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Building Web Applications with Gantry and BigtopBuilding Web Applications with Gantry and Bigtop (book)

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[Revised for Gantry 3.51 and Bigtop 0.29]

Are you tired of hand rolling new code for every web application you write? Have you tried and grown frustrated with other web frameworks? Are you a Perl programmer who wants to set up web sites, but can't be bothered with undue tedium?

Gantry and Bigtop make starting a Perl powered web application almost painless. After initial start up, they are the tools you need to implement complex applications using the full power of Perl and its famous CPAN code archive during your code's full life cycle.

This book is half tutorial and half reference. It's enough to get you started and to see you through your first Gantry application.

Perlish PatternsPerlish Patterns (book)

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One programmer explores solutions to the traditional problems of the patterns movement using a variety of Perl techniques. Introductory chapters explain reference based data structures, closures, mix-ins, and recursion. Then the book applies those techniques and others to solve patterns problems, usually without objects.

20482048 (book)

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An homage to 1984, this novella captures the dystopic vision of a future world where companies exert control not by force of arms but by leveraging the convenience of their networked facilities. Rights which we wouldn't dream of allowing governments to take from us are ceded for ease of use.