I want to second tlm's point: next to working side-by-side with some great minds in perl, many of whom hang around here, PM is the best place. I've been programming perl, on and off, since the perl 4 days, but I learnt much more in my one year here than all previous years combined. It is also essential that you have a real perl project at hand. So stick around, even just glancing at a couple of questions a day, and with nothing to show on XP.