Well I did say, the idea of flash tutorials did have some merit. Besides what others have said..... no warnings nor strict, a useless cgi header on everything, the thing has to move faster or people will get an impression that Perl is dull and slow. If I was a new programmer, and saw one of those tutorials, I would look at another language which was more exciting.
At least he should copy in the code lines as he descibes their purpose, instead of typing 1 letter per second.