[pm-h] October Houston.pm meeting
G. Wade Johnson
gwadej at anomaly.org
Thu Oct 4 15:53:43 PDT 2007
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 14:43:16 -0500
Robert Boone <robo4288 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am all for Brandon talking about cat/dbic at the meeting.
Ditto.
>
> 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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