Now that I'm getting laid off in a few weeks, I have also been thinking about some perl "microprojects" to improve my skills in between reading ding letters.

I have been looking through supersearch and found some similar threads in the past (without the Christmas bent, unfortunately). This and This thread are both asking for ideas on things to code, and have received more responses than your node has.

A few people recommended Sourceforge, which has a list of projects requesting help. This and This node propose the idea of having a projects area on PM. Also, This node points out that the code snippets in the NIST algorithms pages include virtually no Perl, which looks bad.

Last but not least, one of the Best Nodes is A plea by chromatic to get involved by writing test code for existing modules.

drinkd

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