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Born in a non-existent country (USSR)... grew up in Ukraine, lived in Russia, live in Canada...

Life could be good if you take care to enjoy it... (see the picture)

Here are some links you might find useful (in no particular order):

Programming skill #1: Communication

Good Module Design

1st Monasterians

TIMTOWTDI =/=> 0222

Perl Monks Approved HTML tags

Does bad code really teach you to write good code?

Sex, Eger!

japhy's Obfuscation Review

A guide to installing modules for Win32

trim() magic

Arrays are not lists

Perl Idioms Explained - my $string = do { local $/; <FILEHANDLE> };

using variables in regular expr replace

Things you think you'll never use.

Useful homenodes

Schwartzian Transform

Shlomo Yona's lecture slides on Sorting in Perl

Using a capture in /(?{...})/ (Don't expect to be able to understand this on the first read unless you're on a Saint level :)

The Dynamic Duo --or-- Holy Getopt::Long, Pod::UsageMan!

The Bad, the Ugly, and the Good of autovivification

HOP, flip, and swap

The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)

Threads

Outside-in objects with Object::LocalVars

Yet Another Perl Object Model (Inside Out Objects)

Class::InsideOut - yet another riff on inside out objects.

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