just another computer dork

I have been using perl for about 15 years now, and it's very often the best tool in my batman utility-belt. I stumbled into the monastery during some extended googling via some perl/merlyn links, and I hope to make useful contributions. This is a great place! I spend a lot of time camping and doing stuff with boy scouts. Way too much time. My day job is to write win32 telephony software in good old c/c++. But I also do web stuff, and perl/mod_perl/mason are my friends(most of the time).

I'm afraid my perl has a strong C accent, which I'm trying to improve. For example, I'm now more likely to write

$done = 1 if ($tempdata eq "\n");

instead of

if ($tempdata eq "\n") {
   $done = 1; 
}

Accents and dialects are pretty interesting, though. I lived in Southern Germany for two years, and on a bus tour to Paris one weekend, the driver (who was a frankfurter) thought I had to be a German, since I spoke the same thick Swabian accent as the other folks on the bus. He laughed pretty hard when I told him I was American, but he was unable to understand _my_ German (nor anyone else on the bus).

Favorite advice: JDASOGFFS!

• Just
• Do
• A
• Search
• On
• GoOGle
• For
• Fsck's
• Sake

My pitiful XP link here

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info about my username could be found this way and of course in the browser-busting, database churning, monk mega-thread: [id://110166].

Music: lots of ska & reggae, warren zevon, elvis costello, and rock out to harder stuff(slipnot,seether,korn...)