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  • Commented on Site Front Page
    @brian: I don't think a widget has disappeared. The templates had a bit of a light edit a week or so ago, but no widgets were removed. There's a "recent posts" widget on individual blogs, but not on the site...
  • Commented on Site Front Page
    We are investigating ways to make MT auto-chop posts that get too long. And even if you split your post between the "body" and "extended" fields, the whole text still shows up in the web feed. I agree with brian...
  • Posted Site Front Page to Meta
    The front page of blogs.perl.org is like an advert for the Perl have. We should try to make it as attractive as possible.

    If the first three posts on the front page are huge essays or massive code listings then the…
  • Commented on CPAN {Spring|Autumn} cleaning time again
    BooK, I saw that when reading the QA Hackathon wiki just now. This made me very excited as it was only a couple of days ago that I considered doing that myself. So, how far did you get?...
  • Commented on CPAN {Spring|Autumn} cleaning time again
    use.perl didn't go away but, sadly, the URL scheme changed soon after pudge closed it down. Your post is still available though....
  • Commented on What exactly is going on at Perlmonks?
    "It's only a joke" is never an acceptable response to criticism like this. It doesn't really matter what the writer was intending, what matters is how the reader interprets it. If you think that stuff like this doesn't matter then...
  • Commented on Better late than never - Perl School is awesome!
    @Alex: Thanks for the blog post. Glad that you enjoyed it so much. @Erik: Perl School is really cheap, so I don't have the money to do clever stuff like recording them. It's possible that something like that might happen...
  • Commented on what to know about aligning
    I know nothing about biology or bioinformatics, but I strongly suspect that you should be looking at BioPerl....
  • Commented on [FB]izzBuzz in Perl
    I quite like: say ("Fizz"x!($_%3)."Buzz"x!($_%5)or$_) for 1..100...
  • Commented on [FB]izzBuzz in Perl
    You can replace the first two tests with: !(%_ % 15) Or (slightly more self-documenting): !($_ % (3*5))...
  • Commented on How to put desired data & snaps in word .doc defined format from xls & snaps folder?
    I don't know of any Perl tools for manipulating Word documents. But you could search MetaCPAN for modules that support OpenOffice documents or RTF. Also, blogs.perl.org probably isn't the best place for questions like this. You might be better off...
  • Commented on Read/Write Web bag o links
    You couldn't make them actual links? So people could click on them....
  • Commented on Hi all i had tried to execute the following perl script to plot tha data but i am getting ocate object method add_chart via package Spreadsheet::WriteExcel error can u help this ...!!!
    @Jakob: I've deleted the spam entry that you mention. But I should point out that the site admins can't be guaranteed to see every discussion on the site, so you're better advised to use the "feedback" link (at the bottom...
  • Commented on Is this a place where I can get some technical input?
    As Shawn says, it's almost certainly because IIS isn't configured to know how to deal with CGI programs. Googling for "configure iis for cgi" gave a number of useful looking links. This one covers IIS 7. http://community.activestate.com/forum-topic/configuring-perl-iis-7-0...
  • Commented on New feature: front page pagination
    Hmm... I wonder how I did that. I don't remember doing it. But I'll certainly try to turn it off. Update: Looks like that's fixed. Apologies for the inconvenience....
  • Commented on Why I'm considering dropping Perlmonks
    I think it would be a shame if you were driven away from Perl Monks over this incident. It would be a shame because it would be one fewer voice of sanity against the frat-boy hordes. Attitudes like this need...
  • Commented on Finding Perl material online
    I took the opposite approach and build a custom Google search that only searches known useful sites. See http://perlhacks.com/search/...
  • Commented on The Conference T-Shirts
    Ooh, they look really nice. I especially like the grey one. I'm starting to regret the fact that I can't be there this year :-(...
  • Commented on How to set up visitor analyzis on blogs.perl.org
    Thank you for drawing our attention to it :-) I think that our solution will be in two phases: 1/ Prevent HTML in the description field. 2/ Add support for Google Analytics. I'm not sure how soon either of those...
  • Commented on How to set up visitor analyzis on blogs.perl.org
    Hmm... It's probably a bug that Movable Type allows a user to insert arbitrary Javascript into what is intended to be a text field....
  • Commented on still no YAPC::Euope 2013 proposals
    Perhaps it's time to start the cycle of cities again from the start :-) [Before anyone in London gets any ideas - THIS IS A JOKE!]...
  • Commented on Announcing Math::Mathematica
    Does it have an alias to Maths::Mathematica? For those of us who speak English :-)...
  • Commented on Why my()?
    It seems to me that JT's posts are exactly on-topic for this site. I can't see any way that they can be described as spam....
  • Commented on Twitter Bootstrap templates for Dancer Applications
    This is great. I had been considering something like this myself. Thanks for beating me to it :-)...
  • Commented on Don't Be Rude (and welcome to meta)
    OpenID hasn't intentionally gone anywhere. If it's missing then that's a bug that should be fixed. Please raise it as an issue so it doesn't get forgotten....
  • Commented on Truth about Booking.com
    You must be new to the Perl community. We meet in bars a lot :-) Note that meeting in bars doesn't necessarily entail turning to drugs. I find that an orange juice or a diet coke usually hits the spot....
  • Commented on Scalar-only Perl
    Argh. Oops, yes, fixed. Thanks for pointing it out. But in this case, the error wasn't a symptom of the complexity of the scalar-only syntax. It was simply a symptom of the pointlessness of posting at ridiculously early times of...
  • Commented on Scalar-only Perl
    I've been thinking of something similar. Well, not where beginners don't know about arrays and hashes, but where they only need to know about references to those data structures. Suddenly a whole level of Perl complexity goes away as complex...
  • Commented on Today, it's my first day I talk about Perl...
    @Leo, Both of those references seem rather out of date. The online tutorial mentions Perl 5.8.6 and the book was published in 1999. I recommend that you start recommending some more up to date material :-)...
  • Commented on blogs.perl.org needs your help!
    To address some of the points raised here: @stevenharyanto: I haven't noticed much comment spam myself. It's the blog spam that I have to clean up regularly. @Robert: I don't think it needs to be Perl. But I can imagine...
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