Re: "Linux Knowledge Base"

[Micah Yoder <LYoder@cyberis.net>]

"Aaron D. Turner" wrote:

> The perldoc is quite good for modules generally.  You may want to invest
> in the O'Reilly "Perl Resource Kit" ($100) which is a 4 volume set of the
> most popular perldocs.  If you like reading dead trees, it's an awesome

That would be nice.  I do have O'Reilly's panther book - Advanced Perl
Programming.

> reference.  As long as I have someone helping me code who has some decent
> DB experience to tell me when my coding ideas are never going to work,

Yeah...  I have a pretty good idea of the process of connecting to a DB
with Perl and getting data out of it.

> that's good enough for me.  Do you have any CGI.pm experiance?

I've used it a little.  But aren't we using mod_perl?  That would
eliminate the need for CGI.pm.  Maybe the interface is the same...

> Don't worry about the loading size too much.  Both Mike and Alan (my
> friend doing the logo) have a lot of experience playing with images so
> they compress well but retain their quality.  Harsh is good as long as
> it's constructive.  If you don't like it say so.  But if you don't feel
> qualified, then hopefully someone else will take this.  (I'll keep you
> plenty busy writing Perl! :-)

Yep, I'd criisize constructively.  I do want it to load quickly, but if
they're good at image compression that's fine.

I'd say we should allow maybe up to 40-50K of graphics on the main
page...no more.