[Mpls-pm] More tech talk topics

Ian Malpass ian at indecorous.com
Tue Jan 17 20:52:11 PST 2006


On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Peter Karman wrote:

> Ian Malpass scribbled on 1/17/06 10:59 AM:
>
>> A "20 minute intro to Catalyst[0]" tutorial[1] wafted through london.pm 
>> recently. It struck me that we could actually run through it in a meeting, 
>> if people were interested.
>> 
>> Catalyst is an MVC framework, like the much-vaunted Ruby On Rails[2], for 
>> developing web applications. I've not used either of them, but they're both 
>> supposed to be rather handy.
>
> am interested in this, as I am just starting to use Catalyst.

Well, you could get up to speed, and then run through it for us, live.

> thanks for passing it on, Ian.

Actually, I was not unmotivated by vanity: the tutorial uses 
WebService::CIA[0], one of my few contributions to CPAN ;)

Catalyst's on my list of things to use when the opportunity (and time) 
arises.

Ian

[0] <http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?WebService::CIA> - a Perl interface to 
the CIA World Factbook.

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