Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-20 Thread Kieren Diment
On 20/02/2009, at 8:49 PM, Octavian Rasnita wrote: From: Dan Dascalescu ddascalescu+catal...@gmail.com Regarding wiki questions: The Catalyst wiki runs on MojoMojo (http://mojomojo.org), Too bad that it doesn't run under Windows. Why not? I can't think of any practical reason why it

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-20 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: Kieren Diment kie...@diment.org On 20/02/2009, at 8:49 PM, Octavian Rasnita wrote: From: Dan Dascalescu ddascalescu+catal...@gmail.com Regarding wiki questions: The Catalyst wiki runs on MojoMojo (http://mojomojo.org), Too bad that it doesn't run under Windows. Why not? I

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-20 Thread Rodrigo
First I was not able to install File::NFSLock with cpan, but I found a ppm distribution for it. But I've seen that after doing this, more other cpan modules couldn't be installed, and one of them is Cache::FastMmap which I know that it can't be installed under Windows. I switched

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-20 Thread Rodrigo
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Dan Dascalescu ddascalescu+catal...@gmail.com ddascalescu%2bcatal...@gmail.com wrote: Rodrigo, MojoMojo now supports custom styles. A different theme can be seen at http://nordaaker.no/wiki/. We think the typography needs improvement, and a Mediawiki-like

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-20 Thread Dan Dascalescu
http://rodrigolive.googlepages.com/catmojo.jpg Wow, quite neat, really. I didn't have a problem with File::NFSLock compiling with the latest Strawberry version. I did, and I'm not the only one: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=40185 PS: Cache::Memory is a bogus dependency. I

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-20 Thread Marcus Ramberg
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Rodrigo rodrigol...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Dan Dascalescu ddascalescu+catal...@gmail.com ddascalescu%2bcatal...@gmail.com wrote: Rodrigo, MojoMojo now supports custom styles. A different theme can be seen at

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-20 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: Rodrigo rodrigol...@gmail.com First I was not able to install File::NFSLock with cpan, but I found a ppm distribution for it. But I've seen that after doing this, more other cpan modules couldn't be installed, and one of them is Cache::FastMmap which I know that it can't be installed

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-20 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: Dan Dascalescu ddascalescu+catal...@gmail.com I didn't have a problem with File::NFSLock compiling with the latest Strawberry version. I did, and I'm not the only one: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=40185 PS: Cache::Memory is a bogus dependency. I just removed it.

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-20 Thread Rodrigo
I have also removed it, but I found that I can't install DBIx::Class::EncodedColumn with cpan, and there is no ppm distribution for it. Octavian Wow. I haven't had a problem with that either, in at least 5 different XP machines. Are you running Vista? What's the error? I'm using the

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-20 Thread Octavian Râsnita
From: Rodrigo I have also removed it, but I found that I can't install DBIx::Class::EncodedColumn with cpan, and there is no ppm distribution for it. Wow. I haven't had a problem with that either, in at least 5 different XP machines. Are you running Vista? What's the error? I

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-20 Thread Tomas Doran
On 20 Feb 2009, at 01:18, Trevor Phillips wrote: What is the best practices for Wiki updates? There isn't one specifically. Should new articles be posted to this list first, for discussion, or should they be just whacked into the Wiki, then posted here for review/deletion? I'd do the

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-19 Thread Rodrigo
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Devin Austin devin.aus...@gmail.comwrote: Rodrigo, If you have any, you're more than welcome to ask for SVN permissions to check in some. I know i have a few example apps I'd like to show off in /examples Sure! Where can I request svn permissions?

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-19 Thread Trevor Phillips
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Rodrigo rodrigol...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, I'd like to work also on a sassier getting-started page for the dev.catalystframework.org/wiki site. IMO, the Catalyst Wiki could get a makeover: some css styling (so that the wiki is aligned with the homepage),

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-19 Thread Dan Dascalescu
Regarding wiki questions: The Catalyst wiki runs on MojoMojo (http://mojomojo.org), a project led by Marcus Ramberg. I tend to do a bit of coding too, and more advocacy and managing ideas. We've set up a feedback board for MojoMojo at http://mojomojo.ideascale.com/. To join the MojoMojo team,

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-18 Thread J. Shirley
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Trevor Phillips trevor.phill...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Jay Kuri j...@ion0.com wrote: My working list is as follows (in no particular order.) 1) 'Getting' DBIx::Class (starting from a straight SQL-users point of view) I'm new to

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-18 Thread Kenny Gatdula
On Feb 17, 2009, at 9:06 PM, Trevor Phillips wrote: I'm pretty new to the Catalyst community, and still very much a Catalyst newbie. I don't know how open this list is to having the same n00b questions asked over over again. I'd be happy to write up a few howto's myself, as I discover stuff,

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-17 Thread Bjørn-Helge Mevik
Jay Kuri wrote: To that end I'm soliciting your thoughts on things that you found particularly hard to get a grip on when you started using catalyst. (or that you are currently having trouble with) My biggest problem was how to handle the Norwegian characters (æøå) in an app with MySql,

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-17 Thread Ash Berlin
On 17 Feb 2009, at 11:34, Bjørn-Helge Mevik wrote: Jay Kuri wrote: To that end I'm soliciting your thoughts on things that you found particularly hard to get a grip on when you started using catalyst. (or that you are currently having trouble with) My biggest problem was how to handle the

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-17 Thread David Steiner
So all this 'too many choices' talk has got me thinking. I'd like to put together some more web-available information for those transitioning to catalyst from other methods. To that end I'm soliciting your thoughts on things that you found particularly hard to get a grip on when you started

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-17 Thread Devin Austin
Hear hear! Practical example ftw! To add yet *another* branch to this discussion, I think it would be neat to add a few sections on Coming from $framework where $framework eq rails, django, .net, etc. That's probably a bit down the road, as most of my ideas seem to be. On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-17 Thread Rodrigo
3) Walkthrough of creation of a simple app end to end. Yes please, a full example tutorial is just what we need! And example apps! As a Catalyst beginner, I craved example apps the most (I still do!). While learning, I find it more productive checking out a small example app by both

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-17 Thread Devin Austin
Rodrigo, If you have any, you're more than welcome to ask for SVN permissions to check in some. I know i have a few example apps I'd like to show off in /examples On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Rodrigo rodrigol...@gmail.com wrote: 3) Walkthrough of creation of a simple app end to end.

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-17 Thread Trevor Phillips
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Jay Kuri j...@ion0.com wrote: My working list is as follows (in no particular order.) 1) 'Getting' DBIx::Class (starting from a straight SQL-users point of view) I'm new to Catalyst, having started to look into it a few months back (and now developing several

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-16 Thread Devin Austin
Well, people are going to want to know how Catalyst compares to *ahem* others as far as AJAX goes, certainly REST, and app servers like nginx, lighttpd, etc. Also, best practices. Walking beginning to end on an app is great, but a lot of the newbies end up having to throw away a lot of their

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-16 Thread Devin Austin
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Octavian Râsnita orasn...@gmail.comwrote: Good idea. I think that many beginners find hard to learn Catalyst if they are coming from another framework, or even worse, from CGI.pm, because right after they begin, they need to learn DBIx::Class,

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-16 Thread Jay Kuri
Right... As I've said before, I'm not interested in the super-newbie area. I don't want to teach perl. Teaching better perl practices, sure. Teaching what a sigil is and what they mean in perl... not so much. Overall, I'm interested in helping those who are new to the Catalyst platform but are

Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions

2009-02-16 Thread Kieren Diment
On 17/02/2009, at 8:01 AM, Octavian Râsnita wrote: Good idea. I think that many beginners find hard to learn Catalyst if they are coming from another framework, or even worse, from CGI.pm, because right after they begin, they need to learn DBIx::Class, Template- Toolkit, YAML or