If iPhoto is working nicely as your digital shoebox, but you want to automate the process of creating web galleries for your own server, here's a nifty setup using Sendmail, MySQL, and Perl. Mike Schienle, who specializes in task automation for a living, shows you the system he designed for his wife, who is an avid photographer. More info

If you run Perl across many different computers of any sort, you know how frustrating it can be to install Perl extension modules across those machines. The administrative process is even worse if you have a Web server farm and need to keep each machine up to date with a set suite of extension modules for your installation. More info

If you've used UNIX or Linux for some period of time, you've probably written a few Perl programs to automate simple tasks. Each of these programs does something basic and simple that might otherwise take you 10 or 20 minutes to do by hand. In this article, Sean will show you how to convert just such a Perl program into a far more robust programming project, one that will be generic enough to be widely distributed across many disparate platforms. More info

Any CGI programmer benefits from knowing and using ready-made libraries. In this article Eugene Logvinov shows how CGI modules taken from CPAN can not only help you to work effectively and conveniently, but can also provide you with an excellent code and reference library. Consequently, embedding POD (Plain Old Documentation) in the module turns out to be a good choice. More info

C++ and Haskell do it, Java and Lisp don't; Python does it, and Ruby is almost built on it. What is the allure of operator overloading, and how does it affect Perl programmers? Dave Cross brings us an introduction to overload.pm and the Perl overloading mechanism. More info

Perl has long been heralded as the Swiss army knife of computer languages. Learn how to use the language to carve data out of Microsoft's Active Directory. More info

How do you move from an intermediate Perl programmer to an expert? Understanding object-oriented Perl is one key step along the way. More info

I went to python.org and used the excellent tutorial there. I found things to like and things to dislike immediately: More info

Over the course of the next few pages, I will introduce you to one of the more interesting modules in the Perl pantheon, the Getopt::Long.pm module. This module provides a simple API to parse options passed to your Perl scripts at the command line and convert them into Perl scalars or arrays. More info