Miscellaneous sites specifically about perl
- The Perl Foundation – The organization responsible for Perl.
- Perl.org – Perl's true home on the net. Tons of resources for every skill level.
- Planet Perl
- Perl Mongers – a loose association of international Perl User Groups
- Perl @ O'Reilly - a major vendor of quality Perl books, including the essential Beginning Perl and Programming Perl.
- a list of Perl mailing lists
- The standard Perl documentation, on line.
- The standard Perl documentation - the CPAN alternative.
- The Perl Jobs site
- irc.perl.org – Info on the irc channels hosted at irc.perl.org.
- Perl timeline
- Perl Beginners' Site - by Shlomi Fish
Newsletters and Blog sites
- Perl Weekly – weekly e-mail round-up of hand-picked news and articles about Perl
- blogs.perl.org – a common blogging platform for the Perl community
- Perlsphere – The Perl firehose! The self-proclaimed biggest collection of Perl 5 blogs
- Perl.com
CPAN and related sites
- CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network – repository of perl modules
- Search CPAN
- MetaCPAN – alternative CPAN search
- BackPan – a complete history of CPAN
- other CPAN-related links – on perl.org
Useful Not-Strictly-Perl sites with significant Perl content
- StackOverflow - a general programming forum, but Perl friendly
- Mother of Perl - the Perl section of WebReference.com, with "Free Perl Tutorials, Tips, Lessons, Tricks, and Code"
- /. (Slashdot) - Parent of PerlMonks - Powered by Perl!.
- PLEAC - "Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook" - Crowd-sourced reimplementations of The Perl Cookbook's recipes in other languages
- Rosetta Code – wiki of code examples comparing many programming tasks in many languages
- Ideone – pastebin and online interpreter for many languages
Tools
- Template - Toolkit
- Cygwin
- Bash for Windows
- Putty a free telnet/ssh - client
- secure iXplorer graphical front-end to puttys scp
- Any2PS
- Unix tools written in Perl
- Resources for compiling Perl from source on Win32:
- Instructions for compiling Perl from source on Win32
- Perl 5.00503 source at CPAN
- LCC-Win32 - free C/C++ compiler for Win32 from Jacob Navia
- FreeBCC - free C/C++ compiler for Win32 from Borland
- PerlCRT.dll
- dmake - make for Win32 from Gurusamy
- nmake - make for Win32 from Microsoft
- GNU software for Win95 + NT
- mySQLfront a gui admin tool for mysql
- Webservers for Win32
- Apache standard on *nix, also available for Win32
- tinyweb Info on Perl Monks
- Xitami
- OmniHTTPd
- Jigsaw the W3C's Java Server
- AnalogX SimpleServer:WWW
- Jellybean chromatics perl based webserver
Security & CGI
- Crypto-Gram E-Zine
- Cryptography FAQ
- WWW Security FAQ
- Web FAQ
- CGI FAQ
- HTTP Spec
- HTML 4.0 Spec
- HTML Markup Spec
- CGI Spec
- CGI Security FAQ
- Phrack
Browsers
- Linux and other Unix Variants
- Windows (all variants)
- Macintosh Classic
- Macintosh OS-X
Perl Friendly Webspace
- freewebspace.net - A "meta" (directory/listing) site, not a hosting provider itself.
- thefreesite.com - A "meta" (directory/listing) site, not a hosting provider itself.