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The Definitive Guide to Catalyst. Writing Extensible, Scalable and Maintainable Perl-Based Web Applications 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

<b>What you’ll learn</b>

- Write web applications with Catalyst and Perl.
- Design for extendability and code reuse.
- Understand deployment options for high– and low–traffic sites.
- Use DBIx::Class, Moose, and Template Toolkit.
- Understand the Catalyst dispatcher and request cycle.
- Deal with common web programming requirements: authentication and authorization, web services, sending e–mail, serving streaming media.

<b>Who this book is for</b>

The primary audience for this book is existing Perl programmers who want more information on writing robust maintainable and extendable web applications. This group is comprised of four subgroups:

- Experienced perl programmers wanting to update their web programming skills (for example, CGI.pm, mod_perl, and Mason programmers)
- Intermediate/Late beginner programmers wanting to learn rapid, extendable, maintainable web programming techniques in Perl
- System administrators and other non–web users of Perl (e.g., bioinformatics workers) who want to learn modern Perl web development techniques
- Existing catalyst programmers who want to learn about best practices for catalyst development

This book is also for programmers who want to understand web application design and development more thoroughly.