Re: The Enlightened Perl Iron Man Competition

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Re^2: The Enlightened Perl Iron Man Competition by moritz (Cardinal) on Apr 24, 2009 at 15:52 UTC
I agree (and I nearly published my last blog entry about Perl 6 nearly as a Meditation), but the Meditation section misses something important, compared to "real" blogs: an RSS (or atom) feed. It might look like a small detail, but to me it makes a big difference; it neither appears in blog aggregators nor in my feed reader. Update: Of course Perlmonks has a huge advantage over normal blogs, the discussions are often much better and in-depth. Having it as a superset of a "normal" blog would be really cool. If I had an RSS feed that contains all of my Meditation nodes, I'd write nearly everything perl related here (except when I want hilighting for Perl code).	[reply]
Re^3: The Enlightened Perl Iron Man Competition by jdporter (Paladin) on Apr 24, 2009 at 18:13 UTC
...misses something important, compared to "real" blogs: an RSS (or atom) feed. Somehow I knew someone would bring this up. I know it's not perfect, but there is: http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=30175;xmlstyle=rss;types=perlmeditation Between the mind which plans and the hands which build, there must be a mediator... and this mediator must be the heart.	[reply]
Re^4: The Enlightened Perl Iron Man Competition by moritz (Cardinal) on Apr 26, 2009 at 19:54 UTC
It's much better than nothing, although not perfect. Somehow I knew someone would bring this up. And I know why you knew it - because it's not obvious how to find it. RSS feeds are usually linked in the page header with `<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="...">` so that the browser or feed readers can discover it automatically. Having neither that nor a link labeled "RSS" or "Feed" or so renders it basically invisible - except for those who had the luck of reading this thread ;-)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: The Enlightened Perl Iron Man Competition by Corion (Patriarch) on Apr 26, 2009 at 21:11 UTC
Re^6: The Enlightened Perl Iron Man Competition by jdporter (Paladin) on Apr 29, 2009 at 20:00 UTC
Re^5: The Enlightened Perl Iron Man Competition by jdporter (Paladin) on Apr 27, 2009 at 01:18 UTC
Re^4: The Enlightened Perl Iron Man Competition by Mutant (Priest) on Apr 30, 2009 at 10:15 UTC
Maybe we could get this added to some of the aggregators like Planet Perl?	[reply]
Re^2: The Enlightened Perl Iron Man Competition by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Apr 24, 2009 at 16:12 UTC
It's not just about doing it. There is an amazing wealth of info on this site and I personally recommend it as often as I can. It's also about spreading Perl around to more IPs, inter-related sites, etc. It's visibility outside of the "echo chamber" Schwern discussed in his slides and it's good search engine seeding. E.g., I just did a sample Google search for Perl + ${redacted common term} and my site was above Perl Monks in the results.	[reply]


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