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.
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! From: Philip Medes [mailto:[email protected]] 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? 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"). _____ From: Kiffin Gish <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, October 1, 2010 3:15:47 PM Subject: [Catalyst] Has anyone read the book "Catalyst 5.8 : The Perl MVC Framework" yet? 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. 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). -- Kiffin Gish <[email protected]> Gouda, The Netherlands _______________________________________________ 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/
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