Perl Best Practices Damian Conway O’Reilly, 2005 This book is hard to summarize. There is much good advice in this book. Unfortunately, there’s also some advice that I found questionable. Conway covers some of important Perl programming and general programming best practices, including consistent formatting, use of strict and warnings, and the use of version… Read More »
In the book Software Exorcism, Bill Blunden described a problem caused by the maintenance programmer not usually being the same person as the programmer who wrote the code. Often the maintenance programmer comes in with a less-than-complete understanding of the original problem or of the design decisions made for this problem. Usually, there are also… Read More »
Perl for Web Site Management John Callender O’Reilly, 2002 This book may be one of the best books I’ve ever seen for getting the Perl programming language used in a place where it is sorely needed. Many people developing web-based applications are not programmers. They learned to use some HTML authoring tool and progressed from… Read More »