Web Conference 2004 Writing Perl/CGI Scripts for ITS/ASET Web services References and Recommended Reading

Recommended Books (available for purchase at the conference at 20% off retail price)

• CGI Programming with Perl, 2nd Edition - ISBN: 1-56592-419-3 - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cgi2/

• Learning Perl, 3rd Edition - ISBN: 0-596-00132-0 - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperl3/

• Programming Perl, 3rd Edition - ISBN: 0-596-00027-8 - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pperl3/

• Perl CD Bookshelf, Version 4.0 - ISBN: 0-596-00622-5 - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlcdbs4/

Online references

• HTMLHelp.com - For HTML reference.

• Apache HTTP Server Version 1.3, Documentation

  • Dynamic Content with CGI

  • .htaccess files

  • Authentication, Authorization, and Access Control

  • Server Side Includes tutorial and mod_include documentation

• O'Reilly Network Safari Bookshelf, an online version of the books - http://safari.oreilly.com/ - Penn State University Libraries purchased a license for access from Penn State networks

  • CGI programming with Perl

  • Learning Perl

  • Programming Perl

  • Perl for the Web

• From the creator of Perl - Larry Wall's own page on Perl - http://www.wall.org/~larry/perl.html

• Perl.com - The O'Reilly & Associates (Larry's publisher) site on Perl

• Perl.org - The Perl Directory

• Perl Monks - useful tips and tricks from Perl experts and enthusiasts - http://perlmonks.org/

• BigNoseBird.com's version of a First Perl CGI script lesson

The lighter side of Perl and programming online reading

• Larry Wall's home on the Web - http://www.wall.org/~larry/

• Perl, the first postmodern computer language - http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html, by Larry Wall

• The TAO of Programming - http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html

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Content by: Jeff D'Angelo <jcd@psu.edu> © 2004

Last update on: Thursday, 17-Jun-2004 18:24:59 EDT