Perl Resources

Perl MVC For general CGI development, we highly recommend the CGI::Application and HTML::Template modules. These allow you to implement your CGI scripts using the Model-View-Controller architecture (MVC) and separate Perl code from HTML and graphic display elements. In addition, we recommend CGI::Session for session management. These are available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN).

Macintosh OS X Text Editors Wwe are a big fan of BBEdit and TextWrangler (and have used them for almost a decade). Give them a try, and best of all TextWrangler is free (and offers code-highlighting too!)..

Perl on Windows For developing on Windows, you will need the Activestate Perl. This easy to install Perl uses an alternate package system, PPM, which pre-compiles CPAN modules for use on Windows.