tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36345871.post8018668024889094149..comments2023-07-11T05:39:57.966-07:00Comments on Perl Alchemy - notes of a programmer: Iron Man Blogging Challengezbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04636763782334128869noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36345871.post-33173511837780934312009-06-30T05:50:10.615-07:002009-06-30T05:50:10.615-07:00Matt I think you need to adjust the wording at the...Matt I think you need to adjust the wording at the rules page then: "The rules are very simple: you blog, about Perl."zbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04636763782334128869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36345871.post-25499545762464760662009-06-29T13:16:08.147-07:002009-06-29T13:16:08.147-07:00What mutant said. I'll get the planet updated ...What mutant said. I'll get the planet updated to handle an 'ironman' tag.<br /><br />But half my posts are "things I think perl people will be interested in", and I think that's correct.<br /><br />If you think every post has to be specifically about perl, UR COMPREHENDING IT COMPLETELY WRONG - so hop onto #epo-ironman and tell us what we need to change to make it more clear.Matt S Trout (mst)https://www.blogger.com/profile/04490146750997291286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36345871.post-744203485953248052009-06-29T09:27:47.681-07:002009-06-29T09:27:47.681-07:00Well, my philosophy is, if I think it's intere...Well, my philosophy is, if I think it's interesting to the Perl community, or people on Iron Man, then I'll just tag it Perl, and have it show up on the Planet, even if it's not directly Perl related.<br /><br />If I was blogging about my cat, then tagging it Perl would be an abuse, but if I'm blogging about testing (as I have just done) then I don't see a problem tagging it Perl.<br /><br />Maybe they need to have another tag that the planet picks up (e.g. Iron Man) so you can force those posts to show up without polluting your Perl tag space.Mutanthttp://samcrawley.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36345871.post-69454193418577109702009-06-27T13:18:18.899-07:002009-06-27T13:18:18.899-07:00As an example you can take my post on scaffoldings...As an example you can take my post on scaffoldings (http://perlalchemy.blogspot.com/2009/06/on-scaffoldings.html). Now it can be not interesting at all, but I believe it has more potential to engage people from outside of the Perl community than a post about some Perl library, or technique or something. It discusses things that are relevant to every programmer, it talks about the metaphor introduced in Rails - this is something that the Rails people could read and relate to (if it was interesting). So in general if you want to engage the outside world then talk about their problems, use their language - the link to Perl will always be obvious to every reader and even if it was not obvious it still has more chances to get through.zbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04636763782334128869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36345871.post-60551850928841989652009-06-27T05:21:34.668-07:002009-06-27T05:21:34.668-07:00I wrote a somewhat related post, but that you know...I <a href="http://szabgab.com/blog/2009/06/1245788806.html" rel="nofollow">wrote</a> a somewhat related post, but that you know as you have commented there too.<br /><br />At first I did not understand your post but now I think I got it.<br /><br />Still I think if you give more examples of what do you mean that would help people to think about posts.szabgabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06240863335473730779noreply@blogger.com