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

[Matt S Trout]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:11:37AM -0800, Daniel Hembree wrote:
> Matt S Trout wrote:
> >Since a fair few of you will now have John's book, I figured it was time
> >to ask what you'd want from a second book.
> >
> >I guess the existing one provides a pretty good tutorial style, so we 
> >should
> >be looking at something more in-depth / intermediate to advanced.
> >
> >What do you guys think?
> >
> >  
> I found the book helpful in the sense that it pulled together things 
> that were spread out amongst the documentation and went a little more 
> into things than the current docs do. But it was a tutorial, I was 
> hoping for more about how the the tool works so I don't have to keep 
> going to the docs each time I need to figure out how to do something. 
> There are lots of "cookbook" type examples on the site so I don't agree 
> that's what's needed. Between the book and what's currently available on 
> the site, I think the how-to and tutorial type of thing is well 
> represented. I suppose you can never have to much of that though.
> 
> I especially have a hard time with using DBIx, that's probably a book by 

It's called DBIx::Class. DBIx is the CPAN namespace for DBI extensions,
under which there are hundreds of projects.

> itself. The exception handling, as mentioned earlier, could use some 
> elucidation. I also second more treatment of web services and SOAP. But, 
> currently SOAP isn't supported as I understand it.

http://search.cpan.org/~druoso/Catalyst-Controller-SOAP-0.2.0/lib/Catalyst/Controller/SOAP.pm

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