Articles in the development category cover development with Perl, PHP, Javascript and etc. Some of them also discuss design issues.

We describe the design and maintenance of the SJTU-SV.com web site which is a small community web site for alumni and friends from Shanghai Jiaotong University now living in the Silicon Valley area. Building the web site is based on voluntary efforts so time and monetary constraints have to be taken into account.

Sending email is often one of the functions you have to build for your web site. We have an article on how to send MIME email that can be displayed properly by all the major Web mail providers.

We also provide some examples on using WWW::Mechanize, one of our favorite Perl packages that helps automate certain Web related tasks. With it, we can automate resume update on hotjobs.yahoo.com, send email through Yahoo! Mail and etc.

We also describe how to use Perl to write custom service check plugins for Nagios.

You may also find some other interesting article, including writing Greasemonkey script for dictionary.com.

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