[oak perl] O'Reilly Books?

[George Woolley]

Hi Joe,
Thanks for the suggestions
and accompanying commentary.
George  :)

On Sunday 15 April 2007 14:29, Joe Brenner wrote:
> Quinn Weaver <quinn at fairpath.com> wrote:
> > George Woolley wrote:
> > > >From time to I have the opportunity
> > >
> > > to get one or more O'Reilly books
> > > (e.g. for putting up banners).
> > >
> > > Any suggestions re what I should get
> > > would be appreciated.
> >
> > Perl Best Practices is indispensable.
>
> Well... it's really, really good anyway.
>
> (Whenever Damien recommends a module, I wonder what the
> gotcha is *this* time.  Usually they break the debugger
> or something.)
>
> If you're not up on "The Perl Cookbook", that's an obvious
> one that I would say really is indispensable.
>
> I'm interested in the "Perl Hacks" book, though haven't
> read it yet, myself.
>
> "Mastering Regular Expressions" is really good, if you
> haven't read it yet.
>
> The Mason book is pretty good, and I see there's a competing
> Template Toolkit book... you need to know one or the other
> (if not both) if you're going to do any serious web work with
> perl.
>
> Oh, and this book isn't bad (though it's a little sketchy,
> as you might expect): "Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook"
> But note: read the on-line errata.  There's a code example that
> can't work without a non-standard extension.
>
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