Let me introduce myself as Yet-Another-Author of PTUP. I'm Michael Peters (mpeters on irc and use.perl, wonko on CPAN).
I've lived and worked in Tennesee, Maryland (DC suburbs) and am now living with my family in Raleigh, NC. I've spoken at lots of YAPC::NAs (2008, 2007, 2006, 2005), a couple of ApacheCon's (US 2006, EU 2006) an OSCON (2007) and a PPW (2006). At my current job I do a little bit of management, technical planning, programming and system design.
The name of this blog gives the impression that it might be all about Perl evangelism. I'm not a good evangelist (even though I spent 2 years as a missionary) so I probably won't be providing a lot zingers to convince your coworkers to use Perl. I'm just planning on writing about how I'm using Perl: module reviews, Perl related tools and other things happening in the Perl community that make me excited.
Perl's not the coolest language around right now, but I've always been more of a fan of the underdog. I'm also an optimist which means that I'm really excited about the potential of Perl 6 and Parrot, so I'll probably be talking about those too.
my $work == 'Plus Three';
my @interests = qw(
qa-and-testing
scaling-and-performance
ui-design
);
my @tools = qw(
CGI::Application
mod_perl
vim
linux
MySQL
Prototype
jQuery
swish-e
spread
);
my @projects = qw(
Smolder
Krang
);I've lived and worked in Tennesee, Maryland (DC suburbs) and am now living with my family in Raleigh, NC. I've spoken at lots of YAPC::NAs (2008, 2007, 2006, 2005), a couple of ApacheCon's (US 2006, EU 2006) an OSCON (2007) and a PPW (2006). At my current job I do a little bit of management, technical planning, programming and system design.
The name of this blog gives the impression that it might be all about Perl evangelism. I'm not a good evangelist (even though I spent 2 years as a missionary) so I probably won't be providing a lot zingers to convince your coworkers to use Perl. I'm just planning on writing about how I'm using Perl: module reviews, Perl related tools and other things happening in the Perl community that make me excited.
Perl's not the coolest language around right now, but I've always been more of a fan of the underdog. I'm also an optimist which means that I'm really excited about the potential of Perl 6 and Parrot, so I'll probably be talking about those too.
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