(Coyote) Re: Re: Re: Searches

I remember a project mentioned on comp.lang.perl.misc about a year ago to rewrite some of the horrid scripts out there. I don't know if this ever made it out of the planning stages. Unfortunately, they called the project CRAP. I'm not sure what the acronym stood for, but it makes it almost impossible to find any information about it via the usual web searches.

As an aside, maybe we should create some basic tutorials on how to create a guestbook, form mailer, page counter, etc. since these things come up pretty often for new users. It seems like the monastery would be the perfect place for such a thing since we have a wealth of good programmers and an incredibly effective peer review system.

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Re: (Coyote) Re: Re: Re: Searches by davorg (Chancellor) on Feb 18, 2001 at 18:37 UTC
This was japhy's project. He renamed it to SOAP (Stamp Out Awful Perl), but I don't know what happened to it then. -- <http://www.dave.org.uk> "Perl makes the fun jobs fun and the boring jobs bearable" - me	[reply]
I don't feel it's good by Chady (Priest) on Feb 18, 2001 at 01:56 UTC
I have to disagree with the last part... I think that this will change the "face" of the monastery to become like any commercial site, and stray away from the feel of the community that is going on around here.. Please don't make the monastery a place for trading guestbooks, and form mailers... I agree with the tutorials part... Chady \| http://chady.net/	[reply]
(Coyote) Re: I don't feel it's good by Coyote (Deacon) on Feb 18, 2001 at 02:37 UTC
Perhaps I should clarify my position a bit. I'm not suggesting that the monestary should become a flea market for page counters and form mailers. I am suggesting we teach people how to accomplish common cgi tasks with the assumption that we are writting tutorials for people who have limited experience with perl and limited resources to deal with. For example, I think we should have a tutorial on how to build a cgi guestbook using only the tools available with the standard perl distribution (i.e., cgi.pm, text files; no access to MySQL or another RDBMS). Maybe we should have tutorials that focus on accomplishing these tasks on Win32 since alot of these questions originate from that platform. It's the whole teach a man to fish thing. ---- Coyote	[reply]