user targetsmart <br> Started to use perl in the last quarter of 2005, joined perlmonks on Jan 2006. <br> But my involvement increased during may 2008 when I saw tutorials and Q&A section. <br> I love to program in both Perl and python. Both are awesome languages. Java and PHP are the recent addictions. ;) <hr> perl => common man's scripting language, easy to write scripts, minimum development time, I love CPAN 1000 yrs of man work is sitting there as modules what can you ask for more?! <br> python => almost a perfect scripting language with every feature of OOPs, amazing simplicity in syntax, elegant code style, I love python.. <br> Java => made OOPs popular to every single developer in the world, OOPs at its best, in fact the mother of perfect OOPs, everything that is programmable is possible to be programmed using Java, when there is no urgency of delivery date, Java is the best one to go for, if not python has my vote.<br> PHP => born as a pure web development language but it can be used for pure scripting too, with PHP 5 born with full support to OOPS, it is in-fact challenging perl and python in every aspect. But if you want to develop web PHP has the vote, since most of the internet is already PHP.<br> <hr> about myself<br> Working for <a href="http://www.teleca.com">Teleca</a> software solutions (India) Pvt. LTD. Bangalore, INDIA, as software engineer since May 2009<br> Worked for <a href="http://www.bksystems.co.in">bksystems</a> Pvt. LTD, Chennai, INDIA, as Associate systems engineer from Dec 2004 to Apr 2009.<br> <br> <hr> <h3>Copyright/Licensing</h3> Any code I write on Perlmonks is released under the same terms as Perl itself.<p> Any text I write on Perlmonks is released under the Creative Commons <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/">Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales</a> license. <hr> <h3>Personal interests</h3> peace, silence <h3>Books I admire</h3> <br> <ul> <li>UNIX concepts and application(sumitabha das)</li> <li>Advanced Programming In unix environment by Richard stevens.</li> <li>Learning perl</li> <li>Intermediate perl</li> <li>Advanced Programming in perl by Sriram srinivasan</li> <li>Beginning perl for web development; from novice to professional, </li> <li>Object oriented perl</li> <li>Dive into python by Mark Pilgrim (if you are from perl or php background, this book has everything for you to start ;) )</li> <li>Perl to python migration(Martin C brown)</li> <li>Core python programming (by Wesley J chun, excellent book)</li> <li>Programming python </li> <li>"Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools" </li> <li>SCJP 6 study guide (by Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates), excellent book</li> <li>Object oriented php</li> <li>Core php programming (by Leon Atkinson)</li> <li>Head first Javascript</li> <li>Head first HTML, CSS and XHTML</li> </ul> <br> More the books you read, the better you would become <h3>Modules I admire</h3> Storable, Data::Dumper, CGI, DBI <h3> OS I admire </h3> Debian etch. <h3> Languages that I admire </h3> (spoken) Sanskrit,<br> (computer programming)Perl. python, java<br> <h3> Websites I admire </h3> Google(nevertheless), wikipedia.org , perlmonks.org, yahoo, naukri.com <h3>Things that we can really wait for and can go mad for</h3> <b>Perl 6</b>(the much awaited perl release with major changes in the core of the language, most importantly runs on a vitual machine, [http://perl6-projects.org/]).<p> <b>Python 3</b>([http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html])<p> <h3> Questions that I am finding answers... </h3> who am I?, what is the purpose of me being born?, what I should attain in this life?, why there is attachment and aversion all around?, Should I think about I or We?, why we don't do any action if no benefit would result? <hr> <p> references that I would like to revisit <br>from ww and others <br> [id://599204]<br> [id://513422]<br> [id://433729]<br> [id://486756]<br> [id://224666]<br> [id://744932]<br> [http://www.masonbook.com/]<br> [http://perl.apache.org/docs/tutorials/index.html]<br> [http://www.perl.com/lpt/a/596]<br> Ten essential practices [http://www.perl.com/lpt/a/939]<br> articles by [merlyn] => [http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/columns.html]<br> from [moritz] => [http://perlgeek.de/en/article/encodings-and-unicode] <p> perlmonks first question => [id://847]<br> [id://43037]<br> <h3>Interesting nodes that I have noticed </h3> [id://756613], ++ for [ikegami]<br> [id://278900], ++ for [perrin]<br> [id://757844], ++ for [tilly]<br> [id://757929], ++ for [ikegami]<br> [id://73228],<br> <h3> Simple but effective write ups </h3> [id://781340], ++ for [ig]<br> [id://781447], ++ for [elisheva], [browseruk], [ikegami] <br> [id://822947], ++ for [ikegami] and [browseruk] <br> <hr> the monks I think are best all-rounders on this site => [ikegami],[BrowserUk]<br> the monk i think is very responsible => [corion]<br> <hr> some interesting stats <c> as on 13 feb 2010 users above my level => 403 0.86% users on my level => 182 0.39% users below my level => 46281 98.75% total number of users => 46866 as on 25 Aug 2009 users above my level => 395 0.91% users on my level => 181 0.42% users below my level => 42924 98.68% total number of users => 43500 </c> <hr> Joined the elite list of <a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=Saints%20in%20our%20Book">'Saints in our book'</a> on 24/Aug/2009. A big yey! for me. I was the 576th Curate. <p> my progress/growth status in perlmonks as of SAT 13 FEB 2010 22:30:00 IST <br> <b>SOME NUMBER GAME</b> <br> <c> +-------------+--------+---------+--------------+-------------+ |Month |nodes | points | points/node | Improvement | +-------------+--------+---------+--------------+-------------+ | 2007-10 | 1| 39| 39.00| 0.00| | 2008-05 | 1| 3| 3.00| -36.00| | 2008-06 | 4| 59| 14.75| 11.75| | 2008-07 | 1| 3| 3.00| -11.75| | 2008-10 | 8| 96| 12.00| 9.00| | 2008-11 | 5| 38| 7.60| -4.40| | 2008-12 | 6| 60| 10.00| 2.40| | 2009-01 | 46| 324| 7.04| -2.96| | 2009-02 | 39| 403| 10.33| 3.29| | 2009-03 | 51| 515| 10.10| -0.24| | 2009-04 | 49| 433| 8.84| -1.26| | 2009-05 | 50| 586| 11.72| 2.88| | 2009-06 | 61| 607| 9.95| -1.77| | 2009-07 | 15| 142| 9.47| -0.48| | 2009-08 | 5| 31| 6.20| -3.27| | 2009-11 | 1| 9| 9.00| 2.80| | 2010-01 | 1| 1| 1.00| -8.00| | 2010-02 | 1| 4| 4.00| 3.00| +-------------+--------+---------+--------------+-------------+ Total months of activity => 18 Total nodes => 345 Total points => 3237 Average nodes per day => 0.64<(taking last 18 months into calculation) Average points per node => 9.38< Per day xp gain on voting => 6< PREDICTABILITY TABLE +---------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+--------+ |Pred. Day|pred. month|pred. level|pred. title|pred. votes|pred. xp| +---------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+--------+ | 65| 2010-04-19| 14| Priest | 26| 4005| | 177| 2010-08-09| 15| Vicar | 28| 5404| | 300| 2010-12-10| 16| Parson | 30| 7002| | 449| 2011-05-08| 17| Prior | 32| 9013| | 663| 2011-12-08| 18| Monsignor | 34| 12008| | 939| 2012-09-09| 19| Abbot | 36| 16008| | 1339| 2013-10-14| 20| Canon | 38| 22006| | 1855| 2015-03-14| 21| Chancellor| 40| 30001| | 2481| 2016-11-29| 22| Bishop | 42| 40014| | 3087| 2018-07-28| 23| Archbishop| 44| 50009| | 3675| 2020-03-07| 24| Cardinal | 46| 60002| | 4247| 2021-09-30| 25| Sage | 48| 70009| | 4803| 2023-04-09| 26| Saint | 50| 80014| | 5343| 2024-09-30| 27| Apostle | 52| 90001| | 5870| 2026-03-11| 28| Pope | 54| 100011| | 11000| 2040-03-27| 29| GOD | 108| 200017| +---------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+--------+ </c> 2013-05-10 04:33:27 3402 644608 696173 354 lat=12.948684, lon=77.708037, Bengaluru, INDIA Asia/Calcutta