User since: Aug 29, 2004 at 00:29 UTC Last here: Feb 19, 2013 at 23:07 UTC (13 weeks ago) Experience: 6033 Level: Vicar (15) Writeups: 568 Location: Aberdeen, Scotland. User's localtime: May 19, 2013 at 23:45 GMT-1 Scratchpad: View

Picture is of my wife and son. My picture is too boring.

Current occupations:

• Looking after my son
• Managing Director and owner of Suretec Group
• OpenLDAP Engineering Team Member
• SureVoIP - Business VoIP service provider in the UK

Founder of Aberdeen Perl Mongers and perl.me.uk
Saint on Wednesday August 31^st, 2005.

My own CPAN Modules:

• Catalyst:Plugin:Email:Page
• Samba::LDAP
• Task::SOSA

CPAN Modules that I am Part Author or Contributor to:

• Catalyst - Docs Team
• Catalyst::Manual::Plugins
• Catalyst::Helper::Model::LDAP
• Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::Store::LDAP

My good own nodes:

• Web Application Security Testing
• Application Testing: Custom Module or Perl Test Files?
• Favourite One-liners?
• Basic Perl5 to basic Perl6?
• "or die" versus "|| die"

About InsideOut Objects:

• How to use Inheritance with Inside-Out Classes and Hash Based Classes
• Anti-inside-out-object-ism - Reasons not to use InsideOut Objects.
• Array-based Inside-out Objects with Object::InsideOut
• Seeking inside-out object implementations
• New Module Announcement: Object::InsideOut
• inside-out objects using arrays?

Nodes for my reference:

• The purpose of testing
• Re: What is YOUR Development Process?
• Using Net::LDAP to access and update LDAP directories
• Test driven development with Perl and vim
• A perl daemon
• Anti-inside-out-object-ism - Reasons not to use InsideOut Objects.
• Array-based Inside-out Objects with Object::InsideOut
• New Module Announcement: Object::InsideOut
• inside-out objects using arrays?
• Class DBI Wiki - Beginners Guide
• Confessions of a virtual monk - WWW::Mech example
• Catalyst : Observations After Week 1 - Catalyst links at the bottom
• Re: S‎crip‎tome and Perl One-Liners - One-liners
• question for perl book & magazine authors - map and grep
• Ingy's "Swiss Army Light Sabre" - or, "how do you design your APIs?"
• Often Overlooked OO Programming Guidelines
• How can I visualize my complex data structure?
• doing a search and replace on a large file
• DBI recipes
• A brief survey of the DBI usability layer modules on the CPAN - DBIx::Simple etc.
• Reading from a database
• Speeding up the DBI
• Tricks with DBI
• What are placeholders in DBI, and why would I want to use them?
• Object Oriented Perl Tutorials on PM.org
• Re^4: Application Testing: Custom Module or Perl Test Files? - ExtUtils-ModuleMaker S‎crip‎t Example
• POD in 5 minutes
• On Commenting Out 'use strict;'
• José's Guide for creating Perl modules
• Re: Re: Re: In praise of h2xs: A tool you gotta have
• How a s‎crip‎t becomes a module
• What is the best way to add tests to existing code?
• Writing Solid CPAN Modules
• How will my regular expression match?
• Outside Links
• Re: Not Inciting a Holy War
• Re^2: Is Perl a good career move?
• Highlander - allow only one invocation at a time of an expensive CGI s‎crip‎t
• how to permanently monitor a directory
• Benchmarking Your Code
• Simple Module Tutorial
• IYHO, what do you consider good code?
• UN*X ls, sed, cat... in Perl
• [off-site] Bash + Perl oneliners basics
• How not to code
• How do you master Perl?
• Build complex GUI applications with Gtk2-Perl
• Programming is combat
• Get Out of a Dull Meeting
• Stupid mistakes I repeatedly make
• brian's Guide to Solving Any Perl Problem
• Perl oddities
• Perl documentation documentation
• Node Tension
• References workout

Good links:

• Chisels Perl Performance Article
• Perl-QA
• Good Perl tips
• Perl DBI Examples
• Perl Design Patterns - OO Perl
• PHP in contrast to Perl
• Random bits of Perl advice - Juerd site.
• Ten Perl Myths
• Vim for Perl developers
• .vimrc for Perl
• You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When...
• "PHP IN CONTRAST TO PERL"
• The Very Very Short Tutorial About Modules
• Analysis of a malicious "perl -e" sig
• Understand References Today
• Create Better Perl and SQL with Placeholders
• The Phrasebook Design Pattern
• Five Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With Perl
• Building Good CPAN Modules.

Exceptions:

• Exception Classes Advice on Subclasses
• Exception::Class - how to use?
• Handling non-fatal method error strings without exceptions or globals?
• Style guide for error messages?

Homenodes with useful information (in no particular order):

• pboin Good module list
• btrott CTO of MovableType - DBI, OO and more
• monkfan Loads of good Perl.com links
• naChoZ Great info for CSS, vim and general Perl
• eyepopslikeamosquito - Everything to do with Testing and Perl Culture
• Dru
• grinder
• blakem
• ybiC
• Aristotle
• turnstep
• crouchingpenguin
• tilly
• japhy
• Dominus
• Roy Johnson
• cog
• Homenode Surfing

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