[Catalyst-dev] Catalyst Advent Stubs In Place: Lets go!

Ladies and gentlemen,

I have the stubs in place for the assigned days checked in at
http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/Catalyst/trunk/examples/CatalystAdvent

If you want to write an article, find me on IRC or email me (either onlist
or off) and lets work out a day.  Then, simply grab your day in
root/2007/{DAY}.pod and start writing.

We have 10 days assigned already, and need another 14 to commit.  There were
some other ideas, but people haven't grabbed a day yet.

Thanks,
-Jay

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J. Shirley wrote:
> Ladies and gentlemen,
>
> I have the stubs in place for the assigned days checked in at
> http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/Catalyst/trunk/examples/CatalystAdvent
>
> If you want to write an article, find me on IRC or email me (either onlist
> or off) and lets work out a day. Then, simply grab your day in
> root/2007/{DAY}.pod and start writing.
>
> We have 10 days assigned already, and need another 14 to commit. There were
> some other ideas, but people haven't grabbed a day yet.
>
> Thanks,
> -Jay

YOu mentioned earlier something about screent shots. Have you figured
out how to do those, or if we can do those in this years entries?

-=Chris


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Yeah, but I have to worry about _not_ breaking the older advent.

I'll put something in svn today or tomorrow for it.

OK - I am not sure if I'll be ready on time, but I am starting now.

I have a question - what do you use as the base for your example
application?  The Tutorial MyApp requires user to login before playing
with it's features, even those that don't need a logged in user to
work - I really hate that (the more that you really need to look hard
to find the password).  So what do you guys use?

Regards,
Zbyszek

I generally just create a small application demonstrating the point of the
article -- give a look at the examples/ dir -- quite a few small apps in
there.  You can build off of those as you see fit.  For my YUI+REST article
I'm copying AdventREST.

-J

For the first one I did, since it wasn't an introduction to Catalyst  
or anything like that, I just started it out with:

This tutorial assumes you already have some Catalyst experience, so we  
won't
go into too much detail with the basics of creating an application...

   % catalyst.pl AdventOFC
   ...
   % cd AdventOFC
   ...
   % script/adventofc_create.pl view TT TTSite
   ...

I don't see a lot of need to go into huge amounts of detail on setup  
for every tutorial, otherwise every tutorial would be an introduction  
to Catalyst.  :)

I've already committed my first one (day 8) if you want to check it  
out and tell me if my setup part is _too_ sparse.  :)

If you check the working final app into examples/ then just point there --
people can then work from there anyway, and all is good in the world.


I just gave a quick glance at your OFC article -- looks great!  If I get
time I'll do more intensive proof-reading later.

Actually my plan was to omit even that - and instead just say this
tutorial assumes you have a working Catalyst application with ...  And
instead of describing how to get to that point I wanted to just
provide a tarball of a working application.

>
> I've already committed my first one (day 8) if you want to check it
> out and tell me if my setup part is _too_ sparse. :)

Thanks,

Zbyszek