User since: May 31, 2005 at 03:02 UTC Last here: Nov 21, 2009 at 10:14 UTC (5 minutes ago) Experience: 47903 Level: Bishop (22) Writeups: 4553 Location: Dunedin, New Zealand User's localtime: Nov 21, 2009 at 23:19 NZDT Scratchpad: View Member of: janitors, pmdev, punsters

Grandson and his new sister, August 2008

The node I enjoyed posting most is Ook interpreter
My most spectacularly successfull "code in reply" is Fast common substring matching
A lot of people seem to like Utility to capture parameters and perform a task
Some sage advice :-) for SoPW posters who would like answers: I know what I mean. Why don't you?
and a meditation: Flipin good, or a total flop?
and: Ta Da - a PerlMonks markup savy editor

Used to be an electronics tech for the University of Otago (Dunedin, NZ). Now part of a software development team writing data capture and analysis software for the product that our company sells. Mostly writing C++, but writing a lot of Perl tools that are used in an automated build system based around Visual Build Professional (Very highly recommended btw!). Have used SC/MP, RCA COSMAC (CDP1802), Z80, 8051, 6800 and 6502 assembler, Forth, Basic (many flavours), Logo, SmallTalk, Pascal, Algol 60, Fortran, C, C++, VBA, JS‎crip‎t and Perl. Started using Perl in May 2005 and joined PerlMonks at the end of May.

Oh, and if you haven't already, do read The strictures, according to Seuss!