May 2006
Beginner
298 pages
6h 51m
English
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O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
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chromatic works for O'Reilly Media, where he edits the free and open source web sites of the O'Reilly Network. In his spare time, he writes books such as this one. In the remaining minutes, he contributes to the CPAN, Perl 5, Perl 6, Parrot, and even Pugs. He lives just west of Portland, Oregon by a park and a creek and would like to finish more projects someday, including writing a novel, a comic book, a television show, and sleeping. Catch up on his hobbies at http://wgz.org/chromatic.
Dr. Damian Conway is a professional Perl boffin. As the author of numerous popular CPAN modules (http://search.cpan.org/~dconway) and two highly regarded books on Perl, he is also a widely sought-after conference speaker and runs an international IT training company—Thoughtstream (http://damian.conway.org)—which provides Perl training from beginner to masterclass level throughout Europe, North America, and Australasia. He spends most of his less-than-copious free time working with Larry Wall on the design of Perl 6. [Hack #5], [Hack #13], [Hack #14], [Hack #34], [Hack #54], [Hack #86], [Hack #90], [Hack #92], [Hack #93], [Hack #94], [Hack #95], [Hack #99], [Hack #100]
Earlier this century, displaying his usual stellar sense of timing, Curtis "Ovid" Poe switched from mainframes to web programming in Perl and promptly watched the dot-com industry implode. Despite this minor setback and working for several currently non-existent companies, Ovid stuck with Perl and actually discovered ...
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