Perl

http://blog.timbunce.org/2008/02/12/comparative-language-job-trend-graphs/ somewhat interesting statistics for programming language popularity

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=591180 encode( “UTF-8”, $possibly_bad_utf8_data );

http://www.netalive.org/tinkering/serious-perl/ actuaally readable reference to OOP in perl

http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Perl/comp.lang.perl.misc/2007-05/msg00808.html note about suing posix signals with mod_perl

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/funzone/games/games08/advanced.mspx

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Cache-Memcached-Fast/ new fast memcached client for perl; with proper timeouts supports, etc.

http://www.slideshare.net/acme/scaling-with-memcached nice presentation on memcached

http://labs.cybozu.co.jp/blog/kazuhoatwork/2007/09/swifty-0_02.php perl memcached swifty library – bindings to memcached written in C

http://perl.arix.com/cpan2rpm/ RPM packages are easy to install and manage, Perl modules are useful and do all sorts of things. Now you can have both with minimal effort: cpan2rpm makes that possible by incorporating a lot of know-how about package building into a simple and powerful i

http://yeda.cs.technion.ac.il/~yona/perl/lecture5/index.html