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Summary: Poor CD information...
Review: Book is GOOD but the included CD is difficult to navigate.To tell you frankly upto now I cannot find where are the sample scripts mentioned in the book.
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Summary: Poor CD information...
Review: Not the best desktop reference book and not the best straight up learning manual, this book combines strong elements of each. Once you are comfortable working with CGI and Perl (which this book will either teach your or assist greatly in achieving) you will still find yourself cracking the cover often for those things that are right on the tip of your brain but you just can't quite remember. With the help of this book, I mastered CGI and was well on the way to my mastery of Perl. It shouldn't be the only CGI or Perl book in your library, but it is a powerful addition.
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Summary: An INCREDIBLE learning resource for beginners!!
Review: The amount of snotty, degrading comments on this book can only lead me to believe that the authors were not able to grasp the simplest of instructions and are taking their anger out on this book. Quite simply, this is an INCREDIBLE book; well-written, funny, and comprehensive. Not only do you learn about CGI, you also learn Perl, SSI, some nice HTML tricks and lots of information about web servers. The CD includes full websites, tons of scripts, and lots of basic programs you'll need if you plan to set up your own server. GET THIS BOOK! You won't regret it. *Unless you're too dense to read simple english...*
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Summary: Best CGI-book I've ever read!!!
Review: This book by Eric Herrmann, is the best toturial book I've ever read. Not only does Eric's humor turn out to be fantastic throughout the book (for me thats the positive sides to reading). I was a newbie to PERL and CGI-scripting, and after reading his book (In under a week!!! - comment to other reviewers) I found myself programming CGI-scripts. So this book I would recommend to other fellow student arround the world who is willingly to read a fun and interresting book. Perhaps other reader's seem to forget that the book is for newbies, and not for experienced programmers (hence the word "teach yourself" which is my oppinion reaches out for non-experienced programmers!). Hope you write more like this, and don't let some readers go to your head!...
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Summary: Read other reviews carefully.
Review: This book is not for an amatuer! Do not try to become a programmer with this book! Although, if you are already a programmmer in any language, you will surely be able to learn the BEST internet programming scripting language with this book. This book showed me the POWER of using a scripting language. PERL is power! Although, you will really need to get a PERL book to be proficient in PERL. (If you can get your hands on the 4th edition SAMS: Teach Yourself PERL in 21 Days, BUY IT (it's out of print, and just phenomenal!) Or, maybe buy a book from Larry Wall. I still am not convinced if the Camel is the way to go.) Most academicians shun at what these "inferior" (scripting) languages can do. (I know fist hand). But, after coming from a very rigorous and fully declared school of thought, I know that PERL can do better things with less lines of code. Granted, PERL is not the panacea, but it almost always gets the job done with alot less! One thing in particular about this book that disturbed me was that it skimped the database section. Make no mistake about it! If you do have a heavy volume site on the net, you will need to have a very well versed DBA to take of business on this front. Thus far, I have not read a book that genuinely deals with database Internet intensive sites (Especially nothing dealing with the tradeoff of web transmittal time vs. database access time). This book only deals with flat files. (From what I hear, flat files are fine upto about 200 records) In a Nutshell: this book is worth it for the experienced programmer that is trying to pickup a new skill set.
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