I’ve been busy with everything else in my life, so I haven’t done much reading. Things have quieted down enough and I’ve picked up:

  • Perl Hacks. Cool little book, full of ideas and tricks you might have known and many more you didn’t. Reminded me of looking over the shoulder of a clever programmer and going, “Aha.” I owe dha a couple of good beers to make up for the review blurb I promised to write but didn’t when I was caught up in closing on a house and moving.
  • Extending and Embedding Perl. I’m working through it now and so far I can say: a) this book was necessary, b) thank you Tim and Simon, and c) XS is never going to be easy but at least it needn’t be a mystery.