Leslie W. Bate - Perl Fast & Easy Web Development (Fast & Easy Web Development)

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Perl fast&easy web development

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Les Bate

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To my lovely wife Pauline, and my beautiful daughter Victoria
with all my love
and to my cats Cassie and Biggles for walking across my keyboard!

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There are many people that I should like to thank and I am bound to forget someone, I am sorry if one of them is you!

First I should like to thank Julie C. Meloni, who told me my first sample text was good enough. Also thanks to Lynette Quinn for her encouragement in the early stages. Likewise thank you to Estelle Manticas, for encouraging me with her good humor and helpful remarks, and for turning my gibberish into this book. Thanks to Kevin Harreld, who kept me on the rails throughout.

Thank you to my wife Pauline and my daughter Victoria for putting up with my absences.

I would also like to thank my past UWE lecturers, especially Simon Langley, Nigel Baker and Jane Berry, who fired up my enthusiasm for computing, and in the case of Simon, fired up my sense of humor too!

Thank you to Mum and Dad for being my Mum and Dad!

Finally, a special thank you to my good friend Clarisse Craen, who gave me the initial shove to start this project: thank you, my mate!

Les

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L ES B ATE is a Senior Analyst Programmer working for CSC at the British Aerospace (Airbus) site in Filton, Bristol, in the UK. He started out as a TV engineer for Visionhire in the West Midlands, England, spending many years at college learning about analogue and digital electronics before becoming a self-employed electronics engineer.

Les later switched careers and moved into systems analysis and programming at British Aerospace. Originally working on mainframe batch and CICS programming, Les finally made the move into Lotus Notes development and from there to Web development.

In 1998 he gained a BSc (Hons) in Computing from the University of the West of England, which he says opened totally new horizons for him in terms of technology and its application in computing.

Les has used many of the currently available technologies, including C, C++, Perl, PHP, Java, JavaScript, VBScript, ASP, and HTML, and he enjoys exploring the possibilities that new technologies offer.

In his spare time he messes around with electronics, plays the guitar (he says very badly!), and enjoys listening to music, traveling, and reading. He attributes his love for reading solely to the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.

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