Maybe I've really got used to our monastery and others resources seem for me a little uninviting ...

Most places are a little uninviting until you get used to them. I was put off perlmonks for the longest time because of the ghastly user-interface (sorry - my usability hat is showing :-). I'm now glad I took the effort.

To argue it from the opposite end - you'll get far better answers to non-Perl questions in more appropriate groups.

While I'm sure there are many people here who know a fair bit of Java/CSS/whatever I can guarantee that there are more people with more expertise in an online community that is explicitly focused on a particular topic.

Ask a CSS related question here and you're not going to get Eric Meyer pitching in an answer, you will on css-discuss. Just like you're unlikely to get a (probably fairly pithy :-) response from merlyn or Abigail-II if you asked a Perl question on, for the sake of a random example, the apache users list.

Even worse, you might get an incorrect or non-optimal answer. Just because somebody knows a lot about managing apache, doesn't mean they know a lot about perl (or vice versa).

In reply to Re^3: Not Perl questions by adrianh
in thread Not Perl questions by nite_man

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.