New from NICAR 2005
- Download the files for Scripting Away Your Data Woes with VBScript and Perl here.
Perl: The Journalist's Crash Course
Books
- Programming Perl by Larry Wall, the creator
of perl. The best reference,
IMHO, on the Perl programming language. It assumes a bit of Unix knowledge, so not the best for beginners using Perl
on Microsoft Windows.
- Learning Perl on Win32. A good introduction
to Perl on Microsoft Windows systems.
- ActivePerl with ASP and ADO An excellent
book for using Perl in Active Server Pages with Microsoft Windows and IIS. Covers using ADO and ODBC to
connect to databases. If you are going to use Perl to connect to databases with Windows, buy this book.
Web Sites
- Perl for Microsoft Windows is downloadable for free from ActiveState.
- www.perl.com is the official home page. Includes links to downloadable versions.
- www.perlscripters.com used to be a good reference to using Perl on Microsoft Windows. Now it's a porn site. :(
Samples from the NICAR Conference
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