Hello all. A couple of weeks ago someone posted a question looking for a good project to work on as a beginner. I am new to Perl myself, and have found a good one: Setup a personal address book, using CGI, DBI/DBD, and a database to drive the thing. I've come across MANY usefull issues with this small and useful project.

1) Apache setup / config
2) MySQL setup / config / usage
3) Learning basic features of CGI.pm and DBI modules
4) Code efficiency and performance issues
5) Maintaining state between pages.
6) Writing code I can come back to and understand later.
7) Overall design.

I've gotten the thing up and working pretty easily, but almost daily I think of some way to tighten up my code, add a feature, or make it just plain cooler. Hope this is useful for someone out there. Write me if you are interested in specifics.
Matt

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