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Postings from January 2002
>>>>> "DR" == Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org> writes: DR> - A front page where we can list things like most recent reviews, most DR> recently added books, most popular Perl books, most popular computer DR> books, most popular general books, most prolific reviewers, etc. i like that. sorta headlines and stuff. but it means we need to keep it fresh and that takes work. every month/week/bi-week? DR> These might be some sort of sidebar (kind of like the slashboxes DR> on Slashdot and use Perl). The center could have a featured book DR> (something the admins would set) and maybe a section for a generic DR> news headline where we might put something about a new perl book. no need for that if we have some headlines and short paragraphs, etc. i am not into busy pages like that. DR> - search form. Search for books by: DR> -- title DR> -- author DR> -- publisher DR> -- ISBN DR> -- category DR> -- copyright year DR> -- checkbox for only books with reviews search by type, level of experience (newbie, etc.), topics, sort results by ranking, publisher, etc. DR> - search results (with paging controls) DR> - a page for a single book. All the book's info (hmm, we need a way to DR> have cover images) plus any reviews available. i already had a design that sorta does it. the search (or my old main list) would have basic facts and menus of reviews and links including the cover and original book pages among others. i recommend all who want to work on this look at my site just to get ideas (good and bad!). DR> There should be an option for logged in users to write a review and/or DR> rank the book (1-10). and we would want to be able to rank the rankers. :) seriously, my opinion (knowing books and perl well) should be more valuable than some moron kiddie who thinks dummies is just perfect. DR> - a form for submitting a new book good idea. we need some review board to approve new books. most any decent CS or popular book with the perl community would get in. of course any book with a minimum perl content would be in. we can find almost all of those by scanning amazon, etc. i had written a simple script to do that. it can be redone to integrate well with this. find books with perl content that are not already in the DB. DR> That would be the bulk of the site, plus some admin pieces which don't DR> have to look fancy. Uri may have some ideas for other pages as well. bios/credentials of the most well known reviewers? book price searching? we could become an affiliate(s) with our cut going to perl.org or YAS. easy way to support the perl community. keys to telling if a perl book is good? schwern had a couple of neat points he always checks for in the index. many perl books fail it. call this page, how to judge a perl book. musings, uri -- Uri Guttman ------ uri@stemsystems.com -------- http://www.stemsystems.com -- Stem is an Open Source Network Development Toolkit and Application Suite - ----- Stem and Perl Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding ---- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org