Colophon

Colophon

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The animal on the cover of Programming Web Services with Perl is a flying dragon (genus draco ). Found in the tropical rainforests of the East Indies and Southern Asia, this small lizard has five or six hind ribs on each side that are prolonged and covered with weblike skin, forming "wings." While jumping, the lizard spreads its wings and glides to the ground; it can generally glide almost nine yards. Gliding is used only as a means of locomotion and not for predator escape; to escape danger, the lizard always climbs. The lizard also never glides when it's raining or windy.

A flying dragon feeds mostly on small ants and termites and is described as a sit-and-wait feeder. It will sit next to a tree trunk waiting for insects to come to it.

A female flying dragon builds a nest for her eggs by forcing her head into the soil to create a small hole. She then lays five eggs into the hole and covers them with dirt, packing the soil on top with a patting motion of her head. The eggs take approximately 32 days to incubate.

Humans don't eat flying dragons, and they aren't currently listed as threatened.

Mary Anne Weeks Mayo was the production editor and proofreader, and Sarah Jane Shangraw was the copyeditor for Programming Web Services with Perl . Colleen Gorman and Jane Ellin provided quality control. Ellen McHale provided production assistance. Lucie Haskins wrote the index.

Pam Spremulli designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.1 using Adobe's ITC Garamond font.

David Futato designed the interior layout. This book was converted to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML technologies. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia FreeHand 9 and Adobe Photoshop 6. The tip and warning icons were drawn by Christopher Bing. This colophon was compiled by Mary Anne Weeks Mayo.

The online edition of this book was created by the Safari production group (John Chodacki, Becki Maisch, and Madeleine Newell) using a set of Frame-to-XML conversion and cleanup tools written and maintained by Erik Ray, Benn Salter, John Chodacki, and Jeff Liggett.