Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 448 pages
- Published by: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- Edition: 1st Edition March 2003
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0596003110
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0596003111
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Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 7.1 x 1 inches
- Weighs: 1.5 pounds
Product Description
In its first five years of existence,
The Perl Journal (TPJ) became the voice of the Perl community. Every serious Perl programmer subscribed to it, and every notable Perl guru jumped at the opportunity to write for it. TPJ explained critical Perl topics and demonstrated Perl's utility for fields as diverse as astronomy, biology, economics, AI, and games. Back issues were hoarded, or swapped like trading cards. No longer in print format,
The Perl Journal remains a proud and timeless achievement of Perl during one of its most exciting periods of development.
Web, Graphics & Perl/Tk is the second volume of
The Best of the Perl Journal, compiled and re-edited by the original editor and publisher of
The Perl Journal, Jon Orwant. In this series, we've taken the very best (and still relevant) articles published in TPJ over its five years of publication and immortalized them into three volumes.
The forty articles included in this volume are simply some of the best Perl articles ever written on the subjects of graphics, the Web, and Perl/Tk, by some of the best Perl authors and coders.
Much of Perl's success is due to its capabilities for developing web sites; the Web section covers popular topics such as CGI programs, mod_perl, spidering, HTML parsing, security, and content management. The Graphics section is a grab bag of techniques, ranging from simple graph generation to ray tracing and real-time video digitizing. The Perl/Tk section shows you how to use the popular Perl/Tk toolkit for developing graphical applications that work on both Unix/Linux and Windows without a single change.
Written by twenty-three of the most prominent and prolific members of the closely-knit Perl community, including Lincoln Stein, Mark-Jason Dominus, Alligator Descartes, and Dan Brian, this anthology does what no other book can, giving unique insight into the real-life applications and powerful techniques made possible by Perl.
Reader Reviews
"Web, Graphics and Perl/TK" is a reprint of the best articles of the The Perl Journal (TPJ) for the following topics: - Web programming with Perl - Graphics programming with Perl - Perl/TK The chapter about "Web programming" covers roughly the following topics: - CGI programming and CGI.pm - mod_perl programming - LWP (libwwwperl) and the modules to parse HTML - Miscellaneous topics I found the main chapter "Web programming" very interesting and a good introduction into the topics that it covered. The chapter "Graphics" is a collection of articles about Graphics programming without the use of Perl/TK (e.g. GD, Perl and GIMP). I found the articles to be quite interesting and to contain some very good ideas. Because I am a database guy, I will not use most of these ideas but I will definitely use GD to generate web graphics. It is always amazing how much you can do with Perl and how easy this can be (sometimes). The third part of the " Web, Graphics and Perl/TK" deals with Perl/TK only. I personally do not really understand TK (even when I was still using TCL/TK) so that I cannot reallyon the contents of these articles. I found them quite readable and the stile was OK. However if I had to (re-)learn TK, these articles would not be enough. If I need to use Perl/TK, I will buy the O'Reilly books that cover Perl/TK. I like this TPJ series because the authors cover a certain aspect of Perl or Perl usage in a very condensed form that makes it easy to get a quick start in this area. I am really looking forward to reading "Games, Diversions and Perl Culture" (last book of this series
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