Debugging and Profiling mod_perl Applications

How do you use the debugger on a mod_perl application? How do you profile an application embedded in a web server, with multiple child processes? Don't worry. Where there's Perl, there's a way. Frank Wiles demonstrates how to debug and profile mod_perl applications.

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Test-Driving X11 GUIs

Is GUI testing as difficult as it seems? Maybe not, with the right testing libraries. George Nistorica shows what X11::GUITest can and can't do to make your Unix and Unix-like applications more robust.

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More Advancements in Perl Programming

What's advanced Perl programming? The definition has changed over the years. For a while it was XS and GUIs and typeglobs and OO. Now a lot of it is using CPAN effectively. Since completing Advanced Perl Programming, Second Edition, Simon Cozens has discovered even more ways to work more smartly and effectively. Here's what he's learned.

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Analyzing HTML with Perl

Kendrew Lau taught HTML development to business students. Grading web pages by hand was tedious--but Perl came to the rescue. Here's how Perl and HTML parsing modules helped make teaching fun again.

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