I bought it second hand this year, first because I love Perl, secondly because the otter is cute. Second hand Perl books are cheap, we are really lucky people. In the US you find them in the trash, this is really a shame.
I knew nothing about LDAP, and right after I received the otter book, I actually understood our company was using it and decided that I should stop to set my own authentification and users management system and just use the damn existing thing after getting the appropriate rights from our admin. I read the intro about it in the book, and honestly, found it much clearer than most tutorials I checked before.
So, those kind of books are nice because they are long enough to be able to add all those kind of intros and disgressions. The side effect is that they become too long and takes quite a lot of time to read. This is how I started to read the Camel Book in 2012 at the Centre Pompidou BPI, bought it in 2013 and just finished the chapter about regular expressions during the first comfynment).
I really favorite cheat sheets (you know, those Eyrolles Éditions plastic ones) and books that are less than 200 pages. Perl Moderne (the french book) was my favorite book ever, because it is either interesting to read as a book and you could use it as a cheat sheet. Too bad it is out of print, my copy would need a good renovation. I think that I became a Perl developer mostly because of this little book.
I don’t know and can’t find the cheat sheets... Any link please ?
« Perl moderne » is very cool but is somewhat different (very « task oriented »). I liked it but is not my favorite :)
Here is my copy :
My best book so far is « Modern Perl » from Chromatic. It’s more theoric, has notions about programming in general and is very dense. I consider it a masterpiece.
I bought it second hand this year, first because I love Perl, secondly because the otter is cute. Second hand Perl books are cheap, we are really lucky people. In the US you find them in the trash, this is really a shame.
I knew nothing about LDAP, and right after I received the otter book, I actually understood our company was using it and decided that I should stop to set my own authentification and users management system and just use the damn existing thing after getting the appropriate rights from our admin. I read the intro about it in the book, and honestly, found it much clearer than most tutorials I checked before.
So, those kind of books are nice because they are long enough to be able to add all those kind of intros and disgressions. The side effect is that they become too long and takes quite a lot of time to read. This is how I started to read the Camel Book in 2012 at the Centre Pompidou BPI, bought it in 2013 and just finished the chapter about regular expressions during the first comfynment).
I really favorite cheat sheets (you know, those Eyrolles Éditions plastic ones) and books that are less than 200 pages. Perl Moderne (the french book) was my favorite book ever, because it is either interesting to read as a book and you could use it as a cheat sheet. Too bad it is out of print, my copy would need a good renovation. I think that I became a Perl developer mostly because of this little book.
I don’t know and can’t find the cheat sheets... Any link please ?
« Perl moderne » is very cool but is somewhat different (very « task oriented »). I liked it but is not my favorite :)
Here is my copy :
My best book so far is « Modern Perl » from Chromatic. It’s more theoric, has notions about programming in general and is very dense. I consider it a masterpiece.
editions-eyrolles.com/Collection/4...
Not Perl related though.