The Definitive Guide to Catalyst: Writing Extensible, Scalable and Maintainable Perl-Based Web Applications (Expert's Voice in Web Development) 1st ed. Edition

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Learn to build web applications with Catalyst, the popular open source web framework based on the Perl programming language. The Definitive Guide to Catalyst: Writing Extendable, Scalable, and Maintainable Perl–Based Web Applications is a definitive guide to Catalyst version 5.8. This book contains

Training materials for new and experience programmers.
Worked examples and cookbook–style recipes of common web application programming tasks
Fundamentals of web application design and best–practice application style

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Kieren Diment is a social researcher in the School of Management and Marketing, University of Wollongong, Australia, where he uses Catalyst for the collection analysis and presentation of research data. He has taken the lead in a significant portion of the Catalyst documentation including the Catalyst Advent Calendar in 2006 and 2007. His focus has been on ensuring a culture of documentation by example in the project, and ensuring that instructional documentation points to working example code wherever possible.

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Series: Expert's Voice in Web Development
Paperback: 362 pages
Publisher: Apress; 1st ed. edition (July 8, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1430223650
ISBN-13: 978-1430223658
Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.8 x 9.2 inches
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Guide to Catalyst is mostly a tutorial with some good fundamental discussions on design

ByJack V. Brineron March 28, 2013

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I've found that Catalyst (as a product) is lacking in reference material. There are a couple of tutorials online that are helpful, There is even one that comes with its on virtual disk image so that you can get a jump on the product to help decide if this is the way you want to go.

After spending a couple of days with Catalyst, I decided that it would be difficult to develop and document with an existing code base. I am fighting with about 80K lines of code written over a ten year period. I needed to develop a framework to allow the code to grow with demands on the system. I did not feel comfortable that I could use Catalyst around the existing code and to build a framework for the long run. I feel much more comfortable building a solid class structure that I can add incrementally to the existing code and take the code to the next level. So, I am back to some of the more basic CPAN packages and am focusing on good design.

I was hoping this book would act as a reference manual so that I could get a view of the internals and functionality. However, it does not seem to be organized in such a way. That being the case, I suggest that you check out the tutorials online to make a decision if you want to use Catalyst. If you decide on Catalyst this book's tutorial style, you will find it is a good book that provides solid examples, good design methods, information on databases and lots of basic software design discussion and comments on style.

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Riddled with errors and poorly conceived

ByDrewpon August 1, 2012

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Over the years I've become somewhat inured to the astonishingly low quality standards in the tech publishing industry, but in this case I'll be asking the publisher for a refund.

Doesn't anyone in this business hire proofreaders? Virtually every code sample presented in the first three chapters has at least one error (c'mon people, there's a difference between one underscore and two, right?).

And I'm sure the authors are fine programmers, but they're dreadful writers of expository prose. This book is just begging for a mile-high overview explaining, in general terms, what the various MVC components do and how they fit together. Instead what we get is a brief, jargon-filled tour of these concepts, followed by a leap into an error-filled sample application. (At first I dutifully noted every error but gave up midway through Chapter 4.)

I can easily forgive poorly written documentation when the people writing it aren't being paid for their effort. But when I pay $30+ for a book, I expect the publisher to have at least proofread the thing.

By the way, I'm not a complete Perl noob. I've been using it for several years and have benefited greatly from the generosity of the many good folks who have contributed code to CPAN. To them, I am grateful; to the authors of this book, not so much.

*It earns one star simply for being a book on Catalyst.

UPDATE (June 11, 2013): I'm working through the book a second time, after having read the Catalyst manual and worked through the Catalyst tutorial on CPAN. It's even worse this time around. The number of errors is atrocious, and many of them are obvious to anyone paying any attention (e.g., a module identified on one page as DBAuthTest::Controller::AuthUsers is referred to as DBICTest::Controller::AuthUsers just a few pages later). The code samples in the book often don't even agree with the archived code provided on the publisher's Web site. And the authors make no use of graphics to illustrate the complex relationships between the various MVC components. Worst of all, the publishers obviously didn't bother to proofread or edit this book. Even the grammar is poor in places. So I've requested a full refund. The book may be useful at some point as a reference for "best practices," but it's nothing but frustration as a learning tutorial.

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Great book on modern Perl, Catalyst

BySanjay Mishraon September 21, 2009

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This is a great book not only for Catalyst but also for modern Perl. Perl usage has evolved over the last years, and this book covers techniques and modules that are the most useful as of 2009.

Perl 5 core has been stable for quite some time. However modules and usage have evolved. Even if you don't plan to use Catalyst, read this book for the peripheral knowledge the book pulls in.

For example, I was pleasantly surprised to see nginx mentioned as a potential Web server to use. This to me meant that the book is not a quick job done by an author gathering materials over the web, but a labor of love written by somebody who has hands on experience with the modern Web.

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Presentation of the example code in the book could be much better

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