This book is one of those things.  I finally bought my copy of Perl Hacks during the Perl Foundation Auction, and had to debate if I would read this, or the new Mastering Perl book first.  Other books could wait in line. I started this one first, figuring I could read one of the first hacks, just to get a taste.  Since this is one of the Hacks series by O’Reilly, I knew I could read it in small bursts pretty easily, and that the first ones would be the easiest to start with.

Well, the first ones are easy, but in the first section I already learned several small features of Perl that I didn’t know, and several helpful tips.  I’ll admit, I didn’t know the powerful perldoc tool had a built in webserver mode for local HTML browsing of your perldocs.

In the last few days I’ve cruised though the Productivity, and User Interaction sections, then jumped forward, skimming interesting bits from Debugging and Developer Tricks.  Yes, this is a very useful book.  There are many tips I’ve already read that I wish I had when I was first learning Perl, and will always reference now to people just learning.  There are some I read last night that I will be rereading because of the depth of what they introduced.  This book covers the full range, and will give you tools that can add immediate productivity, and also enhance your overall coding day to day.

Stars: 5 so far, even if I haven’t finished
Please go get it if you even touch perl, besides, as a Hack book it’s one of the cheaper ones.
And no, you can’t have mine!

Man that was a good movie!  A great balance for the non-transformer geek, as well as us geeks.  I was also very afraid that the violence would be way overdone, and my son wouldn’t be able to watch it. While it is big on action, the gore and others is not there to where I would feel bad for my son to attend (but better watch it without them first to make sure about yours).

Definately a winner.  And man which is sexier, Jazz (Pontiac solstice) or Bublebee (with the new camaro look)?