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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, which will be released in 2009. 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 What you’ll learn 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.