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- Advanced Perl Programming by gryng
- An Introduction to General Systems Thinking by PhilHibbs
- Introduces ways of thinking about systems, and points out analtytical pitfalls
- Automating System Administration with Perl by clp
- Solving problems with a wide variety of Perl modules (as of 2009) by an expert guide to CPAN; focused on multiplatform system admin tasks, and applicable to many other areas.
- Automating System Administration With Perl by matze77
- Tools to Make You More Efficient, Many Recipes for daily work
- Beginning Databases with MySQL by DigitalKitty
- Introduces the MySQL database to new users, etc.
- Beginning Perl by mooseboy
- An introduction to Perl for non-programmers by Simon Cozens
- Beginning Perl by Ovid Curtis Poe by pritesh
- This is an ideal Perl book both for those needing to maintain existing Perl systems or wish to make a change in their career.
- Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics by Sameet
- A Starters Book for learning Perl with special reference to Bioinformatics
- Beginning Perl Web Development From Novice to Professional by Anonymous Monk
- Perl for the Web
- Beginning Perl, 3rd Edition by perl514
- Excellent Beginner Book written by James Lee with Simon Cozens.
- Catalyst by pemungkah
- Introduction to the Catalyst Web development environment
- Catalyst - Accelerating Perl Web Application Development by hanekomu
- The first book about the Catalyst web framework
- CGI Programming 101 - Perl for the WWW by Hero Zzyzzx
- Perl for beginners
- CGI Programming with Perl by thomas895
- "Creating Dynamic Web paes"
- chromatic's Slashdot Book Reviews by chromatic
- Computer Science and Perl Programming by mooseboy
- Best of The Perl Journal, Volume 1
- Computer Science and Perl Programming by marvell
- Best of the Perl Journal
- Data Munging with Perl by ybiC
- Techniques for data recognition, parsing, transformation and filtering
- Debugging Perl: Troubleshooting for Programmers by jlawrenc
- A guide to writing more troublefree code and finding problems in the code you have.
- Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills by deprecated
- Comprehensive, Comprehendible, Concise, Computer oriented introduction to Bioinformatics and Genetic Sequence Analysis
- Does IT Matter? by g0n
- A discussion of competitive advantage via IT
- Effective Java by Steve_p
- Yes, I said Java. It is, however, the best practical OO programming book. Period.
- Effective Perl Programming by arturo
- see the title ...
- Effective PERL Programming by jbardhan
- Effective Perl Programming: Ways to Write Better, More Idiomatic Perl 2nd ed. by ack
- A series of Iteminized Suggestions for improving one's Perl programming
- Elements of Programming with Perl by jptxs
- Elements of Programming with Perl is a general introduction to programming, using Perl as the implementation language. It starts at the beginning, teaching programming style, structure, and design. - from fatbrain.com
- Essential Perl 5 for Web Professionals by AgentM
- Supposed to help new folks learn CGI. Fails miserably.
- Essential XML Quick Reference by Masem
- XML handbook with minimal langauge dependancy
- Extending and Embedding Perl by cmilfo
- From Manning, "Extending and Embedding Perl explains how to expand the functionality and usefulness of the Perl programming language and how to use Perl from C programs."
- Extending and Embedding Perl by marvell
- The definitive guide to XS, embedding and the Perl internals
- Extreme Programming Pocket Guide by TStanley
- Learn the basics of XP
- Free as in Freedom by JSchmitz
- Free as in Freedom Richard Stallman's Crusade For Free Software
- Go to Perl 5 by neophyte
- Disregarding the title, this book is actually a book written in German aimed at the beginner and intermediate
- Graphics Programming with Perl by cmilfo
- A Perl programmers introduction to Perl's graphics modules/tools
- Graphics Programming with Perl by marvell
- Modules, tools and techniques.
- Higher Order Perl by ambs
- Impatient Perl by Trundlar
- A book for someone who needs to learn Perl NOW
- Instant CGI/Perl by TStanley
- Learning to use the CGI module
- Instant Perl Modules by deprecated
- Yay, printed POD.
- Instant Perl Modules by TStanley
- Learn to work with various modules, as well as how to build your own
- Intermediate Perl by targetsmart
- by Randal L. Schwartz (Author), Tom Phoenix (Author), brian d foy (Author) ,
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 2nd edition (March 8, 2006) - Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages and Computation by clemburg
- Theory Book
- IT Ethics Handbook by brian_d_foy
- Right and Wrong for IT Professionals
- Learning Perl by Aighearach
- Learning Perl 6th Edition by perl514
- Must have Beginner Book.
- Learning Perl Objects, References and Modules by TStanley
- Picks up where Learning Perl left off
- Learning Perl on Win32 Systems by dze27
- The Llama Book for Windows
- Learning Perl/Tk by milarepa
- A Perl/Tk introduction
- Learning the vi and Vim Editors, 7th Edition by bms
- With this guide, you learn text editing basics and advanced tools for both editors, such as multi-window editing, how to write both interactive macros and scripts to extend the editor, and power tools for programmers -- all in an easy-to-follow style.
- Lessons Learned in Software Testing by ratflyer
- Software testing practices reviewed
- Linux Web Server CD Bookshelf by claree0
- 6 O'Reilly books on Apache, Perl, MySQL and Linux
- Mastering Algorithms with Perl by splinky
- Mastering Perl 5 by Eric C. Hermann by staeryatz
- Mastering Perl 5
- Mastering Perl/Tk by dreadpiratepeter
- A guide to everything Tk
- Mastering Perl/Tk by jlongino
- Graphical interfaces with Perl
- Mastering Regular Expressions by splinky
- Mining the Web by sock
- Analysis of Hypertext and Semi Structured Data
- Modern Perl by oldtechaa
- Take Control of Your Programming with Modern Perl
- Modern Perl by jassics
- Modern Perl by Chromatic
- Modern Perl 2011-2012 Edition by bms
- Modern Perl is suitable for programmers of every level. It's more than a Perl tutorial—only Modern Perl focuses on Perl 5.12 and 5.14, to demonstrate the latest and most effective time-saving features.
- Modern Perl 4th Edition by likbez
- A good refernce book. Kudos for chromatic for making it availble freely
- mod_perl Developer's Cookbook by davorg
- MySQL and Perl for the Web by kwoff
- A book on using MySQL and Perl for the Web
- Network Programming With Perl by jeffa
- Licoln D. Stein's book of wonders
- O'Reilly's Safari Bookshelf by cmilfo
- O'Reilly's Safari Bookshelf is an online service for reading books from O'Reilly and other publishers
- Object Oriented Perl by splinky
- Official Guide to programming with CGI.pm by Rex(Wrecks)
- An expanded reference guide to the CGI.pm manual by the creator: Lincoln D. Stein
- Perl & LWP by DigitalKitty
- Using LWP to perform a variety of web related tasks.
- Perl & XML by jeffa
- (see title)
- PERL - How to Program by jepri
- A very complete perl book
- Perl 5 Pocket Reference by CMonster
- Perl 5 Pocket Reference By O'Reilly by BigJoe
- Perl 5 Quick Reference by BigJoe
- Perl 6 Essentials by PerlBear
- Authors: Allison Randall, Dan Sugalski & Leopold Tötsch
- Perl 6 Now: The Core Ideas Illustrated with Perl 5 by Mr. Muskrat
- Perl 6 Now: The Core Ideas Illustrated with Perl 5
- PERL and CGI For the World Wide Web by bladx
- A beginners guide to Perl.
- Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web by c
- Introduction into using Perl for CGI scripting
- Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web by Ovid
- Perl CGI
- Perl Best Practices by simonm
- Perl style guidelines and programming techniques from Damian Conway.
- Perl black book by kommesel
- Programming book
- PERL Black Book: Indispensable Problem Solver by smgfc
- Good Reference, but not a standalone title
- Perl by Example by Bismark
- Written by Ellie Quigley, Published by Prentice Hall
- Perl CD Bookshelf by jjhorner
- Perl CD Bookshelf Version 2.0 by idnopheq
- 5 Bestselling O'Reilly Perl titles on CD-ROM
- Perl CD Bookshelf Version 3.0 by marvell
- 7 Bestselling Books on CD-ROM
- Perl Core Language by pmas
- Little Black Book - Concise Problem Solver
- Perl Debugged by Plato
- Perl Debugged by Peter Scott & Ed Wright
- Perl for System Administration by TStanley
- Managing Multiplatform Environments with Perl
- Perl For Web Site Management by davorg
- Perl for "Accidental Programmers"
- Perl Hacks by davorg
- Tips & ToolsFor Programming, Debugging, and Surviving
- Perl in a nutshell by Plato
- An O'Reilly desktop quick reference
- Perl Medic: Transforming Legacy Code by Peter J. Scott by nite_man
- Excellent book about way to produce excellent Perl code.
- Perl Pocket Reference, 5th Edition Review by bms
- Updated for Perl 5.14, Perl Pocket Reference, 5th edition is a great day-to-day use reference.
- Perl Testing by sock
- A Developer's Notebook
- Perl! I Didn't Know You Could Do That... by footpad
- A Showcase of Perl and Many CPAN modules
- Perl, CGI, and JavaScript Complete by lagrenouille
- Jack of all trades, master of only the typographical error... Takes 4 books and hacks the (seemingly) worst bits out of them
- Perls of Wisdom by marvell
- Perls of Wisdom by cbrandtbuffalo
- Collection of previously published articles by Randal Schwartz
- Practical PostgreSQL by jlongino
- A PostgreSQL Reference
- Pragmatic Programmer, The by footpad
- Excellent Guidebook into the Craft of Good Programming Practices.
- Pro Perl by marvell
- A comprehensive guide to Perl.
- Professional Perl Development by Plato
- Web server and client programming, Databases, LDAP, Network and distributed programming, Embedded Perl Scripting, XML, Mathematical and computational applications, Graphics, Perl/TK
- Programmation avancée en Perl by arhuman
- French edition of : 'Advanced programming in Perl'
- Programming Perl by mr2
- Programming Perl
- Programming Perl (2nd Ed) by Adam
- "The Camel Book" --- The best perl book out there (except maybe the 3rd ed)
- Programming Perl in the .NET Environment by SyN/AcK
- A mystical journey for all of you Perl Monks thru all that is programming Perl in .NET
- Programming the Perl DBI by barndoor
- Programming Web Graphics with Perl & GNU Software by ehdonhon
- Covers everything from graphics file formats to image library API's
- Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat: How to Win in the Information Age by lin0
- Guidelines for advancing in the technological hierarchy of modern organizations
- Running Weblogs with Slash by davorg
- Beginners Guide To A Great Web Application Framework
- Running Weblogs with Slash by dave_aiello
- This book is aimed at anyone interested in setting up and running a weblog with the Slash software.
- SAMS Teach yourself PERL in 21 days by OzzyOsbourne
- Great for those with little or no Perl Experience
- Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours by matze77
- Perl Book containing 24 lessons
- SAMS Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours by Plato
- 24 proven one-hour lessons
- Software Fundamentals. Collected Papers by David L. Parnas. by clemburg
- A collection of classical papers in Software Engineering and Computer Science.
- Spidering Hacks by mmmmtmmmm
- "Cookbook" style collection of numerous web-automation techniques
- System Performance Tuning by TStanley
- Get the most out of your system and code before you upgrade
- The Jargon File by zeno
- A collection of hacker slang by Eric S. Raymond (originally by Raphael Finkel says esr)
- The Mythical Man-Month by splinky
- The Mythical Man-Month (20th anniversary edition) by FoxtrotUniform
- A discourse on programming techniques from a manager's perspective
- The Perl 5 Programmer's Reference by AgentM
- Wyke, Allen R. and Duncan, Luke- Ventana Communications Group (c) 1997
- The Perl Cookbook by splinky
- TOG On Interface by Bruce Tognazzini by dreadpiratepeter
- How humans and computers mix
- Understanding Unix/Linux Programming by Steve_p
- A Guide to Theory and Practice
- Web Development with Apache and Perl by davorg
- Overview of Web Development Techniques using Perl and Apache
- Web Development with Apache and Perl by marvell
- How to build powerful web sites with Open Source tools
- Web Development with Apache and Perl, etcetera by mrdurtal
- Open source, Perl-oriented "lightweight" web-development tools for use by families, neighbourhoods and communities
- Web Programming with Perl 5 by Bismark
- written by Bill Middleton, Brian Deng, & Chris Kemp
- Win32 Perl Scripting: The Administrator's Handbook by $code or die
- Fantastic Book by Dave Roth
- Windows Forensics and Incident Recovery by Milamber
- Using Perl to conduct forensic analysis and incident recovery
- Writing CGI Applications with Perl by footpad
- An Introduction to Perl CGI scripting.
- Writing Perl Modules for CPAN by TStanley
- Writing Perl Modules for CPAN by hsmyers
- Guide to creating CPAN modules for us ALL
- XML and Perl by davorg
- Good introduction to XML processing with Perl
- XML and Perl by hsmyers
- Intermediate introduction to XML using Perl modules.