Front Matter

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MySQL and Perl for the Web

Copyright 2002 by New Riders Publishing

FIRST EDITION: August, 2001

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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 00-107609

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Publisher

David Dwyer

Associate Publisher

Al Valvano

Executive Editor

Stephanie Wall

Managing Editor

Kristy Knoop

Development Editor

Chris Zahn

Product Marketing Manager

Stephanie Layton

Publicity Manager

Susan Nixon

Senior Project Editor

Lori Lyons

Copy Editor

Keith Cline

Indexer

Joy Dean Lee

Manufacturing Coordinator

Jim Conway

Book Designer

Louisa Klucznik

Cover Designer

Brainstorm Design, Inc.

Cover Production

Aren Howell

Proofreader

Katherine Shull

Composition

Amy Parker

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