Re: Reciprocating to the perl community

Answering questions from Perl beginners here or elsewhere is a pretty good way to help. At some point someone will ask a question that you can't find an answer to; then you can invent a solution and share it with everyone.

Most people just solve their own problems and try to make the solution general enough to help other people too. But there's no reason that has to be the only way. Good luck!

-sam

PS: XML::Validator::Schema needs a ton of work if it's ever going to even approach spec-compliance. If you're in the mood for some extreme XML nerdiness you're more than welcome to dig in!

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Re: Re: Reciprocating to the perl community by stonecolddevin (Parson) on Jun 02, 2004 at 04:31 UTC
This is exactly what I need. Thanks everyone. meh.	[reply]
Re^2: Reciprocating to the perl community by a,s5 (Initiate) on Jun 04, 2004 at 18:01 UTC
I agree. I've always had an interest in ways I could give back to the community, but it can be hard to come up with something, especially if it's just for the sake of community involvement. I have found in the past that it's often useful to me to assemble modules out of any code that I'm working on that is sufficiently reuseable. It takes a little more work to clean them up and write helpful documentation, but after that effort, it's a great feeling to make those modules available on CPAN. In fact, once you share some code, there are people just waiting to help and make suggestions if they find your code and use it. Knowing I've made someone's life a little easier makes coding that much more worthwhile, at least to me. --andy	[reply]