On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Raymond Wan wrote: > <Hides under table> Unfortunately, not me... Any suggestions (or > tutorials :-) ) on how to do this? Before I looked into Mason, I tried > to get into Catalyst and (for some strange reason), I found it hard to > get into. If everyone but me is doing it...maybe it's time to look at > it again... :-)
Catalyst is definitely harder to start with than Mason, as it has more concepts to grok. Unfortunately, I think the most apt comparison here is PHP! Mason, like PHP, makes it easy to start, but _just_ using Mason also leads to the sort of "all logic in templates as a huge mess" type of programming that PHP leads to. It takes more effort to start with Catalyst, but once you do, you have a lot more options available, in terms of features, environments to run in, tools, and perhaps most importantly, writing maintainable code. That doesn't answer your question of where to start, though. I've heard mixed reviews of the one Catalyst book already out, but another is coming in a few weeks that I hope will be better. I also think that that Catalyst Manual has improved since I first looked (when it wasn't so great), so it's worth checking that out right now - http://search.cpan.org/dist/Catalyst-Manual/ -dave /*============================================================ http://VegGuide.org http://blog.urth.org Your guide to all that's veg House Absolute(ly Pointless) ============================================================*/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Mason-users mailing list Mason-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mason-users
