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Postings from December 2003
Mark Jason Dominus wrote: > I don't know if this will be interesting, > but here's a note I've had in my PROJECTS file for several years: > > Make a permuted index for the Camel book. Ask everyone on > clpm and p5p to open the book at random, enter a one-sentence > desription of something on the page, and mail it to me with a > page number. If they send > > Mapping from parentheses to backreference variables in regex match > > then make entries for > > backreference variables in regex match, Mapping from parentheses to > Mapping from parentheses to backreference variables in regex match > match, Mapping from parentheses to backreference variables in regex > parentheses to backreference variables in regex match, Mapping from > regex match, Mapping from parentheses to backreference variables in > variables in regex match, Mapping from parentheses to backreference > > If a hundred people do this, it might be useful. Then again > maybe not---but it's worth a try. > > 20030907 > > Get O'Reilly to give you an online copy of the Camel book. > Display a random page, and have the web user fill in a form > with the description. That way you can (a) control the > randomization; (b) ensure that there's no duplication of > effort, and (c) collate the index automatically. > > I didn't mention it in the note, but I should probably point out that > displaying a single random page of a book is not going to give people > an opportunity to steal the book. Mark, another way to reach this is to use the brilliant idea used by the authors of the mod_perl cookbook. They have a full-text search capability on their site: http://modperlcookbook.org/cgi-bin/swish.cgi You get to search the real book, and it gives you a short context and the page numbers in the book. e.g. searching for Apache::Registry: http://modperlcookbook.org/cgi-bin/swish.cgi?query=Apache%3A%3ARegistry&submit=Search%21&sort=pageno I've mentioned this idea to Nat, and hopefully we will see ora.com adding this feature to all ORA books. Next they may want to mix it with Safari. __________________________________________________________________ Stas Bekman JAm_pH ------> Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide ---> http://perl.apache.org mailto:stas@stason.org http://use.perl.org http://apacheweek.com http://modperlbook.org http://apache.org http://ticketmaster.com