More Newbie Help

[Mike Lesser]

Wow thanks for all the input! I'm slogging along with the Llama book, 
and I have some MySQL (new to that too) stuff working. I'm concerned, 
thought, that I'm creating a mess by installing modules and downloading 
stuff. Likewise I've been using CPAN with no clue as to what I'm doing. 
Is there a book or site that covers working with CPAN and using modules 
that is appropriate for Panther? Googling & the O'Reily Mac site have 
turned up lots of fixes for gotchas, but not much for the newbie.

That being said, is it normal that a lot of the CPAN stuff (of interest 
to me) is really old? It seems odd to be using 5 year old stuff!
Mike