I think your review is too long, and candy coated. Let me sum it up.

This book sucks

Horrible practice throughout the book, parsing HTML with regexs and such, lots of CGI examples, nothing much of mod_perl. Very disappointing, I would say it covers much of what the llama book does -- Learning Perl, and with much less grace.

Just because this book teaches regexes, as they apply to the Apache log files does not make it tailored to web management in my eyes. Anyone managing a web site, that uses perl, can add two and two together, and figure out how to parse their own file. I would use it to wipe my arse, but the pages are too hard. 100% useless.

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