user toma  Perl is my hammer, and I am surrounded by objects that could be construed to be nails... High speed photo of a breaking board taken with an early prototype of the <A HREF="http://www.quaketronics.com">Quaketronics</A> flash controller. See the <A HREF="http://www.quaketronics.com/blog">Quaketronics blog</A> for interesting projects. There is a link to a video of me testing a high-speed photography flash controller <A HREF="http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/01/make_video_podcast_testing_hig.html">here</A> See my page at <A HREF="http://tomacorp.com/"> tomacorp</A> (We're not a corporation) or my <A HREF="http://tomacorp.com/perl/">perl</A> page. I presented a paper at <A HREF="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2005/"> OSCON</A> called <A HREF="http://tomacorp.com/perl/oo/index.html"> Read and Write OpenOffice Documents with Perl</A>. There is a success story about my old job called <A HREF="http://perl.oreilly.com/news/agilent_0300.html"> Agilent Puts Perl to Work Dispensing CAD Data</A>. While you can't see the <A HREF="http://caddatastore.agilent.com/"> CAD Data Store</A> on the web any more, it is still up and running behind the Agilent firewall. When the commercial version of the CAD Data Store closed down, I went back to my old job, which was <A HREF="http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=5,543,756.PN.&OS=PN/5,543,756&RS=PN/5,543,756"> designing circuits</A> for test equipment. Since I had enjoyed perl and web programming, I took up perl as a hobby and spent a lot of time here at perlmonks. After the downturn, I was able to work on the Agilent internal CAD tools again. Working so much with perl at work has decreased my desire to spend so many off-hours on perl, and my participation here has dropped. Now I program perl during the day and <A HREF="http://www.makezine.com/04/strobe/">design circuits at night, </A> while sometimes <A HREF="http://www.makezine.com/ibump/"> listening to music.</A> I often show up at the Perl Monger's meeting for Sonoma.pm. See [http://sonoma.pm.org/] for the new meeting place. Update: The day for the Sonoma.pm Perl Monger's meeting has changed back from our original time. The day is the last Tuesday of every month. Same cool place, Alembic. <HR> Since 1979 in Nashville, these are the words that go with my name: <blockquote> "It should work perfectly the first time" </blockquote> 2012-06-12 04:15:01 6558 360178 163216 416 latitude=38.20.49,longitude=-122.41.41 -8 80