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Building Scalable Web Sites: Building, scaling, and optimizing the next generation of web applications

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Written by Flickr.com's lead developer, this book has a nice collection of techniques and recipes to help build scalable websites. The book has real-life examples of scalability problems and solutions that can be applied in any web application environment. Oh, and it mentions 'Samy is my hero' incident. 'Sup Samy.

Updated Jun 21, 2008

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High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, Replication, and More

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All the product and user information you see on ThisNext is stored in MySQL database. This book has a collection of great tips that will help your MySQL database be fast, efficient, and reliable. And that will translate into happy website users.

Updated Jun 20, 2008

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Embedding Perl in HTML With Mason

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Mason can act both as a View and Controller component in your Perl-based web application. This book is an essential guide if you want to learn Mason.
Why would you want to learn Mason? Well, we use it here at ThisNext, so you gotta learn it if you want to join our Tech Team.

Updated Jun 20, 2008

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Perl Pocket Reference

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I love pocket reference books. They so small and handy. Sure, I could find the same info on Internet, but I just like the availability that this tiny book gives. Since at least 50% of my work involves Perl, I always keep Perl Pocket Reference book on my desk both at work and at home.

Updated Jun 20, 2008

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Perl Best Practices by Damian Conway

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This book is basically a collection of advices on how to keep your Perl code efficient, clean, and maintainable. Damian is a very opinionated guy, and I don't always agree with him (I love 'unless', and I think inside-out objects are just too kludgy to be useful), but what I like about the book is that it teaches you to write clean, standards-driven, readable code. And I like clean.

Updated Jun 20, 2008

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Programming Perl (3rd Edition)

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'The Perl Bible', 'The Camel Book', or simply 'The Perl Book' - call it whatever you want, but it's an essential book to have on every Perl programmer's book shelf. Just be careful to use a real sturdy shelf, because this book definitely has some weight to it.

Written by Larry Wall - the creator of Perl programming language himself.

Updated Jun 20, 2008

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