Well, if you want to take your Perl in the direction of the web, you have a whole new world to open up and months and months of new things to discover. Think about it - Perl for the web isn't just html. You can add CGI, hook your scripts up to MySQL or any other database, have websites change content on the fly, including graphics via the GD modules. Any website you can dream of, you can create it with your newfound Perl. Start creating your own OO modules and you can build sites so fast that you can't possibly manage them all.

But you say you are a network engineer and not a programmer. You can still find use for going in the direction of the web. I am neither a network engineer or a programmer by trade, but I just completed a server monitoring tool that logs to a database and outputs complete data analysis in multiple graphs that are generated on the fly. The output can be accessed remotely by internet. And it's all in Perl. For my purposes, the base code can be ported to medical and other scientific purposes for data analysis, patient care, and/or research.

2 months? The nice thing is that even after 2 years and beyond, you'll still be discovering things about Perl that will keep you having just as much fun as you are having now.

In reply to Re: Idea Generation for New Programmer by fpi
in thread Idea Generation for New Programmer by Tuna

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