Tag Archives: perl

Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2008

I had the pleasure of speaking at the 2008 Pittsburgh Perl Workshop. Due to some rather depressing news on the home front, I was only able to attend Saturday’s track and the Event Dinner. Everything was awesome as usual. I was even surprised to learn new things in the Advanced Pattern Matching [...]

Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2007

I’ve attended 4 Perl Conferences in the past 2 years.  This year’s Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is the first that I’ve presented at.  My talk was titled Security through Detection, Prevention, and Introspection. I have slides available.

I originally wanted to present a bunch of code, but I couldn’t really find a way to make the code [...]

PHP, Are you serious?

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I programmed in PHP for a mortgage company. I ended up leaving that job for personal reasons. Apparently, 40 hours/week truly is not enough. I was a perl programmer prior to that excursion, and I guess I never grew out of it. [...]

YAPC::NA - Impressions

I’ve been bugging my employers for years to send me to conferences and training seminars. None of them have been keen on the idea, and it’s a real shame. I’m lucky enough to have an incredibly good supervisory staff and a great job now. I asked to go to YAPC::NA, and they [...]