I am totally self-taught here

Pick your poison :)

perlintro, http://learn.perl.org/books/beginning-perl/, http://perl-tutorial.org/, Tutorials: Basic debugging checklist , brian's Guide to Solving Any Perl Problem, Modern Perl book, a loose description of how experienced and effective Perl 5 programmers work....You can learn this too.

Common Perl Pitfalls / perltrap, Read this if you want to cut your development time in half!