CPAN Modules

José's Guide for creating Perl modules
Writing Solid CPAN Modules
How to make a CPAN Module Distribution
Simple Module Tutorial
Pause Module List
pause.perl.org
module-authors@perl.org mailing list
perlmodlib, perlmodstyle, perlnewmod

perlport Win32-Job

Coding Standards and Style

Ensembl Coding Standards document gone missing from the web? Could perhaps find with the wayback machine.

• Perl Style section of the Camel. perldoc perlstyle.
• My coding guidelines
• Code review on script site
• A guide to coding Perl
• Formal code review specifications and reporting format
• Failure To Refactor
• Abigail's coding guidelines
• General Code Review Checklist
• ali
• slash
• p5ee
• bbc
• skud
• daniel

Developer Tools

• Module::Starter
• ExtUtils::ModuleMaker
• h2xs
• Devel::Cover
• Devel::SawAmpersand
• Devel::Cycle
• Test::Memory::Cycle
• Module::CPANTS
• Pod::Coverage
• Test::Pod::Coverage
• Test::Pod
• Test::Prereq
• Module::Release
• lint
• valgrind
• PerlTidy

Module Review

• cpan ratings
• gav's CPAN wiki
• Mark Fowler's lovely Advent Calendar
• Module Reviews
• Simon's code review ladder

Interfaces

Ingy's "Swiss Army Light Sabre" - or, "how do you design your APIs?"
Often Overlooked OO Programming Guidelines

Design

When do you function?
Re (tilly) 1: When do you function?
(Software Engr) Encapsulate! No,no,no! Decouple!
best practice
'use strict' is not Perl
Style & subroutine organization

Books

• Writing Perl Modules for CPAN, book by Sam Tregar (free download)
• Upcoming book "Perl Best Practice" by Damian Conway

Test Driven Development

• Test Driven Development
• Mocks/Stubs

Exception Handling

• Best Practices for Exception Handling
• Re: Intelligent Exception Handling in Perl
• mod_perl exception handling techniques
• RAII (Resource Acquisition is Initialization)
• Java Dispose pattern

mod perl

• mod_perl
• mod_perl reference
• Practical mod_perl
• CHECK and INIT under mod_perl

Miscellaneous

• kwalitee
• Schwern gushes
• Unix-0.02
• Acme::Util
• code smells
• Security techniques every programmer should know
• phone home
• stickyminds
• lists.perl.org
• PerlTestCard
• cpan testers
• freepan (subversion based)