in reply to nooks and crannies, bits and pieces

I have many of the O'Reilly books + "Effective Perl Programming" and they're all great. But once you I got beyond a certain level I found a few techniques for improving my perl skills that seem to work well:
  1. Reading Perlmonks... I sometimes use Seekers of Perl Wisdom to test and broaden my skills. When someone asks a question that I don't know the answer to I will sometimes dig-in and see if I can figure it out before reading other's answers.
  2. Browse through CPAN to just learn what's new out there. Discover new modules and figure out how to use them.
  3. Read the perl5porters digest and see the future and internals of Perl.