[pm-h] October Houston.pm meeting

[Robert Boone]

I am all for Brandon talking about cat/dbic at the meeting.

On Oct 4, 2007, at 2:19 PM, "Brandon Black" <blblack at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/4/07, Todd Rinaldo <toddr at null.net> wrote:
>> Wade/Robert,
>>> From a COMPLETELEY selfish stance, I'm floundering in Catalyst  
>>> 'Heck'. The
>> learning curve for getting DBIX::class (or is it the other way  
>> around? I
>> can't remember..), going on Sybase (No open source jokes here  
>> please), and
>> Just better understanding how catalyst works is holding me up. I've  
>> taken a
>> look at some of the intro projects to see how to use catalyst, but  
>> have been
>> disappointed in what's out there. I would love to spend time  
>> picking Mr.
>> Boone's brain on this and perhaps discuss a project to create a  
>> better
>> how-to for catalyst.
>>
>> What are your thoughts on this as a topic? Too selfish? *grin*
>>        Todd
>>
>
> Using Sybase is probably causing a lot of additional pain on top of
> the usual Cat/DBIC learning curve.  I'd suggest working through some
> sample applications using MySQL or PostgreSQL first to better arm
> yourself, as you will undoubtedly run into oddities and bugs with a
> Sybase backend.  IIRC, the NoBindVars stuff has never quite worked
> right out of the box due to Class::C3 initialization issues.  The
> mailing lists and IRC channels are a big help too:
>
> http://lists.scsys.co.uk/mailman/listinfo
>
> and:
>
> irc.perl.org #dbix-class / #catalyst
>
> If you want to do a Cat/DBIC-themed meeting sometime I could help  
> out there too.
>
> -- Brandon
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