Have you been reading the tutorials on The Perl Advent Calendar? They're really useful and very well written.
If I was a publisher I'd be approaching 2shortplanks to see if he's interested in writing a book.
I love the idea that some people think that I'd written twenty five tutorials in advance. No chance! They're written the night before, with a few spare that I can use on nights where I'm busy having a life.
I guess each tutorial takes about three hours or so to write. It does help that I have some excellent modules to work with - the very nature of the calendar means I don't have to deal with things I don't want to.
Re:Thanks
ziggy on 2002-12-09T14:14:33
Don't forget that you have a previous fifty modules to work with.:-) Re:Thanks
merlyn on 2002-12-09T16:19:06
Ahh, now you know a bit of what it's like to have written over 160 magazine articles.I figure I averaged between 2 and 6 hours on each of those, just writing, not counting the "grok" time for the underlying modules.
Re:Thanks
darobin on 2002-12-15T17:50:29
The odd typo may give away the fact that they've been rushed a bit but to be honest the quality is so good that I wouldn't have guessed they were written the night before. Many kudos on these!
Two feature requests: 1) email reminders because I hate forgetting it one day and reading two the day after. Opening yesterday's box make it feel a little less "special" (ok, I use my agenda software instead, but I prefer mail
;); and 2) comments. There have been a number of times when I have wanted to say "hey, and you can also use that to [insert some code]". Again thanks!
Re:Thanks
2shortplanks on 2002-12-16T15:39:21
Both of these features were slated for this year's realase. And both of them are 80% written too.Then I ran out of time. But hey, that's life. Now I'm too busy doing JIT advent calendar writing, and I'm really worried about mucking with a live site.
However a) I will have these next year b) If plans pan out you won't have to wait that long for something similar to return.
They may be Last Minute tutorials, but they are still very enjoyable and well written! I don't know how many it's possible to write, but I agree that a "Cooking with CPAN/Perl" is possible
There is even a syndication feed, so us RSS junkies are happy too!
