> And of course I forgot the URL: http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar
I'd like to suggest hosting the Advent Calendar articles on the Catalyst Wiki: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/wiki/adventcalendararticles Here are some arguments: 1. The presentation at http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar/2007 does not list the article titles. It only lists the numbers from 1 to 31 and finding an article later is a pain, as a blogger commented at http://www.simplicidade.org/notes/archives/2007/12/catalyst_advent.html Compare with the clear list at http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar/2007 2. Some Advent entries become obsolete and are highly unlikely to be edited. For example, entry 14 of 2005 is severely obsoleted and an inspection of the SVN repo shows that the most recent revisions to the 2005 and 2006 entries are 2 years old, and the 2007 entries are one year old. http://dev.catalystframework.org/svnweb/Catalyst/browse/trunk/examples/CatalystAdvent/root/2005/ (for bonus points, try to figure out what "entry 14" is about... then hail SEO-friendly URLs) 3. POD is not really conducive for the kinds of articles in the calendar. See the source of the Catalyst survey - http://dev.catalystframework.org/svnweb/Catalyst/checkout/trunk/examples/CatalystAdvent/root/2008/1.pod. Kd apparently had to resort to pasting HTML from a Word/OO document. The Catalyst wiki uses Multimarkdown, which makes table creation much easier and is generally less of a pain than POD. 4. I proposed this on the channel and got the counter-arguments that SVN provides for peer review, and kd (manually) periodically makes the next entry availalbe. Well, MojoMojo provides for that too. Create/edit entries not to be released yet (e.g. http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/wiki/adventcalendararticles/2008/2008/03-sparklines_with_Chart_Clicker.edit), have the contributors edit, and link to them when they should be released. Finally, I found myself preferring the list of articles at http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/wiki/adventcalendararticles over the list of numbers at http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar/2007 every single time I tried to look for an article. HTH, Dan _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
