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Modules I should investigate

• Proc::Daemon (recommended by Arunbear)
• File::Map for slurping etc.
• PDL for scientific computation (recommended by zentara).
• Memoize for boosting speed at expense of memory
• Module::ScanDeps for dependency trawling
• Syntax::Construct for feature enablement
• XML::Twig for parsing (widely recommended in these halls)
• Encoding::FixLatin for borked encodings
• Data::Validate::Domain does what you'd think
• rperl looks interesting too
• MCE for parallelisation

Interesting Nodes

• length() miscounting UTF8 characters?
• Re: Migrating from Perl to other language? Why would someone do that?
• grep with looped tests
• $class = ref($class) if ref($class) Redux
• eval, DESTROY, die and $@ - educational couple of hours
• How's your Perl?
• "Default" method
• RFC: Bi-directional multi-client non-blocking TCP server/client
• Net::SMTP::SSL connect failure
• Small examples of string eval
• Performance comparison Apache/FastCGI/Plack vs Apache/FCGI vs Plack standalone vs Apache/mod_perl (was "New version of Mod_perl")
• Data-driven Programming: fun with Perl, JSON, YAML, XML...
• Re: Simple UDP example anyone?
• Writing Solid CPAN Modules
• diff-servers.pl - Diff directory trees across machines
• Re^2: Secure Perl Coding Standards
• Re: Code cleanup; how best to deal with: defined(%hash) is deprecated at... (defined--)
• The 10**21 Problem (Part I)
• Things are not what they seem like.
• Coverage History
• Perl Development Tools
• developing in vim and tmux

How not to ask a question

There is plenty of excellent advice freely available for How (Not) To Ask A Question. Still we see shining examples of the art as selected here:

• Apache derby
• sell concert tickets
• phone paging with perl

Note that any question whose entire explanation of the problem is a variation of "It doesn't work" will be downvoted by me as being really rather useless.

Split personalities

The monastery welcomes those with difficult mental conditions including our clearly troubled brother finddata/perlanswers/test1234/gpssana/chellasama/gopikavi. We hope he makes a full and swift recovery and learns the value of an SSCCE.