I doubt I am the only monk who sees a couple of questions a day that have been asked a hundred times before.

How do I make a progress indicator, how do I keep the browser around on a long download, how do I do etc...

What's the best O'Reilly book of all time? In my opinion, the Perl Cook Book. There aren't many answers I can't find in there. What about setting up a Perlmonks Cookbook. Most of the answers are already here, it's just a matter of taking the content and repacking it into a more user friendly form. We could link to existing nodes as well.

Search doesn't seem to cut it for alot of people and many don't even bother. I think something like this could cut down alot on the line noise here and be a great resource for everybody.

-Lee

"To be civilized is to deny one's nature."

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Re: Questions, Cookbooks and Deja Vu.
by lemming (Priest) on Sep 21, 2001 at 10:08 UTC
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      Pretty funny. I should have done a search. It was a bit before my time. If this was part of the site, I don't think it would change the use from a copyright point of view, though I am far removed from lawyerdom. Why didn't this go anywhere? Do others think it's a good idea or is the consensus that is would be pointless. I think it would be a good idea IMHO.

      -Lee

      "To be civilized is to deny one's nature."
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        shotgunefx-

        I doubt I am the only monk who sees a couple of questions a day that have been asked a hundred times before.

        But isn't this something that you just did? :-)

        Search doesn't seem to cut it for alot of people and many don't even bother.

        Like yourself for example.

        Next time, please use super search at least, before posting already-posted material.

        In answer to your idea though, this type of idea is a really hard idea to put into actual existence. There are so many legal issues that it would be very unfeasible to try to do something like this. Besides, although it would be a good thing for people with slow connections to the internet, like jj808 brought up, wouldn't those people be better off just purchasing some books like the Camel, or even Llama, and just reading the perldoc's and manpages? Just a thought.

        I think the intention of the idea overall is nice, but in the end, there is no way to really do this thus far.

        Andy Summers
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Re: Questions, Cookbooks and Deja Vu.
by jj808 (Hermit) on Sep 21, 2001 at 14:20 UTC
    Good idea!

    I know that we already have Categorized Questions and Answers, but how about compiling it into a PDF file? I think this would be very useful for PDA/laptop users - trying to browse Perlmonks on a 9.6k GSM connection is not fun... but doing your work in the pub is :-)

    JJ

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