This is a cross post of a blog I wrote on my personal site techinistas.com. A few days ago I needed to figure out how to use the Salesforce.com API to bulk update some records. A few hours and a bit of perl code later, I had a functioning app that did the trick. If you are interested in web services programming, perl and Salesforce, take a look here:

http://technistas.com/2009/12/09/practical-salesforce-programming/

Happy deploying!

 - Matt