I want to build a website.. All i know is shell and perl programming.. so i started with perl cgi and was successful in developing a page that asks username and password and authenticates the user...
Now can some one tell me how to add IRC(interactive chat) and real time updates to my webpage, like facebook, or gmail does..
what language or technology should i learn for this...?
PS: my test bed involves Apache/2.2.20 (Ubuntu), perl5 and Mozilla firefox.