I'll take your node a little differently that most of the others (and forget about HTML completely:-).

"Did, in your case, the "good practices" (whatever they were in yor case) you learned while programming Perl and interacting with the comunity affect your other work?"

The answer is definitely YES. I do write better code in other languages now (at least I believe so) after the comments and advices I got from the Perl folk, I do think put more thought into variable names and formating ... Basicaly I try to write everything as if it might end up on CPAN (and you don't want to embarrass yourself in front of everybody do you?).

It's a bit hard to explain (and remember) what changed since it was a slow gradual process that took some years :-)

(To get back to your HTML ... I'm lucky enough not to have to care about HTML, CSS or any of this. The only web stuff I do is only gonna be seen by a few admins using the very same browser so the looks do not matter and needn't be portable. The HTML code is all nicely formated, but it's just the good ole basics.)

Edit by castaway: Closed small tag in signature