Certain sections have categories, including (but (not?) limited to?): Tutorials, Code Catacombs, and Categorized Questions and Answers. Wouldn't it be cool if they all shared a common set of categories? If they did, then an enhanced synergy among these sections becomes an intriguing possibility.
Update
Take a look at the categories which currently exist in those three sections:
| Code | CatQA | Tut |
| Audio | Arrays | CGI Programming |
| CGI Programming | CGI Programming | Databases |
| Chatterbox Clients | Data Formatting | Files and Directories |
| Cryptography | Data Structures | Functions, Subroutines, and Variables |
| Database Programming | Getting Started | |
| FTP | Dates and Times | Miscellaneous |
| Fun | Debugging | Network Programming |
| GUI Programming | Directories | Object Oriented Perl |
| HTML | Files | Perl Idioms |
| Miscellaneous | GUI Programming | PerlMonks |
| Networking | Hashes | Regular Expressions |
| NT Admin | HTTP and FTP Clients | Specific CPAN Modules |
| PerlMonks | Input and Output | Tips, Performance, and Troubleshooting |
| Text Processing | Mail and News | Writing, Installing, and Using Modules |
| Utility | Math | |
| Web | Network Programming | |
| Win32 | Numbers | |
| Object-Oriented Programming | ||
| Programs And Processes | ||
| References | ||
| Regular Expressions | ||
| Sorting | ||
| Strings | ||
| Subroutines | ||
| Testing |
There's something about this discrepancy that I find inelegant. Wouldn't it be nice if we could sync up the set of categories in each section, and keep them in sync going forward?
Update2:
I'm thinking it would be nice to have a category-centric view which cuts across the sections — or rather, ties them together. For example, if someone is interested in CGI Programming, they know where to go for tutorials, for FAQs, and for code samples/solutions.
I guess, when you come right down to it, the sections, as they're presented, are table-centric, which is to say, low level, but not necessarily natural from a user's perspective. Imagine a site doc with an index with entries like so:
Fortunately, what I'm proposing doesn't involve any site code changes. Just some coordinated efforts among the Pedagogues (for Tutorials), Janitors (for Code), and QandAEditors.