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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

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.