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Summary: Windows for the Unix Junkie...
Review: A great reference for Perl junkies that handle SysAdmin stuff. A great guidebook for introducing automation to the Windows Platform. Perfect for the unix admin who suddenly annexes a windows box to their domain. While not the definitive text for Perl on Windows, it does do a good job of breaking out most of the features that would be useful for administrators.Roth focuses alot on automation for getting rid of boring, repetititve task that are necessary to good system administration . His example include some good details on how Windows handles it's versions of unix cmds and processes. From automated log handling to process creation and building new Services to registry manipulation, Roth tackles many challenges a good admin faces for a Windows box. This book is good for any level of user. Newbies can pick up good ideas about system administration, while experts can pickup some valuable tips and scripts for using Perl on Windows.
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Summary: Windows for the Unix Junkie...
Review: A great reference for Perl junkies that handle SysAdmin stuff. A great guidebook for introducing automation to the Windows Platform. Perfect for the unix admin who suddenly annexes a windows box to their domain. While not the definitive text for Perl on Windows, it does do a good job of breaking out most of the features that would be useful for administrators. Roth focuses alot on automation for getting rid of boring, repetititve task that are necessary to good system administration . His example include some good details on how Windows handles it's versions of unix cmds and processes. From automated log handling to process creation and building new Services to registry manipulation, Roth tackles many challenges a good admin faces for a Windows box. This book is good for any level of user. Newbies can pick up good ideas about system administration, while experts can pickup some valuable tips and scripts for using Perl on Windows.
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Summary: Do you administer Win32 systems? Buy this book
Review: Concise, well written, pragmatic, and lots of exemplary code. If you need to automate administrative tasks, ignore the O'Reilly Perl-Admin books, this one has a lot more substance and a lot less fluff. Dave Roth is a prolific author of many very popular Perl modules for 32 bit Windows operating systems: Win32::Daemon, Win32::Perms, Win32::ODBC, Win32::AdminMisc, and many others. .... This guy has a lot of real world experience with Perl and Win32. He's solved a lot of difficult problems. More than that, he does a great job of regularly taking the time to document and convey that knowledge on to others. The book is a great distillation of that knowledge.
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Summary: Good Code, but not for newbies
Review: I also have Dave's WIN32 Perl Programming, The Standard extensions. I consider this to be a better book if you want to understand what the code is doing and to get full details on functions within the extensions. This book is quite simply code. Albeit good code, it certainly won't teach you much unless you're a seasoned UNIX perl geek delving into windoze. If you're able to take the code (free for download on roth.net) and implement it without needing to change it much, then newbies will find this book useful. The first chapter addresses the reader as a potential newbie to perl.. something most of the code isn't geared for if you're starting to learn perl. Most win32 admins that aren't perl hackers that I know would find much of this book greek.. learn perl first is my advice.. and get Dave's other book. If Dave wanted to make this a good book for newbies, he could have done a much better job of explaining the code. Even just putting more comments in the code.. like programmers should do anyway! Ron
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Summary: Good Code, but not for newbies
Review: I also have Dave's WIN32 Perl Programming, The Standard extensions. I consider this to be a better book if you want to understand what the code is doing and to get full details on functions within the extensions. This book is quite simply code. Albeit good code, it certainly won't teach you much unless you're a seasoned UNIX perl geek delving into windoze. If you're able to take the code (free for download on roth.net) and implement it without needing to change it much, then newbies will find this book useful. The first chapter addresses the reader as a potential newbie to perl.. something most of the code isn't geared for if you're starting to learn perl. Most win32 admins that aren't perl hackers that I know would find much of this book greek.. learn perl first is my advice.. and get Dave's other book. If Dave wanted to make this a good book for newbies, he could have done a much better job of explaining the code. Even just putting more comments in the code.. like programmers should do anyway! Ron
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Summary: An Excellent Resource For Win32 Admins
Review: If I could only have a 5 Perl books, this would be one of them. The technical writing is excellent, and it is essential "fluff-less". The examples are clear and of immediate practical value, many are based on modules authored by Dave and freely available. My personal favorite is the Win32::Daemon module for implementing Perl scripts as NT/2000 services. We can only hope that Dave will write another book expanding on ADSI and WMI.
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Summary: Well written, concise, pragmatic, and lots of exemplary code
Review: If you need to automate administrative tasks, ignore the O'Reilly Perl-Admin books, this one has a lot more substance and a very little fluff. Dave Roth is a prolific author of many very popular Perl modules for 32 bit Windows operating systems: Win32::Daemon, Win32::Perms, Win32::ODBC, Win32::AdminMisc, and many others. He is also an active participant in the Perl WinNT Admin mailing list This guy has a lot of real world experience with Perl and Win32. He's solved a lot of difficult problems. More than that, he does a great job of regularly taking the time to document and convey that knowledge on to others. The book is a great distillation of that knowledge.
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Summary: You need this book.
Review: If you use Perl on Win32 you need THIS book. There is plenty of good material elsewhere on Perl for Unix/Linux; and plenty out there on platform-independent aspects of the Perl language. But the "Camel" book (Programming Perl 3rd Edition, by Wall, Christiansen and Orwant) and all the other excellent standard sources don't help you with Win32 specific tasks. This book shows examples for managing user and machine accounts, leveraging event logs, using Perl scripts to do any admin task. Running Perl scripts as services. Even the very latest Win32 things like WMI and ADSI. I use this book as a companion to "Win32 Perl Programming: The Standard Extensions" also by Dave Roth, which helps with OLE automation and such. Get the "Camel" book, this book, and ActiveState Perl and you will be all set to do whatever Perl thing you please on Win32.
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Summary: You need this book.
Review: If you use Perl on Win32 you need THIS book. There is plenty of good material elsewhere on Perl for Unix/Linux; and plenty out there on platform-independent aspects of the Perl language. But the "Camel" book (Programming Perl 3rd Edition, by Wall, Christiansen and Orwant) and all the other excellent standard sources don't help you with Win32 specific tasks. This book shows examples for managing user and machine accounts, leveraging event logs, using Perl scripts to do any admin task. Running Perl scripts as services. Even the very latest Win32 things like WMI and ADSI. I use this book as a companion to "Win32 Perl Programming: The Standard Extensions" also by Dave Roth, which helps with OLE automation and such. Get the "Camel" book, this book, and ActiveState Perl and you will be all set to do whatever Perl thing you please on Win32.
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Summary: Not worth it
Review: Looks like auther has copied and past some scripts from internet and published book. I would not try this book at all. I had no chice but to give one star but it is not worth it. if u want to learn perl for windows search on internet you will get better information.
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