Back in the early days of dot-com, when the P in LAMP was Perl, I spent a lot of time in the Open Source arena, created some of the software that made many of those dot-com companies tick, and educated others on how to get the most from it. This repository holds my published writing from that time.
Enjoy!
I was lead author on an authortitative and well received work on mod_perl, the software that embeds the Perl interpreter inside the Apache httpd webserver. mod_perl happens to be the software that powers Ticketmaster, which is how I ended up working there from 2002 to 2010.
mod_perl Developer's Cookbook was published by Sams Publishing in early 2002.
In 2003, I wrote a series of articles on mod_perl 2.0 for perl.com.
- Filters in Apache 2.0 begins the series with an introduction to Apache 2.0's new output filter mechanism.
- Testing mod_perl 2.0 discusses how to use the powerful Apache-Test framework to test your mod_perl applications.
- Integrating mod_perl with Apache 2.1 Authentication shows how to leverage the new Apache 2.1 authentication provider mechanism and write Digest providers in Perl. It's very cool stuff.