Perl multitasking, CPAN at home

For my own reference, here are a couple things I had to find out about Perl today:

• An overview of installing Perl modules with CPAN in your home directory.
• The local::lib module mentioned in that article; probably the best way of getting it going. Looks much easier than it was a few years ago.
• David Blank-Edelman's article for ;login: magazine about Perl and spawning (PDF)
• Parallel::Forkmanager is a simple Perl module for managing spawned processes.
• Proc::Queue is another module to manage forked processes.
• POE seems to be a much more sophisticated framework.