Web, Graphics & Perl TK: Best of the Perl Journal

In its first five years of existence, The Perl Journal (TPJ) became the voice of the Perl community. Every serious Perl programmer subscribed to it, and every notable Perl guru jumped at the opportunity to write for it. TPJ explained critical Perl topics and demonstrated Perl's utility for fields as diverse as astronomy, biology, economics, AI, and games. Back issues were hoarded, or swapped like trading cards. No longer in print format, The Perl Journal remains a proud and timeless achievement of Perl during one of its most exciting periods of development.

Web, Graphics & Perl/Tk is the second volume of The Best of the Perl Journal, compiled and re-edited by the original editor and publisher of The Perl Journal, Jon Orwant. In this series, we've taken the very best (and still relevant) articles published in TPJ over its five years of publication and immortalized them into three volumes.

The forty articles included in this volume are simply some of the best Perl articles ever written on the subjects of graphics, the Web, and Perl/Tk, by some of the best Perl authors and coders.

Much of Perl's success is due to its capabilities for developing web sites; the Web section covers popular topics such as CGI programs, mod_perl, spidering, HTML parsing, security, and content management. The Graphics section is a grab bag of techniques, ranging from simple graph generation to ray tracing and real-time video digitizing. The Perl/Tk section shows you how to use the popular Perl/Tk toolkit for developing graphical applications that work on both Unix/Linux and Windows without a single change.

Written by twenty-three of the most prominent and prolific members of the closely-knit Perl community, including Lincoln Stein, Mark-Jason Dominus, Alligator Descartes, and Dan Brian, this anthology does what no other book can, giving unique insight into the real-life applications and powerful techniques made possible by Perl.

Table of Contents

Preface 

1. Introduction

Part I. Web
2. CGI Programming
3. Saving CGI State
4. Cookies
5. mod_perl
6. Creating mod_perl Applications
7. Proxying with mod_perl
8. Authentication with mod_perl
9. Navigation Bars with mod_perl
10. Scripting the Web with LWP
11. Five Quick Hacks: Downloading Web Pages
12. Downloading Web Pages Through a Proxy Server
13. HTML::Parser
14. Scanning HTML
15. A Web Spider in One Line
16. webpluck
17. Torture-Testing Web Servers and CGI Scripts
18. Securing Your CGI Scripts
19. Building Web Sites with Mason
20. Surreal HTML
21. Web Page Tastefulness
22. Summarizing Web Pages with HTML::Summary
23. Wireless Surfing with WAP and WML

Part II. Graphics
24. Web Plots with Gnuplot
25. GD-Graph3d
26. GD and L-Systems
27. OpenGL
28. Ray Tracing
29. Perl and the Gimp
30. Glade
31. Gnome Panel Applets
32. Capturing Video in Real Time

Part III. Perl/Tk
33. A Perl/Tk Roadmap
34. Getting Started with Perl/Tk
35. Scoreboard: A 15-Minute Perl/Tk Application
36. The Mouse Odometer
37. Events
38. The Pack and Grid Geometry Managers
39. Drawing on a Canvas
40. Displaying Databases with the Tree Widget

Index 
About the Authors