The most painfully obvious thing that happens when you get promoted on perlmonks is your experience needed total goes up a few hundred points ;) I have just been promoted to friar and, while the extra votes etc are nice, it would be really nice if we had something tangible to show for all our hard work answering questions and obfuscating code when we are supposed to be doing something 'productive' ;)

It struck me that something that would be easy to produce would be a 'scroll of achievement' saying something like:

Certificate of perl Holiness

This is to commemorate the perlmonk $name achieving the position of $rank

This is due to his/her/its (delete as appropriate) dedication to the holiest of languages. By achiving this position they have proved themselves immune to the callow blandishments of visual basic, have stood firm against the unholy Bill and all his minions, have, most probably, embraced the penguin and, most holy of animals, the camel (but only embraced, we hope). Blah, blah, blah..... pad it out a bit... ;)

Signature of the Holy Vroom

 

Something like this could be automatically generated as a PNG file and emailed to the lucky monk. He, she or it could then print it off, frame it and use it to show off to cow-orkers

Any thoughts?

$japh->{'Caillte'} = $me;

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Re: Ego Boosts
by Rex(Wrecks) (Curate) on Sep 25, 2001 at 21:51 UTC
    The requested thoughts...

    "proved themselves immune to the callow blandishments of visual basic" -- How does hanging out here do that? I use VB where I NEED IT! Just like Perl. Just because Perl gets used more doesn't mean I drop VB.

    "have stood firm against the unholy Bill and all his minions" -- How so? I run half my code on ActiveState (Win2K) and the other half on FreeBSD

    "have, most probably, embraced the penguin" -- Yeah right...how blind can you be. To assume that the only OS any Perl hacker would run would be Linux is assuming way to much. As stated before, even my Unix machines are not Linux, not that I have any issues with Linux, I just don't prefer it.

    <rant>
    I think you have missed one of the coolest things about Perl, that it does run on multiple platforms, that it is a tool that can be used in whatever environment you find yourself in, and that you can go to the communities and not have to watch out for the zealots that seem to think there is only one kernel in the world that has ever had smart people developing it. You find rather, people with open minds that understand that another person my have to run Windows, or may even WANT to run Windows! The point is here in the monastary, most don't care! Most only care about Perl, and it's MANY flavors/platforms/uses.
    </rant>


    "Nothing is sure but death and taxes" I say combine the two and its death to all taxes!
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      ++ ++ ++ ++ Rex

      While certainly it's nice to get something a little more out of your new status than just a larger hill to climb, there is no reason why any of us would want to alienate other users by proclaiming defiance of Microsoft products and Linux-loving rhetoric.

      I know you're just trying to be clever, and I applaud that. I think it'd be great if there was even just an automated announcement in the CB that such-n-such has now been ordained as a new status. join the monks in congratulating his/her efforts. Like Rex mentioned, PM is about Perl, and these other fringe issues are for CB discussions and flames, rather than broad-sweeping, site-wide proclamations.

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        Clever? I had hoped for amusing :P

        On a factual note, I was network administrator on a site that ran MS products from DOS 5 to win 2000 before moving completely into programming and 'cut my teeth' as it were on Activestate's superb port.

        That paragraph was just for padding and, perhaps, for a grin or two.... a shame it distracted many from the basic idea.

         

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Re: Ego Boosts
by metafizz (Beadle) on Sep 26, 2001 at 00:39 UTC

    I'd like to see a congratulationary (temporary) node pop up on our next perl monk visit. Once we clicked an OK button, we'd be redirected to the monastery gates or to where ever we were going, and never see that node again. That could be fun. Although entirely un-needed. :-)

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      Why does everything have to be useful? *grins*

      Actually, this idea would be better than mine (read, easier to code)

      $japh->{'Caillte'} = $me;

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Re: Ego Boosts
by Hubris Boy (Monk) on Sep 26, 2001 at 06:13 UTC

    My Brothers and Sisters:

    I rise to speak in opposition to this madness. Surely holiness is its own reward? Those who follow the True and Obfuscated Path have no need for for fripperies; indeed, such vulgar reminders of the temporal world would serve only to distract us from the purity of our mission and introduce discord into our fellowship.

    Where would you hang such a thing? On the wall next to your MCSE Bootcamp Certificate? Blah.

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      I thought more, well, over

      $japh->{'Caillte'} = $me;

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(mitd) Re: Ego Boosts
by mitd (Curate) on Sep 26, 2001 at 06:56 UTC
    What about forgeries?

    I for one will not indorse this madness unless there is an embedded smartchip running CamelOS. Also please note that the layout design must leave enough room to display stockquotes, local weather,realtime XP's and of course $certauth = new GD::Barcode(Digest::MD5->md5('moorvmit').

    mitd-Made in the Dark
    'My favourite colour appears to be grey.'

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Re: Ego Boosts
by strredwolf (Chaplain) on Sep 26, 2001 at 08:05 UTC
    I wouldn't use PNG... I would use PDF, along with a camel as a watermark. Would be smaller.

    And he/she/it/shi would probably fit better with some lesser known genders out there in the wilds.

    --
    $Stalag99{"URL"}="http://stalag99.keenspace.com";

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