Re: Point this poor neophyte in the right direction

Knute Snortum wrote:
> I'm interested in writing open source business software (accounting,
> distribution, manufacturing) in Perl.  My problem is I've been developing in
> a version of business basic called BBx (www.basis.com) and so even though I
> have designed and implemented large systems I have no experience in what
> people would normally call enterprise development (e.g., J2EE, .NET, COBRA,
> etc.)
[...]
> I'd describe my Perl programming ability as early advanced (to use a piano
> playing term).  I've written several Perl modules using OO that I use in
> scripts to help with the business basic development, but none of them use
> any "black magic" and the internals of Perl are a mystery to me.

Congratulations, you know everything you need to know to get started. 
Let your requirements be your guide.  When you run into a problem that 
is hard to solve with your existing knowledge and tools, that's when to 
ask for help.  Then people can point you at some typical solutions for 
you to study.

If you want something to increase your comfort level with "enterprise" 
development concepts and buzzwords, pick up a copy of Martin Fowler's 
"Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture."

- Perrin