Greetings, monks!

I'd like to take a moment to shamelessly plug the new book The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero by my friend and client Bill Kalush, and co-author Larry Sloman.

The copious research for the book was made possible by a web-based, fully text-searchable, categorized database of over 700,000 documents.

The system, called Alexander, used MySQL as a backend, mod_perl, and several batch processing jobs that talked to pdftk, iconv and Image Magick.

It also made heavy use of dozens of CPAN modules. Among them:

It was all made possible by Perl, and of course the gracious help of The Monastery!

2006-10-24 Retitled by Arunbear, as per consideration {tye: (edit) Remove "OT:" from title} (Keep: 7, Edit: 15, Reap: 0)

In reply to The Secret Life of Houdini by friedo

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