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Perl Index - Perl Book :
Advanced Webmaster's Guru Pack II
by Joe McCormack Paperback: 161 pages Publisher: MnetWeb Services ISBN: 096722733X; (October 3, 1999) The Advanced Webmaster's Guru Pack II surfaced from hundreds of hours of work and technical proficiency in the arena of Perl/CGI. With this great new title, all programs (included on CD) are virtually as easy as drag-n-drop installation are at your disposal! You'll learn how to run your own Job Directory, Medical Directory, Multimedia Email, Entertainment Directory, Homepage Community, Guestbook Community, Single Player Strategy Game, Multiplayer Game, and MUCH more that only needs Perl in order to run. In addition, all the hot programs included already have the appropriate built-in search engines, database managers and editors and more so you don't have to spend hours writing code. Not only that but this great title also covers AND includes an indexing search engine (that indexes webpages automatically according to META TAGS), and even a link validation program used to validate links and other information contained on virtually any webpage on the Internet . . . all automatically! From the Publisher: Although the programs included with this title require little effort and knowledge of Perl to get running on a web site, it is recommended that, if you are a new user of Perl, that you have the Webmaster's Guru Pack to help in understanding the advanced sections of the book. From the Author: Running these heavy duty programs on your web site is virtually as easy as drag and drop! New users of Perl/CGI will enjoy the ease with which they can get these heavy-duty programs running, while advanced users will enjoy learning about the power and flexibility of advanced Perl programming methods by example. About the Author: With programming experience spanning over a decade in Basic, Assembly, C/C++, Assembly and Perl/CGI, Joe has given every aspiring Perl programmer REAL-WORLD examples for the Perl language on the Internet while giving established web sites the ability to add new functionality with zero development time. Joe has also written 3D Polygon Rendering Computer Game Engines used by thousands of C/C++ programmers around the world as well as computer security protection programs. Customer Reviews Reviewer: sherzodr from Mount Pleasant, MI United States I am so disapointed for spending my $$ for this book. The book, unfortunately, turned out to be good for nothing! I was deceived by the "ADVANCED WEBMASTER'S GURU PACK" thing, which is nothing but lie. It is NOT ADVANCED, and IT IS NOT GURU PACK. Also, the quality of the book (the paper itself) is so poor, that it is not worth the price at all. I need explanation by the author why he thinks this is for advanced webmasters. I am a web programmer, and the book is definily NOT FOR ME!!! Even the codes they give are very poor(they are in perl). I believe you can right advanced CGI programs without CGI.pm by Lincoln Stein. Just write your own mini CGI.pm or someething of that sort, and use it. But the book (how hard it is for me to call it "the book") ignores the term "modules" all together. They keep typing those nasty html tags.. and the algorithms they use are very poor too. They don't teach you anything. The book just gives you codes, and tell you how to install it. Could you search for Matt's Archive or just my nick in any search engine, and try to locate even better codes FOR FREE. I don't want you to spend your $$ for something, which definitely not worth it! Reviewer: mrbleepy from Bay Area, California Always in computers, there will be a dichotomy between control and ease of use, which in itsself is not the difference between good and bad, but rather it determines the target audience for the product. In this case, much control has been sacrificed by skipping over many details about perl in order to treat it merely as an appendage to CGI. It doesn't say much in the way of database retrival or other advanced topics, which for me is a detractor; but its somthing I would just like to point out for potential buyers. The included CD is nice, but it seems like the methods in the book want you to become dependent on copying code from off the CD, making it difficult to solve problems beyond the scope of the premade code. My overall argument is that perl is much too vast a language to be sucessfully taken advandage of a beginner's level book that assumes only fundamental knowledge of the internet. (i.e. the search engine does not use any regexps, just the 'eq', 'lt', 'gt' operators) So, if you're just looking for something that will get you into lite internet programming in the next few days, this is a good deal. Otherwise, you should take a look at O'reilly's books on Perl/CGI for more in-depth knowlege. |
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