larger MVC treatment. I bought Jonathan's book and
> contrary to another poster's opinion found it quite useful.
> 
> -Andrew

+1

Rod
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> 
> On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 10:03 -0500, Mitch Jackson wrote:
>> I'd like to see a walkthrough of good MVC separation in practice.
>> This took me a while to get through my stubborn skull, and would be
>> good material to a new Catalyst developer.  My first few Cat apps
>> suffered heavily from having too much logic in the controllers.
>>
>> The example could look something like this:
>> - Put this logic into a model method and why
>> - Build a .t file to test the model method ( possibly include
>> deploying and testing against a mock database )
>> - Build a .pl file, outside the catalyst web app that uses the method
>> - Finally, use the method from your catalyst action
>>
>> This not only suggests good practice to the reader, but shows them how
>> to do it properly and gives them hands-on with the benefits of the
>> approach.
>>
>> /Mitchell K. Jackson
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Ian Sillitoe <ian at sillit.com> wrote:
>>> So as I said - I contacted O'Reilly to request info/submit interest in a
>>> Catalyst Cookbook/Best Practices. I've been in contact with a chap called
>>> Andy Oram who seems to be O'Reilly's Perl Guy (FWIW he also seems a nice,
>>> but very busy, guy). I was waiting for him to give me the nod before posting
>>> the following thread to the mailing list...
>>>
>>>
>>> ----
>>>
>>>
>>> I just had a moment to reply. You can post my reply to the mailing list--I
>>> do appreciate that you asked first. Results of my asking around are
>>> discouraging. I will try to do some more research next week, but this is a
>>> busy time for me. (I have only 6 days at home during the whole month of
>>> April.)
>>>
>>>  Andy
>>>
>>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>>  From: "Ian Sillitoe" <ian.sillitoe at googlemail.com>
>>>  To: "Andy Oram" <andyo at oreilly.com>
>>>  Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 4:28:34 AM (GMT-0500) America/New_York
>>>  Subject: Re: Catalyst Cookbook/Best Practices
>>>
>>>  Andy,
>>>
>>>  Thanks for getting back to me. It would obviously be nice to see
>>>  O'Reilly give Catalyst the full "Best Practices" treatment, however as
>>>  you say, a more simple "Catalyst Cookbook/Hacks" book of code snippets
>>>  would presumably be much easier to produce/edit and therefore more
>>>  likely to happen. The Catalyst POD docs are already pretty good and
>>>  will undoubtably continue to improve. However most Catalyst
>>>  developers, i.e. the people that would actually fork out money (or get
>>>  their employers to fork out money) to buy the book, would probably be
>>>  very happy just to get the interesting snippets in lots of different
>>>  case scenarios.
>>>
>>>  Also, I was going to post the reply you gave on the Catalyst mailing
>>>  list - but it feels a bit rude without at least asking you first - any
>>>  objections?
>>>
>>>  Lots of people would be really interested in any further developements
>>>  so if you had a chance to update me when you hear anything, I would be
>>>  really grateful.
>>>
>>>  Regards,
>>>
>>>  Ian
>>>
>>>
>>>  ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>  From: Andy Oram <andyo at oreilly.com>
>>>  Date: Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:46 PM
>>>  Subject: Catalyst Cookbook/Best Practices
>>>  To: ian.sillitoe at googlemail.com
>>>
>>>
>>>  I just had a moment to reply to your request for a Catalyst Cookbook,
>>>  which was forwarded to me because I edit most of our Perl books now.
>>>
>>>   I appreciate your contacting us, and I'll ask the Stonehenge trainers
>>>  as well as the many O'Reilly employees who are heavily involved in
>>>  Perl development. Unfortunately, it's very hard to make money on books
>>>  about Web frameworks. Even the Rails market, which used to be very
>>>  good, is weakening.
>>>
>>>   Basically, the success of the open source movement makes book
>>>  publishing difficult. There are lots of competing frameworks and
>>>  languages. There are core groups of excited users for each one, but
>>>  rarely do they add up to a market for a book.
>>>
>>>   But we'll see what our Perl contacts say. The idea of bypassing the
>>>  tutorial and writing a cookbook is appealing.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Ian Sillitoe <ian.sillitoe at googlemail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Pierre Moret <pierre at sw2.ch> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Jon wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> [...] Or like others have suggested, a cookbook with a large variety
>>> of useful examples showing "best practices" for different situations.
>>>>> That's exactly what I would like to see. I got the first book (thanks!)
>>> and would buy such a cookbook immediately.
>>>>
>>>> Seconded... and, like one of the previous posters, I've also added my
>>> tuppence to (proposals@) O'Reilly (.com) suggesting they get on the case.
>>>>
>>>
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