Sebastopol, CA--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.
A just-released book, 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,
the very best (and still relevant) articles published in TPJ over its
five years of publication are immortalized into three volumes. "'The
Perl Journal' is about the experience of programming--the fun, the
tricks, the surprising facts uncovered, and the neat new ideas," says
Sean M. Burke, a TPJ writer. "Think of 'The Perl Journal' as a thick
lush oasis in a wasteland of bone-dry acronyms and stick-figure
theories."
The thirty-nine articles included in this new 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.
"One advantage of having a book with programs by twenty-three Perl
experts: collectively, they constitute a good sampling of Perl 'in the
wild,'" says Orwant. "When you read a book by one author, you
experience a single coherent (and hopefully good) style; when you read
a book by dozens of experienced authors, you benefit from the
diversity. It's an Olympic-size meme pool."
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 some of the most prominent and prolific members of the
closely-knit Perl community, including Lincoln D. Stein, Mark Jason
Dominus, Doug MacEachern, and Steve Lidie, this anthology does what no
other book can, giving unique insight into the real-life applications
and the powerful and truly useful techniques made possible by Perl.
Additional Resources:
Web, Graphics & Perl/Tk: Best of The Perl Journal
Edited by Jon Orwant
0-596-00311-0, Order Number: 3110
480 pages, $39.95 US, $61.95 CA, 28.50 UK
order@oreilly.com
1-800-998-9938
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