Is there good source code related to web development to learn from?

Question

I've recently read Code Reading and found that if I wanted to grow my skills as a software developer it would be useful for me to read more code. I'm currently working in the world of mod_perl, apache, unix, mysql, javascript and xslt (some sort of LAMP I guess).

I would like to find great literature of source code in these fields which I can read from. I know we have the whole knowledge tree in CPAN but the maze is so huge that a newbie like myself would easily get lost in it.

So building on the two useful questions that i've gone through briefly here: how-do-you-actually-read-source-code what-is-some-great-source-code-to-read

So my questions are what are good source codes that i can read in terms of the programming technologies that I'm using to further improve myself?

And the programming language doesn't matter as long as the source code is good?

thanks.

Answer 1

Reading other people's source code is good, but I think if you really want to learn, right your own code. Give yourself a problem and solve it, solve it in different languages, that will give you a good feel of what languages are good for what purposes.

But if you want to read code, especially javascript source code, it is not hard to find at all, its all over the web. Try these sites for starters:

planet-source-code

codebeach

Answer 2

I suggest searching GitHub for recently update perl projects or libraries. GitHub projects are easy to fork and tinker with; A great way to learn more about a language or other development styles. Also, if the project was recently updated then it's likely you'll find an author/developer who can answer your questions. Most people are fairly receptive to questions.