"The problem exists only with binary distributions of MySQL and is related to the installation location of the libraries for the MySQL client that DBD::mysql uses." Ran into this problem today; wasted an hour on it. Never again.

"When we call something a scripting language, we're primarily making a linguistic and cultural judgment, not a technical judgment. I see scripting as one of the humanities. It's our linguistic roots showing through." Larry Wall ++

"Like most organisations the BBC has its own technical ecosystem; the BBC's is pretty much restricted to Perl and static files." How depressing.

"Developing or modifying bookmarklets can be irritating, to say the least, because of this requirement that the JavaScript code be in the form of a URL." Fortunately, Gruber makes it easy with his nifty Perl script.

Been looking for this for a while - as a classicist, it fills me with a silly delight if nothing else.

or: namespaces for numpties. Because whilst I can tell that PHPs "all functions in one big namespace" is wrong, I don't know why. This helps.

Simple dating munging with a gtk frontend. Nifty.

Using the Flickr api in perl, courtesy of Linux Gazette

Not-bad looking perl 5.6 tutorial, freely available as html, ps or pdf

Has useful stuff on configuring CPAN, too.

learn is a perl script that outputs english. what better proof of concept than to dump output to a blog?