Tim Maher’s excellent Minimal Perl has been published recently, and I’m very happy to finally see it! I got a chance to review a couple of chapters a while back. It was great reading, and introduced me to less application programming, more utility scripting aspects of Perl. I’ve been waiting impatiently for the rest of the book ever since.

Then there’s the book I haven’t read any of, but I can’t wait to see it. Paul DuBois, the author of MySQL Cookbook, 2nd Edition exchanged emails with me a few months ago about using PageTemplate . He mentioned that PT was going to be used in one of the new recipes. The book is out now, and I’m going to start looking for it immediately. You should too! Although not just for a PT recipe. The first edition of the MySQL Cookbook was good stuff, and I expect more of the same for the second edition.

I just started with a new position at Whitepages.com last week, where I will get the opportunity to work among many other Perl geeks. This is a first for me, since usually I’m “the Perl guy” wherever I happen to work. That even happened at Amazon, where they use a lot of Perl. It just happened that I was one of two Perl developers on my team, so there wasn’t much room for sharing notes and general geekiness. Whitepages looks like it will be a lot of fun for me as a Perl geek. Heck, I might even start attending SPUG meetings!