Personally, I don't have any ideas, but I'd like to write some tutorials. I wrote the one on using (s)printf and actually love helping people out in this way. I'm not that great at answering questions in SOPW and things, but I kind of enjoy the tutorial thing.

Please let me know if there are any I can do. /msg me or email me (my email's on my home node) if anyone has anything I can do.

local $_ = "0A72656B636148206C72655020726568746F6E41207473754A";
while(s/..$//) { print chr(hex($&)) }
[download]

I just noticed that there is a section about this in Chapter 5 of the new edition of O'Reilly's "CGI Programming in Perl" (haven't got that far tho' so I can't comment on what it says).

There's also a chapter on HTML templating systems which discusses HTML::Template, Embperl and (briefly) HTML::Mason. Nothing on the Template Toolkit tho'.

--
<http://www.dave.org.uk>

European Perl Conference - Sept 22/24 2000, ICA, London
<http://www.yapc.org/Europe/>

I already look at a lot of the issues in the various columns I write, such as my WebTechniques Perl column.

If other topics would be worth writing about, please send me suggestions, and I'll mention you in the column!

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

Which code do you need explained? Is it the bit of code by jeffa at http://www.perlmonks.com/index.pl?node_id=20982&lastnode_id=20776& ?

J. J. Horner
Linux, Perl, Apache, Stronghold, Unix
jhorner@knoxlug.org http://www.knoxlug.org/

I would love to see a tutorial on setting up mod_perl/apache and what you need to do to your cgi scripts to make them use the creamy mod_perl goodness. I've been told it is quite easy, but I've had problems following the docs.

Also, a tutorial on Template Toolkit would be fantastic. There is a lot of information in the docs, so something that could thin it down a bit would be great.

Just my two cents worth
void where prohibited.

I'll second the mod_perl Guide (http://perl.apache.org/guide). Stas et al. has worked long and hard to put together this very comprehensive document. No, it is not short. But if you read the guide, along with the Eagle book "Writing Apache Modules w/ Perl and C", you will be able to do all the common tasks a mod_perl programmer might be asked to do. And you'll at least know where to start for the uncommon requests.

There is also the Mod_perl Cookbook coming out in January http://www.modperlcookbook.com/. I gather the format is similar to the Perl Cookbook, which is most helpful if you have a specific task you would like to complete.

Well, mod_perl tutorial is rather short:

Start tutorial

Read mod_perl Guide.

End tutorial

:)

--
Ilya Martynov (http://martynov.org/)

guide ne tutorial
and
book ne tutorial