[Van-pm] January van.pm meeting

[Luke Closs]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 11:27:22AM -0800, Alex Pavlovic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Luke Closs wrote:
> >>Catalyst is already passe.  Jifty is what all the cool kids are using
> >>now (it's true - I asked them).
> 
> Jifty is tied to a specific templating system, if you want to use for example 
> TT, there is lot of hacking to be done to make this work. Even worse it uses 
> HTML::Mason which in my opinion is horrible way to do your presentation. But
> I guess if you are looking for something quick and dirty, then this might be 
> down your alley.

I was joking.  Catalyst is much more flexible, and there are lots of
modules for it.  I've built small apps with both, and I found Catalyst
much easier to use and grow.

Jifty seems to be going down the Ruby on Rails approach, where there
is a single true way of doing things (eg: using HTML::Mason), instead
of Catalyst's approach which is to make everything pluggable.

> >>Having said that, I still think any Catalyst talk would be
> >>interesting... :)
> 
> Probably too late now for that, but I did a presentation for the place I work 
> at, 2 months ago. 

What did your presentation cover?  Perhaps you could give it at the
next Van.pm meeting?

Cheers,
Luke

-- 
Luke Closs
PureMessage Developer 
There is always time to juggle in the Sophos Zone.