Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-05-05 Thread Matt S Trout
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 07:28:46PM +0200, Marcus Ramberg wrote: On 4. mai. 2008, at 15.39, Matt S Trout wrote: Then again, I originally learned Catalyst by reading the source; took me about 8 hours. The only thing that confused me was the dispatcher, which is why I rewrote most of it

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-05-04 Thread Marcus Ramberg
On 4. mai. 2008, at 15.39, Matt S Trout wrote: Then again, I originally learned Catalyst by reading the source; took me about 8 hours. The only thing that confused me was the dispatcher, which is why I rewrote most of it later when I became a contrib :) And now it confuses the rest of us

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-05-03 Thread Matt S Trout
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 01:00:47PM -0400, Dave Baker wrote: I have enjoyed the Catalyst book, although the publisher has been unacceptably slow at publishing errata I've submitted to its web page, so I'd like to see more like it. Packt are complete idiots; community errata link here:

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-05-03 Thread Chris Weyl
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Peter Corlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:34:57AM -0500, Jonathan Rockway wrote: * On Tue, Apr 29 2008, Peter Corlett wrote: [...] Right, and I need to read the entire Linux and libc source code to be able to write a Unix

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-04-29 Thread J. Shirley
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Andrew Kornak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I would like any book on Catalyst, even if it was only a single chapter in a larger MVC treatment. I bought Jonathan's book and contrary to another poster's opinion found it quite useful. -Andrew This is

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-04-29 Thread Mark Keating
Dare I say, an Enlightened Perl Development book? *prod prod* HEY MST AND MDK I AM LOOKING AT YOU GUYS. *cough* Actually a Developers Perl book sounds like a good idea. Perl for Enterprise: A look at Enlightened Perl Development That way you could cover quite a few camps at once, if it

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-04-29 Thread J. Shirley
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Mark Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dare I say, an Enlightened Perl Development book? *prod prod* HEY MST AND MDK I AM LOOKING AT YOU GUYS. *cough* Actually a Developers Perl book sounds like a good idea. Perl for Enterprise: A look at

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-04-29 Thread Jonathan Rockway
* On Tue, Apr 29 2008, Mark Keating wrote: Dare I say, an Enlightened Perl Development book? Perl for Enterprise: A look at Enlightened Perl Development But first, the EPO needs to create a publishing company called ORLY. -- print just = another = perl = hacker = if $,=$

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-04-29 Thread Peter Corlett
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 03:01:47AM -0500, Jonathan Rockway wrote: [...] Anyway, I hate to break this to you... if you want to know every detail of how the code works, you have to read the code. Reading code is the most important skill a programmer can have, so I suggest biting the bullet,

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-04-29 Thread Jonathan Rockway
* On Tue, Apr 29 2008, Peter Corlett wrote: On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 03:01:47AM -0500, Jonathan Rockway wrote: [...] Anyway, I hate to break this to you... if you want to know every detail of how the code works, you have to read the code. Reading code is the most important skill a programmer

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-04-29 Thread Peter Corlett
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:34:57AM -0500, Jonathan Rockway wrote: * On Tue, Apr 29 2008, Peter Corlett wrote: [...] Right, and I need to read the entire Linux and libc source code to be able to write a Unix application. It will help, yes. It may well help, but it is not necessarily the best

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-04-29 Thread Cory Watson
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 9:51 AM, J. Shirley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dare I say, an Enlightened Perl Development book? Being in the middle of 5 or 6 apps that all use the 'enlightened' stack of perl libraries I can personally say that I would _love_ to have this book to recommend to our

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-04-29 Thread Matthew Pitts
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 12:06 -0500, Cory Watson wrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 9:51 AM, J. Shirley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dare I say, an Enlightened Perl Development book? Being in the middle of 5 or 6 apps that all use the 'enlightened' stack of perl libraries I can

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-04-29 Thread Marcus Ramberg
On 29. april. 2008, at 19.02, Peter Corlett wrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:34:57AM -0500, Jonathan Rockway wrote: * On Tue, Apr 29 2008, Peter Corlett wrote: [...] Right, and I need to read the entire Linux and libc source code to be able to write a Unix application. It will help, yes.

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-04-28 Thread Robert Sedlacek
Ali M. wrote: i completly oppose another cookbook for catalyst catalyst need an indepth book that describe its design! the first book was very much a learning by example book, which is close to a cookbook and the main complain or the bad review where that, after reading the book, developers

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-04-28 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Andrew Kornak wrote: Personally, I would like any book on Catalyst, even if it was only a single chapter in a larger MVC treatment. I bought Jonathan's book and contrary to another poster's opinion found it quite useful. -Andrew +1 Rod -- On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 10:03 -0500, Mitch Jackson

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-04-28 Thread Wade . Stuart
Andrew Kornak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/28/2008 03:19:39 PM: Personally, I would like any book on Catalyst, even if it was only a single chapter in a larger MVC treatment. I bought Jonathan's book and contrary to another poster's opinion found it quite useful. -Andrew Hopefully I

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-04-27 Thread J. Shirley
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 9:11 AM, rahed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/27/08, Ali M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i completly oppose another cookbook for catalyst catalyst need an indepth book that describe its design! the first book was very much a learning by example book, which is

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-04-26 Thread Ian Sillitoe
So as I said - I contacted O'Reilly to request info/submit interest in a Catalyst Cookbook/Best Practices. I've been in contact with a chap called Andy Oram who seems to be O'Reilly's Perl Guy (FWIW he also seems a nice, but very busy, guy). I was waiting for him to give me the nod before posting

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-04-26 Thread Ali M.
i completly oppose another cookbook for catalyst catalyst need an indepth book that describe its design! the first book was very much a learning by example book, which is close to a cookbook and the main complain or the bad review where that, after reading the book, developers still didnt not

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-04-26 Thread Stephen Sykes
Ali M. wrote: i completly oppose another cookbook for catalyst catalyst need an indepth book that describe its design! the first book was very much a learning by example book, which is close to a cookbook and the main complain or the bad review where that, after reading the book, developers

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-04-04 Thread Ash Berlin
On 4 Apr 2008, at 13:17, Kieren Diment wrote: On 4 Apr 2008, at 23:01, Ian Sillitoe wrote: [...] Or like others have suggested, a cookbook with a large variety of useful examples showing best practices for different situations. That's exactly what I would like to see. I got the first

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-04-03 Thread Jon
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Ali M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Education (or knowledge depending on how you translate it) is As Indispensable As Water and Air -- Taha Hussein (an Egyptian scholar) One of the maing benefits of Free Software is Free education, I don't understand when a Free

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-04-03 Thread Pierre Moret
Jon wrote: [...] Or like others have suggested, a cookbook with a large variety of useful examples showing best practices for different situations. That's exactly what I would like to see. I got the first book (thanks!) and would buy such a cookbook immediately. Specifically, I'd be

RE: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-03-27 Thread Mesdaq, Ali
/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.WebsenseSecurityLabs.com -- From: Ali M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 3/27/2008 5:29 AM To: The elegant MVC web framework Subject: Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-03-11 Thread Matt Rosin
FWIW, I am very much for both free and commercial docs. The more docs of both types the better. I would prefer that experts loved by the community be given incentives to do both. Books are nice, but I would probably prefer purchasing just the digital version of a book right now. No shipping or

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-03-10 Thread Ali M.
I just want to suggest, since soon Catalyst will move to a new wiki, why not celebrate the opportunity, by improving the documentation. I was personally always ... mmm... not sure how to describe this always surprised/annoyed ... that beside the documentation we always needed a book! For

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-03-10 Thread Ian Sillitoe
Ali - I take your point, but I disagree that authors shouldn't write text books. I like reading good books offline and I appreciate that really good books take a great deal of time and effort to write. I think it's completely fair enough that authors of good text books should receive some

RE: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-03-10 Thread Matt Pitts
-Original Message- From: Ali M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 3:42 AM To: The elegant MVC web framework Subject: Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book? I just want to suggest, since soon Catalyst will move to a new wiki, why not celebrate

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-03-10 Thread Ashley
On Mar 10, 2008, at 8:55 AM, Jonathan Rockway wrote: Writing documentation gets them nothing; they already know how to use Catalyst, so they're not helping themselves in any way. I completely agree with your other points, but the above is untrue. Better docs can mean the life or death of a

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-03-09 Thread Andrew Kornak
I recently made an inquiry to O'Reilly regarding this very same subject. I like O'Reilly and was curious if they were planning on publishing any articles or books on Catalyst. What animal would be on the cover? I don't know the community very well and was unable to respond as to whom might be a

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-03-08 Thread Matt S Trout
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 09:25:07PM +0300, Alex Povolotsky wrote: Matt S Trout wrote: Since a fair few of you will now have John's book, I figured it was time to ask what you'd want from a second book. I guess the existing one provides a pretty good tutorial style, so we should be looking

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-02-24 Thread Daniel Hembree
Matt S Trout wrote: Since a fair few of you will now have John's book, I figured it was time to ask what you'd want from a second book. I guess the existing one provides a pretty good tutorial style, so we should be looking at something more in-depth / intermediate to advanced. What do you

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-02-23 Thread Alex Povolotsky
Matt S Trout wrote: Since a fair few of you will now have John's book, I figured it was time to ask what you'd want from a second book. I guess the existing one provides a pretty good tutorial style, so we should be looking at something more in-depth / intermediate to advanced. What do you

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-02-23 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Matt S Trout wrote: Since a fair few of you will now have John's book, I figured it was time to ask what you'd want from a second book. I don't know if my suggestions are good, but here they are: - Sample configurations for a simple Catalyst app to work with mod_perl, with mod_fastcgi,

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-02-19 Thread Kieren Diment
On 19 Feb 2008, at 05:17, Matt S Trout wrote: Since a fair few of you will now have John's book, I figured it was time to ask what you'd want from a second book. I guess the existing one provides a pretty good tutorial style, so we should be looking at something more in-depth /

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-02-19 Thread Francesc Romà i Frigolé
John's book has been very useful, and still is, as I'm now using it as a reference, even though as others have pointed out it's more of a tutorial than a reference. Still, there are some topics I wish they were covered at more depth: the fundamental stuff and the more advanced stuff.

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-02-19 Thread Mojo Nichols
Matt S Trout wrote: Since a fair few of you will now have John's book, I figured it was time to ask what you'd want from a second book. I guess the existing one provides a pretty good tutorial style, so we should be looking at something more in-depth / intermediate to advanced. What do you

[Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-02-18 Thread Matt S Trout
Since a fair few of you will now have John's book, I figured it was time to ask what you'd want from a second book. I guess the existing one provides a pretty good tutorial style, so we should be looking at something more in-depth / intermediate to advanced. What do you guys think? --

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-02-18 Thread Ashley
I agree. Cookbooks are what I'm most inclined to buy and use. I am working on an online Cat book right now. It's a similar pattern to Rockway's book, which I've bought twice (for me and for my office) and recommend for others in my tome. I'm doing a small web app, step by step like an advent

Re: [Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

2008-02-18 Thread Cedric Boudin
Matt S Trout wrote: I personnaly missed in John's book something about exceptions. Since a fair few of you will now have John's book, I figured it was time to ask what you'd want from a second book. I guess the existing one provides a pretty good tutorial style, so we should be looking at