We have seen that food for thought on new projects is very well accepted in SOPW. Most people will be more than glad to suggest different methods of handling the job whenever someone has an idea, but doesn't know how to tackle it at first. This happens mostly with perl (since this is perlmonks), but I have seen a few other issues come up as well (HTTP error codes, SQL problems, making toast, etc). I was wondering how other monks would react to questions regarding all techie stuff that is non-perl.

Examples of questions that I can think of would be in the lines of, "Does this schema look workable? (insert database schema)" or "My apache's perfomance is driving me crazy. Is it the hardware or the daemon? (insert server specs)"

I can see this rapidly outgrowing our control, and the last thing I would want to see is perlmonks turning into a tech support site for ASP, for instance. Nevertheless, I think we (most of us) must have skills other than perl that we share and can help ourselves out. What do you all think?

#!/home/bbq/bin/perl
# Trust no1!

In reply to Protocols, SQL, hardware, anyone? by BBQ

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