user Dominus      Warning: I do not read 'chatbox', so if you /msg me and I don't answer, that's why. Send <a href="mailto:mjd-www-perlmonks+@plover.com">email (<tt>mjd-www-perlmonks+@plover.com</tt>)</a> instead. My name is Mark Jason Dominus. My book, <a href="http://hop.perl.plover.com/">Higher-Order Perl</a>, about advanced programming techniques in Perl, was published in March 2005 by <a href="http://www.mkp.com">Morgan Kaufmann</a>. <a href="http://hop.perl.plover.com/">More information is available</a>. You can <a href="http://hop.perl.plover.com/ORDER.html">order it online</a>. You can also <a href="http://hop.perl.plover.com/book/">read it online</a>. I am a moderator of the <code>comp.lang.perl.moderated</code> newsgroup. I am the author of the <a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Text-Template"><code>Text::Template</code></a>, <a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Algorithm-Diff"><code>Algorithm::Diff</code></a>, <a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Interpolation"><code>Interpolation</code></a>, <a href="http://perl.plover.com/TieFile/"><code>Tie::File</code></a> and <a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Memoize"><code>Memoize</code></a> modules. I am an occasional contributor to the Perl core. I wrote the <a href="http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perlreftut.html"><code>perlreftut</code></a> manual page. I was a regular columnist for <a href="http://www.tpj.com/">The Perl Journal</a> for two years. I wrote the back-end of <a href="http://www.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/Komodo/More">Rx studio</a>, the regex debugger in ActiveState's 'Komodo' IDE; this work won the <a href="http://perl.plover.com/Rx/">2001 Larry Wall Award for Practical Utility</a>. I won <a href="http://perl.plover.com/obfuscated/">second place</a> in the 5th annual Obfuscated Perl Contest. I have given <a href="http://perl.plover.com/yak/">several tutorials</a>, including the <a href="http://perl.plover.com/yak/regex/">Regex tutorial</a>, at the Perl Conference over the past several years. (See <a href="http://perl.plover.com/yak/">Classes and Talks</a> for news and updates.) I am no longer the managing editor of <a href="http://www.perl.com/">www.perl.com</a>. <a href="http://blog.plover.com/">I have a blog</a> which sometimes has Perl-related items. <a href="http://perl.plover.com/">My Perl-related web site</a> is called <a href="http://perl.plover.com/">Perl Paraphernalia</a> and it will probably amuse you. Some of the more popular items include: <ul> <li><a href="http://perl.plover.com/FAQs/References.html">Understand References Today</a> <li><a href="http://perl.plover.com/FAQs/Namespaces.html">Coping with Scoping</a> <li><a href="http://perl.plover.com/Hello/">The Very Very Short Tutorial About Modules</a> <li><a href="http://perl.plover.com/FAQs/Buffering.html">Suffering From Buffering</a> <li><a href="http://perl.plover.com/IAQ/">Infrequently Asked Questions About Perl</a> </ul> The other guy in the picture is named Placido. It's up to you to decide who is who. 2012-11-14 13:12:48 7031 358683 206566 506 <a href="http://perl.plover.com/">Perl Paraphernalia</a> America/New_York 120