Re: OT- PERL book recommendations needed

From: Peter J. Schoenster <peter_at_schoenster.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:24:56 -0700
Message-Id: <10743.126820@fatcity.com>

On 16 Jan 2001, at 8:35, Steve Orr wrote:

> Well, after a lot of procrastination I'm about to bite the bullet and
> do some serious perl. I need recommendations for two books:
>
> 1)
> quick-and-dirty-get-up-to-speed-for-admin-scripting-now-because-I'm-on
> -inter net-time-and-have-no-patience book and

"Perl Cookbook" by Tom Christiansen. Just like it sounds: a cookbook of common things one wants to do.

Visit Schwartz's website and script archives:

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/

> 2)
> digest-me-slowly-to-learn-superior-style-and-technique-and-be-infused-
> with-t he-mystic-of-perl-from-an-application-development-perspective
> book.

Umm ... imho I've never really found a good book on application development with Perl. A must is the "Perl Programming" (many editions) which will have some of this. Perl allows one to do anything anyway:) I would highly suggest you use Modules and the OO Perl style. Be sure to always check out CPAN before writing your own wheel:

http://search.cpan.org/

Also, if doing web application development with Perl and you are using Apache (why not:) ... then I highly suggest mod_perl. Here is a great guide to using mod_perl:

http://perl.apache.org/guide/

and a link for the mod_perl and some book chapters online:  

http://www.modperl.com/

And there is always the book "Programming the Perl DBI" which I prefer to online documentation as I prefer to read books ... but I'd bet you could find it all online.

Peter

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