[Catalyst] Is Catalyst large enough to sustain a book?

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Michele Beltrame wrote:
>> On that subject, I don't really see what the fuss is about. What's the
>> problem to have lots of contributions from people who are hot on various
>> different topics of cat, and put them together with *gasp* a TOC/Index
>> so people can read what they want? I've used technical books like that
>> for years, in fact my favourite ones have extra appeal *because* I can
>> use them like that. ("Ooh, I never knew I was interested in that ...")
>>     
>
> This is my idea as well. Maybe we could set a wiki up so we can see if
> we can work something out...
>   


Your wish is my command :)

http://catalyst.infogami.com/cookbook

It's meant to be a cookbook, with short "recipes" for specific tasks. It
doesn't want to be a comprehensive manual (yet). The TOC is taken from
the Catalyst Advent Calendar topics. I started to transfer content (I
know some of it is outdated) from the same Calendar. It's surprisingly
easy with just one or two issues (<pre> blocks aren't recognized inside
<ol> and footnotes take some extra work to setup) coming up until now. 
Ideally all recipes would have a consistent style (perhaps the one in
the Perl Cookbook ?) and there would also be a searchable index.

Infogami is a pretty good wiki for this as far as access control, ease
of use and customization possibilities are concerned (for example, we
could even setup voting for the recipes à la reddit), though if it
expands enough I might consider moving the site to my own server
(running on some kind of wiki, of course, though I haven't found a good
one yet). The only downside would be that there's no fast & easy way of
getting the markdown source of the pages.

If you wish to contribute (put up new topics, fix outdated info, etc)
you can create an infogami account here:

http://catalyst.infogami.com/_account/in

and email me so I can grant you edit access.

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