I’ve been spending some time converting sites from CGI and HTML::Template to Catalyst. This has been surprisingly easy, which pleases me.
Strangely, I’m probably going to get to our site last. See: Cobbler’s Children, Shoes (none). Ah, well… c’est la guerre.
One of the core technologies used in many web sites is some kind of form handling. It’s one of the the basic ways users interact with the site. My travails so far have led me to bump into no less than four packages for Catalyst.
Those would be:
When I’m learning some new thing, if I’m lucky, there’s a bunch of documentation, tutorials, and examples I can use to get started. Once I’m marginally proficient, I like to go back and revisit those items for a variety of reasons. For example:
Generally, going back through some of the basics let’s me “fill in” some of the stuff I may have missed the first time around or “unlearn” some bad habits I may be acquiring. It also helps give me a more solid foundation and more complete understanding to build on.
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