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Professional Perl Development is a guide to application development with Perl, covering a wide range of programming tasks from web server and network programming though LDAP and database applications to embedded Perl scripting, distributed computing, graphics, and XML. It covers some of the most important third-party Perl modules and demonstrates the versatility of Perl in real-world application development.

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The companion volume to Professional Perl Programming, Professional Perl Development was originally the last third of that book before becoming a title in its own right, dedicated to applications. (Both books together approach 2000 pages.) It is suited to programmers who already have a good grasp of Perl and are looking for practical guides to real programming applications. Or who also bought Professional Perl Programming, of course...

Reviews

"Professional Perl Development leaves little room for complaint. A practical guide to applying Perl to the real problems that face computing professionals, it will open your eyes to the sheer versatility of Perl."

- WebMasterBase

"This book will help you on your way when starting a project over and over again. I keep my copy within reach."

- European Unix Platform

Online Vendors and Reader Comments

"This book examines the Perl libraries that are most interesting to developers of professional, real-world applications. It covers web client and server programming, manipulating data in databases and LDAP servers, network and distributed programming, embedding Perl into web pages (templates, HTML::Mason, HTML::Embperl, Apache::ASP, and PerlScript), mathematical and computational applications, graphics and GUI programming, and creating and manipulating XML."

- Amazon