use Perl

nobody (and I mean, really, nobody) ever uses these operators in scalar context

I'm not saying it's common, but I've certainly used those operators in scalar context.

while (<SOMEFILE>) {
  print if 10 .. 20;
}

Or perhaps:

while (<SOMEFILE>) {
  print if /START/ ... /END/;
}

It looks like yours was one of the accounts which got "half-made" when blogs.perl.org collapsed on its old software.

Your account was created, but never enabled because you didn't reply to the registration email. This is almost certainly because the process died before sending the mail.

I've now enabled your account so you should be able to log in and use the site. Please let me know (dave@dave.org.uk) if that's not the case.

For anyone else reading this. We know that there are a number of accounts in this state. It's easy for us to fix this problem. At the bottom of every page on the site there is a link for leaving feedback. Contacting us through that link is likely to be more effective that complaining on another blog.

We weren't working on it for a year. There have been a number of attempts on the project and this, most recent, version has been built in a couple of months.

We're still investigating the problem, but it seems that our error was in capacity planning. During two weeks of testing we have seen very few errors, but once the entire Perl community started looking at the site, the server couldn't cope.

Yes, it's disappointing. But I can assure you that no-one is as disappointed as me today.

I can only apologise again.

We're aware of the 500 errors that many people are getting when signing in (or out). Seems to be some kind of resource issue.

I'm looking into it. Sorry for the inconvenience.

This is a complete redesign and content review. Hopefully it's cleaner and easier for people to actually get the information they are after.

Whilst I was at it I also implemented this skin for http://dbi.perl.org/ and http://learn.perl.org/ (which needs a lot more loving now you can actually see what's there... not much).

My work (http://www.foxtons.co.uk/) have donated some of my time, and also some of the designers on my team's time, without which it would have taken even longer.

So enjoy!

This is depressing reading. I'm currently trying to promote some public Perl courses in London next month and it's proving incredibly hard to get Google to give any kind of importance to my pages.

Of course, might be a victim of my own success here. Many of the top results from a Google search for "perl training london" are about the free Perl Teach-In that I ran two years ago.

I'm going to have to learn something about SEO, aren't I?

What do your patches do? Is it things that it would be useful to have in the main Perlanet repository?

I'm more than happy to consider merging your changes into my branch if they're going to be useful to other users.

I tried to learn Moose - but the class started too slowly :-)

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