APM: Perl Catalyst

Frank Sheiness syndesis at gmail.com
Sun Nov 10 12:14:08 PST 2013


I use catalyst and DBIc a lot and I can be available for a q/a.  Seems like
a good topic for an APM meeting. If you have specific questions in the
meantime, I think freenode IRC #catalyst is a good place to ask.

Frank
On Nov 10, 2013 12:23 PM, "Jack Lupton" <jacklupton at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am trying to learn Catalyst. I've got the books. I've got sites set up.
> But, it seems really complicated.
>
> I had this idea to create a meetup.com group for Perl Catalyst, or more
> generally for Perl web frameworks including Dancer, Mojolicious and the
> half-dozen others. Of course any discussion of Catalyst would include
> DBIx::Class and Moose. In the process of creating the group, I got a
> listing of people in the Austin area that list Perl as one of their
> interests. It was a surprisingly large list, around 45.
>
> I wonder if this is a topic that would interest anyone. Is anyone using
> Catalyst? Anyone willing to make themselves available for questions? How
> about teaching classes: intro, actions, database interactions, forms, etc?
>  I get the feeling that most of the Austin Perl VIPs have moved on to other
> things. Personally, I'm not really interested in Perl 11 or Perl 6. I
> mean... I find it interesting, but I need help learning and using the
> practical stuff that is in production now.
>
> After getting through the process of creating a Meetup group, I decided it
> was not something I could afford right now. Especially, if the interest
> level is uncertain. If anyone else thinks there is enough interest that
> could warrant creating a meetup group, I would be happy to help with it.
> Otherwise, maybe there would be enough interest within this group to get
> started with an investigation into Perl web frameworks.
>
> Thanks for reading. Responses and thoughts are welcome.
>
> Jack Lupton
>
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