[pm-h] Group project

[Mike Flannigan]

On 10/4/2011 11:03 PM, G. Wade Johnson 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.


I like this idea also.  It's going to take
some up-front work.  Get somebody on that soon :-)

I have the Cookbook - basically the first edition
with 2 corrections though 5/1999.  I use it quite
often.

So we are talking about rewriting the entire script
of the recipes, not just the code part.  That
sounds good to me.



Mike