The first presentation I gave for the Silicon Valley Perl user’s group was on Catalyst; they had just had presentations on Dancer and Mojolicious and I thought it might be nice to show the more complex tool that everyone seemed trepidatious about using. Certainly a focus of the other talks was “See how easy it is! No unneeded stuff!” which was cool. But, at every turn, I kept thinking, “Wait, you had to write that? Catalyst would have done that for me…” (more…)