Like a collection of really good blog posts

Imagine that chromatic were to write a professional once-a-week blog for the span of about two years, with edits and ideas from Damian Conway and Curtis "Ovid" Poe, focusing on cool Perl tricks. The result would look very similar to the Perl Hacks book.

The book is filled with lots of small, self-contained gems. I've put a few of these ideas into immediate practice, like Smart::Comments. Other ideas solve problems that I didn't think had any simple solutions, like reading files backwards, which I'll use the next time I need it. Many of their ideas are curriosities, the sorts of things that are kinda cool but I never think I'll need like vi and emacs hacks, or database stuff; still, knowing that they are there and where to read more makes me much more likely to use those tools if ever the need arises.

In all I'm very pleased with my purchase and I would recommend it to others. You're almost certain to find a few ideas that you can put into immediate use and many ideas that you'll bookmark mentally so you can use them in the future.

Other Reviews

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