in reply to Perl vocabulary builder utility

Pretty much, it sounds like a good idea, with simply the need to get the cards online some place. If you don't have your own server, the numerous free server spaces (geocities, etc), even with the various strings attached, would work. I'm not sure what format that your flashcard package stores the data in, but if you can get it into XML, that would be great, but even something as simple as HTML would work. Then just make sure you post your site as a new node and possibly in your home node, and hopefully people would continue visiting it.

One thing you may want to do is increase the knowledge base of your flashcards by allowing others to submit good summaries for them. I'd try to set up a special site for this; the script would simply take submissions for flashcards, which would be stored in some fashion, with the ability for yourself to moderate it. It would be a rather simple script to set up. You'd also want to make sure that the current list of cards is available to the web in general, preferrably in some fashion *cough*xml*cough* that would allow the enduser to put the cards into any format they think is useful. Those that contribute can also see what entries have been included already.


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Re: Re: Perl vocabulary builder utility
by nysus (Parson) on Apr 12, 2001 at 02:15 UTC
    Thanks for the suggestions. I do have my own server I could set it up on. Unfortunately, I don't have *any* knowledge of XML. I like your idea of having a community of users help develop them. Again, unfortunately, I don't yet have the expertise to set something like that up but I would definitely be interested in moderating it, perhaps with the help of a Monk or two to ensure accuracy. I'll begin thinking about how the cards could displayed in HTML.

    The way my system works now is that I have the O'Reilly Perl books on CD. I link my PDA to my computer and whatever I copy to the clipboard becomes available to paste into my PDA. Getting the data back out of my PDA and posting it to the web would probably violate copyright. It might be best just to start with a list of raw flash words, no definitions, and start from there.

    I'll think some more on this.