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<b>Feb 2004</b>: I am on active duty with
the United States Army and mostly away from the internet and any
computer work until the summer of 2004. <a class="email"
href="mailto:andy@petdance.com">Andy Lester
(andy@petdance.com)</a> can take care of any Perl stuff I
have. <a class="email"href="mailto:merlyn@stonehenge.com">Randal
Schwartz (merlyn@stonehenge.com)</a> can take care of
anything relating to my work with <a href="http://www.stonehenge.com">Stonehenge</a>.
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<h2><a name="perl">Perl</a></h2>
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I have released many <a href="https://metacpan.org/author/BDFOY/">CPAN modules and scripts</a>
<br>I am a <a href="http://pause.perl.org">PAUSE</a> admin
<br>I muse about Perl in my <a href="http://use.perl.org/~brian_d_foy/journal/">use.perl journal</a>
<br>I write about general technology issues in my <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1071">O'Reilly weblog</a> <font class="rss">RSS</font> <font class="atom">Atom</font>
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<br>I teach Perl for <a href="http://www.stonehenge.com">Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc.</a>
<br>I wrote <a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/brian-d-foy/CGI_MetaFAQ/CGI_MetaFAQ.html?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/html">The CGI Meta FAQ</a>
and <a href="http://www.panix.com/~comdog/brian's_guide.pod">"How To Solve Any Perl Problem"</a>
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<h2><a name="articles">Articles</a></h2><!--<span style="position: relative; left: 160pt; top: -40"><font class="rss">RSS</font> <font class="atom">Atom</font></span> -->
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<img src="Images/camel.jpg" alt="#"><a href="Articles/Die_and_the_Web.txt">"Die()-ing On The Web"</a>, <I>The Perl Journal</I>, <font class="date">issue 9</font>
<br><img src="Images/camel.jpg" alt="#"><a href="Articles/benchmark.1_4.txt">"Benchmarking"</A>, <I>The Perl Journal</I>, <font class="date">issue 11</font>
<br><img src="Images/camel.jpg" alt="#"><a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=1498/ddj0103bpl/">"Creating a Perl Debugger"</a>, <i>Dr. Dobbs Journal</i>, <font class="date">Feb 2001</font>
<br><img src="Images/camel.jpg" alt="#"><a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=1498/ddj0104pl/">"Profiling in Perl"</a>, <i>Dr. Dobbs Journal</i>, <font class="date">Mar 2001</font>
<br><img src="Images/camel.jpg" alt="#"><a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=1498/ddj0103bpl/">"Creating Perl Code Graphs"</a>, <i>Dr. Dobbs Journal</i>, <font class="date">Apr 2001</font>
<br><img src="Images/camel.jpg" alt="#"><a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=1498/ddj0105pl/">"Tracking Perl Module Use"</a>, <i>Dr. Dobbs Journal</i>, <font class="date">May 2001</font>
<br><img src="Images/camel.jpg" alt="#"><a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=1498/ddj0106pl/">"Code Coverage In Perl"</a>, <i>Dr. Dobbs Journal</i>, <font class="date">Jun 2001</font>
<br><img src="Images/camel.jpg" alt="#"><a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=1498/ddj0108pl/">"Using the Perl Debugger"</a>, <i>Dr. Dobbs Journal</i>, <font class="date">Jul 2001</font>
<br><img src="Images/camel.jpg" alt="#"><a href="http://www.theperlreview.com/Issues/v0i1.shtml">"Design Patterns: Singletons"</a>, <i>The Perl Review</i>, <font class="date">Mar 2002</font>
<br><img src="Images/camel.jpg" alt="#"><a href="http://www.theperlreview.com/Issues/v0i4.shtml">"Design Patterns: Facades"</a>, <i>The Perl Review</i>, <font class="date">Jun 2002</font>
<br><img src="Images/camel.jpg" alt="#"><a href="http://www.theperlreview.com/Issues/v0i5.shtml">"Design Patterns: Iterators"</a>, <i>The Perl Review</i>, <font class="date">Sep 2002</font>
<br><img src="Images/camel.jpg" alt="#"><a href="http://www.theperlreview.com/Issues/v0i6.shtml">"Simple RSS with Perl"</a>, <i>The Perl Review</i>, <font class="date">Nov 2002</font>
<br><img src="Images/camel.jpg" alt="#"><img src="Images/mac.jpg" alt="*"><a href="http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/11/22/itunes_perl.html">"Controlling iTunes with Perl"</a>, MacDevCenter, <font class="date">Nov 2002</font>
<br><img src="Images/camel.jpg" alt="#">"Better Documenation Through Testing", <i>The Perl Journal</i>, <font class="date">Nov 2002</font>
<br><img src="Images/camel.jpg" alt="#">"Ruby versus Perl", <i>The Perl Journal</i>, <font class="date">Dec 2002</font>
<br><img src="Images/camel.jpg" alt="#">"Sharing Cookies", <i>The Perl Journal</i>, <font class="date">Jan 2003</font>
<br><img src="Images/mac.jpg" alt="*"><a href="http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/01/17/itunes.html">"Cleaning iTunes"</a>, MacDevCenter, <font class="date">Jan 2003</font>
<br><img src="Images/camel.jpg" alt="#">"Amazon.com Wish Lists", <i>The Perl Journal</i>, <font class="date">Feb 2003</font>
<br><img src="Images/camel.jpg" alt="#">"Creating Perl Application Distributions", <i>The Perl Journal</i>, <font class="date">Mar 2003</font>
<br><img src="Images/camel.jpg" alt="#">"Google and Perl", <i>The Perl Journal</i>, <font class="date">May 2003</font>
<br><img src="Images/camel.jpg" alt="#">"CPAN in the Desert", <i>The Perl Journal</i>, <font class="date">Jan 2004</font>
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<h2><a name="talks">Talks, Presentations & Interviews</a></h2>
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<img src="Images/camel.jpg" alt="#">"CHTTP: A Verbose Web Agent", First Perl Conference, <font class="date">Aug 1997</font>
<br><img src="Images/camel.jpg" alt="#">"Perl and the Internet", Columbia University, <font class="date">Aug 6, 1998</font>
<br><img src="Images/camel.jpg" alt="#"><a href="http://www.perl.com/pace/pub/perldocs/1999/01/foy.html">Perl Monger Interview</A> for <a href="http://www.perl.com/">Perl.com</A> (also in <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/1999/01/14/">LinuxToday</A>, <...
<br>"The Open Source Movement", Columbia University, <font class="date">Mar 1999</font>
<br><img src="Images/camel.jpg" alt="#">"Getting Started With Perl", COMDEX, <font class="date">Nov 16-17, 1999</font>
<br>"XML: What, Why, and How", Columbia University, <font class="date">Dec 8, 1999</font>
<br><img src="Images/camel.jpg" alt="#"><a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/rt/07282000/transcript.html">O'Reilly Network: "What Will Be in Perl 6?"</A> <font class="date">Aug 2000</font>
<br><img src="Images/camel.jpg" alt="#"><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2610394,00.html">Inter@ctive Week: "Developers To Polish New Perl"</A>, <font class="date">Jul 31, 2000</font>
<br><img src="Images/camel.jpg" alt="#">Perl University 2000: "Perl 101", O'Reilly & Associates tutorial series, <font class="date">Oct 2000</font>
<br><img src="Images/wireless.jpg" alt="!">"Two way pagers as peer-to-peer devices", O'Reilly & Associates P2P Conference, <font class="date">Nov 2001</font>
<br><img src="Images/camel.jpg" alt="#">"Practical Perl for Scientists", MarcusEvans BioInformatics '02, <font class="date">Jun 2002</font>
<br><img src="Images/camel.jpg" alt="#"><img src="Images/mac.jpg" alt="*"> "Programming Perl on Mac OS X", O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference, <font class="date">Sep 2002</font>
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<h2><a name="downloads">Downloads</a></h2>
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<img src="Images/notes.jpg" alt="="><a href="abc/black_adder.abc">ABC score for "Black Adder Theme"</a>
<br><img src="Images/notes.jpg" alt="="><a href="abc/ode_to_joy.abc">ABC score for "Ode To Joy"</a>
<br><img src="Images/cats.jpg" alt="^"><a href="Images/tough_guys.jpg">My cat and I</a>
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