Perl book reviews

Unless otherwise stated, these reviews were originally published on the Birmingham Perl Mongers website (see http://birmingham.pm.org/cgi-bin/brum.pl?act=revs-main for more Perl, Linux, and related book reviews).

  • GIMP 2 for Photographers
    Reviewed October 2007
    Written clearly from a photographer's point of view (the author is a photographer who also teaches image editing), this book takes a task-oriented approach, looking at the types of editing operations that a photographer would require and then showing how to perform each task in the GIMP... Read more...
     
  • Wicked Cool Perl Scripts
    Reviewed April 2006
    Yes, that's right. "Wicked Cool". I can only assume that this is in some way meant to appeal to "the kids" but in reality it comes across like an invitation to watch your parents dance to Blink 182... Read more...
     
  • Perl Medic: Transforming Legacy Code
    Reviewed May 2004
    Taking on responsibility for legacy code can be a challenge for any programmer. Perl Medic, as the title implies, aims to rescue exactly this sort of crisis.... Read more...
     
  • Secure Coding: Principles and Practices
    Reviewed March 2004
    The only realistic way to improve computer security in the longer term is to apply security focused methodologies at each stage in the development cycle... Read more...
     
  • Games, Diversions & Perl Culture
    Reviewed November 2003
    'Games, Diversions & Perl Culture' differs from most programming books in that it is not a tutorial on a specific technique or product... Read more...
     
  • MySQL and Perl for the Web
    Reviewed January 2003
    Written by Paul DuBois (who authored the definitive work on the MySQL database), this book aims to provide much more in depth information about using Perl to interact with the MySQL... Read more...
     
  • Modern Perl Programming
    Reviewed January 2003
    What is 'Modern Perl Programming' anyway? While I'm sure that everyone will have their own views on this, I would consider the following to be the 'top three' statements of best practice... Read more...
     
  • Core Perl
    Core Perl describes itself as 'The Serious Developer's Guide to Perl', and aims at programmers who are experienced in other languages but need to get up to speed with Perl... Read more...
     
  • The Secret History of Ancient Egypt
    So why am I reviewing a book about Ancient Egypt for a Perl website? Well please bear with me - there is a connection, I promise! Read more...