Nat,
Obviously you (or ORA) _are_ competing with "mod_perl Developer's
Cookbook" ...
If ORA wanted to cover mod_perl they should not have let Geoff & co. get
away to another publisher.
Trying now to cover highly complex topics like "Authenticating in
mod_perl" in a recipe in a chapter of the Perl cookbook is futile. It will
only serve to oversimplify and lead novices into a false sense of
competence. They'll then show up on this list demanding to know why their
hacks on your recipes do not function as expected.
I do not believe you will do any service to mod_perl or to your readers by
glossing over how large a field of study mod_perl is. It's almost as bad
as the "Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours" title put out by Geoff's
publisher.
I urge you to rethink this plan.
- nick
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Nick Tonkin {|8^)>
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> I need some people with brains (instead of the warm gray mush filling
> my head, the effects of becoming an editor) to look over the first 1/3
> or so of a mod_perl chapter for the upcoming Perl Cookbook. I need
> people to read the work for accuracy. If you're interested, send me
> mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
>
> I also need help on content. I'm not competing with Geoff, Randy, and
> Paul's excellent book (mod_perl Developer's Cookbook)--they have 630
> pages to cover way more topics than I do. Their book will always be
> the definitive place for a hard-core mod_perl developer to go--in
> fact, I'll have them in the See Also sections of the Perl Cookbook.
> But I need to cover 15-20 topics that most people of beginning to
> intermediate mod_perl use will encounter.
>
> Current recipe list:
> [gnat:~] grep head1 Ora/pcb2/ch21.pod
> =head1 Introduction
> =head1 Authenticating in mod_perl
> =head1 Setting Cookies in mod_perl
> =head1 Accessing Cookie Values from mod_perl
> =head1 Redirecting the Browser from mod_perl
> =head1 Interrogating Headers in mod_perl Handlers
> =head1 Accessing Form Parameters from mod_perl
> =head1 Receiving Uploaded Files in mod_perl
>
> All suggestions appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nat
>
>
