Wow! eBook - Blog » Perl http://www.wowebook.be Great ebook, great site! Wed, 23 May 2012 21:39:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Programming Perl, 4th Edition http://www.wowebook.be/book/programming-perl-4th-edition/ http://www.wowebook.be/book/programming-perl-4th-edition/#comments Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:47:33 +0000 Wow! http://www.wowebook.me/?p=17724 Programming Perl, 4th Edition

Book Description

Adopted as the undisputed bible soon after the first edition appeared in 1991, is still the go-to for this highly practical language. Perl began life as a super-fueled text processing utility, but quickly evolved into a general purpose language that’s helped hundreds of thousands of programmers, system administrators, and enthusiasts, like you, get your job done.

In this much-anticipated update to “the Camel,” three renowned Perl authors cover the language up to its current version, Perl 5.14, with a preview of features in the upcoming 5.16. In a world where Unicode is increasingly essential for text processing, Perl offers the best and least painful support of any major language, smoothly integrating Unicode everywhere—including in Perl’s most popular feature: regular expressions.

Important features covered by this update include:

  • New keywords and syntax
  • I/O layers and encodings
  • New backslash escapes
  • Unicode 6.0
  • Unicode grapheme clusters and properties
  • Named captures in regexes
  • Recursive and grammatical patterns
  • Expanded coverage of CPAN
  • Current best practices

Table of Contents
Part I: Overview
Chapter 1. An Overview of Perl

Part II: The Gory Details
Chapter 2. Bits and Pieces
Chapter 3. Unary and Binary Operators
Chapter 4. Statements and Declarations
Chapter 5. Pattern Matching
Chapter 6. Unicode
Chapter 7. Subroutines
Chapter 8. References
Chapter 9. Data Structures
Chapter 10. Packages
Chapter 11. Modules
Chapter 12. Objects
Chapter 13. Overloading
Chapter 14. Tied Variables

Part III: Perl as Technology
Chapter 15. Interprocess Communication
Chapter 16. Compiling
Chapter 17. The -Line Interface
Chapter 18. The Perl Debugger
Chapter 19. CPAN

Part IV: Perl as Culture
Chapter 20. Security
Chapter 21. Common Practices
Chapter 22. Portable Perl
Chapter 23. Plain Old Documentation
Chapter 24. Perl Culture

Part V: Reference Material
Chapter 25. Special Names
Chapter 26. Formats
Chapter 27. Functions
Chapter 28. The Standard Perl Library
Chapter 29. Pragmatic Modules

Part VI: Index of Perl Modules in This Book

Book Details

  • Paperback: 1184 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 4th Edition (February 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0596004923
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596004927
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Book Description

is a very powerful tool for administrators, but too few DBAs realize how helpful can be in managing, monitoring, and tuning databases. Whether you’re responsible for 9i, 8i, or earlier databases, you’ll find Perl an invaluable addition to your arsenal.

You don’t need to be a Perl expert to use the excellent applications and scripts described in Perl for DBAs. The book explains what you need to know about Perl, provides a wealth of ready-to-use scripts developed especially for DBAs, and suggests many resources for further exploration. The book covers:

  • The Perl language — an introduction to Perl, its rich history and culture, and its extensive text processing and data transformation capabilities.
  • The Perl/Oracle architecture — Detailed information about Perl DBI, DBD::Oracle, the Oracle Call Interface (OCI), Oracle::OCI, extproc_perl, and mod_perl, the modules that allow Perl programs to communicate with Oracle databases.
  • Perl applications for Oracle DBAs — Profiles of the best Perl applications available for use and customization by Oracle DBAs: Perl/Tk, OraExplain, StatsView, Orac, DDL::Oracle, SchemaDiff, Senora, DBD::Chart, SchemaView-Plus, Oracletool, Karma, Embperl, and Mason.
  • The Perl Database (PDBA) Toolkit — a comprehensive suite of specialized, ready-to-use scripts designed to help Oracle DBAs perform both routine and special-purpose administrative tasks: monitoring the Oracle alert log and databases, creating and managing Oracle user accounts, maintaining indexes and extents, extracting DDL and data, troubleshooting and tuning database problems, and much more.

The book also explains how Oracle DBAs and developers can extend the toolkit and solve their own database administration problems using Perl.

Table of Contents
Part I: Introducing Perl for Oracle
Chapter 1. Perl Meets Oracle
Chapter 2. Installing Perl

Part II: Extending Perl
Chapter 3. Perl GUI Extensions
Chapter 4. Perl Extensions
Chapter 5. Embedding Perl into with mod_perl
Chapter 6. Embedded Perl Scripting
Chapter 7. Invoking the Oracle Call Interface with Oracle::OCI
Chapter 8. Embedding Perl into PL/SQL

Part III: The Perl DBA Toolkit
Chapter 9. Installing the PDBA Toolkit
Chapter 10. Performing Routine DBA Tasks with the PDBA Toolkit
Chapter 11. Monitoring the Database with the PDBA Toolkit
Chapter 12. Building a Database Repository with the PDBA Toolkit
Chapter 13. Extending the PDBA Toolkit

Part IV: Appendixes
Appendix A. The Essential to Perl
Appendix B. The Essential to Perl DBI
Appendix C. The Essential Guide to Regular Expressions
Appendix D. The Essential Guide to Perl Data Munging

Book Details

  • Paperback: 600 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media (August 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0596002106
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596002107
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Book Description

This is an ebook-only workbook to accompany the 6th Edition of Learning (“the Llama”). If you’re just getting started with , this is the book you want—whether you’re a programmer, system administrator, or hacker. This 6th edition of Learning covers recent changes to the language up to version 5.14. Exercises are presented in the first half of the workbook, with the answers in the second.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Scalar Data
Chapter 3. Lists and Arrays
Chapter 4. Subroutines
Chapter 5. Input and Output
Chapter 6. Hashes
Chapter 7. In the World of Regular Expressions
Chapter 8. Matching with Regular Expressions
Chapter 9. Processing Text with Regular Expressions
Chapter 10. More Control Structures
Chapter 11. Modules
Chapter 12. File Tests
Chapter 13. Directory Operations
Chapter 14. Strings and Sorting
Chapter 15. Smart Matching and given-when
Chapter 16. Process Management
Chapter 17. Some Advanced Perl Techniques
Chapter 18. Databases (bonus chapter)

Book Details

  • Paperback: 164 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 2nd Edition (January 2012 )
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449328067
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449328061
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Book Description

If you have a question, you’ll find the answer quickly in this handy, easy-to-use quick reference. The condenses and organizes stacks of documentation down to the most essential facts, so you can find what you need in a heartbeat.

Updated for Perl 5.14, the 5th edition provides a summary of Perl syntax rules and a complete list of operators, built-in functions, and other features. It’s the perfect companion to O’Reilly’s authoritative and in-depth Perl books, including Learning Perl, Programming Perl, and the Perl Cookbook.

Table of Contents
Copyright

Chapter 1. Perl
Section 1.1. Perl 5.14.1
Section 1.2. Conventions used in this book
Section 1.3. Features
Section 1.4. Syntax
Section 1.5. Embedded Documentation
Section 1.6. Data Types
Section 1.7. Quotes and Interpolation
Section 1.8. Literal Values
Section 1.9. Variables
Section 1.10. Context
Section 1.11. Operators and Precedence
Section 1.12. Statements
Section 1.13. Packages and Modules
Section 1.14. Pragmatic Modules
Section 1.15. Subroutines
Section 1.16. Special Subroutines
Section 1.17. Programming
Section 1.18. Special Classes
Section 1.19. Arithmetic Functions
Section 1.20. Conversion Functions
Section 1.21. Structure Conversion
Section 1.22. String Functions
Section 1.23. Array and List Functions
Section 1.24. Hash Functions
Section 1.25. Smartmatching
Section 1.26. Regular Expression Patterns
Section 1.27. Search and Replace Functions
Section 1.28. File Operations
Section 1.29. File Test Operators
Section 1.30. Input and Output
Section 1.31. Formatted Printing
Section 1.32. Formats
Section 1.33. Directory Reading Routines
Section 1.34. System Interaction
Section 1.35. Networking
Section 1.36. System V IPC
Section 1.37. Miscellaneous
Section 1.38. Tying Variables
Section 1.39. Information from System Databases
Section 1.40. Special Variables
Section 1.41. Special Arrays
Section 1.42. Special Hashes
Section 1.43. Environment Variables
Section 1.44. Threads

Appendix A. -Line Options
Section A.1. PERL5OPT
Section A.2. #!

Appendix B. The Perl Debugger

Appendix C. Perl Links
Section C.1. Organizational
Section C.2. Sources, documentation, support
Section C.3. News, blogs, publications
Section C.4. Platforms, distributions

About the Author
Johan Vromans has engaged in software engineering research since 1975. Convinced of the importance of a good programming environment, he became an expert in using GNU Emacs and the Perl programming language. Recently he was instrumental in bringing the Internet to the Netherlands as a commercial activity. He currently owns his own typesetting and consulting business called Squirrel Consultancy. He can be reached at JVromans@squirrel.nl.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 104 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 5th Edition (July 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449303706
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449303709
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Book Description

Popularly known as “the Llama,” Learning is the book most programmers rely on to get started with this versatile language. The bestselling tutorial since it was first published in 1993, this sixth edition includes recent changes to the language up to 5.14.

This book reflects the combined experience of its authors, who have taught Perl at Stonehenge Consulting since 1991. Years of classroom and experience helped shape the book’s pace and scope, and this edition is packed with exercises that let you practice the concepts while you follow the text.

Topics include:

  • Perl data & variable types
  • Subroutines
  • File operations
  • Regular expressions
  • String manipulation (including Unicode)
  • Lists & sorting
  • Process management
  • Smart matching
  • Using third party modules

Perl is the language for people who want to get work done. Originally targeted to sysadmins for heavy-duty text processing, Perl is now a full-featured language suitable for almost any task on almost any platform—from short fixes on the line to applications, bioinformatics, finance, and much more. Other books may teach you to program in Perl, but this book will turn you into a Perl programmer.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 390 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 6th Edition (June 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1449303587
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449303587
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Book Description

5 is a popular, powerful, and robust language. With countless satisfied developers, tens of thousands of freely available libraries, and continual improvements to the language and its ecosystem, modern can be easy, reliable, and fun. To take advantage of the full power of 5–to become a true expert, capable of solving any problem put before you–you must understand the language. Modern explains 5 from theory to implementation, including 5.12.

Perl 1.0 came out in 1987. In the decades since then, The language has gone from a simple tool for system somewhere between shell scripting and C (Perl 1) to a powerful, general purpose language steeped in a rich heritage (Perl 5) and a consistent, coherent, rethinking of intended to last for at least another 25 years (Perl 6).

Even so, most Perl 5 programs in the world take far too little advantage of the language. You can write Perl 5 programs as if they were Perl 4 programs (or Perl 3 or 2 or 1), but programs written to take advantage of everything amazing the worldwide Perl 5 community has invented, polished, and discovered are shorter, faster, more powerful, and easier to maintain than their alternatives.

Modern Perl is one way to describe how experienced and effective Perl 5 programmers work. They use language idioms. They take advantage of the CPAN. They’re recognizably Perlish, and they show good taste and craftsmanship and a full understanding of Perl.

You can learn this too, whether you’ve dabbled with Perl for a decade or someone just handed you this book and said “Fix this code by Friday.”

Book Details

  • Paperback: 276 pages
  • Publisher: Onyx Neon Press (October, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0977920151
  • ISBN-13: 978-0977920150
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Book Description

Many applications are implemented in a way that makes developing them difficult and repetitive. is an -based Model-View-Controller framework that aims to solve this problem by reorganizing your application to design and implement it in a natural, maintainable, and testable manner, making fun, fast, and rewarding.

This book teaches you how to use to weave the various components involved in a web application, using methods and tools you personally prefer along with recommendations and details on the most popularly used objects like the DBIX ORM, TT2 Template, and Moose.

This book will take you from how the pattern simplifies creating quality applications to how Catalyst allows you to tap this power instantly. It explains advanced design patterns and concludes with the improvements that Moose brings to all this. It also incorporates valuable suggestions and feedback received from the community members and our customers. By the end of the book, you will be able to build clean, scalable, and extendable web applications. This book embodies Catalyst’s philosophies of Do It Yourself and Don’t Repeat Yourself.

Design, develop, test, and deploy applications rapidly with the Catalyst framework

Build scalable and extendable web applications using the agile MVC framework

  • Increase reusability and empower the delivery of more complex design patterns by extending the MVC concept
  • Build an editable web interface
  • Extend Catalyst through plugins
  • Plenty of examples with detailed walkthroughs to create sample applications
  • Updated for the latest version, Catalyst 5.8

What you will learn from this book

  • Use the Template toolkit to generate HTML output
  • Design a schema and access a SQLite
  • Create a CRUD interface to a
  • Use FormBuilder to define -generating and self-validating forms
  • Create easy-to-maintain configuration files
  • Import CSV files into a database
  • Paginate search results
  • Use the session plugin to add sessions to an application
  • Explore authentication and authorization, implementing page-level and record-level control
  • Use DBIC for easy handling of data
  • Add a REST API to allow other applications to access your application
  • Add AJAX interactivity to your application
  • Incorporate RSS feeds in your application
  • Automate and learn “Test-Driven ”
  • Mix a procedural interface with a relational DBIx::Class interface
  • Write a database interface without DBIx::Class
  • Build a custom Model without using any database

Approach
The book is written in an exploratory style: try something and then understand how it works. It will you through the features of Catalyst using real-world examples and systematic code snippets.

Who this book is written for
If you are a Developer and want to strengthen your skill by understanding Web Application development using MVC principles, then this book is for you.

About the Author
Antano Solar John is a tech evangelist who is passionate about using technology to revolutionize the learning experience! He authored his first book on MODx with Packt in 2008 which was also the first book ever written on this platform.

Antano has contributed massively to the open source community in terms of documentation, code, and support on various platforms based on PHP, Perl, Lisp, Python, Ruby, and so on. His contribution to the open source world has allowed him to meet and model from a variety of people who have learned to code and think naturally! His writing skills benefit from this advantage thereby bringing structure and clarity to the learner.

Antano’s first technical publication titled “Help AI Help You-Swiss Knife of Communication” was on Communication and Machine Learning using Neuro Linguistic (NLP) concepts such as Meta Modelling and Deep Structures, which was critically acclaimed by communication and technology experts. He has also been recently certified as a licensed NLP practitioner by its cofounder Richard Bandler. Other papers by Antano include “802.11 MAC Enhancements-Breaking Barriers of Wireless Speed” that was published in the IEEE Journal, “Learning to Develop in the Open Source World”, and so on.

Owing to his experience as a consultant and trainer, Antano has designed course structure and content for corporate learners at different levels on subjects such as Object Oriented Perl, System Fundamentals, Shell basic, Ruby on Rails, and so on. In association with MaFoi Ranstad, Antano entirely designed and implemented a structured course for transitioning web designers into developers through a one-day blended learning program called “Learn”.

Antano has been keenly focusing on Accelerated Learning. He has conducted workshops at various reputed colleges and corporate events on how to learn quickly and effectively-technology languages and platforms using strategies that he has developed. His experience with NLP, which is the science of Modelling Excellence has helped him with this effort.

As part of his consultant assignments he has worked on Catalyst from its early stages. He has been a consultant and a trainer providing IT solutions and sessions on VoIP, networks, and software platforms, and languages. Currently, he is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at NuVeda Learning. In his present role, he is responsible for accelerated learning solutions which leverages technology for speed and scale.

Antano’s other interests include Music, Dance, Martial Arts, and Chess. He used to play Chess professionally as a child. Antano used to run a successful gaming business when gaming as a business was almost unheard of. He has also won the yahoo hack award twice in India consequently, once for developing a Collaborative Browsing Mechanism using lines of code shorter than this biography without any server or proxy and then yet again for developing a Hybrid Search Engine from scratch in 24 hours that uses Machine and Social Intelligence to identify, search, and distill information in contexts you expect!

Book Details

  • Paperback: 244 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing; 1st New edition edition (June, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1847199240
  • ISBN-13: 978-1847199249
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Book Description

The Classic to Solving Real-World Problems with —Now Fully Updated for Today’s Best Idioms!

For years, experienced programmers have relied on Effective to discover better ways to solve problems with Perl. Now, in this long-awaited second edition, three renowned Perl programmers bring together today’s best idioms, techniques, and examples: everything you need to write more powerful, fluent, expressive, and succinct code with Perl.

Nearly twice the size of the first edition, Effective Perl , Second Edition, offers everything from rules of thumb to avoid common pitfalls to the latest wisdom for using Perl modules. You won’t just learn the right ways to use Perl: You’ll learn why these approaches work so well.

New coverage in this edition includes

  • Reorganized and expanded material spanning twelve years of Perl evolution
  • Eight new chapters on CPAN, databases, distributions, files and filehandles, production Perl, , Unicode, and warnings
  • Updates for Perl 5.12, the latest version of Perl
  • Systematically updated examples reflecting today’s best idioms

You’ll learn how to work with strings, numbers, lists, arrays, strictures, namespaces, regular expressions, subroutines, references, distributions, inline code, warnings, Perl::Tidy, data munging, Perl one-liners, and a whole lot more. Every technique is organized in the same Items format that helped make the first edition so convenient and popular.

About the Author
Joseph N. Hall has programmed for a living since 1984, taught his first computer class at age fourteen, and has worked with Perl since 1993. Joshua A. McAdams, a programmer at Google, is the voice of Perlcast. He has hosted two Perl conferences, conducts meetings for Chicago Perl Mongers, has spoken about Perl at events worldwide, and is a CPAN author. brian d foy is coauthor of Learning Perl, Fifth Edition (O’Reilly Media, 2008), and Intermediate Perl (O’Reilly Media, 2006), and author of Mastering Perl (O’Reilly Media, 2007). He established the first Perl user group, the New York Perl Mongers; publishes The Perl Review; maintains parts of the core Perl documentation; and has more than ten years of Perl training experience.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 504 pages
  • Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 2nd Edition (April 29, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0321496949
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321496942
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Book Description

This is a book for those of us who believed that we didn’t need to learn , and now we know it is more ubiquitous than ever. is extremely flexible and powerful, and it isn’t afraid of 2.0 or the cloud. Originally touted as the duct tape of the Internet, has since evolved into a multipurpose, multiplatform language present absolutely everywhere: heavy-duty applications, the cloud, systems , natural language processing, and financial engineering. Beginning , Third Edition provides valuable insight into Perl’s role regarding all of these tasks and more.

Commencing with a comprehensive overview of language basics, you’ll learn all about important concepts such as Perl’s data types and control flow constructs. This material sets the stage for a discussion of more complex topics, such as writing custom functions, using regular expressions, and file input and output. Next, the book moves on to the advanced topics of , modules, web , and with Perl’s powerful interface , DBI. The examples and code provided offer you all of the information you need to start writing your own powerful scripts to solve the problems listed above, and many more.

Whether you are a complete novice or an experienced programmer, Beginning Perl, Third Edition offers an ideal to learning Perl.

What you’ll learn

  • How to use the power of Perl
  • How to handle Perl data structures
  • How to build applications regardless of the underlying
  • How to parse complex data
  • How to write industrial-strength Perl
  • How to start web in Perl

Who is this book for?
This book is for programmers of all shades and persuasions who thought they could do without Perl. Think again.

About the Author
James Lee is a hacker and open-source advocate based in Illinois. He holds a ’s degree from Northwestern University, and he can often be seen rooting for the Wildcats during football season. As founder of Onsight, Lee has worked as a programmer, trainer, manager, writer, and open-source advocate. Lee coauthored the recently published Hacking Linux Exposed, Second Edition, as well as Web with LAMP. He enjoys hacking Perl and has written many articles on Perl for Linux Journal. Lee also enjoys developing software for the Web, reading, traveling and, most of all, playing with his kids&emdash;who are too young to know why dad’s favorite animals are penguins and camels.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 464 pages
  • Publisher: Apress; 3 edition (April 15, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430227931
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430227939
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Book Description

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. 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 , 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, , 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.

About the Author
Damian Conway holds a PhD in Computer Science and is an honorary Associate Professor with the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Currently he runs an international IT training company–Thoughtstream–which provides programmer from beginner to masterclass level throughout Europe, North America, and Australasia. Damian was the winner of the 1998, 1999, and 2000 Larry Wall Awards for Practical Utility. The best technical paper at the annual Perl Conference was subsequently named in his honour. He is a member of the technical committee for The Perl Conference, a keynote speaker at many conferences, a former columnist for The Perl Journal, and author of the book Object Oriented Perl. In 2001 Damian received the first “Perl Foundation Grant” and spent 20 months working on projects for the betterment of Perl. A popular speaker and trainer, he is also the author of numerous well-known Perl modules, including Parse::RecDescent (a sophisticated parsing tool), Class::Contract (design-by-contract in Perl), Lingua::EN::Inflect (rule-based English transformations for text generation), Class::Multimethods (multiple dispatch polymorphism), Text::Autoformat (intelligent reformatting of plaintext), Switch (Perl’s missing case statement), NEXT (resumptive method dispatch), Filter::Simple (Perl-based source code manipulation), Quantum::Superpositions (-parallelization of serial code using a quantum mechanical metaphor), and Lingua::Romana::Perligata ( in Latin). Most of his time is now spent working with Larry Wall on the design of the new Perl 6 language.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 542 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc. (July 12, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0596001738
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596001735
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Book Description

If you do systems work of any kind, you have to deal with the growing complexity of your environment and increasing demands on your time. Automating System with , Second Edition, not only offers you the right tools for your job, but also suggests the best way to approach specific problems and to securely automate recurring tasks. Updated and expanded to cover the latest operating systems, technologies, and modules, this edition of the “Otter Book” will help you:Manage user accounts filesystems and processes Work with configuration files in important formats such as XML and YAML Administer databases, including , MS-SQL, and with DBI Work with directory services like LDAP and Active Directory Script email protocols and spam control Effectively create, handle, and analyze log files Administer network name and configuration services, including NIS, DNS and DHCP Maintain, , and map network services, using technologies and tools such as SNMP, nmap, libpcap, GraphViz and RRDtool Improve filesystem, process, and network security

This edition includes additional appendixes to get you up to speed on technologies such as XML/XPath, LDAP, SNMP, and SQL. With this book in hand and in your toolbox, you can do more with less — fewer resources, less effort, and far less hassle.

About the Author
David N. Blank-Edelman is the Director of Technology at the Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Science. He has spent the last 25 years as a system/network administrator in large multi- platform environments, including Brandeis University, Cambridge Technology Group, and the MIT Media Laboratory. He was also the program chair of the LISA 2005 conference and one of the LISA 2006 Invited Talks co-chairs.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 666 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.; 2nd Edition (May 29, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 059600639X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596006396
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Book Description

Learn to build applications with , the popular framework based on the language. The Definitive to : Writing Extendable, Scalable, and Maintainable –Based Web Applications is a definitive to Catalyst version 5.8, which will be released in 2009. This book contains

  • Training materials for new and experience programmers.
  • Worked examples and cookbook–style recipes of common web application tasks
  • Fundamentals of web application design and best–practice application style

What you’ll learn

  • Write web applications with Catalyst and Perl.
  • Design for extendability and code reuse.
  • Understand deployment options for high– and low–traffic sites.
  • Use DBIx::Class, Moose, and Template Toolkit.
  • Understand the Catalyst dispatcher and request cycle.
  • Deal with common web programming requirements: authentication and authorization, web services, sending e–mail, serving streaming media.

Who is this book for?

The primary audience for this book is existing Perl programmers who want more information on writing robust maintainable and extendable web applications. This group is comprised of four subgroups:

  • Experienced perl programmers wanting to update their web programming skills (for example, .pm, mod_perl, and Mason programmers)
  • Intermediate/Late beginner programmers wanting to learn rapid, extendable, maintainable web programming techniques in Perl
  • System administrators and other non–web users of Perl (e.g., bioinformatics workers) who want to learn modern Perl web techniques
  • Existing catalyst programmers who want to learn about best practices for catalyst

This book is also for programmers who want to understand web application design and development more thoroughly.

About the Author

Kieren Diment is a social researcher in the School of Management and Marketing, University of Wollongong, Australia, where he uses Catalyst for the collection analysis and presentation of research data. He has taken the lead in a significant portion of the Catalyst documentation including the Catalyst Advent Calendar in 2006 and 2007. His focus has been on ensuring a culture of documentation by example in the project, and ensuring that instructional documentation points to working example code wherever possible.

Matt S Trout is technical director of Shadowcat Systems Limited, an –focused consultancy based in Lancaster, England specializing in helping clients with design, development, and deployment of Catalyst– and DBIx::Class–based applications. He is the second longest standing member of the Catalyst core team and focuses on architecture, program management, and ease of installation and deployment of Catalyst and Catalyst–based applications.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 360 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (July 10, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430223650
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430223658
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Book Description

by Example, Fourth Edition, is the easiest, most hands-on way to learn . Legendary Silicon Valley instructor Ellie Quigley has thoroughly updated her classic to deliver the skills and information today’s users need most–including all-new coverage of and a QuickStart designed to get experienced users up and running fast.

Quigley illuminates every technique with focused, classroom-tested code examples, detailed line-by-line explanations, and real program output. This exceptionally clear, easy-to-understand book takes you from your first script to -driven applications. It’s the only book you’ll ever need!

New in this edition:
* Perl programming QuickStart: makes first-time Perl programmers productive in just twenty pages
* All-new chapter on using the Perl DBI with the database–plus an easy SQL primer to quickly get you started programming any database
* New introductions to Perl in biology (bioinformatics) and to mod_perl, a Perl interpreter embedded in the server, which allows you to create fast, dynamic content; manage the server; authenticate users; and much more

Completely updated:
* Includes many new and completely rewritten code examples
* Contains fully revised coverage for building dynamic sites with Perl
* Covers modern Perl 5.8 concepts and principles–and provides a great foundation for Perl 6

More than 30,000 sysadmins, power users, and developers have used previous editions of Perl by Example to become expert Perl programmers. With Perl by Example, Fourth Edition, you can, too–even if you’re completely new to Perl. After you’ve become an expert, you’ll turn to this book constantly as the best source for reliable answers, solutions, and code.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 1008 pages
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 4 edition (November 15, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0132381826
  • ISBN-13: 978-0132381826
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Book Description

is a versatile, powerful language used in a variety of disciplines, ranging from system to to manipulation. One slogan of is that it makes easy things easy and hard things possible. “Intermediate ” is about making the leap from the easy things to the hard ones.Originally released in 2003 as “Learning Objects, References, and Modules” and revised and updated for 5.8, this book offers a gentle but thorough introduction to intermediate programming in . Written by the authors of the best-selling “Learning ,” it picks up where that book left off. Topics include:

  • Packages and namespaces
  • References and scoping
  • Manipulating complex data structures
  • programming
  • Writing and using modules
  • code
  • Contributing to CPAN

Following the successful format of “Learning Perl,” we designed each chapter in the book to be small enough to be read in just an hour or two, ending with a series of exercises to help you practice what you’ve learned. To use the book, you just need to be familiar with the material in “Learning Perl” and have ambition to go further.

Perl is a different language to different people. It is a quick scripting tool for some, and a fully-featured 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.

“Intermediate Perl” is about learning to use Perl as aprogramming language, and not just a scripting language. This is the book that turns the Perl dabbler into the Perl programmer.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 278 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media (March 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0596102062
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596102067
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]]> http://www.wowebook.be/book/intermediate-perl/feed/ 0 Practical Text Mining with Perl http://www.wowebook.be/book/practical-text-mining-with-perl/ http://www.wowebook.be/book/practical-text-mining-with-perl/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 22:00:23 +0000 Wow! http://www.wowebook.com/?p=302 Practical Text Mining with Perl

Book Description

This book is devoted to the fundamentals of text mining using , an open-source tool that is freely available via the Internet (www..org). It covers mining ideas from several perspectives–statistics, data mining, linguistics, and information retrieval–and provides readers with the means to successfully complete text mining tasks on their own.

The book begins with an introduction to regular expressions, a text pattern methodology, and quantitative text summaries, all of which are fundamental tools of analyzing text. Then, it builds upon this foundation to explore:

  • Probability and texts, including the bag-of-words model
  • Information retrieval techniques such as the TF-IDF similarity measure
  • Concordance lines and corpus linguistics
  • Multivariate techniques such as correlation, principal components analysis, and clustering
  • Perl modules, German, and permutation tests

Each chapter is devoted to a single key topic, and the author carefully and thoughtfully introduces mathematical concepts as they arise, allowing readers to learn as they go without having to refer to additional books. The inclusion of numerous exercises and worked-out examples further complements the book’s student-friendly format.

Practical Text Mining with Perl is ideal as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses in text mining and as a reference for a variety of professionals who are interested in extracting information from text documents.

From the Back Cover

Provides readers with the methods, algorithms, and means to perform text mining tasks

This book is devoted to the fundamentals of text mining using Perl, an open-source tool that is freely available via the Internet (www.perl.org). It covers mining ideas from several perspectives—statistics, data mining, linguistics, and information retrieval—and provides readers with the means to successfully complete text mining tasks on their own.

The book begins with an introduction to regular expressions, a text pattern methodology, and quantitative text summaries, all of which are fundamental tools of analyzing text. Then, it builds upon this foundation to explore:

  • Probability and texts, including the bag-of-words model
  • Information retrieval techniques such as the TF-IDF similarity measure
  • Concordance lines and corpus linguistics
  • Multivariate techniques such as correlation, principal components analysis, and clustering
  • Perl modules, German, and permutation tests

Each chapter is devoted to a single key topic, and the author carefully and thoughtfully introduces mathematical concepts as they arise, allowing readers to learn as they go without having to refer to additional books. The inclusion of numerous exercises and worked-out examples further complements the book’s student-friendly format.

Practical Text Mining with Perl is ideal as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses in text mining and as a reference for a variety of professionals who are interested in extracting information from text documents.

About the Author
Roger Bilisoly, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at Central Connecticut State University, where he developed and teaches a new graduate-level course in text mining for the school’s data mining program.

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 296 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley (August 18, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470176431
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470176436
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Book Description

Working on the assumption that the reader has no formal training in , for Biologists demonstrates how 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 reusable and maintainable scripts that spare the rote repetition of code.

From the Back Cover
With a loose structure that allows for fast and easy coding, the Perl programming language is the most widely used scripting language in bioinformatics. Working on the assumption that the reader has never had any formal training in programming, and using examples geared toward real problems faced by biologists, Perl Programming for Biologists serves as an accessible, introductory reference for teaching Perl programming.

Curtis Jamison’s innovative text introduces basi c elements of computer science and software engineering in an abbreviated format, building toward a bioinformatics users’s for Perl. 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. Jamison incorporates numerous real-life examples throughout to illustrate how Perl is used to solve biological problems, offering valuable code fragments that the current practitioner can recycle into his or her own program. Divided into sections on basic, intermediate, and advanced-level Perl, the book includes chapters on:

  • Variables and data types
  • Arrays and hashes
  • Control structures
  • Subroutines
  • String manipulation
  • programming

Upon completing the book, readers will be 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 reusable and maintainable scripts that will spare the rote repetition of code. Upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, biologists, and other life scientists will find Perl Programming for Biologists to be an essential resource.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley-Liss (July 14, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0471430595
  • ISBN-13: 978-0471430599
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Book Description

Sams in 21 Days covers the basics of in the first few chapters, and then moves on to practical issues of and in-depth discussions of more advanced topics. Later chapters also delve into software engineering topics, with discussions of modular code and . 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 Publishing with HTML in 21 Days and Sams Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days.

From the Publisher

is a powerful and convenient tool for manipulating text, generating reports, performing system tasks, and the Internet. This book introduces new and experienced programmers to the world of Perl and teaches all major aspects of this powerful language. – No previous experience is required

  • Explores the old and new features of Perl and Perl 5
  • Teaches Internet programming with Perl 5 –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Back Cover
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 programming. 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 Publishing with HTML in 21 Days and Sams Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days.

About the Author

Laura Lemay is a member of the gregarious, brightly colored species of computer-book author known as tutorialis prolificus. Although she has been spotted writing in the wild for numerous years, more public sightings have occurred frequently since 1995, including several versions of Sams Teach Yourself HTML, Sams Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days, and The Official Marimba to Castanet.

When not writing books, her primary habitat is in Northern California. Should you encounter her in person, do not make any sudden movements. Further field notes may be found at lne/lemay/.

Rafe Colburn is a programmer and author working in North Carolina. His previous books include Sams Teach Yourself CGI in 24 Hours and Special Edition Using SQL. He also has a Web site at rc3 that he updates often, and can be reached at rafe@rc3.org.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 704 pages
  • Publisher: Sams; 2nd Edition (June 10, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0672320355
  • ISBN-13: 978-0672320354
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Book Description

with 5 in a Week is for the experienced page developer who is familiar with basic HTML. The tutorial explains how to use to add interaction to sites. The CD includes the source code for all the examples used in the book, along with tools for creating and editing CGI scripts, image maps, forms, and HTML.

From the Publisher
CGI with 5 in a Week, Second Edition is the follow-up to the bestseller, completely revised and updated to cover 5 in greater detail. It includes complete coverage of CGI and Perl QuickStart to bring the beginning programmer quickly up to speed. – Includes detailed instructions for using CGI in a environment- /Macintosh/ CD-ROM includes all the source code for the book’s programs plus pre-packaged libraries of CGI programs, Perl, and other CGI tools

Book Details

  • Paperback: 590 pages
  • Publisher: Sams Publishing; 2nd edition (December 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1575211963
  • ISBN-13: 978-1575211961
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Book Description

Written by Martin Brown, expert and author of the highly praised first edition, this comprehensive reference is ideal for developers of every level, and is updated to include coverage of 5.6.

From the Back Cover

The Most Comprehensive Resource Available!

Learn all you need to know about Perl from this definitive, hands-on reference. Perl expert Martin Brown will walk you through everything–from the basics of writing your first script and understanding Perl’s syntax to the complexities of processing data, communicating with external databases, and communicating over the . Along the way, you’ll learn how to network, design user interfaces, and write scripts that work under , , and MacOS. Also covers how to interface to an external C library and embed the Perl interpreter into your C programs. For building, developing, and fine-tuning robust Perl applications, you’ll want this thorough !

  • Perl basics–understand the building blocks of expressions, statements and declarations
  • Learn to create your code with subroutines, packages and modules
  • Communicate with external files, databases and other machines over your network
  • Convert your subroutines and modules into methods and objects
  • Organize your data with Perl’s complex structures and interfaces
  • Create cross-platform compatible user interface solutions
  • Work with XML, HTML, and generate scripts to solve your problems
  • Maximize your scripts performance and debug your code before it’s released

About the Author Martin C. Brown is the author of Perl: The Complete Reference and Perl Annotated Archives. He has more than 15 years of multi-platform experience in Perl, Shellscript, Basic, Pascal, C/C++, Java, JavaScript, VBScript, and Awk.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 1207 pages
  • Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill; 2 Sub edition (January 23, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0072129506
  • ISBN-13: 978-0072129502
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Book Description

This is the third in O’Reilly’s series of landmark tutorials, which started with Learning , the bestselling introduction that taught you the basics of Perl syntax, and Intermediate Perl, which taught you how to create re-usable Perl software. Mastering Perl pulls everything together to show you how to bend Perl to your will. It convey’s Perl’s special models and idioms.

This book isn’t a collection of clever tricks, but a way of thinking about Perl so you can integrate the real-life problems of debugging, maintenance, configuration, and other tasks you encounter as a working programmer.

The book explains how to:

  • Use advanced regular expressions, including global matches, lookarounds, readable regexes, and regex debugging
  • Avoid common programing problems with secure programming techniques
  • Profile and benchmark Perl to find out where to focus your improvements
  • Wrangle Perl code to make it more presentable and readable
  • See how Perl keeps track of package variables and how you can use that for some powerful tricks
  • Define subroutines on the fly and turn the tables on normal procedural programming.
  • Modify and jury rig modules to fix code without editing the original source
  • Let your users configure your programs without touching the code
  • Learn how you can detect errors Perl doesn’t report, and how to tell users about them
  • Let your Perl program talk back to you by using Log4perl
  • Store data for later use in another program, a later run of the same program, or to send them over a network
  • Write programs as modules to get the benefit of Perl’s distribution and tools

Appendices include “brian’s to Solving Any Perl Problem” to improve your troubleshooting skills, as well as suggested reading to continue your Perl education. Mastering Perl starts you on your path to becoming the person with the answers, and, failing that, the person who knows how to find the answers or discover the problem.

About the Author
brian d foy, an instructor for Stonehenge Consulting Services since 1998 and a Perl user since he was a physics graduate student, is well known among the Perl community. He founded the first Perl user group, the New York Perl Mongers, as well as the Perl advocacy nonprofit Perl Mongers, Inc. He maintains the perlfaq portions of the core Perl documentation, several modules on CPAN, and some stand-alone scripts. He’s the publisher of The Perl Review, a magazine devoted to Perl, and a frequent speaker at conferences. brian also contributed the current editions of top-sellers “Learning Perl” and “Intermediate Perl”.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 342 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.; illustrated edition edition (July 16, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0596527241
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596527242
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