Jonathan Coulton has recorded a nice pop song about a "code monkey". The download for the mp3 is the first orange link labeled "Code Monkey".

ack is a command line utility optimised for searching large codebases. In this blog entry, its author gives several good reasons why one should consider taking a look at it. Among its features: restricting to certain languages, ignoring VCS and other resultant directories and a recursive call by default.

A Site to search CPAN - The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network CPAN is the "Comprehensive Perl Archive Network". It is a large collection of open-source user-contributed Perl modules that can be used in your own programs and modules and facilitate many tasks. search.cpan.org is the definitive resource for searching for modules in CPAN, and also provides and links to other resources about them. For example, all the documentation of the modules can be accessed from there. It is the first stop in any Perl development work.