Perl and XML
XML is a text-based markup language that has taken the programming world by storm. More
powerful than HTML yet less demanding than SGML, XML has proven itself to be flexible and
resilient. XML is the perfect tool for formatting documents with even the smallest bit of
complexity, from Web pages to legal contracts to books. However, XML has also proven itself to
be indispensable for organizing and conveying other sorts of data as well, thus its central role
in web services like SOAP and XML-RPC.
As the Perl programming language was tailor-
Managing Humans is a selection of the best essays from Michael Lopps web site, Rands In Repose. Drawing on Lopp s management experiences at Apple, Netscape, Symantec, and Borland, this book is full of stories based on companies in the Silicon Valley where people have been known to yell at each other. It is a place full of dysfunctional bright people who are in an incredible hurry to find the next big thing so they can strike it rich and then do it all over again. Among these people are managers, a strange breed of people who through a mystical organizational ritual have been given power over your future and your bank account. Whether you re an aspiring manager, a current manager, or just wondering what the heck a manager does all day, there is a story in this book that will speak to you. You will learn:
* What to do when people start yelling at each other
* How to perform a diving save when the best engineer insists on resigning
* How to say "No" to the person who signs your paycheck
The rapid growth of the Web in the past two decades has made it the larg-
est publicly accessible data source in the world. Web mining aims to dis-
cover useful information or knowledge from Web hyperlinks, page con-
tents, and usage logs. Based on the primary kinds of data used in the
mining process, Web mining tasks can be categorized into three main
types: Web structure mining, Web content mining and Web usage mining.
