On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Andrew Kornak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Personally, I would like any book on Catalyst, even if it was only a > single chapter in a larger MVC treatment. I bought Jonathan's book and > contrary to another poster's opinion found it quite useful. > > -Andrew >
This is more of my view as well. It's hard to sell a web framework book, because it's selling a book about a singular tool when many are needed to finish a project. In silly metaphor land, this would be a book on hammers to build a house. That's my view on a Catalyst book. Catalyst is just one tool out of many that deserves detailed mentioning, but if you _only_ used Catalyst you would have a very small and useless app. You need an ORM, view methods (TT, JSON, etc) and preferably a good front-end toolkit (YUI, Ext, Dojo, etc.) In my opinion, this is why book sales are stagnating in regards to _frameworks_. If we could all play nicely and write a book that doesn't have Catalyst in the title, but in the contents, everybody would win. Dare I say, an Enlightened Perl Development book? *prod prod* HEY MST AND MDK I AM LOOKING AT YOU GUYS. *cough* _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
