Re: [Catalyst] Advent Calendar... Grant proposal...

2015-01-18 Thread Robert Brown
I'm rather concerned with that statement, but will allow time for all of us to sober up. On 03/01/15 22:44, Lance A. Brown wrote: Robert Brown wrote on 1/3/2015 5:36 PM: Is this something we can resolve, or simply make better as its install process, that maybe needs explaining better? I

Re: [Catalyst] Advent Calendar... Grant proposal...

2015-01-18 Thread Kieren Diment
Installation is basically a one shot (especially if you have a transportable perl compiled with perlbrew of Perl::Build). A framework is for life not just for a 5 minute write a blog engine demo. On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Lance A. Brown la...@bearcircle.net wrote: Robert Brown wrote on

Re: [Catalyst] Advent Calendar... Grant proposal...

2015-01-18 Thread Matija Grabnar
But that really depends on the system, doesn't it? I can install the usual parts of Catalyst by installing just a few packages on a Debian (and Debian-derived) systems. It takes a few minutes (less than ten, surely), but it's an easy process. Isn't that the primary purpose of distribution

Re: [Catalyst] Advent Calendar... Grant proposal...

2015-01-18 Thread rick
I think that one of the main use of Perl is to create web apps. And the best way of creating web apps is by using a web framework. And the most developed web framework for Perl is Catalyst. But those who prefer other frameworks do it because they consider Catalyst too complex and hard to

Re: [Catalyst] Advent Calendar... Grant proposal...

2015-01-18 Thread Robert Brown
My greatest concern is only that we keep this accessible, no strings, no branches, etc. how can we best do this? On 03/01/15 22:44, Lance A. Brown wrote: Robert Brown wrote on 1/3/2015 5:36 PM: Is this something we can resolve, or simply make better as its install process, that maybe

Re: [Catalyst] Advent Calendar... Grant proposal...

2015-01-18 Thread rick
that there are better ways that will be learned later. Your 2012 Catalyst Advent Calendar articles Catalyst in 9 Steps embodied that principle nicely. I'd like to see those articles extended further, and have them linked in the official documentation. Why not set a documentation goal that would allow

Re: [Catalyst] Advent Calendar... Grant proposal...

2015-01-18 Thread Jens Gassmann
which help him/her to understand each step as easy as possible. She or he just need to know that there are better ways that will be learned later. Your 2012 Catalyst Advent Calendar articles Catalyst in 9 Steps embodied that principle nicely. I'd like to see those articles extended further

Re: [Catalyst] Advent Calendar... Grant proposal...

2015-01-18 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: r...@hiranyaloka.com I think that one of the main use of Perl is to create web apps. And the best way of creating web apps is by using a web framework. And the most developed web framework for Perl is Catalyst. But those who prefer other frameworks do it because they consider Catalyst

Re: [Catalyst] Advent Calendar... Grant proposal...

2015-01-18 Thread rick
Octavian said: Imho a beginner should not start by creating best practice apps, but apps which help him/her to understand each step as easy as possible. She or he just need to know that there are better ways that will be learned later. Your 2012 Catalyst Advent Calendar articles Catalyst

Re: [Catalyst] Advent Calendar... Grant proposal...

2015-01-18 Thread Denny
Hi Jens, On Sun, 2015-01-18 at 20:16 +0100, Jens Gassmann wrote: i'm currently building a catalyst-based CMS - it is fully working, but needs some help to make it open source and add some more features. [...] For those who are interested in, i will gave a online presentation. Please contact

Re: [Catalyst] Advent Calendar... Grant proposal...

2015-01-18 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: r...@hiranyaloka.com Octavian said: Imho a beginner should not start by creating best practice apps, but apps which help him/her to understand each step as easy as possible. She or he just need to know that there are better ways that will be learned later. Your 2012 Catalyst Advent

Re: [Catalyst] Advent Calendar... Grant proposal...

2015-01-03 Thread Kieren Diment
The catalyst docs could do with a substantial review, they haven't had much attention lately. In particular there could do with being a good index. I think the issue with people thinking catalyst is too big/complex is that lots and lots of developers are used to a procedural approach to dealing

Re: [Catalyst] Advent Calendar... Grant proposal...

2015-01-03 Thread Kieren Diment
umm from something they're *more* familiar with. On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Kieren Diment dim...@gmail.com wrote: The catalyst docs could do with a substantial review, they haven't had much attention lately. In particular there could do with being a good index. I think the issue with

Re: [Catalyst] Advent Calendar... Grant proposal...

2015-01-03 Thread Robert Brown
I find that getting involved in a project like Catalyst is much like releasing your own CPAN module - possibly daunting at first, hence some reluctance? From my own experience only, it took years to finally find something I was comfortable to release, but when I did, it then starts to flow.

Re: [Catalyst] Advent Calendar... Grant proposal...

2015-01-03 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: Kieren Diment The catalyst docs could do with a substantial review, they haven't had much attention lately. In particular there could do with being a good index. I think the issue with people thinking catalyst is too big/complex is that lots and lots of developers are used to a

Re: [Catalyst] Advent Calendar... Grant proposal...

2015-01-03 Thread Lance A. Brown
Kieren Diment wrote on 1/3/2015 3:43 PM: 3. Catalyst used to be hard to install (and catalyst had a lot of influence on improving the cpan toolchain during the relatively early days), but this isn't the case any more, but the perception lingers in places. Catalyst isn't nearly as difficult

Re: [Catalyst] Advent Calendar... Grant proposal...

2015-01-03 Thread Robert Brown
Is this something we can resolve, or simply make better as its install process, that maybe needs explaining better? On 03/01/15 22:26, Lance A. Brown wrote: Kieren Diment wrote on 1/3/2015 3:43 PM: 3. Catalyst used to be hard to install (and catalyst had a lot of influence on improving the

Re: [Catalyst] Advent Calendar... Grant proposal...

2015-01-03 Thread Lance A. Brown
Robert Brown wrote on 1/3/2015 5:36 PM: Is this something we can resolve, or simply make better as its install process, that maybe needs explaining better? I don't think it can be resolved unless Catalyst wants to move in the same direction Mojolicious has taken, which I don't agree with. I

[Catalyst] Catalyst Advent Calendar 2014

2014-12-05 Thread Duncan Garland
John N published an appeal for help a few days ago. http://blogs.perl.org/users/john_napiorkowski/2014/12/catalyst-advent-2014.html Is the situation under control now or are we still very short of articles? -- The information contained in this message is for the intended addressee only and

Re: [Catalyst] Catalyst Advent Calendar 2014

2014-12-05 Thread Duncan Garland
That's 5 by John N and one by you. John blogged that he could do 10. That leaves us 20 short. I haven't done much new stuff on Catalyst this year. I did use ZOMG for something. I could look to see if the article on JFDI needs updating and, if it does, write a few lines. I'm not going to have any

Re: [Catalyst] Catalyst Advent Calendar 2014

2014-12-05 Thread John Napiorkowski
good ideas to do if you need help - take any old articles from older advents that are good but need a modern refresher- talk about how you use Catalyst on your job- take some POD docs from  the core distribution and expand on it- take some docs form a module you use (like a plugin) and expand on

Re: [Catalyst] Catalyst Advent Calendar

2011-12-02 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Devin Austin devin.aus...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:00 AM, will trillich will.trill...@serensoft.com wrote: I do appreciate the neat articles that talk about Facebook API's and Google API's and other advanced stuff, but those often seem a

Re: [Catalyst] Catalyst Advent Calendar

2011-12-02 Thread Devin Austin
On Dec 2, 2011, at 3:03 PM, Tomas Doran bobtf...@bobtfish.net wrote: On 1 Dec 2011, at 22:02, Octavian Rasnita wrote: I think there may be helpful some articles about how to deploy Catalyst apps on the cloud (with examples of the cloud providers that can handle Catalyst apps). I

[Catalyst] Catalyst Advent Calendar - need HELP (again)

2011-12-01 Thread Dimitar Petrov
Hello all, as you probably know today is 1st of December and traditionally starts the Catalyst Advent Calendar. (the calendar is available here: http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar/2011) Unfortunately, we're a little bit late rigth now and we need some help making the first few articles

[Catalyst] Catalyst Advent Calendar - need HELP (again)

2011-12-01 Thread Dimitar Petrov
Hello all, as you probably know today is 1st of December and traditionally starts the Catalyst Advent Calendar. (the calendar is available here: http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar/2011) Unfortunately, we're a little bit late rigth now and we need some help making the first few articles

[Catalyst] Catalyst Advent Calendar

2011-12-01 Thread Devin Austin
Hey all, It's that time of year again, and as per tradition, we're running a bit behind. If anyone can whip up a few articles to buffer us for the next few days with the Advent article, that would be great. We are also in great need of an opening article. Please contact myself (email, or irc:

Re: [Catalyst] Catalyst Advent Calendar

2011-12-01 Thread will trillich
Coming up with good articles isn't easy! Documentation is the toughest part of writing code. Myself, I've been mulling, since Nov 3, how to make * http://search.cpan.org/~mstrout/Catalyst-View-TT-0.37/lib/Catalyst/View/TT.pm#expose_methods * resonate better with newbies like me, and I haven't

Re: [Catalyst] Catalyst Advent Calendar

2011-12-01 Thread Devin Austin
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:00 AM, will trillich will.trill...@serensoft.com wrote: Coming up with good articles isn't easy! Documentation is the toughest part of writing code. Myself, I've been mulling, since Nov 3, how to make 

Re: [Catalyst] advent calendar memcached article misleading or incorrect?

2010-12-21 Thread Sam Kaufman
Hey, Sorry about the delay in responding, I was away most of the day. I wrote the tutorial, and looking at it now it could certainly use more explanation in regards to what module is doing what. specifying traits = ['Caching'] in your schema applies Catalyst::TraitFor::Model::DBIC::Schema::Caching

[Catalyst] Please Read If You Have Done a Catalyst Advent Calendar Submission At Any Time

2010-01-10 Thread hkclark
Hi Everyone, The folks at perladvent.org would like to link to the Catalyst Advent Calendar and archive versions of it. We are assuming that everyone who has written an Advent entry in 2009 or prior years has done so under the standard Catalyst license. If you have submitted an article

Re: [Catalyst] advent calendar/2009/3

2009-12-04 Thread Marcello Romani
Kiffin Gish ha scritto: svn url might be handier to announce. Look closer: svn co http://dev.catalystframework.org/repos/Catalyst/trunk/examples/Advent09FormHandlerBlog :-) On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 10:55 +0100, Ulf Lenski wrote: Hi everyone. Has one of you tested the blog example from

Re: [Catalyst] advent calendar/2009/3

2009-12-04 Thread Marcello Romani
Ulf Lenski ha scritto: Hi everyone. Has one of you tested the blog example from advent calender - day 3 ? Hi, I have been able to run it after manually installing all the dependencies (AFAIKT they're not listed in the makefile). What I'm trying to do now is deploy the schema to the db. I

[Catalyst] advent calendar/2009/3

2009-12-03 Thread Ulf Lenski
Hi everyone. Has one of you tested the blog example from advent calender - day 3 ? (svn co http://dev.catalystframework.org/repos/Catalyst/trunk/examples/Advent09FormHandlerBlog) I tried that but I got this error message ?? Couldn't instantiate component Blog::Model::DB, Cannot load schema

Re: [Catalyst] advent calendar/2009/3

2009-12-03 Thread Kiffin Gish
svn url might be handier to announce. On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 10:55 +0100, Ulf Lenski wrote: Hi everyone. Has one of you tested the blog example from advent calender - day 3 ? (svn co http://dev.catalystframework.org/repos/Catalyst/trunk/examples/Advent09FormHandlerBlog) I tried that but

Re: [Catalyst] Advent Calendar

2009-12-01 Thread Chisel Wright
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 08:18:41PM -0700, Devin Austin wrote: Hey all, kd's laptop has shat out. �Zamolxes and I will have to take the reigns on getting things set up. �Please email the list, either of us, or hit us up on irc regarding all things Advent. Is there any reason why

[Catalyst] Advent Calendar

2009-11-26 Thread Devin Austin
Hey all, kd's laptop has shat out. Zamolxes and I will have to take the reigns on getting things set up. Please email the list, either of us, or hit us up on irc regarding all things Advent. Thanks! -dhoss -- Devin Austin http://www.codedright.net 9702906669 - Cell

[Catalyst] Advent calendar 2009

2009-11-20 Thread Kieren Diment
Hi all It's advent calendar time again. Having dedicated a very large chunk of the first half of the year to writing a book about Catalyst, I don't have masses of time to run the editorial for the advent calendar this year, so I need some volunteers to ensure that we get one reasonably

Re: [Catalyst] Advent calendar

2009-03-01 Thread Dan Dascalescu
I'd like to suggest hosting the Advent Calendar articles on the Catalyst Wiki: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/wiki/adventcalendararticles When you have a project with an internet presence, and you don't have time to do a proper job, you put up a wiki and hack it into doing what you want. You

Re: [Catalyst] Catalyst Advent Calendar - Day 10 - Config General Arrays

2008-12-11 Thread Kieren Diment
On 11/12/2008, at 6:38 PM, Michele Beltrame wrote: Hi all! You should also be able to get around this Config::General limitation this way: some_values want_an_array myentry want_an_array myentry /some_values That is, repeating twice the same entry. This avoids the creation of

[Catalyst] Catalyst Advent Calendar - Day 10 - Config General Arrays

2008-12-10 Thread Chisel Wright
I was just reading http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar/2008/10 thinking to myself, awesome! this really bugs me! I hope you'll forgive me for being old and slow, but where should one place The Solution? [setup' = sub { }] It's not obvious [to me] from the advent entry. Cheers, Chisel --

Re: [Catalyst] Catalyst Advent Calendar - Day 10 - Config General Arrays

2008-12-10 Thread Kieren Diment
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Chisel Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just reading http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar/2008/10 thinking to myself, awesome! this really bugs me! I hope you'll forgive me for being old and slow, but where should one place The Solution? [setup' =

[Catalyst] Re: Catalyst Advent Calendar - Day 10 - Config General Arrays

2008-12-10 Thread Lance A. Brown
Kieren Diment said the following on 12/10/2008 8:00 PM: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Chisel Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just reading http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar/2008/10 thinking to myself, awesome! this really bugs me! I hope you'll forgive me for being old and

Re: [Catalyst] Advent calendar

2008-12-06 Thread Jozef Kutej
with Catalyst::View::Email/h1 div id=Getting_the_word_out_with_Catalyst_V-2 pI don' ... Strange... Jozef. Kieren Diment wrote: Hi all, The 2008 Catalyst advent calendar has started. In general this year we will aim to have articles up by 12:00 UTC each day. If you want to contribute an article

Re: [Catalyst] Advent calendar

2008-12-02 Thread Chisel Wright
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 08:38:25AM +1100, Kieren Diment wrote: And of course I forgot the URL: http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar ... and because I'm a forgetful/lazy fecker, I've syndicated the feed in livejournal: http://syndicated.livejournal.com/catadvent08/ Chisel -- Chisel

[Catalyst] Advent calendar

2008-12-01 Thread Kieren Diment
Hi all, The 2008 Catalyst advent calendar has started. In general this year we will aim to have articles up by 12:00 UTC each day. If you want to contribute an article, contact me (kd) on irc or via email. Kieren ___ List: Catalyst

Re: [Catalyst] Advent calendar

2008-12-01 Thread Kieren Diment
And of course I forgot the URL: http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar On 02/12/2008, at 8:01 AM, Kieren Diment wrote: Hi all, The 2008 Catalyst advent calendar has started. In general this year we will aim to have articles up by 12:00 UTC each day. If you want to contribute

Re: [Catalyst] Advent calendar

2008-12-01 Thread Dan Dascalescu
And of course I forgot the URL: http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar I'd like to suggest hosting the Advent Calendar articles on the Catalyst Wiki: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/wiki/adventcalendararticles Here are some arguments: 1. The presentation at

Re: [Catalyst] Advent calendar

2008-12-01 Thread Kieren Diment
On 02/12/2008, at 12:22 PM, Dan Dascalescu wrote: And of course I forgot the URL: http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar I'd like to suggest hosting the Advent Calendar articles on the Catalyst Wiki: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/wiki/adventcalendararticles Here are some arguments:

Re: [Catalyst] Advent calendar

2008-12-01 Thread Andrew Rodland
On Monday 01 December 2008 07:22:48 pm Dan Dascalescu wrote: And of course I forgot the URL: http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar I'd like to suggest hosting the Advent Calendar articles on the Catalyst Wiki: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/wiki/adventcalendararticles When you have a

[Catalyst] Advent calendar

2007-12-10 Thread Kieren Diment
Hi all The advent calendar is looking a bit thin for the rest of the month right now, and this year today's entry (10) is about the best I can do, because I've been doing very little software development this year. There are a couple of half finished entries, and a few stubs, but

Re: [Catalyst] Advent calendar

2007-12-10 Thread Jonathan Rockway
On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 19:25 +1100, Kieren Diment wrote: I really really really want to see an openid authentication example this year. Next year we should have a provider recipe so big kudos to anyone who can provide me with either an minimal working app and/ or words to wrap around it.

[Catalyst] Catalyst Advent Calendar

2007-12-04 Thread Pedro Melo
Hi, Congrats for the entries in the calendar, they are great. Do you think its possible to include a title attribute in the links on the home-page with the article title? It would make searching for an article easier. Thanks, -- Pedro Melo Blog: http://www.simplicidade.org/notes/ XMPP ID:

Re: [Catalyst] Catalyst Advent Calendar

2007-12-04 Thread Kieren Diment
We're aware of the limitation. Actually the catalyst advent calendar is an app written for Catalyst 5.5 which is still running no problems on Catalyst 5.7011 which we're pretty pleased about. You can grab the source at http://dev.catalystframework.org/svnweb/Catalyst/ browse/trunk