user lachoy Photo taken June 2005 in Toronto at YAPC time. I have lots more photos (including cats!) <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cwinters/">on flickr</a>. Projects I'm working on right now: [cpan://OpenInteract] is a database-independent Apache/mod_perl application framework with user/group management, security, a rich templating environment and lots of other cool stuff. It kicks ass; it is fairly mature; it is on CPAN (try <code>install Bundle::OpenInteract</code> from your CPAN shell); it has a <a href="http://www.openinteract.org/">nifty wiki</a>, a <a href="http://jira.openinteract.org/">unusual-for-perl issue tracking system</a>, and the normal SF <a href="http://sf.net/projects/openinteract/">goop</a>. [cpan://SPOPS] is a data abstraction (object serialization) layer with security. It's also hosted at <a href="http://spops.sourceforge.net/">Sourceforge</a> and is available on CPAN. [cpan://Workflow] is a generic embeddable workflow system. We'll see if it catches on. [cpan://Class::Observable] and [cpan://Class::Factory] aren't really projects, but it seemed appropriate to stick a note about them here. P5EE aims to build an API for "enterprise" applications in Perl, inspired by <a href="http://java.sun.com/products/j2ee/">J2EE</a>. The project just recently got started -- <a href="http://www.officevision.com/pub/p5ee/">learn more</a>. My aim with P5EE is to keep OI and SPOPS as compatible as possible.     2010-05-20 11:37:23 8252 358969 538536 425 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA -5