Contents

• An Introduction to Mason (The Warm Up)
• How do we run Mason?
• Server config:
• What does Mason look like?
• The Substitution Tag
• Substitution Examples
• Be careful - HTML Escape
• Be careful - URI Escape
• Oldskool Templating
• Mason Templating - First Attempt
• Mason Templating
• The revised index.html
• The Mason Way - Component Inheritance
• An Example Autohandler
• A reformed index.html
• Inheritance, but the other way
• Using Attributes
• To Recap
• Quick aside: Perl embedded into Mason
• Perl embedded into Mason
• Mason's Real Power
• Calling other Components
• Server Config
• Moving On: Mason Blocks
• Passing parameters
• Another way (surprise)
• Component Naming Conventions
• Where do components live?
• An Example DocumentRoot
• Deciding where components should live
• More comp dirs
• A more complex DocumentRoot
• show_entry.mhtml
• What if I had two blogs?
• But what about archive.html?
• /blog/comp/archive.mhtml
• Our final setup
• Twice, fine. Three times - refactor!
• More than one site
• Symlinks, Hard links, what?
• Common Components?
• Using Multiple Component Roots (The First Act)
• Calling Components in Different Roots
• How does it work?
• Applying it to two sites
• And...
• An Experiment in CMS Design (The Second Act)
• ...my blog looks different from yours!
• The Good News
• Our two example sites
• Making your Blog look nice
• Multiple Component Roots...
• Back to show_entry.mhtml
• The alternative show_entry.mhtml
• The Details
• The Experiment and Progress
• Zaapt is born - The History
• Example Sites using Zaapt
• Apologies