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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andy Oram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:46 PM Subject: Catalyst Cookbook/Best Practices To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Pierre Moret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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