Useful Links:
Textpad - a decent text editor for
programming.
Eclipse - a better programming editor ... but with a bit steeper learing curve (google for "eclipse perl" to
see how to set yourself up for perl coding)
ActivePerl - a perl installation for
Windows.
Cygwin - a Unix environment that runs in Windows (comes with
Perl - use either this or ActivePerl, not both)
Online regex tester
MySQL on amadeus