perl.com: Ten Essential Development Practices, an excerpt from Damian Conway's new book, Perl Best Practices. The excerpt looks a lot like what's now standard advice in other books (write tests first, use a revision control system), but with a Perl flavor. Some bits are advice I hear mostly in Perl circles: "Don't Optimize Code--Benchmark It" applies almost everywhere, but especially in Perl, when TIMTOWTDI combined with Perl's propensity for magical behavior gets everyone asking, what's the fastest way to do something.