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Find out how to manipulate Perl databases by using DBI.


This is a comprehensive tutorial on how to create your own image counter CGI on your Web page.


CGI programs can make your Web pages dynamic, and one popular application of CGI is the addition of an access counter. An access counter is a text or graphical representation of the number of times that your Web page has been requested.


A guide to creating a hit counter using Perl and CGI.




This article describes a simple and effective method to format a CGI script’s output from HTML templates, by replacing special template directives with dynamic content on the fly.


This is a short code snippet to create easily modifiable html templates for use in your perl cgis. Hate having to place all the print statements in your program and having to escape all those quotes? Would you like to give the ability for people who don’t know how to program in perl to customize the output of your cgis? Templates are the answer.


The loss of critical data can prove devastating. Still, millions of professionals ignore backing up their data. This article will show you how to allow your scripts to execute on remote servers and how to perform secure and automated file transfers.




This article explains the benefits and drawbacks of Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and SimpleDB offerings when it comes to building a Web site. This visual tour explains the S3 and SimpleDB architectures and how to use them through practical examples; in this case, you’ll use a Perl library to build a simple photo-sharing site.


This article is a complete tutorial showing how to create your own streaming web clients, that can be used to stream (play while downloading) multimedia files such as mp3.


Learn how to create a mac styled wallpaper by using GIMP in this tutorial!