Welcome back bennierounder,

I am in the middle of reading "The Lean Startup" by Eric Ries. I believe I saw a reference to it on PM, and then ordered it from Amazon. It has changed my "mis-views" about business. I'm in the US, so I don't know if you can get it from a library, but you sound like the perfect candidate for it's content.

As a programmer, I have always waiting to get a "perfect" finished product before announcing it. The book was written by a programmer and that was how he was taught also. But he discovered that the best way was to build a MVP, or minimum viable product and then test the waters, and then retest again and again.

So why am I mentioning this, because one of those 'toy' tools may help you build your MVP faster, and then you can test your ideas.

In 1996, my wife wrote a book that was published by Howell Book House, a Simon and Schuster Macmillan Company titled 'Natural Food Recipes for Healthy Dogs'. Needless to say it was very controversial at the time! Now there are 100s of books about the subject.

I put up her web-site in 1997, and took months learning HTML. I couldn't find a product that could do what I wanted. ( When your looking for 'perfect' you never will. )

In 2003/4, my wife wanted to add a blog to her site, so she asked me to find one that would work for her. Again, I couldn't find the 'perfect' one, so I wrote one in Perl for her use. She would write the blog in Word, and I would move it into HTML for displaying on the blog. But the feedback from my wife was "...after you finish tinkering with my work, it doesn't look how I wanted it..." So now the compromise: She used a open source tool called 'Kompozer' on a linux desktop and publish the blog to a directory on a Unix server, and I wrote a Perl script to remove the headers and re-publish her blog at the time/date she wanted. She doesn't care about the HTML/CSS/javascript, but the content looks the way she wants and I don't have to look at the ugly code generated

Something like that might work for you! What ever you do, I wish you great success and keep using Perl.

Good Luck!

"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

In reply to Re: Websites Using Perl by flexvault
in thread Websites Using Perl by bennierounder

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