User since: Feb 21, 2001 at 14:46 UTC (25 years ago) Last here: Nov 23, 2019 at 11:59 UTC (6 years ago) Experience: 3511 Level: Curate (13) Writeups: 274 Location: Milton Keynes, UK User's localtime: Jan 25, 2026 at 12:44 GMT Scratchpad: View For this user: Search nodes

I use Perl to build Web sites. Perl makes easy things easy and hard things possible. You knew that already, right?

I've been to a few YAPC::Europes and European Perl Workshops. I'm sometimes at London Perl Mongers meetings and I started Milton Keynes Perl Mongers.

As well as Perl, I like FreeBSD. I work on ports and documentation issues when I get round to it.

A few of my favourite Perl Monks discussions:

• Damian Conway's ten rules for when to use OO
• Starting the development of a module : thoughts
• Benefits of the Specification
• A question of style
• Why our company doesn't use Perl :(
• Random thoughts on programming
• Here, doccy doccy. nice doccy. heredoc, treat.
• Tricks with DBI
• (Ovid: Death to Select Star!) Re: MySQL DBI Help
• (OT) Finding Technology Solutions
• What makes a bad question?
• The best amputation possible: Perl proper as Closed Source software and The worst amputation possible: Perl proper as Open Source software
• XML documentation formatting and transformations
• So, what *is* the best way to deliever dynamic content nowadays?
• XSLT vs Templating? and XSLT vs Templating, Part 2
• Why is Perl so bad with XML?
• Database searches with persistent results via CGI
• Perl Style Guides for Large Projects
• Databases and tied hashes.
• My coding guidelines
• Introduction to Technical Writing/Documentation
• Unit Testing CGI Programs
• Production Environments and "Foreign" Code
• is XML too hard?
• What you refuse to see, is your worst trap
• Vim for PerlMonks nodes
• The Study of Computer Programming
• Project Boundary
• Design Patterns Still Aren't
• On Creating an Effective Work Environment
• The world is not object oriented
• OT: Ways of managing changes to a database's structure during a project.
• OT: Users and software - desktop and web user mindset differences
• Problem Domains and Multiple Disciplines
• Organizing Module Tests Sensibly
• Speeding up the DBI
• Best Practices for Exception Handling
• A guide to installing modules for Win32
• Re: On Commenting Out 'use strict;' (errors)
• José's Guide for creating Perl modules
• When Test Suites Attack