Re: perl books

there is a thread on use.perl.org about a perl books page. dave and i
are moving our thread back to the book workers list. 

  DR> We can definitely do exactly what your page has in terms of
  DR> sorting and links to covers and such.

good. i want even more ways to order and sort and select the books. this
means cataloging all books with tags and ratings and such too.

  DR> I do want to use a real database (or a real SQL-based filesystem like
  DR> MySQL ;) though.

for complex searches we need that. even with a small db, the sql search
alone is a win.

  DR> Well, one thing you should realize is I want to make this a
  DR> general books site, not just Perl.  First of all, I'd like to have
  DR> other programming books listed.  Second, other tech books.  And
  DR> finally, it'd be nice to just let people submit anything they're
  DR> reading.

that is news to me. hmm, the page is books.perl.org. maybe if the books
are techie in the right way and are popular with perl hackers i could
see it. so maybe a popular book could be added by consensus/voting,
etc. i can see many books that would fit there. the use.perl thread has
a list from acme and london.pm.

  DR> Obviously, the top level will focus on Perl and programming stuff
  DR> but it should be possible to browse through all of it.

this makes sense. so the primary thing we need is a DB with info on each
book. do we want to start spec'ing out that now? my old page has a
minimal set of info for each book. we can make a table which gives each
book an id (which could be the isbn), has the primary facts about it
(isbn, title, author, publisher, pages, etc) and other tables would have
rows indexed by that book id (reviews, ratings, links, sample chapters,
etc.)

anyhow i like that some energy is being focused on this project. let's
keep it rolling.

uri

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