discuss: Proposing some new HOWTOs
Subject:
Re: Proposing some new HOWTOs
From:
David Merrill ####@####.####
Date:
18 Sep 2001 03:38:44 -0000
Message-Id: <20010917233655.D879@lupercalia.net>
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 08:22:53PM +0530, Shuvam wrote:
> > > Okay, here goes.
> > >
> > > We have a "book" which teaches Perl and writing CGI programs in Perl.
> > > The background is to teach our company's young programmers how to get up
> > > and running in writing real-world business applications in Perl, CGI,
> > > and DBI rapidly.
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > Any comments? What do you think?
> >
> > Sounds great! Given the depth/breadth of the content you described,
> > you might want to consider simply submitting it as one full "book" (or
> > as we call them "guides"). This might be better than breaking it up
> > into sep. HOWTOs.
>
> Thanks for the encouraging words. (We were mentally bracing ourselves
> for reactions like "Oh, but everyone knows Perl, it's so boring...!" :)
>
> I know about the LDP Guides, but do you think we could still make our
> content into HOWTOs? We don't even mind publishing the matter as both
> two HOWTOs and one Guide, if that's okay. Basically we feel that we'll
> reach a wider audience if this stuff is in the HOWTO list rather than as
> Guides.
Why do you feel that way? I'm just curious.
> In fact, we were just discussing the issue, and it may be possible for
> us to even break up our matter into more than two HOWTOs. We can have
> the following HOWTOs:
>
> 1. Basic Perl programming HOWTO
> 2. Basic CGI programming in Perl HOWTO (no DBI)
> 3. Advanced Web programming in Perl HOWTO (mod_perl, DBI, Date::Manip)
> 4. Writing large Perl Web apps HOWTO (our own tools, modules, wrappers)
>
> That way, we can either make it one large book which is a successor to
> Shishir Gundavaram's original text, or we can make it a set of HOWTOs
> for Perl and Web app development, or _both_ :). Whatever you guys feel
> makes more sense is fine with us.
Either approach is good. I like having a full guide, but if you really
prefer HOWTOs we'll go with that.
--
Dr. David C. Merrill http://www.lupercalia.net
Linux Documentation Project ####@####.####
Collection Editor & Coordinator http://www.linuxdoc.org
