[sf-perl] [meeting] Heretical Perl: Writing Catalyst Apps with no ORM

[Fred Moyer]

SF.pm X-President Quinn Weaver will be speaking at Mother Jones on
October 26th for our October SF.pm meeting.

Catalyst is the leading web MVC framework for Perl. Normally, Catalyst
apps use an ORM to communicate with the database. While ORMs can be
convenient, they can also hurt performance, tie your app to one
database schema, and make complex queries difficult.

But this is Perl, and TMTOWTDI applies: There's More Than One Way To Do It.

In this talk, Quinn take you through the code of a working Catalyst
app that uses stored procedures rather than ORM queries as its
interface to PostgreSQL. Along the way, Quinn will touch on a number
of useful modules and pragmas such as DBIx::Connector, aliased,
Template::Declare, and Test::XPath.

Credits: this talk is based on an app Quinn wrote with David Wheeler
as a side project at PostgreSQL Experts ( http://pgexperts.com/... ).
Thanks to David for coming up with the methodology, and writing the
(IMO) greater share of of the code, including DBIx::Connector and
Test::XPath.

RSVP at Meetup -
http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Perl-Mongers/calendar/15036370/

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