Charlotte.pm Library

Book Description Programming on the Web today can involve any of several technologies, but the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) has held its ground as the most mature method--and one of the most powerful ones--of providing dynamic web content. CGI is a generic interface for calling external programs to crunch numbers, query ...

Book Description Some people plan to become administrators. The rest of us are thrust into it: we are webmasters, hobbyists, or just the default "technical people" on staff who are expected to keep things running. After some stumbling around repeating the same steps over and over again (and occasionally paying the ...

Book Description Historically, programming hasn't been considered a critical skill for biologists. But now, with access to vast amounts of biological data contained in public databases, programming skills are increasingly in strong demand in biology research and development. Perl, with its highly developed capacities in string handling, text processing, networking, and ...

Book Description The brain is a fearsomely complex information-processing environment--one that often eludes our ability to understand it. At any given time, the brain is collecting, filtering, and analyzing information and, in response, performing countless intricate processes, some of which are automatic, some voluntary, some conscious, and some unconscious. Cognitive neuroscience ...

Book Description Intel-and AMD-powered PCs--which account for more than 90% of all personal computers--are powerful and expandable, and operating systems like Windows and Linux do a great job of running well on this hardware. But to maintain maximum stability and predictability, these operating systems don't push the hardware to its limits. That ...

Book Description Most Perl programmers were originally trained as C and Unix programmers, so the Perl programs that they write bear a strong resemblance to C programs. However, Perl incorporates many features that have their roots in other languages such as Lisp. These advanced features are not well understood and are ...

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RegExps Rx: A Regex Debugger for Perl - http://perl.plover.com/Rx/paper/ The Regex Coach - http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/ Articles Enterprise Perl - http://www.whoot.org/talks/eperl.pdf Perl for Large Projects - http://www.whoot.org/talks/93kloc.pdf What Is Pseudocode? - http://perl.about.com/od/beginningperl/a/072604.htm Perl Command-Line Options - http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/08/09/commandline.html Online Books Mason Book - http://www.masonbook.com/ Beginning Perl - http://learn.perl.org/library/beginning_perl/ Impatient Perl - http://www.perl.org/books/impatient-perl/ Extreme Perl - http://www.extremeperl.org/bk/home Picking Up Perl - http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/perl/index.html Other User Groups Charlotte SPIN (Software Process ...