Blue,

A couple more basic ideas come to mind:

• Get the Perl Cookbook and refer to it heavily (along with the FAQ's and other other related books of the canon).
• Use Super Search to find nodes containing relevant keywords
• Use Deja's Power Search to scan comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi, comp.lang.perl, and other appropos newsgroups for related keywords.
• Use _good_ web search (google, northernlight, etc) engines to find good sites.

As a rule, I've learned that most tasks have already been done. The details may vary, but not the actual approach. You simply need to do your homework to find out where it's been posted. :-)

--f

P.S. Don't forget about searching the documentation at CPAN. If you don't pay attention to that little drop-down, you might miss that option.