brian d foy

brian.d.foy@gmail.com

I'm working on a book about Mojolicious Web Clients.

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Perl & Online Activities

I've released many CPAN modules and scripts
I'm an editor for Perl.com
I am a PAUSE admin. Write to modules@perl.org for assistance.
I am a moderator for the Perl subreddit .
I write about Perl in my blogs.perl.org journal ATOM
I published The Perl Review
I post Perl things to my briandfoy_perl Twitter feed.
I answer questions at StackOverflow
I have a O'Reilly Media author page
My Library of Congress Authority File
I post my presentations on SlideShare
I wrote a guide to PAUSE "mailing lists"
I wrote The CGI Meta FAQ (now unmaintained)
I wrote"brian's guide To Solving Any Perl Problem", and other people translated it:
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I wrote occassional things in Perl Monks
I have a O'Reilly Media author page
My LinkedIn profile. I also manage the Advanced Perl Users and the CPAN Developers groups.
My Amazon.com author page
My Amazon.com reviews
My SlideShare presentations
I'm on CoderWall Endorse briandfoy on Coderwall , where I sometimes write Perl tips.
I have a gravatar for bdfoy@cpan.org.
For a long time, I was one of the perlfaq-workers who maintained the perlfaq documentation
I used to write occassional things in Perl Monks
I was a Use.perl editor
I used to write about Perl in my use.perl journal RSS
I have written about general technology issues in my O'Reilly weblog RSS Atom
A long time ago I was a scientist with publications.

Books

Learning Perl 6
Intermediate Perl, 2nd Edition
Learning Perl Student Workbook, 2nd Edition (covers up to 5.14)
Programming Perl, 4th Edition (covers Perl 5.14)
Learning Perl, 7th Edition (covers Perl 5.24)
Mastering Perl, 2nd Edition
Learning Perl, 6th Edition (covers Perl 5.14)
Effective Perl Programming, 2nd Edition (covers up to Perl 5.12)
Learning Perl, 5th Edition (covers Perl 5.10)
Learning Perl, 4th Edition (covers Perl 5.8)
Intermediate Perl
Learning Perl Study Guide
Mastering Perl

Contributions:
iPod & iTunes Hacks, Hack 61: "Control iTunes with Perl"
The Best of The Perl Journal: Computer Science and Perl Programming, Chapter 40: "Benchmarking"

Articles

Talks, Presentations & Interviews

Dumping Perl 6 (2017 French Perl Workshop) June 2017
Perl v5.26 New Features (AmsterdamX.pm) June 2017
Dumping Perl 6 (AmsterdamX.pm) June 2017
6 More Things About 6 (Boston.pm) January 2017
6 Things About 6 (NY.pm) December 2016
Perl v5.28 New Features (Alpine Perl Workshop 2016) September 2016
The Surprisingly Tense History of the Schwartzian Transform (Alpine Perl Workshop 2016) September 2016
Perl Power Tools, Saint Perl 6 (Saint Perl 6) December 2014
My Perl Bag of Tricks (Baltimore Perl Mongers) October 17, 2014
The Whitespace in the Perl Community (2014 Swiss Perl Workshop) September 2014
Uploading Your First CPAN Module (Chicago Perl Mongers) August 2014
PerlTricks.com: Perl master - an interview with brian d foy March 2014
Parsing JSON with a Single Regex (Houston Perl Mongers) October 17, 2013
Reverse Installing CPAN (1st Polish Workshop) May 26, 2013
Advanced Modulinos (YAPC::NA 2012) June 2012
Advanced Modulinos (Houston Perl Mongers) March 22, 2012
Why I Am Passionate About Perl (YAPC::Brasil 2011) November 2011
I ❤ CPAN (Portuguese Perl Workshop 2011) September 2011
Code Review Quickstart (Windy City Perl Mongers) August 25, 2011
A Tour of the Perl Documentation (YAPC::EU 2011) August 2011
Create and upload your first Perl module to CPAN (YAPC::EU 2011) August 2011
Perl Conferences for Beginners (YAPC::EU 2011) August 2011
Why I Love CPAN (São Paulo Perl Workshop 2011) May 2011
The Perl Skeptic (Frozen Perl 2011) February 2011
(YAPC.tv)BackPAN Archeology (YAPC::EU 2008 (Copenhagen)) August 15, 2008
Why I Am Passionate About Perl (Portuguese Perl Workshop 2008) June 6, 2008
Cool Things in Perl 6 (Ruhr.pm) May 3, 2008
Mastering Perl April 25, 2008
Indexing BackPAN, Windy City Perl Mongers April 22, 2008
Frozen Perl: MyCPAN Lightning Talk February 16, 2008
Frozen Perl: "Practical Perl" keynote February 16, 2008
Perl Experts - Why They Are Passionate About Perl December 2007
Building My Own CPAN (Los Angeles Perl Mongers) September 2007
Pair Insider June 2007
A Bird's Eye View of Perl May 11, 2007
Fear and Loathing in Perl - Lightning Talk (Nordic Perl Workshop 2007) April 29, 2007
Managing Modules Without Going Crazy (Nordic Perl Workshop 2007) April 29, 2007
Flexible Business Rules with Brick (Nordic Perl Workshop 2007) April 29, 2007
Learning Perl 6 (Nordic Perl Workshop 2007) April 28, 2007
Benchmarking Perl - Lightning Talk Edition (Nordic Perl Workshop 2007) (Perlcast) April 28, 2007
Benchmarking Perl (Perlcast podcast, Los Angeles Perl Mongers) (Perlcast) December 2006
Making Perl Work for You (Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2006) (32 Mb, not much code (or words)) September 23, 2006
So You Want to Write about Perl! (YAPC Chicago 2006) June 28, 2006
Learning Perl 6 (talk version 0.5) (YAPC Chicago 2006) June 27, 2006
Conferences For Beginners (YAPC Chicago 2006) June 26, 2006
Managing Complexity with CGI::Prototype (Nordic Perl Workshop 2006) June 16, 2006
Managing Complexity with Module::Release (Nordic Perl Workshop 2006) June 16, 2006
Perlcast interviews me about The Perl Review, Summer 2006June 3 2006
Powell's Books Technica Q & A
Intermediate Perl book launch at Powell's Technical Books podcast, by Chris Dawson from the Portland Perl Mongers
The Magic of tie() (Dallas / Ft. Worth Perl Mongers) May 26, 2006
"Benchmarking Perl", Chicago UniForum, March 14, 2006
"Perl Design Patterns", Grand Rapids Perl Mongers, February 25, 2006
Josh McAdams interviews me about my latest book, Intermediate Perl, and my upcoming book, Mastering Perl, February 2006
Josh McAdams interviews me about the Winter 2005 issue of The Perl Review, January 2006
Perl Whirl 2005, October 2005
"Testing Perl Software", Uniforum Chicago, August 9, 2005
"Conferences for Beginners", O'Reilly Open Source Conference, Portland, OR, August 1-5
Josh McAdams interviews me for Perlcast, June 2005
YAPC::NA, Toronto, June 27-29, 2005
Apple Worldwide Developer Conference "Brown Bag Lunch with O'Reilly: 'Advanced Scripting'", June 9, 2005
Apress's Jason Gillmore's Five Questions for brian d foy
O'Reilly editor chromatic interviews me about The Perl Review.
"Automating software releases", New York Perl Mongers, Nov 2004
"Automating software releases", Dallas/Ft. Worth Perl Mongers, Aug 2004
"Programming Perl on Mac OS X", O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference, Sep 2002
"Practical Perl for Scientists", MarcusEvans BioInformatics '02, Jun 2002
WebBuilder, Dec 2001 (with Randal Schwartz)
"Two way pagers as peer-to-peer devices", O'Reilly & Associates P2P Conference, Nov 2001
Perl University 2000: "Perl 101, O'Reilly & Associates tutorial series, Oct 2000
WebBuilder, Dec 2000 (with Randal Schwartz)
Inter@ctive Week: "Developers To Polish New Perl", Jul 31, 2000
O'Reilly Network: "What Will Be in Perl 6?" Aug 2000
"XML: What, Why, and How", Columbia University, Dec 8, 1999
"Getting Started With Perl", COMDEX, Nov 16-17, 1999
"The Open Source Movement", Columbia University, Mar 1999
Perl Monger Interview for Perl.com (also in LinuxToday, Jan 14, 1999)
"Perl and the Internet", Columbia University, Aug 6, 1998
"CHTTP: A Verbose Web Agent", First Perl Conference, Aug 1997

Indexing BackPAN at YAPC::EU 2008 in Copenhagen — YAPC::TV 15 August 2008
Searching Perl Mailing Lists with MarkMail — Vimeo | YouTube | Google Video July 2008
Recognizing Jim Brandt or brian d foy — Vimeo | YouTube | Google Video June 2008
Making of: Recognizing Jim Brandt or brian d foy — Vimeo | YouTube | Google Video June 2008
Oslo QA Hackathon 2008, Closing Remarks — Vimeo April 2008

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