Greetings all,
I have been playing with the idea of writing a few tutorials about some useful tips common to web development like "storing and retrieving binary data in a database" or "using Perl with Flash". Yet, since there are already tutorials out there that deal with these subjects either directly or indirectly, I would like to avoid re-inventing the wheel.
Would anyone else, aside from myself, be interested in reading reviews of offsite tutorials and perhaps having some commentary as to how the concepts could be applied using Perl?
Immediatley Florian Dittmer's tutorial Binary Data + MySQL + PHP How to Store Images Directly in the Sql Database on PHPBuilder springs to mind as a well written and well thought out tutorial that could be applied to any language. I would therefore rather refer to his article than simply rewriting/rehashing it (the whole give credit where credit is due credo).
Granted, I have my own methodologies I follow as a means of making these concepts work, but then again so would anyone, and therein lies the impetus for the offsite tutorial review concept.
I'm confident that most monasteries could handle the non-Perl aspects of such tutorials and simply glean what is requisite to accomplish their specific tasks or goals. Anyone that would be having trouble would have the benefit of a collective threaded review of the concepts offered up by fellow Monks.
Perhaps create another section under Reviews to house such postings?
Thoughts?

-injunjoel
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use." -Galileo

In reply to Offsite Tutorial Reviews? by injunjoel

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