OK, who told Frank from the marketing department about PerlMonks . . .?

But really, your question is so buzzword laden and vague I don't think you're going to get anything near a cogent answer. Might as well walk into an auto mechanic's shop and say something like "Tools: air wrench, screwdriver, Wankel rotary engine".

• Yes.
• Sometimes; it depends.
• Only in months with no "R" in them.
• No.
• Watch where those hands are going, buster.

For anything else, you'll have to refer to my rate card.

Perl and Java are languages. CGI is a protocol (more or less). Unix and Windows are operating systems. The rest of your question is too confused to answer.

Process and technology don't have any rigourous meanings in the context that you supply. My phone is technology.

My phone is technology.

Yeppers. So is a piece of napped flint for that matter.

In an ideal world, the business side should not be dictating what technology to use. The world of technology is too vast for someone who does not know the various ways to build a website to learn in a day and decide for the technology group.

-imran

Update: I disagree with the posters who say "technology" is a buzzword. A buzzword is a word that is fashionable for a period of time, a fad. "Technology", the word, will never go out of fashion. The buzzwords are the children of "Technology".

It is not clear what question(s) you are asking. When you say, "Technology", you are not being very explicit. Almost anything could be called "Technology". As others have pointed out, it's a buzzword, like "World Class", or "Thinking Outside the Box" - or "Proactive", even. It's basically fluff.

DreamWeaver is a program that is used to build Web pages. I don't know if it's exactly an "IDE", but it does make Web development easier. It's a "Technology", but so is shipbuilding. The word, as I said, is without meaning. I wouldn't concern myself too much with trying to decide what's a technology and what's an IDE.

"Server side" describes where something happens. In a Web context, you have server side and client side. Either the client's browser or computer does something, or else the server (whatever s/he's connected to) does it.

The word "Process" has several meanings, depending on context. On a Windows box, if you type 'Ctrl-Alt-Delete', you will get the task manager, which can display the processes going on in your computer. Those processes often await certain conditions, and then do something. There is a process started by my antivirus program that will display a warning if a virus is detected.

In a Perl/CGI context, processes could be programs or sub-programs that respond to input, serve up pages, or perform any number of useful tasks.

My suggestion to you is to begin by deciding what it is you want to accomplish. If you are simply trying to learn Perl (or Perl/CGI web authoring), then you can find a wealth of information here using Super Search. There is also CPAN, where you can download Perl modules and find documentation for them.

If you are actively trying to create a CGI site, you probably need to learn considerably more than Perl - such as HTML, for one. You can Google for this information.

In any event, you have your work cut out for you. There is much to learn. You can find a great deal of help here at PerlMonks, but you'll still have to do your own sweating to learn Perl. It's not easy, but it certainly can be lots of fun - especially when there's a large community of helpful Monks to guide you along. Good luck.

Update: Fixed spelling error.

And "Technology" is a buzzword? That's ridiculous. The term gets used rather vaguely but it's not a buzzword.

However, I agree that it's impossible to understand exactly what the question is. And it doesn't seem like it's anything to do with Perl.

Dear Anonymous Monk.

Please ask your question again. Get someone to help you with your English if you need it. We don't understand what you're asking.

From WordNet 2.0 :

buzzword; n : stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition

I think that would reasonably include "technology". Through overuse, the word is almost meaningless.

Update:

Phrase \Phrase\, n.:... 1. A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a portion of a sentence; as, an adverbial phrase.

stock adj 1: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"...

From WordNet 2.0 again.

It's not "stock" and it's not a "phrase". The word is thousands of years old.

If some people in some contexts use it in a shallow and meaningless way that doesn't make it into a buzzword.

It may mean they're ignorant (they call a perl CGI script which uploads a JPG to a website 'upload technology' because they don't know what CGI, or perl or scripts are) or it may mean they're trying to baffle you with bullshit (they know perfectly well what it is, but they'd rather you thought of it as something mysterious and clever than something simple and commonplace).

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