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

[Ali M.]

I just want to suggest, since soon Catalyst will move to a new wiki,
why not celebrate the opportunity, by improving the documentation.

I was personally always ... mmm... not sure how to describe this ....
always surprised/annoyed ...  that beside the documentation we always
needed a book!

For commercial software I always thought of its as a conspiracy with
the book publishers to make us buy books, specially since many
software companies are also book publisher (MS Press), and you can add
to this the scheme of certification and courses and things like oracle
university kinda like extortion.

I was kinda saddened to see that this was kinda true for Perl, the
Perl documentation large parts of it are from the Perl Programming
book by Larry Wall and others, and the documentation also in many
place suggest that you need the book for more details. Okay the Perl
documentation is huge and I probably don't need more detail, plus the
book also reference the manual, so in a way, they were built to
complement each other .... anyway its strongly suggested you need the
book!

The web, blogs, wikis are a great way to publish knowledge, we really
dont need more books, we more knowledge, more documented knowledge,
more documentation.

Books are just a way to make money, money makers, that is exploting
the weakness in the online documentation.

So please, don't be an extortionist, don't make a book ... write a
wiki page in the new wiki!
All we really need are more pages on wiki not a book!

But if you insist on writing a book, make a free online version, if
you have found Catalyst useless, this could be something you are doing
for Catalyst, like returning a favor or something.

:) Just my thoughts

On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Matt S Trout <dbix-class at trout.me.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 09:25:07PM +0300, Alex Povolotsky 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?
> > >
> > >
> > 1. Using bases with transactions and without auto-commit.
> > 2. Just simple link to nginx as a solution for memory/load balance problems
>
> I think any deployment section should touch on as many somewhat-common
> webservers as possible briefly, but there are many competitors in that space
> and I'm not interested in advocacy of a specific one.
>
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