https://www.developerfusion.com/t/perl/books/view/samplechapters/ 2007-06-25T00:00:00.00Z http://www.developerfusion.com/book/44319/practical-ruby-for-system-administration-experts-voice-in-open-source/ 2007-06-25T00:00:00.00Z

Ruby has set the world on fire, proving itself a serious challenger to Perl and Python in all spheres. In particular, more and more people are discovering that Rubys flexibility, superb feature set, and gentle learning curve make it a natural choice for system administration tasks, from the humblest server to the largest enterprise deployment.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/44258/the-definitive-guide-to-berkeley-db-xml/ 2006-08-21T00:00:00.00Z

The Definitive Guide to Berkeley DB XML covers Sleepycat's Berkeley DB XML, an open source embedded XML database. Berkeley DB XML runs on all major operating systems and has support for the most popular programming languages. The book includes tutorials and complete language references for C++, Java, Perl, Python, and PHP. Berkeley DB XML has the potential to dramatically simplify the development of your application's data tier.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/44260/the-definitive-guide-to-sqlite/ 2006-05-25T00:00:00.00Z

The Definitive Guide to SQLite is the perfect book about SQLite. It covers everything needed to start working with SQLite including installation, using the SQLite shell, and programming with SQLite using six different language extensions. — Joe Topjian, Adminspotting Traditional relational databases and embedded databases both have shortcomings that can leave a developer perplexed.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/44207/beginning-perl-web-development-from-novice-to-professional-beginning-from-novice-to-professional/ 2005-11-03T00:00:00.00Z

Beginning Perl Web Development: From Novice to Professional introduces you to the world of Perl Internet application development. This book tackles all areas crucial to developing your first web applications and includes a powerful combination of real-world examples coupled with advice. Topics range from serving and consuming RSS feeds, to monitoring Internet servers, to interfacing with e-mail. You'll learn how to use Perl with ancillary packages like Mason and Nagios.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/44193/pro-perl-parsing/ 2005-08-10T00:00:00.00Z

I thoroughly enjoyed this...I write and maintain a fair amount of Perl, and matching and parsing patterns is often the largest part of the work. — A.P. Lawrence, Information and Resources for Unix and Linux Systems Perl, one of the world's most diffuse programming languages, was born out of the need to resolve the creator's dissatisfaction with what were at the time standard data-parsing solutions. Indeed, since the 1.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/44176/perl-6-now-the-core-ideas-illustrated-with-perl-5-the-experts-voice-in-open-source/ 2004-12-17T00:00:00.00Z

The book really shines in its code examples: short, clear and to the point; the author repeatedly shows how something can be done in Perl 5 code and how it's expected to work in Perl 6. The author guides you through creating variables and accessing the data in them. You will find out how to save memory by only using the OO variable types when you need them. — "Mr.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/44167/randal-schwartzs-perls-of-wisdom/ 2004-12-14T00:00:00.00Z

In each column, Randal ... carefully discusses the problem, and then shows the Perl code needed to resolve it. Each column is written in a conversational style that is easy to read, yet doesn't talk down to you. Check out the table of contents and see why it made my mouth water. If you are a Perl fan, you will enjoy this. Highly recommended. Randal Schwartz's Perls of Wisdom is a collection of more than 70 columns from popular and prolific Perl columnist Randal Schwartz.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/44104/google-amazon-and-beyond-creating-and-consuming-web-services/ 2003-12-01T00:00:00.00Z

readable, accessible and eminently practical... ...quite a good book about writing software to consume and provide web services. — Slashdot While many books are focused on the underlying technologies of web services and others are dedicated to providing web services, few books show how to consume web services.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/44129/java-regular-expressions-taming-the-javautilregex-engine/ 2003-10-29T00:00:00.00Z

Java has always been an excellent language for working with objects. But Java's text manipulation mechanisms have always been limited, compared to languages like AWK and Perl. On the flip side, a new regular expressions package in Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) brings hope to the Java text mechanisms. This package provides you everything necessary to use regular expressions&emdash;all packaged in a simplified object-oriented framework.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/book/44126/real-world-sql-server-administration-with-perl/ 2003-07-01T00:00:00.00Z

Real World SQL Server Administration with Perl is written with the goal of super-charging your SQL Server administration skills with Perl scripting, taking you to the next level of SQL Server administration. Through a broad range of scenarios, this book shows you how to write Perl scripts (often in combination with T-SQL scripting) to solve a wide variety of SQL Server administration problems.

James Crowley