An anonymous coward writes "Catalyst is a framework for building web applications, based around the MVC design pattern - more simply, it provides you with lots of helpful infrastructure, and a suggestion on how to lay out your code, which enables you to rapidly build new applications and reuse other people's code. More simply still: it takes care of most of the boring parts of writing web applications, and allows you to optimize for fun!
The purpose of this tutorial is to teach you enough Catalyst to be dangerous, as quickly as possible. It should take less than an hour to complete. Dangerous, in this case, means "able to make use of the core documentation"."