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 -- Matt S Trout Need help with your Catalyst or DBIx::Class project? Technical Director http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/catalyst/ Shadowcat Systems Ltd. Want a managed development or deployment platform? http://chainsawblues.vox.com/ http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/servers/ _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
