On Friday 28 January 2005 00:19, Peter Speltz wrote:
> --- Gordon Haverland <ghaverla at materialisations.com> wrote:
> > Hmmm, that looks like the kind of elegance that I think
> > Maypole sites are supposed to have.
> >
> > $ grep
> > add_to
> > /usr/local/src/.cpan/build/Maypole-2.08/lib/Maypole/Manual/*p
> >od
>
> add_to_* is a Class::DBI feature. See class::dbi docs for that.
Upon seeing it, I kind of expected that. But even there, there
are holes in the documentation. I'm trying to read all this
stuff and implement it.
> > Hmmm, no example of any add_to stuff in any of the PODs. And
> > I read ALL of the PODs just before Christmas as a "slight"
> > editorial critique and submitted a patch to the documentation
> > on stuff (minor stuff) I thought could get updated.
> >
> > There are entirely too many large gaps in the documentation.
> > Just like this. I've been working on this more or less
> > steady for a month, and I am only just barely getting
> > comfortable with writing anything beyond trivial and thinking
> > that it might even work.
>
> Don't worry you're not alone. It took me several months
> learning Class::DBI, TT, and Maypole to get where i was
> confortable with it. 4 months later, i'm still learning new
> things. I think most people here will tell you its worth
> struggling through if you feel it's right for you're app.
> Except Sebastian . He'll try to convert you to Catalyst :) .
I hadn't heard of Catalyst until yesterday, so maybe a person
needs to look at that. I had seen Rubberband at CPAN, but I get
the feeling that Rubberband isn't something to work with as it
isn't being worked on. I have no proof, just feel it has been
orphaned.
But one thing which is surprising, as I have also visited the TT
web site, is that nobody has talked about putting the Splash!
stuff in Maypole, instead of the standard Template Toolkit stuff.
In fact, anything having to do with style (CSS or other stuff).
I thought the Splash stuff looked quite nice.
> I
> myself was too burnt from all months of crawling through docs
> and figuring out what did what that i didn't want to see
> anything new so didn't look much at catalyst. However, i'm sure
> its good. I plan on looking at it after a long vacation without
> my computer sometime.
>
> p.s. See the class::dbi wiki for cool class dbi tricks.
> www.class-dbi.com
What I really now need is understanding, not tricks. Tricks can
come later. Hamming has in his book, "Numerical Methods for
Scientists and Engineers", The Purpose of Computing is Insight,
Not Numbers. I need something similar here before I go looking
for too many tricks.
Gord
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