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Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Part I: The Problems
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    2. Budget and Schedules Aren’t Ideal
    3. Site Design vsApplication Design
    4. Prototypes vsLive Sites
    5. Architecture-Based Performance Loss
    6. Often-Overlooked Problems
  • Part II: The Solutions
    1. Perl For the Web
    2. Performance Myths
    3. The Power of Persistence
    4. Tools For Perl Persistence
    5. Problems With Persistence
    6. Environments For Reducing Development Time
    7. Using Templates with Perl Applications
    8. Database-Backed Web Sites
    9. Testing Site Performance
  • Part III: Planning For the Future
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    2. Publishing XML for the Future
    3. XML as a B2B Interface
    4. Web Services
    5. Scaling a Perl Solution
    6. Perl 6 and the Future

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One of CodeIgniter’s biggest advantages is it’s extensive user guide.

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The PEAR documentation is a centralized place where developers can add the documentation for their package.

Currently the documentation is available in the following languages:

The translations of the following languages are outdated but still available:

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