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Documentation vs. Useful Documentation
Extensive documentation is time-consuming, but relatively simple to create. USEFUL documentation is potentially time-consuming, and can be difficult to create as well. My approach to documentation (the tl;dr): Record what challenged me personally about a problem. Fill in background gaps. Add gory details as addendums or links (depending on stability of source documentation) Organize so…
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Perl Documentation Bookmarklets
Below are some bookmarklets to quick link to CPAN documentation… Click and drag the links to your bookmark bar or use the included source code to create the bookmarklets. They will generate a prompt something like this when clicked: Bookmarklet to search for a keyword in CPAN documentation: Search CPAN Source: javascript:{x=prompt(“Search%20for%20module”);window.location=’http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module;query=’+x;} Bookmarklet to bring…