[Catalyst] Has anyone read the book "Catalyst 5.8 : The Perl MVC Framework" yet?

[drleeds]

There are at least three books out on Catalyst.  I have not found any of them to be adequate as beginning books.  I think that the authors were aware of the good tutorial material on cpan and did not want to duplicate it.  I hope to find the books useful as reference and review material in the future.  For now, I depend on cpan and irc.

Mark

On Oct 24, 2010, at 8:23 PM, "John Karr" <brainbuz at brainbuz.org> wrote:

> It came out just as I was trying to learn catalyst. From a beginner perspective it wasn’t of any value -- thankfully Kennedy Clark has been doing an excellent job with the Tutorial on CPAN, because that’s how I figured most things out. I was severely disappointed with the book, and not the least concerned with LOLCats and Kitty Pidgin. The people who wrote the book are a very knowledgeable group and sometimes their book works as a reference, but overall doesn’t seem add a lot to what’s already in the documentation, while being of no value to beginners whatsoever.
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> It would be nice to have a good beginner book and a more advanced book. If any of the more advanced programmers on this list would like someone to help with writing the beginner book, don’t hesitate to get in touch!
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> From: Philip Medes [mailto:pmedes_2000 at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 5:33 PM
> To: The elegant MVC web framework
> Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Has anyone read the book "Catalyst 5.8 : The Perl MVC Framework" yet?
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> I actually read the first 2 chapters and tried the examples.   I haven't had time to finish the book. 
> I haven't read any other books on Catalyst, but I do like the Sitepoint books better ("Build Your Own Ruby On Rails Web Applications").
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> From: Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish at planet.nl>
> To: catalyst at lists.scsys.co.uk
> Sent: Fri, October 1, 2010 3:15:47 PM
> Subject: [Catalyst] Has anyone read the book "Catalyst 5.8 : The Perl MVC Framework" yet?
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> I recently received a copy of the book "Catalyst 5.8 : The Perl MVC
> Framework" for review, have read it and tried out the examples.
> 
> Before I make my judgments public, I'd first be curious to hear from
> others in the Catalyst Community about what their views are on the
> book. 
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> Those that have "actually read" the book, that is. I've already seen a
> couple blog entries and they tend to be fairly negative (we sure prefer
> to rant).
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> -- 
> Kiffin Gish <Kiffin.Gish at planet.nl>
> Gouda, The Netherlands
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