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Advanced Perl Programmingby Simon CozensISBN 0596004567 (0-596-00456-7)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Advanced Perl Programmingby Sriram SrinivasanISBN 1565922204 (1-56592-220-4)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Advanced Perl Programming'Book summary:[via]So you've learned Perl, but you're getting frustrated. Perhaps you've taken on a larger project than the ones you're used to. Or you want to add a user interface or a networking component. Or you need to do more complicated error trapping.
Whether your knowledge of Perl is casual or deep, this book will make you a more accomplished programmer. Here you can learn the complex techniques for production-ready Perl programs. This book explains methods for manipulating data and objects that may have looked like magic before. Furthermore, it sets Perl in the context of a larger environment, giving you the background you need for dealing with networks, databases, and GUIs. The discussion of internals helps you program more efficiently and embed Perl within C or C within Perl.
Major topics covered include:
- Practical use of packages and classes (object-oriented programming)
- Complex data structures
- Persistence (e.g., using a database)
- Networking
- Graphical interfaces, using the Tk toolkit
- Interaction with C language functions
- Embedding and extending the Perl interpreter
In addition, the book patiently explains all sorts of language details you've always wanted to know more about, such as the use of references, trapping errors through the eval operator, non-blocking I/O, when closures are helpful, and using ties to trigger actions when data is accessed. You will emerge from this book a better hacker, and a proud master of Perl.
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Beginning Perlby Simon Cozens, Peter WainwrightISBN 1861003145 (1-86100-314-5)
Softcover, Springer-Verlag New York Inc
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Beginning Perl for Bioinformaticsby James TisdallISBN 1600330282 (1-60033-028-2)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Cgi Programming on the World Wide Webby Shishir GundavaramISBN 1565921682 (1-56592-168-2)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cgi Programming on the World Wide Web'Book summary:O'Reilly has done it again! This is my favorite book yet on writing CGI scripts with Perl (5.0). The extensive use of real world applications you can try while learning, and the great examples of how to have CGI interact with databases are especially useful. I suspect I shall order several copies for some of our staff who are new to CGI. Although the book has a UNIX bias, it has much to offer scripters on all platforms.
Note that many competitors cram a CD-ROM into their books to give greater "shelf appeal". Don't be fooled. O'Reilly continues its economically and ecologically sensible approach of pointing you to their FTP site to obtain the example code used in the book. (Thanks, Tim!) Highly Recommended. [via]
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CGI Programming with Perlby Shishir Gundavaram, Scott Guelich, Gunther Birznieks, Linda MuiISBN 1565924193 (1-56592-419-3)
Softcover, O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'CGI Programming with Perl'Book summary:The appearance of the second edition of CGI Programming with Perl heralds the beginning of the neoclassical era of Web service. CGI--or common gateway interface--is the original back end for client-driven, dynamic Web-page service and deserves consideration as the Romulus of the Internet Empire. But, where first-edition author Gundavaram described the lonely Romulus laying the brick foundation of dynamic Web-page service in 1996, second-edition collaborators Guelich and Birznieks have pitched in to resurrect Romulus amid the crowded streets of modern Rome. Why bother? Surely four years have brought technological revolutions (Java, PHP, ASP, ColdFusion) that render CGI's original brick-by-brick approach as obsolete as, say, Roman mythology--or bricks and mortar.
And yet not. It is an ambiguous blessing that the original CGI persists, adhering to the underside of Web service by the duct tape that is Perl. This point is not missed by Guelich, Gundavaram, and Birznieks, whose advocacy of CGI is both bolstered by the growing applications module base of Perl and tempered by their awareness of CGI's structural limitations. Both new and returning readers of CGI Programming with Perl should browse the last chapter first in order to appreciate the proposed solutions to CGI's greatest sin: its impractical slowness in a world of a million-hits-per-day Web service. The chapter describes CGI-compatible FastCGI and mod_perl technologies that circumvent the process-spawning slowness of the simple CGI. Advanced users might want to skip directly to O'Reilly's fine mod_perl tome, Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C, by Lincoln Stein and Doug MacEachern.
The authors' second pass at CGI pedagogy is a lucid, honest, and expanded account that develops functionality of dynamic Web pages in a rational progression--from HTML client-server and CGI syntax basics to general input/output, forms, e-mail, graphics, and simple database applications, including maintaining client state and data persistence under the otherwise stateless HTTP protocol. The authors offer synopses of cookies, JavaScripting, server security, and XML, all of which are described in detail in other books.
Whether or not neoclassical CGI is fast enough for your purposes--perhaps for guarded intranets--bear in mind that CGI is the standard to which every other Web server has had to respond. The second edition of CGI Programming with Perl is still the best introduction to the classics. --Peter Leopold, Amazon.com [via]
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Computer Science and Perl Programming: Best of the Perl Journalby Jon OrwantISBN 0596003102 (0-596-00310-2)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Data Munging With Perlby David CrossISBN 1930110006 (1-930110-00-6)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Debugging Perl: Troubleshooting for Programmersby Martin C. BrownISBN 0072126760 (0-07-212676-0)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Debugging Perl: Troubleshooting for Programmers'Book summary:-- Debugging Perl explains how to best use the features of Perl to create functions and re-use existing code to develop applications that eliminate the problems before they start.
-- Unique approach in Perl market with no direct competitor.
-- 24x7 - Boxed elements that focus on specific coding techniques for writing applications that don't break
-- Design Tip - Logical or optimization technique for building solid code
-- Error Watch - Warnings and cautions against common or easy-to-make programming errors [via]More editions of Debugging Perl: Troubleshooting for Programmers:
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Effective Perl Programming: Writing Better Programs With Perlby Randal L. Schwartz, Joseph N. HallISBN 0201419750 (0-201-41975-0)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Effective Perl Programming: Writing Better Programs With Perl'Book summary:Effective Perl Programming is a gem of a Perl book. Its author, Joseph Hall, is a well-known Perl instructor and frequent poster on the seminal comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup. The book's technical editor is none other than Randal Schwartz, noted Net personality and enigmatic author of Learning Perl.
Hall has distilled his years of Perl experience into a book for Perl programmers that is both fluid and fun to read. It's somewhat like reading the Perl FAQ; even when you think you know everything, there's so much you don't know.
Effective Perl Programming has a clear layout: the text is easy on the eyes and the mono-spaced font makes a clear distinction between backticks and single quotes. Hall uses his PEGS (Perl Graphical Structures) notation to show the difference between Perl's different types of data structures and how everything ties together.
Packed with great examples and code snippets, this book is an excellent source of tips and tricks to make your Perl programs faster and easier to read. You'll also find a strong section on using the Perl debugger to improve your Perl programming skills. In yet another section, Hall walks the reader through the creation of a complete XS module that can boost the performance of array shuffling eight-fold. All in all, this is a great book for programmers who want to move beyond plain, verbose Perl toward a more succinct and powerful coding style. --Jake Bond [via]
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Elements of Programming with Perlby Andrew L. JohnsonISBN 1884777805 (1-884777-80-5)
Softcover, Manning Publications Company
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Embedding Perl in Html With Masonby Ken Williams, Dave RolskyISBN 0596002254 (0-596-00225-4)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Extending and Embedding Perlby Simon Cozens, Tim JennessISBN 1930110820 (1-930110-82-0)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Games, Diversions & Perl Culture: Best of the Perl Journalby Jon OrwantISBN 0596003129 (0-596-00312-9)
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Higher-order Perl: A Guide To Program Transformationby Mark Jason DominusISBN 1558607013 (1-55860-701-3)
Softcover, Morgan Kaufmann Pub
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Intermediate Perlby Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, Brian D. FoyISBN 0596102062 (0-596-10206-2)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Learning Perlby Randal L. SchwartzISBN 1565920422 (1-56592-042-2)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Learning Perl'Book summary:In this update of a bestseller, two leading Perl trainers teach you to use the most universal scripting language in the age of the World Wide Web. With a foreword by Larry Wall, the creator of Perl, this smooth, carefully paced book is the "official" guide for both formal (classroom) and informal learning. It is now current for Perl version 5.004. Learning Perl is a hands-on tutorial designed to get you writing useful Perl scripts as quickly as possible. Exercises (with complete solutions) accompany each chapter. A lengthy new chapter in this edition introduces you to CGI programming, while touching also on the use of library modules, references, and Perl's object-oriented constructs. Perl is a language for easily manipulating text, files, and processes. It comes standard on most UNIX platforms and is available free of charge on all other important operating systems. Perl technical support is informally available -- often within minutes -- from a pool of experts who monitor a USENET newsgroup (comp.lang.perl.misc) with tens of thousands of readers. Contents include: A quick tutorial stroll through Perl basics Systematic, topic-by-topic coverage of Perl's broad capabilities Lots of brief code examples Programming exercises for each topic, with fully worked-out answers How to execute system commands from your Perl program How to manage DBM databases using Perl An introduction to CGI programming for the Web [via]
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Learning Perl : Making Easy Things Easy and Hard Things Possibleby Randal L. Schwartz, Tom PhoenixISBN 0596001320 (0-596-00132-0)
Softcover, O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Learning Perl : Making Easy Things Easy and Hard Things Possible'Book summary:[via]If you ask Perl programmers today what book they relied on most when they were learning Perl, you'll find that an overwhelming majority will name Learning Perl--also known affectionately as "the Llama." The first edition of Learning Perl appeared in 1993 and has been a bestseller ever since. Written by two of the most prominent and active members of the Perl community, this book is the quintessential tutorial for the Perl programming language.
Perl began as a tool for Unix system administrators, used for countless small tasks throughout the workday. It has since blossomed into a full-featured programming language on practically every computing platform, and is used for web programming, database manipulation, XML processing, and (of course) system administration--all this while still remaining the perfect tool for the small daily tasks it was designed for. Perl is quick, fun, and eminently useful. Many people start using Perl because they need it, but they continue to use Perl because they love it.
The third edition of Learning Perl has not only been updated for Perl 5.6, but has also been rewritten from the ground up to reflect the needs of programmers learning Perl today. Informed by their years of success at teaching Perl as consultants, the authors have re-engineered the book to better match the pace and scope appropriate for readers trying to get started with Perl, while retaining the detailed discussion, thorough examples, and eclectic wit for which the book is famous.
This edition of the Llama includes an expanded and more gently-paced introduction to regular expressions, new exercises and solutions designed so readers can practice what they've learned while it's still fresh in their minds, and an overall reworking to bring Learning Perl into the new millennium.
Perl is a language for getting your job done. Other books may teach you to program in Perl, but this book will turn you into a Perl programmer.
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Learning Perl Objects, References and Modulesby Randal Schwartz, Tom PhoenixISBN 0596004788 (0-596-00478-8)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Learning Perl Objects, References and Modules'Book summary:[via]Perl is a versatile, powerful programming language used in a variety of disciplines, ranging from system administration to web programming to database manipulation. One slogan of Perl is that it makes easy things easy and hard things possible. This book is about making the leap from the easy things to the hard ones.
Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules offers a gentle but thorough introduction to advanced programming in Perl. Written by the authors of the best-selling Learning Perl, this book picks up where that book left off. Topics include:
- Packages and namespaces
- References and scoping
- Manipulating complex data structures
- Object-oriented programming
- Writing and using modules
- Contributing to CPAN
Perl is a different language to different people. It is a quick scripting tool for some, and a fully-featured object-oriented language for others. It is used for everything from performing quick global replacements on text files, to crunching huge, complex sets of scientific data that take weeks to process. Perl is what you make of it. But regardless of what you use Perl for, this book helps you do it more effectively, efficiently, and elegantly.
Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules is about learning to use Perl as a programming language, and not just a scripting language. This is the book that separates the Perl dabbler from the Perl programmer.
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Learning Perl on Win32 Systemsby Tom Christiansen, Randal L. Schwartz, Erik W. OlsonISBN 1565923243 (1-56592-324-3)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Learning Perl on Win32 Systems'Book summary:[via]In this smooth, carefully paced course, leading Perl trainers and a Windows NT practitioner teach you to program in the language that promises to emerge as the scripting language of choice on NT. With a foreword by Larry Wall, the creator of Perl, this book is the "official" guide for both formal (classroom) and informal learning. Based on the "llama book," Learning Perl on Win32 Systems features tips for PC users and new NT-specific examples.
Perl for Win32 is a language for easily manipulating text, files, user and group profiles, performance and event logs, and registry entries, and a distribution is available on the Windows NT Resource Kit. Peer-to-peer technical support is now available on the perl.win32.users mailing list.
The contents include:
- An introduction to "the Perl way" for Windows users
- A quick tutorial stroll through Perl in one lesson
- Systematic, topic-by-topic coverage of Perl's broad capabilities
- Innumerable, brief code examples
- Programming exercises for each topic, with fully worked-out answers
- Access to NT system functions through Perl
- Database access with Perl
- CGI programming with Perl
Erik Olson is director of advanced technologies for Axiom Technologies, LC, where he specializes in providing Win32 development solutions. Randal L. Schwartz and Tom Christiansen have also written Programming Perl, co-authored with Larry Wall and published by O'Reilly & Associates.
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Learning Perl/Tkby Nancy WalshISBN 1565923146 (1-56592-314-6)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Learning Perl/Tk'Book summary:By combining the rough-and-ready Perl language with the graphical user interface (GUI) capabilities of the Tk toolkit, Perl/Tk makes it easy to write event-based GUI applications quickly--once you know what you're doing. Learning Perl/Tk shows you how to build GUIs with everyone's favorite public-domain programming language. This book focuses only on GUIs--it leaves in-depth exploration of the Perl language to other books. (Learning Perl is the best of that genre.)
Assuming only a basic familiarity with Perl, Learning Perl/Tk shows you what you need to know to create graphical front ends for Perl programs. Author Nancy Walsh starts with a quick orientation, showing you how to set up Perl/Tk and giving you some simple examples of what GUI source code looks like. Then, she details the use and functions of geometry managers, which the Tk module uses to arrange interface elements. From there, she explores each widget individually, showing how to use buttons, checkbuttons, radiobuttons, labels, entries, and more. She also addresses event handlers. Her discussion of each widget is clear and liberally sprinkled with examples.
One appendix lists the default values of the Tk widgets in tabular form; another spotlights the differences among versions of Perl and Tk for various operating systems. A final appendix explores the font-management capabilities of Tk 8.0. This book doesn't come with a companion disk, and it would be nice to have the examples available locally. However, the publisher maintains a library of related files on its Web site. --David Wall [via]
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Mastering Algorithms With Perlby John MacDonald, Jon Orwant, Jarkko HietaniemiISBN 1565923987 (1-56592-398-7)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Mastering Perl for Bioinformaticsby James D. TisdallISBN 1600330304 (1-60033-030-4)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Mastering Perl/Tkby Nancy Walsh, Steve LidieISBN 1565927168 (1-56592-716-8)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mastering Perl/Tk'Book summary:Perl is well-known as a language for server-side scripting, but Mastering Perl/Tk shows Perl developers how to build cross-platform client applications with rich graphical interfaces. Tk stands for toolkit and was developed by John Ousterhout as a graphical extension to his Tcl scripting language. Perl/Tk fully integrates Tk into Perl, and supported platforms include Unix, Windows and Mac OS. This authoritative guide teaches Perl/Tk from scratch, but readers are assumed to have existing skills in Perl itself.
After a brief introduction, the authors get quickly into nitty-gritty detail. The starting point is geometry management, which controls the size and position of graphical widgets. The book goes on to describe the available widgets in depth, including chapters on buttons, listboxes, text widgets, scales, and more. Frames, windows and menus are fully explained. With the foundations in place, the second half turns to advanced topics such as creating custom widgets, binding to events, image manipulation, pipes and sockets, and Web programming. Appendices list options and default values for each widget, and give complete program listings for the examples.
Readers of Mastering Perl/Tk will be impressed by its attention to detail. The authors also demonstrate the power of the Perl/Tk combination, with examples such as embedding OpenGL output in a Tk window, or fetching and displaying live content from the Web. It is an excellent resource for any Perl developer.--Tim Anderson [via]
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Mastering Regular Expressionsby Jeffrey E. FriedlISBN 0596528124 (0-596-52812-4)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mastering Regular Expressions'Book summary:Regular expressions are a central element of UNIX utilities like egrep and programming languages such as Perl. But whether you're a UNIX user or not, you can benefit from a better understanding of regular expressions since they work with applications ranging from validating data-entry fields to manipulating information in multimegabyte text files. Mastering Regular Expressions quickly covers the basics of regular-expression syntax, then delves into the mechanics of expression-processing, common pitfalls, performance issues, and implementation-specific differences. Written in an engaging style and sprinkled with solutions to complex real-world problems, Mastering Regular Expressions offers a wealth information that you can put to immediate use. [via]
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Mastering Regular Expressions: Powerful Techniques for Perl and Other Toolsby Friedl, Jeffrey, E. F.ISBN 1565922573 (1-56592-257-3)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mastering Regular Expressions: Powerful Techniques for Perl and Other Tools'Book summary:Regular expressions are a central element of UNIX utilities like egrep and programming languages such as Perl. But whether you're a UNIX user or not, you can benefit from a better understanding of regular expressions since they work with applications ranging from validating data-entry fields to manipulating information in multimegabyte text files. Mastering Regular Expressions quickly covers the basics of regular-expression syntax, then delves into the mechanics of expression-processing, common pitfalls, performance issues, and implementation-specific differences. Written in an engaging style and sprinkled with solutions to complex real-world problems, Mastering Regular Expressions offers a wealth information that you can put to immediate use. [via]
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Minimal Perl: For UNIX and Linux Peopleby Timothy P. MaherISBN 1932394508 (1-932394-50-8)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Minimal Perl: For UNIX and Linux People'Book summary:A guide to a carefully designed subset of the Perl language, this book makes Perl more accessible to those having UNIX/Linux skill levels ranging from elementary to expert by capitalizing on their existing knowledge of important utilities (grep, awk), or essential concepts (filters, command substitution, looping). Dozens of detailed programming examples are shown, drawn from contemporary application areas such as system administration, networking, Web development, databases, finance, HTML, CGI, and text analysis. Broken into two parts, the first is for all who are familiar with core UNIX/Linux commands such as grep and caters to readers ranging from managers and administrative staff to advanced programmers. The second part is for developers experienced in Bourne, Korn, Bash, or POSIX Shell programming and makes Perl scripting easy to learn by showing Shell examples along with their Perl counterparts. Many Perl modules are covered including freely available pre-written code from the CPAN.[via]More editions of Minimal Perl: For UNIX and Linux People:
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Mod-Perl Pocket Referenceby Andrew FordISBN 0596000472 (0-596-00047-2)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mod-Perl Pocket Reference'Book summary:[via]mod_perl integrates the complete Perl interpreter with the Apache web server. With mod_perl, programmers can take existing Perl CGI scripts and plug them in, usually without making any source code changes. The scripts will run exactly as before but many times faster. In addition, mod_perl offers a Perl interface to the Apache API, allowing full access to Apache internals, so that programmers can control every aspect of the Apache server.
mod_perl Pocket Reference is a concise, conveniently formatted reference to all mod_perl features used in day-to-day mod_perl programming. This small book covers functions as well as configuration directives that help maximize the effectiveness of the mod_perl Apache module.
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Mod_Perl Developer's Cookbookby Geoffrey Young, Randy Kobes, Perrin HarkinsISBN 0672322404 (0-672-32240-4)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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Network Programming With Perlby Lincoln SteinISBN 0201615711 (0-201-61571-1)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Object Oriented Perl : A Comprehensive Guide to Concepts and Programming Techniquesby Damian Conway, Randal L. SchwartzISBN 1884777791 (1-884777-79-1)
Softcover, Manning Publications Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Object Oriented Perl : A Comprehensive Guide to Concepts and Programming Techniques'Book summary:Perl has always been a powerful and popular programming language, but with its new object capabilities, it can do even more. Written for anyone with a little Perl experience, Damian Conway's Object Oriented Perl provides an invaluable guide to virtually every aspect of object-oriented programming in Perl.
The most notable thing about Object Oriented Perl is Conway's excellent perspective on object-oriented concepts and how they are implemented in Perl. This book does a remarkable job of cutting through traditional jargon and illustrating how basic object-oriented design techniques are handled in Perl. (A useful appendix attests to the author's wide-ranging knowledge, with a comparison of Smalltalk, Eiffel, C++, and Java with Perl, including a summary of object-oriented syntax for each.) This book also features a truly excellent review of basic Perl syntax.
Throughout this text, the author shows you the basics of solid object design (illustrated using classes that model music CDs). Basic concepts like inheritance and polymorphism get thorough and clear coverage. The book also points out common mistakes and provides many tips for navigating the powerful and flexible (yet sometimes tricky) nuances of using Perl objects. For instance, Conway shows how to achieve true data encapsulation in Perl (which generally allows calls across modules) as well as its natural support for generic programming techniques.
He also pays special attention to popular object modules available from CPAN (like Class::MethodmakerK, which simplifies declaring classes) and discusses performance issues and the tradeoff between programming convenience and speed often faced by today's Perl developer. Advanced chapters cover a number of techniques for adding persistence and invoking methods using multiple dispatching.
Filled with syntactic tips and tricks, Object Oriented Perl is a sure bet for any programmer who wants to learn how to use Perl objects effectively. --Richard Dragan
Topics covered: Perl language review, CPAN, Perl objects, 'blessing' and inheritance, polymorphism, Class::Struct and Class::Methodmaker modules, Perl ties and closures, operator overloading, encapsulation, multiple dispatch, Class::Multimethods, coarse-grained and fine-grained object persistence techniques, performance issues. [via]
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Official Guide to Programming With Cgi.Pmby Lincoln SteinISBN 0471247448 (0-471-24744-8)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Perl 5 Desktop Referenceby Johan VromansISBN 1565921879 (1-56592-187-9)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perl 5 Desktop Reference'Book summary:[via]This "official" quick-reference guide to the Perl programming language has been enlarged to provide a summary of Perl syntax rules, a complete list of standard library modules with brief descriptions, and a precedence table for Perl operators. The guide is current with Perl version 5.003.
Perl, having previously established itself as the UNIX scripting tool of choice, is establishing itself as the tool of choice in numerous programming spheres, ranging from the World Wide Web to general-purpose programming. Perl combines in one language virtually all the functionality of the C, sed, and awk programming languages, as well as many functions of a shell.
The Perl 5 Desktop Reference provides a complete overview of Perl, from variables to input and output, from flow control to regular expressions -- all packaged into a convenient, carry-around guide that can easily be inserted into your favorite Perl programming manual.
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Perl 5 for Dummiesby Paul HoffmanISBN 0764500449 (0-7645-0044-9)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Perl 5 How-Toby Mike Glover, Ed Weiss, Aidan HumphreysISBN 1571690581 (1-57169-058-1)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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Perl 5: Pocket Referenceby Johan VromansISBN 1565924959 (1-56592-495-9)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perl 5 Pocket Reference'Book summary:[via]Revised to cover Perl Version 5.6, this quick reference provides a complete overview of the Perl programming language, all packed into a convenient, carry-around booklet.
This third edition covers:
- A summary of Perl syntax rules
- A complete list of operators, built-in functions, and standard library modules, all with brief descriptions
- The newest Perl features, such as enhanced regular expressions, multithreading, the Perl compiler, and unicode support The Perl 5 Pocket Reference, 3rd Edition, is the perfect companion to the authoritative books on Perl published by O'Reilly & Associates: Programming Perl, Learning Perl, and the Perl Cookbook.
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Perl 6 And Parrot Essentialsby Allison Randal, Dan Sugalski, Leopold TotschISBN 059600737X (0-596-00737-X)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perl 6 And Parrot Essentials'Book summary:[via]Distilling many years of Perl experience--including an insiders look at Perl development (the authors are members of the Perl 6 core development team)--Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials, 2nd Edition is an unparalleled preview of major changes in the widely-anticipated Perl 6. This sneak peek of what's coming in Perl includes succinct but thorough coverage of groundbreaking new developments in Parrot--the language-independent interpreter engine that will execute code written in the new Perl 6 language. Designed to be language independent, Parrot can be used to interpret other dynamic languages such as Python, Tcl, Ruby, and even Java.
Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials also uncovers the most revolutionary change in the language itself--Apocalypse 12 on objects. The Apocalypse design documents (in the sense of "revealing", not "end-of-the-world") explain significant changes in new Perl 6 features, numbered according to the chapters in O'Reilly's landmark Camel book , Programming Perl.
Apocalypse 12 is the result of cutting-edge research in object-oriented languages and is guaranteed to grab the attention of any serious Perl programmer. Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials also includes expanded coverage of Apocalypse 5 (regular expressions) and Apocalypse 6 (subroutines).
Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials is the only book available to chart the course of the long but fruitful voyage of Perl 6. It reveals all the ingenious developments that will make Perl 6 more powerful and easier to use.
Perl gurus and programmers alike will rely on this slim but essential book for both a clear view of the Perl horizon and to ensure they hit the ground running once this important new version of Perl is released.
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Perl 6 Essentialsby Allison Randal, Dan Sugalski, Leopold TotschISBN 0596004990 (0-596-00499-0)
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Perl and Cgi for the World Wide Web: Visual Quickstart Guideby Elizabeth CastroISBN 0201735687 (0-201-73568-7)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perl and Cgi for the World Wide Web: Visual Quickstart Guide'Book summary:One of the best things about Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web is the seamless way the author incorporates terminology into her explanations. Elizabeth Castro, author of HTML 4 for the World Wide Web, understands the intermediate user: someone who would be bored by a beginner's guide, but isn't ready to step up to heavy-hitting programming texts either.
In Perl and CGI, she explains basic concepts--such as the difference between a compiled and an interpreted script--within the text, so there's no need to keep flipping back to the glossary. Readers should be familiar with HTML and comfortable with technical explanations, diagrams, and general vocabulary.
Anyone trying to get a grasp on something as complex and powerful as Perl will appreciate Castro's relatively straightforward technique. For example, in the first chapter, Castro explains some basic Perl concepts sensibly: that the $ stands for the s in scalar; the @ sign stands for the a in array; and that the % that labels a hash or associative array indicates two circles on each side of the slash as parts of a pair. This granular, logical way of building Perl knowledge will get new Perl users started. More experienced users will want to use this book as a workbook and refresher. --Jennifer Buckendorff [via]
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Perl and LWPby Sean M. Burke, Gisle AasISBN 0596001789 (0-596-00178-9)
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Perl and Xmlby Erik T. Ray, Jason McIntoshISBN 059600205X (0-596-00205-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perl and Xml'Book summary:Perl and XML shows how to combine two key Web technologies. Perl is a great language for server-side Web scripting, but XML parsers are generally written in Java or C++. Even so, Perl is everywhere, its strong text processing features make it a good partner for XML, and the chances are that Perl developers will need to work with XML sooner or later. Written with lively good humour, this title explains how to parse, validate and generate XML using a variety of techniques. It does not teach Perl, but does include an excellent short introduction to XML itself.
After setting the scene, the authors set out the basics of XML parsing and writing, using the XML::Parser and XML::Writer modules. This is a good place to start, but the book makes it clear that the future of Perl and XML is in standard interfaces like SAX, which is the subject of another chapter. There is also an explanation of tree processing using XML::Simple or the standard DOM. (Document Object Model). The last chapters cover other XML technologies including XPath, XSLT and SOAP.
Packed with plenty of example code, this title is very much a guide rather than a reference. It does a great job of presenting XML from a Perl perspective, showing why it is useful and how to go about finding and installing the right modules. A couple of short but complete examples at the end help to put it all together, and there are lots of handy tips and warnings sprinkled throughout the book.--Tim Anderson [via]
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Perl Best Practicesby Damian ConwayISBN 0596001738 (0-596-00173-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perl Best Practices'Book summary:[via]Many programmers code by instinct, relying on convenient habits or a "style" they picked up early on. They aren't conscious of all the choices they make, like how they format their source, the names they use for variables, or the kinds of loops they use. They're focused entirely on problems they're solving, solutions they're creating, and algorithms they're implementing. So they write code in the way that seems natural, that happens intuitively, and that feels good.
But if you're serious about your profession, intuition isn't enough. Perl Best Practices author Damian Conway explains that rules, conventions, standards, and practices not only help programmers communicate and coordinate with one another, they also provide a reliable framework for thinking about problems, and a common language for expressing solutions. This is especially critical in Perl, because the language is designed to offer many ways to accomplish the same task, and consequently it supports many incompatible dialects.
With a good dose of Aussie humor, Dr. Conway (familiar to many in the Perl community) offers 256 guidelines on the art of coding to help you write better Perl code--in fact, the best Perl code you possibly can. The guidelines cover code layout, naming conventions, choice of data and control structures, program decomposition, interface design and implementation, modularity, object orientation, error handling, testing, and debugging.
They're designed to work together to produce code that is clear, robust, efficient, maintainable, and concise, but Dr. Conway doesn't pretend that this is the one true universal and unequivocal set of best practices. Instead, Perl Best Practices offers coherent and widely applicable suggestions based on real-world experience of how code is actually written, rather than on someone's ivory-tower theories on how software ought to be created.
Most of all, Perl Best Practices offers guidelines that actually work, and that many developers around the world are already using. Much like Perl itself, these guidelines are about helping you to get your job done, without getting in the way.
Praise for Perl Best Practices from Perl community members:
"As a manager of a large Perl project, I'd ensure that every member of my team has a copy of Perl Best Practices on their desk, and use it as the basis for an in-house style guide." -- Randal Schwartz
"There are no more excuses for writing bad Perl programs. All levels of Perl programmer will be more productive after reading this book." -- Peter Scott
"Perl Best Practices will be the next big important book in the evolution of Perl. The ideas and practices Damian lays down will help bring Perl out from under the embarrassing heading of "scripting languages". Many of us have known Perl is a real programming language, worthy of all the tasks normally delegated to Java and C++. With Perl Best Practices, Damian shows specifically how and why, so everyone else can see, too." -- Andy Lester
"Damian's done what many thought impossible: show how to build large, maintainable Perl applications, while still letting Perl be the powerful, expressive language that programmers have loved for years." -- Bill Odom
"Finally, a means to bring lasting order to the process and product of real Perl development teams." -- Andrew Sundstrom
"Perl Best Practices provides a valuable education in how to write robust, maintainable Perl, and is a definitive citation source when coaching other programmers." -- Bennett Todd
"I've been teaching Perl for years, and find the same question keeps being asked: Where can I find a reference for writing reusable, maintainable Perl code? Finally I have a decent answer." -- Paul Fenwick
"At last a well researched, well thought-out, comprehensive guide to Perl style. Instead of each of us developing our own, we can learn good practices from one of Perl's most prolific and experienced authors. I recommend this book to anyone who prefers getting on with the job rather than going back and fixing errors caused by syntax and poor style issues." -- Jacinta Richardson
"If you care about programming in any language read this book. Even if you don't intend to follow all of the practices, thinking through your style will improve it." -- Steven Lembark
"The Perl community's best author is back with another outstanding book. There has never been a comprehensive reference on high quality Perl coding and style until Perl Best Practices. This book fills a large gap in every Perl bookshelf." -- Uri Guttman
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Perl Black Bookby Steven HolznerISBN 1576104656 (1-57610-465-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perl Black Book'Book summary:Written by Steve Holzner, former contributing editor for PC Magazine and the author of 50 computer books. There are over a million copies of his books in print. Includes 250 pages of CGI programming, the driving force behind Perl's popularity. Includes over 1,000 programming examples. Comprehensive coverage of Perl syntax and programming. If you can have only one book on Perl, this is it! Written at a higher technical level than other books currently on the market. [via]
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Perl by Exampleby Ellie QuigleyISBN 0131228390 (0-13-122839-0)
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Perl Cookbookby Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington, Linda MuiISBN 1565922433 (1-56592-243-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perl Cookbook'Book summary:When the second edition of Programming Perl was released, the authors omitted two chapters: "Common Tasks with Perl" and "Real Perl Programs." Publisher O'Reilly & Associates soon realized that there would be too many pages in Programming Perl if it put updated recipes in the new edition. Instead, O'Reilly chose to release the many Perl code examples as a separate entity: The Perl Cookbook.
The recipes are well documented and the examples aren't too arcane; even beginners will be able to pick up the lessons taught here. The authors write in relatively easy-to-understand language (for a technical guide). Through this book and its arsenal of recipes, you will learn many new things about Perl to help you through your toughest projects. The next time you're working on a project at 2 a.m., you'll thank yourself for the guidance and direction The Perl Cookbook provides. --Doug Beaver [via]
Perl Core Language: Little Black Bookby Steven HolznerISBN 1932111921 (1-932111-92-1)
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Perl Debuggerby Richard FoleyISBN 0596005032 (0-596-00503-2)
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Perl for Dummiesby Paul HoffmanISBN 0764537504 (0-7645-3750-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perl for Dummies'Book summary:The standard for Perl books is, of course, Perl founder Larry Wall's Programming Perl. But every journey requires a first step, and the assumption that everyone interested in learning Perl has a programmer's background can make other Perl books inaccessible to the absolute beginner. Enter Perl for Dummies, a book that presumes that the reader wants to know only how to master the mechanics of Perl.
Just because it starts at the beginning--and we're talking about the very basics--doesn't mean that Perl for Dummies doesn't head into more advanced topics. Paul Hoffman explains the programming terminology and mathematical concepts that programming in Perl requires. He also moves beyond basic file manipulation, discussing pattern matching and using regular expressions. He touches on good Perl style, as well as object-oriented Perl.
He's not averse to criticizing what he perceives as Perl's shortcomings, but he also counters with a section called "10 Reasons Why Perl Is Better Than Java." Hoffman takes great pride in demystifying Perl--a goal that fits in well with Larry Wall's own philosophy of promoting Perl's accessibility. As a way into the "duct tape" programming language, Perl for Dummies fulfills its mission. --Jennifer Buckendorff [via]
Perl for Oracle DBAsby Andy Duncan, Jared StillISBN 0596002106 (0-596-00210-6)
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Perl for System Administrationby David N. Blank-EdelmanISBN 1565926099 (1-56592-609-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perl for System Administration'Book summary:The title of David N. Blank-Edelman's new book, Perl for System Administration, is strangely redundant and thankfully misleading. The soul and source of Perl's core competence is Unix system administration, and another O'Reilly tome on Perl tricks for managing backups would not have been welcome. But the subtitle Managing Multiplatform Environments with Perl communicates the essential task: how to administer heterogeneous Unix, Windows NT/2000, and Mac OS systems from the same Perl-based conceptual platform.
Blank-Edelman introduces this diversity of notation to motivate a far-reaching discussion of system internals, and shows how Perl is a natural choice for cross-platform administration. The Unix and Windows "slash" path separators--"/" and "\", respectively--are like crossed swords, where the Mac OS uses the less- generally-known colon (":"). In lesser hands, this treatment still would have been about LAN backups, but Blank-Edelman's familiarity with network imperatives drives the synthesis.
As the topics move beyond file systems, user accounts, and process control, the tripartite division in the discussion breaks down. Treatments of TCP/IP and e-mail feature discussions of NIS, WINS, DNS, and nslookup. The chapters on directory services and SQL database management--while apparently digressive--are inserted tactically to enable elegant approaches to the more mundane administrative tasks of sending and receiving e-mail and managing log files to maximize their utility. Blank-Edelman's keen pragmatism shines in the chapter on security in which noticing intrusion earlier instead of later draws on many of the skills that are developed throughout the book. Notably, each chapter ends with a recapitulation of Perl modules that were referenced in the preceding text.
The eclectic tutorial appendices--an old revision-control system (RCS), the extensible markup language (XML), the database language (SQL), and two undermotivated and esoteric protocols (LDAP and SNMP)--are so brief as to function more as a Perl-free zone for shop talk than as valuable précis for their respective subjects.
Delightfully, this is one of Perl's and O'Reilly's best-written books. Blank-Edelman's wit buoys the argument without descending into the all-too-common parlance of sappy testimonials, hollow confessions, or the burdensome ornamentation of inside jokes and puns. --Peter Leopold [via]
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Perl for Web Site Managementby John CallenderISBN 1565926471 (1-56592-647-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perl for Web Site Management'Book summary:[via]Checking links, batch editing HTML files, tracking users, and writing CGI scripts--these are the often tedious daily tasks that can be done much more easily with Perl, the scripting language that runs on almost all computing platforms. If you're more interested in streamlining your web activities than in learning a new programming language, Perl for Web Site Management is for you: it's not so much about learning Perl as it is about using Perl to do common web chores more efficiently.
The secret is that, although becoming a Perl expert may be hard, most Perl scripts are relatively simple. Using Perl and other open source tools, you'll learn how to:
- Incorporate a simple search engine
- Write a simple CGI gateway
- Convert multiple text files into HTML
- Monitor log files
- Track users as they navigate your site
Even if you don't have any programming background, this book will get you quickly past Perl's seemingly forbidding barrier of chops and chomps, execs and elsifs. You'll be able to put an end to using clunky tools, editing files tediously by hand, or relying on programmers and system administrators to do "the hard stuff" for you. Sure, you might learn a little bit about programming as well, and perhaps something about the role of open source tools on the Web. But the purpose of Perl for Web Site Management isn't to educate you--it's to empower you. Whether you're a developer, a designer, or simply a dabbler on the Web, this book is the plain-English, hands-on introduction to Perl you've been waiting for.
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Perl Hacks: Tips & Tools for Programming, Debugging, And Survivingby Chromatic, Shane Warden, Curtis PoeISBN 0596526741 (0-596-52674-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perl Hacks: Tips & Tools for Programming, Debugging, And Surviving'Book summary:[via]With more than a million dedicated programmers, Perl has proven to be the best computing language for the latest trends in computing and business. While other languages have stagnated, Perl remains fresh, thanks to its community-based development model, which encourages the sharing of information among users. This tradition of knowledge-sharing allows developers to find answers to almost any Perl question they can dream up.
And you can find many of those answers right here in Perl Hacks. Like all books in O'Reilly's Hacks Series, Perl Hacks appeals to a variety of programmers, whether you're an experienced developer or a dabbler who simply enjoys exploring technology. Each hack is a short lesson--some are practical exercises that teach you essential skills, while others merely illustrate some of the fun things that Perl can do. Most hacks have two parts: a direct answer to the immediate problem you need to solve right now and a deeper, subtler technique that you can adapt to other situations. Learn how to add CPAN shortcuts to the Firefox web browser, read files backwards, write graphical games in Perl, and much more.
For your convenience, Perl Hacks is divided by topic--not according to any sense of relative difficulty--so you can skip around and stop at any hack you like. Chapters include:
- Productivity Hacks
- User Interaction
- Data Munging
- Working with Modules
- Object Hacks
- Debugging
Whether you're a newcomer or an expert, you'll find great value in Perl Hacks, the only Perl guide that offers something useful and fun for everyone.
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Perl in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Referenceby Stephen Spainhour, Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen SieverISBN 1565922867 (1-56592-286-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perl in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference'Book summary:Perl in a Nutshell strives to be a perfect set of socket tools for the active Perl programmer. By and large, it succeeds, providing endless and well-thought-out lists and tables on the language's modules, flags, and extensions. The authors briefly address basic learner's questions--such as the difference between a hash and an array--but these concepts are not the purpose of the book. (Those new to Perl would be better off with others in the O'Reilly Perl series, such as Learning Perl, while programmers making the switch to Perl can pick up the nuances of the language with Programming Perl.) This book is pure Perl reference, briefly covering Perl/Tk (for GUI Perl programs on Unix and Windows 95/NT) and Perl for Win 32.
The authors do start at the very beginning, and even in a self-described "desktop quick reference" find the time to comment on less urgent--but still interesting--Perl-related matters (like how to find online help amidst the "Perl culture"). The format of the book makes sections on topics such as Perl debugging easily understandable, illustrating how to make an interactive and timesaving environment.
Of particular convenience is the outstanding section on the standard Perl modules. A four-page "quick look" allows you to easily scan through short definitions of all the modules and find the entry you're looking for. An index with full definitions for each module follows, showing you how to use each module and providing a more in-depth explanation (and often, examples). Perl in a Nutshell concludes--as you might expect--with an excellent and well-cross-referenced index. --Jennifer Buckendorff [via]
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Perl Medic: Transforming Legacy Codeby Peter ScottISBN 0201795264 (0-201-79526-4)
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Perl Pocket Referenceby Johan VromansISBN 0596003749 (0-596-00374-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perl Pocket Reference'Book summary:[via]The Perl Pocket Reference is an invaluable reference for those who find themselves frequently searching for a quick answer to a question or reminder of a syntax rule. This handy, well-organized quick reference condenses stacks of Perl documentation down to the most essential at-your-fingertips facts. For ease-of-use, convenience, and price, this little reference is the first place Perl programmers look when they need an answer quickly.
The Perl Pocket Referenc provides a complete overview of the Perl programming language, all packed into a convenient, carry-around booklet. It is updated for Perl 5.8, and covers a summary of Perl syntax rules, a complete list of operators, built-in functions, and standard library modules, all with brief descriptions. Also included are the newest Perl features, such as enhanced regular expressions, multithreading, the Perl compiler, and Unicode support.
The Perl Pocket Reference, 4th Edition, is the perfect companion to the authoritative books on Perl published by O'Reilly & Associates: Programming Perl, Learning Perl, and the Perl Cookbook. This pocket reference will never make it to the bookshelf--dog-eared and well worn, it will remain within arms reach of the keyboard or tucked in a back pocket, where it will be referred to on a daily basis.
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Perl Template Toolkitby David Cross, Darren Chamberlain, Andy WardleyISBN 0596004761 (0-596-00476-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perl Template Toolkit'Book summary:This toolkit guides you through the entire process of installing, configuring, using, and extending the Template Toolkit. It begins with a tutorial on building web content with the Template Toolkit, and then walks you through generating and using data files, particularly with XML. It also provides information on modules, libraries, and tools. [via]
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Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebookby Chromatic, LangworthISBN 0596100922 (0-596-10092-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook'Book summary:[via]Is there any sexier topic in software development than software testing? That is, besides game programming, 3D graphics, audio, high-performance clustering, cool websites, et cetera? Okay, so software testing is low on the list. And that's unfortunate, because good software testing can increase your productivity, improve your designs, raise your quality, ease your maintenance burdens, and help to satisfy your customers, coworkers, and managers.
Perl has a strong history of automated tests. A very early release of Perl 1.0 included a comprehensive test suite, and it's only improved from there. Learning how Perl's test tools work and how to put them together to solve all sorts of previously intractable problems can make you a better programmer in general. Besides, it's easy to use the Perl tools described to handle all sorts of testing problems that you may encounter, even in other languages.
Like all titles in O'Reilly's Developer's Notebook series, this "all lab, no lecture" book skips the boring prose and focuses instead on a series of exercises that speak to you instead of at you.
Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook will help you dive right in and:
- Write basic Perl tests with ease and interpret the results
- Apply special techniques and modules to improve your tests
- Bundle test suites along with projects
- Test databases and their data
- Test websites and web projects
- Use the "Test Anything Protocol" which tests projects written in languages other than Perl
With today's increased workloads and short development cycles, unit tests are more vital to building robust, high-quality software than ever before. Once mastered, these lessons will help you ensure low-level code correctness, reduce software development cycle time, and ease maintenance burdens.
You don't have to be a die-hard free and open source software developer who lives, breathes, and dreams Perl to use this book. You just have to want to do your job a little bit better.
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Perl, Cgi, and Javascript Completeby Sybex IncISBN 0782127800 (0-7821-2780-0)
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Practical Mod-Perlby Stas Bekman, Eric CholetISBN 0596002270 (0-596-00227-0)
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Programming Perlby Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon OrwantISBN 0596000278 (0-596-00027-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Programming Perl'Book summary:This is the authoritative guide to the hottest new UNIX utility in years, coauthored by its creator, Larry Wall. Perl is a language for easily manipulating text, files, and processes. Perl provides a more concise and readable way to do many jobs that were formerly accomplished (with difficulty) by programming in the C language or one of the shells. Even though Perl is not yet a standard part of UNIX, it is likely to be available wherever you choose to work. And if it isn't, you can get it and install it easily and free of charge. Contents include: An introduction to Perl Common tasks with Perl Real Perl programs; includes database manipulation, programming aids, system administration, text and filename manipulation, interprocess communication, and more Perl syntax Perl functions Other oddments; invocation options, debugging, efficiency, the Perl library, linking in C subroutines, etc. Also includes a pull-out quick-reference card (designed and created by Johan Vromans). [via]
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Programming Perlby Stephen Potter, Larry Wall, Randal L. Schwartz, Tom ChristiansenISBN 1565921496 (1-56592-149-6)
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Programming Web Graphics With Perl and Gnu Softwareby Shawn P. WallaceISBN 1565924789 (1-56592-478-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Programming Web Graphics With Perl and Gnu Software'Book summary:As a how-to book, Programming Web Graphics with Perl & GNU Software covers a narrow but powerful niche of Web development--on-the-fly graphics generation. It also focuses on the Perl language and its associated free code modules, making the techniques you learn in this book immediately available for free.
Author Shawn P. Wallace begins with a look at the popular image formats on the Web: GIF, PNG, and JPEG. This chapter offers a quick and fascinating demystification of these critical graphics file types. The next chapter discusses the dance between graphics and Web browsers, with a look at CGI, HTML display, color schemes, and other details.
Among the tools discussed in this book is the GD Perl module for working with GIF files, the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), GIFScript, and ImageMagick. The author uses a chessboard simulation application to illustrate how to manipulate graphics dynamically. Some sections focus on graphing, animation, and image maps to illustrate the flexibility of dynamic graphics.
Near the end of the book, the author presents a "Web graphics cookbook"--a collection of examples you can use in your sites that includes a graphical Web counter, a JavaScript rollover menu, image thumbnailing scripts, and more. The author finishes with a discussion of creating and integrating PostScript code.
This guide reads more like a brain dump from the author than a comprehensive discussion of Web graphics; however, there's much to be gleaned from his knowledge. --Stephen W Plain [via]
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Programming Web Services With Perlby Randy J. Ray, Pavel KulchenkoISBN 0596002068 (0-596-00206-8)
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Regular Expression: Pocket Referenceby Nathan Torkington, Tony StubblebineISBN 059600415X (0-596-00415-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Regular Expression: Pocket Reference'Book summary:[via]Regular expressions are such a powerful tool for manipulating text and data that anyone who uses a computer can benefit from them. Composed of a mixture of symbols and text, regular expressions can be an outlet for creativity, for brilliant programming, and for the elegant solution. While a command of regular expressions is an invaluable skill, all there is to know about them fills a very large volume, and you don't always have time to thumb through hundreds of pages each time a question arises. The answer is the Regular Expression Pocket Reference. Concise and easy-to-use, this little book is the portable companion to Mastering Regular Expressions.
This handy guide offers programmers a complete overview of the syntax and semantics of regular expressions that are at the heart of every text-processing application. Ideal as an introduction for beginners and a quick reference for advanced programmers, Regular Expression Pocket Reference is a comprehensive guide to regular expression APIs for C, Perl, PHP,Java, .NET, Python, vi, and the POSIX regular expression libraries.
O'Reilly's Pocket References have become a favorite among programmers everywhere. By providing a wealth of important details in a concise, well-organized format, these handy books deliver just what you need to complete the task at hand. When you've reached a sticking point and need to get to a solution quickly, the new Regular Expression Pocket Reference is the book you'll want to have.More editions of Regular Expression: Pocket Reference:
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Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Daysby Laura Lemay, Rafe Colburn, Robert KieslingISBN 0672320355 (0-672-32035-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days'Book summary:Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days covers the basics of Perl in the first few chapters, and then moves on to practical issues of Perl and in-depth discussions of more advanced topics. Later chapters also delve into software engineering topics, with discussions of modular code and object-oriented programming. CGI is covered in one chapter, but it is not the focus on the book. The book relies heavily on longer working examples and code, as opposed to small snippets and code fragments, and each chapter includes two to three smaller complete examples and one major one that illustrates most of the concepts for that chapter and builds on the chapters before it. Written by Laura Lemay, this is her third major book after Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML in 21 Days and Sams Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days.
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Sams Teach Yourself Perl In 24 Hoursby Clinton PierceISBN 0672327937 (0-672-32793-7)
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Spidering Hacksby Tara Calishain, Kevin HemenwayISBN 0596005776 (0-596-00577-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spidering Hacks'Book summary:[via]The Internet, with its profusion of information, has made us hungry for ever more, ever better data. Out of necessity, many of us have become pretty adept with search engine queries, but there are times when even the most powerful search engines aren't enough. If you've ever wanted your data in a different form than it's presented, or wanted to collect data from several sites and see it side-by-side without the constraints of a browser, then Spidering Hacks is for you.
Spidering Hacks takes you to the next level in Internet data retrieval--beyond search engines--by showing you how to create spiders and bots to retrieve information from your favorite sites and data sources. You'll no longer feel constrained by the way host sites think you want to see their data presented--you'll learn how to scrape and repurpose raw data so you can view in a way that's meaningful to you.
Written for developers, researchers, technical assistants, librarians, and power users, Spidering Hacks provides expert tips on spidering and scraping methodologies. You'll begin with a crash course in spidering concepts, tools (Perl, LWP, out-of-the-box utilities), and ethics (how to know when you've gone too far: what's acceptable and unacceptable). Next, you'll collect media files and data from databases. Then you'll learn how to interpret and understand the data, repurpose it for use in other applications, and even build authorized interfaces to integrate the data into your own content. By the time you finish Spidering Hacks, you'll be able to:
- Aggregate and associate data from disparate locations, then store and manipulate the data as you like
- Gain a competitive edge in business by knowing when competitors' products are on sale, and comparing sales ranks and product placement on e-commerce sites
- Integrate third-party data into your own applications or web sites
- Make your own site easier to scrape and more usable to others
- Keep up-to-date with your favorite comics strips, news stories, stock tips, and more without visiting the site every day
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Teach Yourself Perl 5 in 21 Daysby David TillISBN 0672308940 (0-672-30894-0)
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Web Client Programming With Perlby Clinton WongISBN 156592214X (1-56592-214-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Web Client Programming With Perl'Book summary:If you've ever wanted to learn more about Web protocols so you could build custom client-side tools to automate tasks--or just so you have a better understanding of what's happening behind the scenes--then Web Client Programming with Perl is the book for you. Wong explains HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) requests and socket calls, then shows how you can use the LWP library for Perl to retrieve Web pages, parse HTML, check whether a server is responding, and more. [via]
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Win 32 Perl Programming: The Standard Extensionsby Dave RothISBN 157870216X (1-57870-216-X)
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Win32 Perl Scripting: The Administrator's Handbookby Dave RothISBN 1578702151 (1-57870-215-1)
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Windows NT Win32 Perl Programming : The Standard Extensionsby Dave RothISBN 1578700671 (1-57870-067-1)
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Writing Apache Modules With Perl and Cby Lincoln Stein, Doug MacEachernISBN 156592567X (1-56592-567-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writing Apache Modules With Perl and C'Book summary:Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C will allow you to enhance your Apache HTTP server in just about any way you'd like. Overall, it is an excellent book, and it has a lot of good information and terrific examples on everything from "Content Handlers" to customizing the Apache server configuration process.
It's quickly apparent that Lincoln Stein and Doug MacEachern spent valuable time writing this book considering the breadth of their subject and the depth they devote to it. The only downside to the book is that it's kind of hard to explain all of the API functionality without assuming a minimum level of competence from the audience. For that reason, this book might be a bit intimidating to novice programmers, but it really rewards you if you put time into it and tinker with things.
The book also works well as a source of ideas and inspiration for when you have to write your own server modules, and I'd recommend it if you want to customize your Apache server or speed up your Perl CGI programs. --Doug Beaver [via]
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Writing Perl Modules for CPANby Sam TregarISBN 159059018X (1-59059-018-X)
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Xml Processing With Perl, Python, and Phpby Martin C. BrownISBN 0782140211 (0-7821-4021-1)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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