Sounds interesting.
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:03 PM, G. Wade Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Ben Thomas and I have been discussing an idea for an ongoing project > for the Houston.pm group, and I want to put the idea before the group > for consideration. > > The Perl Cookbook is now 8 years old. Despite that fact, the recipes > and examples are still quite good. Unfortunately, some were written in > a style that is no longer considered best practice. > > What if we began updating the recipes? Any given task is relatively > self-contained and understandable. One or more members of the group > could propose new solutions (or even complete new recipes) and, as a > group, we could refine them or just critique the recipes. > > People who want to hone their skills (or know of a sweet solution to a > particular problem) can generate a recipe. Others can help refine the > results to be the best we can come up with. We could even keep the > recipes under version control, say at github.com, so that anyone has > the opportunity to modify the code. > > Would we be interested in such a project? > > This could also be an ongoing solution to the presentation problem. If > no one is willing to present, we could devote the meeting to a few > recipes. These would be "hands-on" or hack-a-thon type meetings, where > people could get input on their recipes or comment on the recipes of > others. > > Let me know what you think. > G. Wade > > PS. For those of you worried about the copyright issues, I'm in contact > with O'Reilly through our User Group contact. We're discussing how to > make this work. > -- > They made a very satisfying thump when they hit the floor. > -- G'Kar - "A Late Delivery from Avalon" > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ > _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston Website: http://houston.pm.org/
