(Ebook) Perl Hacks: Tips and Tools for Programming, Debugging, and Surviving by chromatic, Shane Warden, Damian Conway, Curtis Poe ISBN 9780596526740, 0596526741

(Ebook) Perl Hacks: Tips and Tools for Programming, Debugging, and Surviving by chromatic, Shane Warden, Damian Conway, Curtis Poe ISBN 9780596526740, 0596526741

Whether you're a newcomer or an expert, you'll find great value in Perl Hacks, the only Perl guide that  offers something useful and fun for everyone. With more than one million dedicated programmers, Perl's community-based  development model encourages sharing of information among users and  allows developers to find answers to almost any Perl question they can  dream up. You can find many of these answers right here in this book.
Each hack in Perl Hacks is a short lesson. Some are practical exercises that teach you essential skills, while others illustrate some of the fun things that Perl can do. Most hacks have two parts: a direct answer to the immediate  problem you need to solve right now and a deeper, subtler technique that you can adapt to other situations. Learn how to add CPAN shortcuts to the Firefox web browser, read files backwards, write graphical games in Perl, and much more.
For your convenience, Perl Hacks is divided by topic—so you can skip around and stop at any hack you like. Chapters include:
• Productivity Hacks
• User Interaction
• Data Munging
• Working with Modules
• Object Hacks
• Debugging
Perl Hacks appeals to a variety of programmers. Learn to hack Perl with  style, whether you're an experienced developer or a dabbler who simply  enjoys exploring technology.
chromatic is the technical editor of the O'Reilly Network, where he edits  Perl.com, ONLamp.com, and the Linux and Security dev centers.
Damian Conway is an honorary associate professor with the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Monash University in  Melbourne, Australia.
Curtis "Ovid" Poe is a frequent speaker at user groups, the author of  numerous CPAN modules, and the head of the perl Foundation grants committee.