@anonymous – I’m looking forward to all 4 books mentioned by chromatic although possibly the Kensho book the least if it only covers Task::Kensho modules. I am moderately familiar with all of the modules on the Task::Kensho list apart from DBIC.

A much more comprehensive list than Task::Kensho (that included stuff like Parallel::Queue) along with a very brief summary of each module would be great.

@Steffen – cheers for the pointer to IPC::ConcurrencyLimit. I definitely can see some places where I’d use it in our codebase (although it would not fit in the script I was talking about in the post of course)

If you use it, just take care when forking since the underlying flocks are cloned, too, so you either need to release them in one of the processes or spawn processes another way. I usually opt for having an executable that can run in different modes, one of which is “spawn” to run all the other modes using system()’s fork&exec pattern.

Kensho book is coming, it will benefit you.

http://p3rl.org/wiki

collects information about modules for common tasks and contrasts them.

I want to add to Peter’s post, many modules are tagged and authors can also add tags to their distro meta file, that’s a taxonomy scheme additional to categories and not fully exploited yet.