Product Description: With a worldwide community of users and more than a million dedicated programmers, Perl has proven to be the most effective language for the latest trends in computing and business.Every programmer must keep up with the latest tools and techniques...read more

Provides information on using the ticketing system Request Tracker.

Looks at the Perl test tools and offers a series of exercises that cover such topics as bundling test suites, testing databases, and testing Web sites and projects.

Presents guidelines on the art of coding with Perl, covering such topics as naming conventions, data and control structures, program decomposition, interface design, and error handling.

Product Description: Perl, one of the world’s most diffuse programming languages, was born out of the need to resolve the creator's dissatisfaction with what were at the time standard data-parsing solutions. Indeed, since the 1.0 release in 1987, Perl has been heralded for its powerful parsing capabilities features that are further enhanced through the thousands of Perl extensions made available through CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network)...read more

Product Description: Combining the best features of C, UNIX utilities, and regular expressions, Perl has grown as one of the most powerful and popular scripting languages. The valuable Perl is often used for system administration, text processing and Web programming...read more

Offers a tutorial explaining how to use Perl scripts and modules to create such CGI Web applications as data collection, shopping cart, server push, and e-mail forms.

A guide the advanced features of the Perl programming language covers such topics as dispatch tables, iterators, partitions, parsing, and linear equations.

Working on the assumption that the reader has no formal training in programming, Perl Programming for Biologists demonstrates how Perl is used to solve biological problems. Each chapter opens with a set of learning objectives, provides numerous review questions and self-study exercises, and concludes with a bulleted summary of key points. The author incorporates numerous real-life examples throughout the text. Upon completing the book, readers are able to quickly perform such tasks as correcting recurring errors in spreadsheets, scanning a Fasta sequence for every occurrence of an EcoRI site, adapting other writers' scripts to one's own purposes, and most important, writing reusableand maintainable scripts that spare the rote repetition of code.

Presents a collection of articles on the Perl programming language, covering such topics as text searching and editing, CGI programming, Website management, and HTML and XML processing.

With insightful tips and techniques for programming with Perl, this efficient little guide provides immediate solutions with field tested examples to help programmers and Web developers quickly solve problems and fully utilize the power and flexibility of the cross-platform programming language. Original. (Intermediate)

Covers the basic concepts of the Perl computer language, including such topics as data types, control flow constructs, writing custom functions, and object-oriented programming.

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: If you build web pages you may eventually want to add a guestbook, order form, page counter, or other interactive elements to your website. CGI Programming 101 explains how to do this in simple, easy-to-understand terms. The book shows you how to write useful, real-world web programs, starting with simple guestbook forms and building up to more advanced applications...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book is about taking over Perl code, whether written by someone else or by yourself at an earlier time. Developers regularly estimate that they spend 60 to 80 percent of their time working with existing code. Many problems of code inheritance are common to all languages, but the nature of the language makes Perl especially tricky...read more

Product Description: Among the many different approaches to "templating" with Perl--such as Embperl, Mason, HTML::Template, and hundreds of other lesser known systems--the Template Toolkit is widely recognized as one of the most versatile. Like other templating systems, the Template Toolkit allows programmers to embed Perl code and custom macros into HTML documents in order to create customized documents on the fly...read more

Product Description: This unique text explores the core concepts central to the development of three-tier, client-server Web applications. A comprehensive introduction to the Internet and Web applications is followed by a brief refresher on HTML and CSS and an introduction to client-side programming using JavaScript and browser objects...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Informatics in the genomic setting involves the storage, search, and manipulation of textual data such as nucleotide and protein sequences and related matter such as structural or functional annotations, authors, cross-links to other sequences or structures, and more...read more

Product Description: Most Perl programmers know about the Perl debugger--the nifty little built-in utility that you can use to fully debug any programs that you write. Inside the interactive debugger environment, you're prompted for commands that let you examine your source code, set breakpoints, dump out function call stacks, change values of variables, and much more...read more

Presents six Perl texts in HTML format.

A companion volume to Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics discusses the ties between biology and computer science and covers core PERL programming concepts, module extensions, and more advanced Perl techniques, data structures, object-oriented programming, and more in relation to biological data and other specific biological applications. Original. (Advanced)

Product Description: Perl 6 Essentials is a sneak-preview of Perl 6, the widely-anticipated rewrite of the Perl programming language. Still in development, the Perl 6 project is a community-based effort to keep Perl vibrant well into the 21st century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A comprehensive guide to the programming language covers updating text and binary files, subroutines, libraries, data structures, signals, screen addressing, and client-server programming.

Explains how to use JavaScript, Perl, and CGI to create interactive Web sites, discussing concepts including cookies, databases, and XML processing. (view table of contents)

Collects forty-seven articles from 'The Perl Journal' which showed how Perl could be combined with poetry, astronomy, bioinformatics, natural language processing, and games. (view table of contents)