Description

Where to learn more about other topics that are useful for mod_perl developers and users.

Perl

• The Perl Documentation

  http://perldoc.perl.org/

• The Perl Home Page

  http://www.perl.com/

• The Perl Monks

  http://www.perlmonks.org/

  What Perl Monks is: Our attempt to make learning Perl as nonintimidating and easy to use as possible. A place for you and others to polish, improve, and showcase your Perl skills. A community which allows everyone to grow and learn from each other.

• The Perl Journal

  http://www.tpj.com/

• The Perl Review

  http://theperlreview.com/

  The Perl Review is a magazine for the Perl community by the Perl community produced with open source tools.

• CPAN - Comprehensive Perl Archive Network

  http://cpan.org and http://search.cpan.org/

• Perl Module Mechanics

  http://world.std.com/~swmcd/steven/perl/module_mechanics.html - This page describes the mechanics of creating, compiling, releasing and maintaining Perl modules.

• Creating (and Maintaining) Perl Modules

  http://www.mathforum.com/~ken/perl_modules.html

• XS tutorials

  Perl manpages: perlguts, perlxs, and perlxstut manpages.

  Dean Roehrich's XS CookBookA and CookBookB http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=CookBookA http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=CookBookB

  a series of articles by Steven McDougall: http://world.std.com/~swmcd/steven/perl/pm/xs/intro/index.html http://world.std.com/~swmcd/steven/perl/pm/xs/concepts.html http://world.std.com/~swmcd/steven/perl/pm/xs/tools/index.html http://world.std.com/~swmcd/steven/perl/pm/xs/modules/modules.html http://world.std.com/~swmcd/steven/perl/pm/xs/nw/NW.html

  Advanced Perl Programming By Sriram Srinivasan. Published by O'Reilly & Associates. ISBN: 1-56592-220-4. Chapters 18-20. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/advperl/

  perl-xs mailing list on perl.org (mail [email protected])

  Take a look also at Inline.pm (CPAN) and SWIG (http://www.swig.org/)

• Perl mailing lists

  A huge number of diverse Perl mailing lists is listed at http://lists.perl.org/.

• perl5-porters mailing list

  Send an email:

  • to [email protected] to subscribe to this list.

  • to [email protected] to unsubscribe to this list.

  • to [email protected] if you prefer a digest version.

  • to [email protected] to unsubscribe from the digest.

  • to [email protected] for more information about the subscription options.

  List's archive is available at http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/.

Perl/CGI

• Perl/CGI FAQ

  at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/doc/FAQs/cgi/perl-cgi-faq.html

• Answers to some troublesome Perl and Perl/CGI questions

  http://stason.org/TULARC/webmaster/myfaq.html

• Idiot's Guide to CGI programming

  http://www.webdeveloper.com/cgi-perl/cgi_idiots_guide_to_perl.html

• WWW Security FAQ

  http://www.w3.org/Security/Faq/www-security-faq.html

• CGI/Perl Taint Mode FAQ

  http://www.gunther.web66.com/FAQS/taintmode.html (by Gunther Birznieks)

• cgi-list mailing list

  Send email to [email protected] with body:

    subscribe cgi-list

Apache

• Apache Project's Home

  http://www.apache.org

• Apache Mailing Lists

  You will find a comprehensive list of all Apache projects' mailing lists at: http://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html.

  httpd specific lists: http://httpd.apache.org/lists.html.

• the Apache Modeling Portal

  http://apache.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/ - An introduction to the Apache HTTP Server, covering both an overview and implementation details. It presents results of the Apache Modelling Project done by research assistants and students of the Hasso-Plattner-Institute in 2001 and 2002.

• Apache Quick Reference Card

  http://www.refcards.com (other reference cards are also available from this link)

• The Apache FAQ

  http://www.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html

• Apache Server Documentation

  http://www.apache.org/docs/

• Apache Handlers

  http://www.apache.org/docs/handler.html

• mod_rewrite Guide

  http://www.engelschall.com/pw/apache/rewriteguide/

• Security:

  Security and Apache: An Essential Primer http://linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/print/1527/

  Using Apache with Suexec on Linux http://linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/print/1445/

  How to 'chroot' an Apache tree with Linux and Solaris http://penguin.epfl.ch/chroot.html

  http://www.etc.msys.ch/docs/chrooted_httpd.pdf talks about selected aspects of running a chrooted HTTP daemon and present strategies on how to set up a chrooted environment for more complex applications like database access or using CGI-scripts.

  Installing and Securing the Apache Webserver with SSL http://online.securityfocus.com/infocus/1356

  How to break out of a chroot() jail: http://www.bpfh.net/simes/computing/chroot-break.html

  Jails: Confining the omnipotent root: http://docs.freebsd.org/44doc/papers/jail/jail.html

  FreeBSD Developers' Handbook: The Jail Subsystem http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/jail.html

DBI and SQL

• Introduction to Structured Query Language:

  http://www.dbbm.fiocruz.br/class/Lecture/d17/sql/jhoffman/sqltut.html

• SQL for Web Nerds by Philip Greenspun

  http://philip.greenspun.com/sql

• Jeffrey Baker's DBI Examples and Performance Tuning

  http://www.saturn5.com/~jwb/dbi-examples.html (by Jeffrey William Baker).

• DBI Homepage

  http://dbi.perl.org/

• DBI mailing list archives

  http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&group=perl.dbi.usershttp://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/dbi/

Squid - Internet Object Cache

• Home page

  http://www.squid-cache.org/

• FAQ

  http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ.html

• Users Guide

  http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/Users-Guide/

• Mailing lists

  http://www.squid-cache.org/mailing-lists.html

SVN

mod_perl SVN repository specific information document.

Performance and Scalability

• Techniques and Technologies for Scaling Internet Services mailing list.

  The list's address: [email protected]. Subscribe by sending a message to [email protected].

• Solaris 2.x - Tuning Your TCP/IP Stack and More

  http://www.sean.de/Solaris/tune.html

  This page talks about TCP/IP stack and various tricks of tuning your system to get the most out of it as a web server. While the information is for Solaris 2.x OS, most of it will be relevant of other Unix flavors. At the end an extensive list of related literature is presented.

• High-Availability Linux Project

  http://www.linux-ha.org/

Unix OS flavors -- Unix OS related resources

• Memory system management and architecture:

  The Solaris memory system, sizing, tools and architecture: http://www.sun.com/sun-on-net/performance/vmsizing.pdf

Maintainers

Maintainer is the person(s) you should contact with updates, corrections and patches.

• Stas Bekman [http://stason.org/]

Authors

• Stas Bekman [http://stason.org/]

Only the major authors are listed above. For contributors see the Changes file.