Perl & Online Activities
For those curious about my name
Learning Perl, Fifth Edition The latest edition of Learning Perl, which covers Perl 5.10, is due out in July 2008.
Perl & Online Activities
I have released many CPAN modules and scripts
I am a PAUSE admin. Write to modules@perl.org for assistance.
I am a Use.perl editor
I am one of the perlfaq-workers who maintain the perlfaq documentation
I muse about Perl in my use.perl journal RSS
I publish The Perl Review
I wrote The CGI Meta FAQ
I wrote"brian's guide To Solving Any Perl Problem", and other people translated it:
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Deutsch
español
italiano
Japanese
français
Português
Português (Brasil)
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I write occassional things in Perl Monks
I have OMPL blogroll of all my public feeds
I have a O'Reilly Media author page
My LinkedIn profile
My Amazon.com author page
My Amazon.com reviews
My SlideShare presentations
Books
Learning Perl, 5th Edition (covers Perl 5.10)
Learning Perl, 4th Edition (covers Perl 5.8)
Intermediate Perl
Learning Perl Study Guide
Mastering Perl (participate through the web site)
Just starting Learning Perl 6 (participate through the web site)
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
"Making My Own CPAN", The Perl Review, Fall 2007
"Named Captures in Perl5.9.5", The Perl Review, Fall 2007
"Managing Modules Without Going Crazy", The Perl Review, Summer 2007
"Five Ways to Improve Your Perl Programming", Perl.com, April 12, 2007
Lightning Strikes Four Times: What's in that Scalar?, Perl.com, April 12, 2007
"Profiling DBI Queries", The Perl Review, Winter 2006
"Sudoku from PDF::API2", The Perl Review, Spring 2005
"Working with Bit Vectors", The Perl Review, Spring 2005
"Use Perl 6 Now", The Perl Journal, January 2006
"Playing with Pod", The Perl Journal, December 2005
"Getting More Out of open()", The Perl Journal, October 2005
"Improving Template::Extract", The Perl Journal, August 2005
"The Visitor Design Pattern", The Perl Review, Fall 2005
"Wrapping Subroutines to Trace Code Execution", The Perl Journal, July 2005
"Know Your Contexts", The Perl Journal, June 2005
Consumer Camera Time-Lapse Movies, O'Reilly Digital Media, May 18, 2005 (with Scott Forst)
"A Wireless Popularity Contest", The Perl Journal, April 2005
"Making web images", The Perl Journal, March 2005
"Private CPAN Distributions", The Perl Journal, February 2005
"Geolocation in Perl", The Perl Journal, January 2005
"Barcodes in Perl", The Perl Review, Spring 2005
"BBEdit 8.0--a developer's viewpoint", MacDevCenter.com, December 21, 2004
"Making New Distributions", The Perl Journal, December 2004
"How (not) to be a Perl Advocate", The Perl Review, Winter 2004
"Module::Release and Beyond", The Perl Review, Winter 2004
"Scripts as Modules", The Perl Journal, November 2004
Automatically importing photos to iPhoto, O'Reilly Digital Media, Nov 3, 2004
"HTML Calendars, The Perl Journal, October 2004
"Detaching Attachments", The Perl Journal, September 2004
"Pipelines and E-Mail Addresses", The Perl Journal, August 2004
"Just do{} it", The Perl Review, Summer 2004
"Test::More in 20 Seconds", The Perl Review, Summer 2004
"Debugging Perl with Affrus", Mac Developer Journal, Summer 2004
"Automating Distributions With scriptdist", The Perl Journal, May 2004
"Grokking Web Archives", The Perl Journal, Mar 2004
"Cleaning iPhoto", MacDevCenter.com, Feb 27, 2004
"An Almanac in the Desert", The Perl Journal, Feb 2004
"CPAN in the Desert", The Perl Journal, Jan 2004
"Google and Perl", The Perl Journal, May 2003
"Creating Perl Application Distributions", The Perl Journal, Mar 2003
"Amazon.com Wish Lists", The Perl Journal, Feb 2003
"Cleaning iTunes", MacDevCenter.com, Jan 2003
"Sharing Cookies", The Perl Journal, Jan 2003
"Ruby versus Perl", The Perl Journal, Dec 2002
"Better Documentation Through Testing", The Perl Journal, Nov 2002
"Controlling iTunes with Perl", MacDevCenter, Nov 2002
"Simple RSS with Perl", The Perl Review, Nov 2002
"SourceForge versus CPAN", The Perl Journal, Sep 2002
"Design Patterns: Iterators", The Perl Review, Sep 2002
"Design Patterns: Facades", The Perl Review, Jun 2002
"Design Patterns: Singletons", The Perl Review, Mar 2002
"Using the Perl Debugger", Dr. Dobbs Journal, Jul 2001
"Code Coverage In Perl", Dr. Dobbs Journal, Jun 2001
"Tracking Perl Module Use", Dr. Dobbs Journal, May 2001
"Creating Perl Code Graphs", Dr. Dobbs Journal, Apr 2001
"Profiling in Perl", Dr. Dobbs Journal, Mar 2001
"Creating a Perl Debugger", Dr. Dobbs Journal, Feb 2001
"Benchmarking", The Perl Journal, issue 11
"Die()-ing On The Web", The Perl Journal, issue 9
Talks, Presentations & Interviews
(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
Videos
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
Downloads
ABC score for "Black Adder Theme"
ABC score for "Ode To Joy"
My cat and I
My Chicago cycling route as a Google Earth KML file
Chicago Pastrami shops as a Google Earth KMZ file
Pittsburgh Perl Workshop as a Google Earth KML file
Major League Baseball stadiums as a Google Earth KML file
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