Getting started with Perl Dancer - new screencast
Hi, recently I've started again to publish screencasts, this time solely on my own Perl Maven site. After two very experimental videos, I think this is already reasonably ok to show: http://perlmaven.com/videos/getting-started-with-perl-dancer Given enough feedback I can create a whole series of screencasts for Dancer, but I'd certainly like to get some feedback from you. What subject would you like to be covered? Should this be aimed at Perl developers who start with Dancer or people who are already experienced with Dancer? Should it maybe even assume no, or very little Perl knowledge as well? My plan is to follow the footsteps of railscasts.com and provide some of the videos free of charge and some for paying subscribers only so I can cover my bills. Will there be enough people to make this sustainable? Gabor
On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 12:04:04 +0300 Gabor Szabo <gabor@szabgab.com> wrote:
recently I've started again to publish screencasts, this time solely on my own Perl Maven site. After two very experimental videos, I think this is already reasonably ok to show:
http://perlmaven.com/videos/getting-started-with-perl-dancer
Awesome! Will check it out shortly :)
Given enough feedback I can create a whole series of screencasts for Dancer, but I'd certainly like to get some feedback from you. What subject would you like to be covered? Should this be aimed at Perl developers who start with Dancer or people who are already experienced with Dancer? Should it maybe even assume no, or very little Perl knowledge as well?
I think an introduction to web development with Perl & Dancer for non-Perl programmers would be a great thing to have - both for Dancer, and for the Perl community in general, being a useful resource to point newbies to as a "this is how easy webdev in Perl can be" - particularly covering how easy getting started, templating, database access, authentication, serialisation etc can be with Dancer and suitable plugins.
My plan is to follow the footsteps of railscasts.com and provide some of the videos free of charge and some for paying subscribers only so I can cover my bills. Will there be enough people to make this sustainable?
I have no idea; I'd like to think so, though. -- David Precious ("bigpresh") <davidp@preshweb.co.uk> http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ www.preshweb.co.uk/twitter www.preshweb.co.uk/linkedin www.preshweb.co.uk/facebook www.preshweb.co.uk/cpan www.preshweb.co.uk/github
On 04/21/2013 11:45 AM, David Precious wrote:
On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 12:04:04 +0300 Gabor Szabo <gabor@szabgab.com> wrote:
recently I've started again to publish screencasts, this time solely on my own Perl Maven site. After two very experimental videos, I think this is already reasonably ok to show:
http://perlmaven.com/videos/getting-started-with-perl-dancer
Awesome! Will check it out shortly :)
Given enough feedback I can create a whole series of screencasts for Dancer, but I'd certainly like to get some feedback from you. What subject would you like to be covered? Should this be aimed at Perl developers who start with Dancer or people who are already experienced with Dancer? Should it maybe even assume no, or very little Perl knowledge as well?
I think an introduction to web development with Perl & Dancer for non-Perl programmers would be a great thing to have - both for Dancer, and for the Perl community in general, being a useful resource to point newbies to as a "this is how easy webdev in Perl can be" - particularly covering how easy getting started, templating, database access, authentication, serialisation etc can be with Dancer and suitable plugins.
Yeah and we are already getting non-Perl programmers and newbies to Dancer (seen them on IRC frequently), so it would be really helpful to give them more support. Regards Rakce -- LinuXia Systems => http://www.linuxia.de/ Expert Interchange Consulting and System Administration ICDEVGROUP => http://www.icdevgroup.org/ Interchange Development Team
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Gabor Szabo <gabor@szabgab.com> wrote:
Hi,
recently I've started again to publish screencasts, this time solely on my own Perl Maven site.
Awesome.
After two very experimental videos, I think this is already reasonably ok to show:
http://perlmaven.com/videos/getting-started-with-perl-dancer
Very cool.
Given enough feedback I can create a whole series of screencasts for Dancer, but I'd certainly like to get some feedback from you. What subject would you like to be covered? Should this be aimed at Perl developers who start with Dancer or people who are already experienced with Dancer? Should it maybe even assume no, or very little Perl knowledge as well?
That's actually a very tricky issue. I had the same problem wanting to do screencasts. Where do you start from? What do you cover? If I'd want to do a screencast series for Dancer, I would start with "you know computers (and maybe a bit of programming) and you want to write a website" much like the early Rails screencasts which were like "do these things and you get yourself a website". People learned variables as they went along. Same with functions and other constructs.
My plan is to follow the footsteps of railscasts.com and provide some of the videos free of charge and some for paying subscribers only so I can cover my bills. Will there be enough people to make this sustainable?
I have no idea. I guess it depends on how good they are. The Rails were very successful. Good luck! :)
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Stefan Hornburg (Racke)