Amplifying on Use.Perl.Org http://use.perl.org/ Announcement ...
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The 2002 Perl Advent Calendar
Module News 2shortplanks writes "Doesn't December come round
quickly? Announcing the third Perl Advent Calendar
<http://www.perladvent.org/2002/>, the Advent calendar that features a
different Perl module each day of Advent, and a bonus module on Christmas
day. This year's improvements include each day having its own mini-tutorial
attached, and much better HTML."
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The concept of Perl Module of the Day is useful, even if only for a month --
and doing it as an Advent Calendar is cute, whatever winter holidays one
observes. His personal observations on what makes the module interesting and
useful are sometimes more useful than the official documentation per se.
He's doing more of that and tutorial and less repeating of "the POD" this
year. (See the [about] link for more why & how.)
2001. It was good last year; if you're new to Perl Module use, you may want
to follow the little [2001] link and check out all 25 of last year's entries
too. Specific recommendations for reading (not necessarily for use, but
interesting at least) from 2001 would include
about1.html Mail::Audit
about3.html Tie::DBI
about4.html File ::Spec
about5.html XML::XPath
about19.html Class::MethodMaker
about21.html Exporter::Simple
about22.html Text::Autoformat
about23.html Inline::Files
about25.html Parse::RecDescent
2000. The first year of Perl Advent Calendar appears not to be archived
except at the Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/20010622012954/http://www.2shortplanks.com/xmas/
, but there were no personal notes that year, so don't bother with the
archive link above, just check the highlights' POD files at
http://search.cpan.org
1. Data::Dumper,
2. LWP::Simple,
14. XML::Grove (compare to XML::Twig and other XML parsers),
15 GetOpt::Long,
16 File ::Find,
17 DBI,
24 Template::Toolkit (compare to other template tools, and remember
we use other report generators like Actuate.)
-- Bill Ricker aka n1vux
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