Re: [Catalyst] Sigh. How do we get on this list?

2006-08-10 Thread Daniel McBrearty
FWIW ... I looked at ROR about a year back for engoi. I thought it was kind of shiny, but not particularly flexible, and the unclear status of unicode support in Ruby made it all a no-no as far as I could tell. Cat is still in fairly early days, and teh learning curve is tough. But it looks well

Re: [Catalyst] Sigh. How do we get on this list?

2006-08-09 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Christopher H. Laco wrote: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2006/8/7/ruby-on-rails-will-ship-with-os-x-10-5-leopard By obsessively marketing Catalyst. Ideally build several web apps that are really, really useful (c.f. Basecamp) market the hell out of them. Make it really

Re: [Catalyst] Sigh. How do we get on this list?

2006-08-09 Thread Jonathan Rockway
By obsessively marketing Catalyst. Ideally build several web apps that are really, really useful (c.f. Basecamp) market the hell out of them. I have to use Basecamp at work. Frankly, it's a useless piece of junk. Yes, it has some shiny AJAX crap... but it's pretty buggy. (For example,

Re: [Catalyst] Sigh. How do we get on this list?

2006-08-09 Thread Brian Kirkbride
Simon Wilcox wrote: On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Christopher H. Laco wrote: Make it really really easy to get started for people who don't know much perl. Here we get into a tricky debate about ease-of-use vs flexibility and performance. While not mutually exclusive, it is very difficult and

Re: [Catalyst] Sigh. How do we get on this list?

2006-08-09 Thread Jonathan Rockway
More of my 2 cents :) Rails is easy because, it would appear, it sacrifices TMTOWTDI - they lost me right there. Yup. And from a technical standpoint, rails isn't all that good. ActiveRecord? Great for blogs and Basecamp, bad for everything else. Even my boss picked up on this

Re: [Catalyst] Sigh. How do we get on this list?

2006-08-09 Thread Matt S Trout
Jonathan Rockway wrote: More of my 2 cents :) Rails is easy because, it would appear, it sacrifices TMTOWTDI - they lost me right there. Yup. And from a technical standpoint, rails isn't all that good. ActiveRecord? Great for blogs and Basecamp, bad for everything else. Even my

Re: [Catalyst] Sigh. How do we get on this list?

2006-08-09 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Brian Kirkbride wrote: I'd rather have the design decisions for my chosen framework made in consideration of the pragmatic than the marketing side of things. Actually Rails is an emergent framework that's been rolled out from Basecamp. That's why it has functionality holes,

Re: [Catalyst] Sigh. How do we get on this list?

2006-08-09 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Matt S Trout wrote: Point out that everybody on http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/wiki/LiveApplications disagrees :) Wow, another invisible wiki page. Why isn't that linked directly and prominently off the Catalyst homepage ? How do I get a login to add a site to that page, or

Re: [Catalyst] Sigh. How do we get on this list?

2006-08-09 Thread Matt S Trout
Simon Wilcox wrote: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Matt S Trout wrote: Point out that everybody on http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/wiki/LiveApplications disagrees :) Wow, another invisible wiki page. Why isn't that linked directly and prominently off the Catalyst homepage ? It's linked off the wiki

Re: [Catalyst] Sigh. How do we get on this list?

2006-08-09 Thread Kaare Rasmussen
etc. Does the Comprehensive Ruby Archive Network have that? :) Do you mean the Comprehensive Ruby Archive Portal? Sorry, couldn't resist :-) -- Med venlig hilsen Kaare Rasmussen, Jasonic Jasonic Telefon: +45 3816 2582 Nordre Fasanvej 12 2000 Frederiksberg Email: [EMAIL

Re: [Catalyst] Sigh. How do we get on this list?

2006-08-09 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Jonathan Rockway [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-08-09 18:55]: (Think about all the infrastructure that CPAN gives you -- local mirrors, CPAN testers, rt.cpan.org, mailing lists, etc. Does the Comprehensive Ruby Archive Network have that? :) There’s RubyForge, though, which offers some services for

Re: [Catalyst] Sigh. How do we get on this list?

2006-08-09 Thread Kieren Diment
On 09/08/06, Jonathan Rockway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By obsessively marketing Catalyst. Ideally build several web apps that are really, really useful (c.f. Basecamp) market the hell out of them%])Pretty much, Basecamp is like every other piece of proprietary software -- they already have

Re: [Catalyst] Sigh. How do we get on this list?

2006-08-09 Thread Nilson Santos Figueiredo Junior
On 8/9/06, Matt S Trout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Point out that everybody on http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/wiki/LiveApplications disagrees :) I haven't stumbled upon this page before and I'm sort of amazed. I never thought there were so many public facing sites using Catalyst. I really think

[Catalyst] Sigh. How do we get on this list?

2006-08-08 Thread Christopher H. Laco
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Re: [Catalyst] Sigh. How do we get on this list?

2006-08-08 Thread John Wang
On 8/8/06, Christopher H. Laco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2006/8/7/ruby-on-rails-will-ship-with-os-x-10-5-leopardIt's been no secret that Apple is held in very high regard by the Rails community. Every single Rails Core contributer is running on Apple and the vast

Re: [Catalyst] Sigh. How do we get on this list?

2006-08-08 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 12:33 -0400, Christopher H. Laco wrote: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2006/8/7/ruby-on-rails-will-ship-with-os-x-10-5-leopard If the experience of Perl being shipped with OS X is any indication, about 30 seconds after the release of Leopard they can expect to see hundreds

Re: [Catalyst] Sigh. How do we get on this list?

2006-08-08 Thread Jonathan Rockway
Cat probably needs to get more popular and show off Apple in more marketing material, e.g. screencasts, etc. Warning: OT rant ahead :( Personally, I'd like to see *less* Apple in screencasts. I've been burned by Apple one too many times to want to ever hear of their OS again. Examples: