[Gllug] Apress's Catalyst book (Was Re: Automatic CMS Generation: Ideas/Experience?)

[Peter Corlett]

On 8 Sep 2009, at 18:01, Andy Smith wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 12:19:39PM +0100, gvim wrote:
>> Maybe Catalyst (Perl) would provide the greater flexibility you
>> need. A new Catalyst book was published by Apress in July this
>> year.
> Anyone here have any comments on the book?

Yes. It's substantially better than the jrockway book, which was just  
crap. By way of thanks, I should press a beer into mst's hand when I  
next meet him.

Basically, it doesn't just go over all of Catalyst's features, but  
also covers a lot of the surrounding material that is not always  
obvious. It explains Moose, and best practice in architecting and  
refactoring Catalyst applications, and deployment on various web  
servers. It is so much more complete than any other Catalyst  
documentation. There's no padding in the book: it's got a lot of  
information in it, although it's still quite readable.

I like it enough that when I finally have to return my borrowed copy,  
I'll buy my own.


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