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The Perl CD Bookshelf, Version 3.0

posted by pudge on 2002.11.08 15:50   

In my hot little hands today arrived O'Reilly's Perl CD Bookshelf, Version 3.0. It's a nice upgrade to the previous version, and weighs in at seven books, covering 4,100 pages, at USD 119.95. Update: 11/09 04:01 GMT by P : A typo said the price was USD 199.95. It's not. It is USD 119.95.

It has added four books (Learning Perl, 3rd Edition, Mastering Perl/Tk, Perl & LWP, Perl & XML), removed two (Perl for System Administration, Advanced Perl Programming), and upgraded another (Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition, which is also included in a paper version). And returning are the standard texts Programming Perl, 3rd Edition and Perl Cookbook.

I think I'd rather have Mastering Regular Expressions, 2nd Edition than a book on Tk, as I don't use Tk. Oh well.

I got my copy today, and as I keep all my reference CDs on my home web server (no, it is not publically available, all you leeches and lawyers), I popped out the CD so I could copy it over. The CD was stuck to the inside of its sleeve, leaving a sticky residue on the the outer edge of the disc. After wiping it off (the writing on the disc is all on the inner portion anyway), I copied it over, and started perusing. It is much like the previous versions (without the other two books, so I am keeping Perl CD Bookshelf, Version 2.0 around too). It has the same Java-based search, which still crashes Mozilla. My kingdom for a CGI/mod_perl program that could read the same index files set up for the Java program. Maybe I should just set up htdig to search my reference folder anyway.

• That's USD 119.95 (Score:1)

  by Buck (2837)

  At least that is what O'Reilly's website says.

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  Buck
  • Re:That's USD 119.95 (Score:1)

    by pudge (1)

    Argh! Typo. Thanks.
• Index & search with Glimpse. (Score:1)

  by Louis_Wu (2993)

  You could index the pages with Glimpse [arizona.edu]. It's supposed to be a very powerful, very fast search engine. It's targeted at applications where the text to be searched is fairly static. I plan on indexing my copy of The Bookshelf when I get it.
• Still waiting for WWW::CDBookshelf (Score:2)

  by 2shortplanks (968)

  I'm just waiting for someone to write WWW::CDBookshelf so I can get at the data and restrucure it. Then I can recreate the bookshelf to fix a few niggles:

  • Combine both my copy of PCDB2 and PCDB3 so I can have all the books
  • ...and then create a really big search page
  • And move the "Next" buttons so when I'm viewing pages from the bookshelf on a very thin browser window I can still go to the next page without scrolling to the right (really annoying)
• Mastering Regular Expressions (Score:3, Funny)

  by gnat (29) on 2002.11.09 15:43 (#14654) Journal

  Jeff wrote it in troff. Raw troff. That's why you won't find the book on CDs or Safari [oreilly.com] any time soon.

  --Nat

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