[pm-h] Another idea for the group

[Mike Flannigan]

"G. Wade Johnson" wrote:

> I was thinking about projects for the group today and thought of something
> else that the group might be interested in.
>
> A few months ago, I stumbled across the concept of "Code Katas" on Pragmatic
> Dave's weblog. A Code Kata is a programming exercise with the sole purpose of
> improving your skills. This is not necessarily a program you write for a
> project, it's just practice code.
> (http://blogs.pragprog.com/cgi-bin/pragdave.cgi/Practices/CodeKata.rdoc)
>
> On Perl.com, I've seen three Perl Code Katas:
> * Perl Code Kata: Mocking Objects
>   (http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/04/07/mockobject_kata.html)
> * Perl Code Kata: Testing Databases
>   (http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/02/10/database_kata.html)
> * Perl Code Kata: Testing Taint
>   (http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/10/21/taint_testing_kata.html)
>
> We could start our own list of Katas and practice with them. We could post
> various solutions to the list and discuss what we like and dislike about
> them.
>
> We could archive the problems and particularly interesting approaches on the
> web site for other people to use.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> G. Wade

Interesting.  If you think you can find something that we
would all enjoy doing, start it off.  Maybe something very
simple would pull people in and get them thinking.

Maybe some kind of html extraction routine would be
something our members could use.


Mike