See Illuminations. It is not a new section, but rather a "curated" list of best questions and answers. For background, see The Categorized Questions and Answers section has been decommissioned.

Ah! All is explained. I've never noticed the Illuminations link up above. Thanks for doing this.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

Thanks PJ. We owe you so much. Groklaw -- RIP -- 2003 to 2013.

I've never noticed the Illuminations link up above.

I added it a mere four days ago. You seem to be the first person to have noticed! :-)

I saw three posts that were 'blessed' by people in the Notices section of the side panel. Is this new? What does it mean?

talexb, though I didn't notice the Notices section, I was astonished to see three gold stars magically appear in Bod's probing XS Modules - why and when? question ... and delighted to share this rare honour with the Bod and the LanX ... though I confess I didn't give it further thought until your question appeared today.

Poking around in the catacombs, I see most of the eleven gold stars in Illuminations (category: sorting) were awarded to significant historical figures in the monastery, including two gold stars awarded to PM founder vroom himself:

• How do I do a complex sort on an array? by vroom (Jan 08, 2000) - answers from vroom, merlyn
• How do I sort a list of numbers? by vroom (Jan 21, 2000) - answered by vroom
• How do I sort a multidimensional arrays? by anonymonk (May 28, 2000) - answers from reptile, merlyn, chromatic
• How do I write my own sorting routine? by Russ (Jul 05, 2000) - answered by Russ
• How do I sort on more than one column? by Russ (Jul 23, 2000) - answered by Russ
• How do I sort a list chronologically from most recent to last? by anonymonk (Oct 28, 2000) - answer from chromatic

• How do I do a natural sort on an array? by anonymonk (Mar 30, 2001) - answers from indigo, tye, Dominus, salva
• How do I sort something by date? by damian1301 (May 31, 2001)
• How do I sort a Hash of Hashes? by greywolf (Jan 10, 2004)
• How do I use a sort routine from a different package/module? by bobf (Jun 09, 2005)
• How do I print the values of a hash, sorted by the hash keys? by kwaping (Jul 21, 2006)

When the smoke has cleared around these gold stars, I'll update my Sorting References and Perl Monks history notes.

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Thanks for asking. I was confused as well. But i got my SiteDocClan permissions around the same time, so i was not sure if it was a new feature or just something old that i now could see thanks to changes to my user account.

And i was a bit shy to ask, because i hadn't had time yet to RTFM.

One of my weaknesses is that I do ask questions. :) I've been away from the site for a while, so didn't feel too much of a noob to ask the question. Turned out it was a good question. Who knew.

Some people don't like that about me .. I've had a few bosses say things like, "Just figure it out yourself!", and I always think, Sure, I can do that, but wouldn't it be faster if someone walked me through a few things?

Maybe this would be better in a Meditation.

Edit:: Just created What is the right amount of onboarding?.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

Thanks PJ. We owe you so much. Groklaw -- RIP -- 2003 to 2013.

I've had a few bosses say things like, "Just figure it out yourself!", and I always think, Sure, I can do that, but wouldn't it be faster if someone walked me through a few things? Maybe this would be better in a Meditation.

Looking forward to it.

I hope more bosses nowadays appreciate the vital importance of Psychological Safety, discussed in more detail here, which notes that a large-scale Google study found that Psychological Safety is, by far, the single most important factor in successful teamwork.

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