The following links include a number of books which have
been valuable resources during the development of CGIScripter.
| Picture |
Title |
Notes |
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Official
Guide to Programming with CGI.pm |
310 Pages, by Lincoln Stein. This book
is the definitive guide to CGI.pm written by Lincoln Stein, the
author of the CGI.pm Perl module. This book has been a valuable
reference during the development of the Perl CGI scripts generated
by CGIScripter. Many valuable tips and security best practices have
been gleaned from this book and implemented into the Perl CGI scripts
in order to insure that the scripts are robust and secure. |
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MySQL
Cookbook |
992 Pages, by Paul DuBois.
The MySQL Cookbook follows in the fine tradition of O'Reilly cookbook
series books by providing concise answers to a multitude of questions
regarding MySQL. This book has been instrumental in getting up to
speed quickly on the MySQL database during the development process.
In addition to providing MySQL database info, this book has also
provided helpful ideas for image manipulation via Perl CGI scripts
and recordset paging. |
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Apache:
The Definitive Guide |
369 Pages, by Ben Laurie,
Peter Laurie. This Apache book has been a good reference guide for
many years. This info has been useful for writing the Apache setup,
configuration and troubleshooting information incorporated within
the CGIScripter Perl CGI instructions file and online help documentation. |
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UNIX
System Administration Handbook |
900 Pages, by Evi Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass,
Hein et al (3rd Edition - purple cover) This well-known system administration
book has been a continual reference during the software development
process. It covers multiple versions of UNIX (Solaris, HP-UX, FreeBSD),
and now includes LINUX in the latest edition. There is also a Linux-only
edition by the same authors, with additional contributing authors. |
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Perl
Cookbook |
This excellent resource has been used
continuously throughout the development of the CGIScripter application.
Anytime you need to find out quickly how to do something in Perl
this is a good place to look. |
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Programming
the Perl DBI |
362 Pages, by Alligator Descartes and
Tim Bunce. This book is a very nice improvement over the electronic
documentation provided with the Perl DBI Perl module software. It
has been a good reference for a number of web-database integration
programs written by .com Solutions Inc. |
