Contributors
The following people contributed their hacks, writing, and
inspiration to this book:
Jacek
Artymiak (http://www.artymiak.com) is a freelance
consultant, developer and writer. He's been
programming computers since 1986, starting with Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
His interests include network security, computer graphics and
animation, and multimedia. Jacek lives in Lublin, Poland, with his
wife Gosia and can be reached at jacek@artymiak.com. Chris Ball
(http://printf.net) holds a BSc
in Computation from UMIST, England, and works on machine learning
problems as a researcher in Cambridge University's
Inference Group. In his spare time, he can be found not answering
email and hanging rooks at chess tournaments. You can email him at
chris@printf.net. Paul Bausch
(http://www.onfocus.com) is a web
application developer and the cocreator of Blogger (http://www.blogger.com), the popular weblog
software. His favorite site to spider is Amazon.com, the subject of
his book Amazon Hacks
(O'Reilly). He's also the coauthor
of We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs (John
Wiley & Sons), and he posts thoughts and photos almost daily to
his personal weblog: onfocus. Erik Benson
(http://www.erikbenson.com) is
the Technical Program Manager of Personalized Merchandizing at
Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com). He runs All Consuming
(http://www.allconsuming.net) and
has a weblog at http://www.erikbenson.com. Adam Bregenzer
is a programmer in Atlanta, GA. He has been programming for most of
his life and is an advocate of Unix-like operating systems. In his
free time, he plots to take over the world . . . and eat Mexican
food. Daniel Biddle
spends far too much time reading abstruse technical documents and
solving people's programming problems on IRC at
irc.freenode.net, where he goes
by the nickname deltab. He can be contacted at
deltab@osian.net. Sean M. Burke is
the author of O'Reilly's
Perl & LWP, RTF Pocket
Guide, and many of the articles in the Best of
the Perl Journal volumes. An active member in the Perl
open source community, he is one of CPAN's most
prolific module authors and an authority on markup languages. Trained
as a linguist, he also develops tools for software
internationalization and Native language preservation. He lives in
Juneau, Alaska, with his feline overlord, Fang Dynasty. Simon Cozens
(http://simon-cozens.org/) is a
Perl programmer and author. He works as a research programmer for
Kasei, and has released more than 50 Perl modules. His books include
Beginning Perl, Extending and
Embedding Perl, and the forthcoming second edition of
Advanced Perl Programming. He also maintains the
Perl.com (http://www.perl.com/)
site for O'Reilly. When not stuck in front of a
computer, he enjoys making music, playing the Japanese game of Go,
and teaching at his local church. Rael Dornfest
(http://www.raelity.org)
assesses, experiments, programs, writes, and edits for
O'Reilly & Associates. He has edited,
coauthored, and contributed to various O'Reilly
books. He is program chair for the O'Reilly Emerging
Technology Conference. In his copious free time, Rael develops bits
and bobs of freeware, including the Blosxom (http://www.blosxom.com) weblog application,
and maintains his raelity bytes weblog. William Eastler
is a freelance web developer and lover of all things Perl. He owns
MonkeyMind (http://www.monkeymind.net), a decentralized
web development company, and he is currently fighting through a
mechanical engineering degree after a long absence from school. In
his spare time, he enjoys ice dancing, reading, thinking up new
inventions, and making offerings of Perl code to the unholy lord
Morbus Iff. Scott Fallin
is a freelance programmer and systems administrator. He is an avid,
amateur Artificial Intelligence enthusiast who has thus far failed to
achieve the grail of a sentient laptop. Scott believes in nothing if
not tomorrow and a tight while loop. Ben Hammersley
(http://www.benhammersley.com) is
a writer, journalist, and gentleman adventurer of the most English
sort. Living in Florence, Italy, with three hunting dogs and a
novelist wife, Ben is failing to develop an opium habit.
Nevertheless, his addled rants can be read at http://www.benhammersley.com. Or, abandon
yourself to his email whims by writing to ben@benhammersley.com. David Landgren
grew up in Australia and moved to France in 1990. He started using
Perl 4.019 when awk was no longer sufficient to cope with the things
he was trying to accomplish. Since then, he has used, or uses, Perl
to do many things, including server and database management, security
auditing, document conversion, text processing, typography,
reporting, IRC bots, web sites, and more. In 1999, he founded the
Paris Perl Mongers, and in 2003 he helped organize the YAPC::Europe
conference in Paris. He currently works at a large French human
resources firm, where he likes to go by the title of IT Operations
Manager. He can be contacted at david@landgren.net. Andy Lester
(http://petdance.com) has been a
professional programmer for 17 years and a Perl evangelist for a
decade. He's the lead developer for
WWW::Mechanize [Hack #21] and author or maintainer of a
dozen other CPAN modules. His latest undertaking is the Phalanx
project (http://qa.perl.org),
devoted to improving the test suites of Perl and CPAN as a stepping
stone to Perl 6. By day, he manages programmers for Follett Library
Resources (http://www.titlewave.com) in McHenry,
Illinois, where he lives with his wife Amy and 2-year-old daughter
Quinn. James Linden
(http://www.kodekrash.com) has
more than 10 years of programming experience, spanning several
mainstream languages. He is the chief technology officer of Ticluse
Teknologi, a development firm specializing in library and government
solutions, as well as the information systems consultant for CMM
Concepts, a marketing agency specializing in telecommunications. An
aficionado of information-sharing systems, James volunteers quite a
bit of time to projects designed to disseminate ebooks and other
materials that are part of the public domain. Niall Kennedy
(http://niallkennedy.com) is a
Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform living and working
in San Francisco, California. He has employed spiders since 1995 to
gather, relate, and verify large data sets for statistical analysis.
He is on a constant search for algorithmic solutions to mundane
problems that will help liberate today's information
workers. Niall is currently employed at Callan Associates
(http://www.callan.com) and has
helped build both PriceGrabber.com (http://www.pricegrabber.com) and the American
Express Small Business Network (http://open.americanexpress.com). l.m.orchard (http://www.decafbad.com) wants to be a
computer scientist when he grows up, having decided so in second
grade before it was cool. His sporadic ramblings and occasionally
working code can be found at his 0xDECAFBAD wiki/weblog. Offers for
free coffee (fully caffeinated or better, please) can be sent to
deus_x@pobox.com. l.m.orchard lives in Ann Arbor,
Michigan, with two spotted cats and a very cute, very patient girl. Sean B. Palmer
(http://infomesh.net/sbp/) is an
interdisciplinary holisticist with a predilection for phenomic words.
His homepage has the URI http://infomesh.net/sbp/ most of the time,
and his customary Internet dwelling is irc://irc.freenode.net/sbp. Shantung wine
can't get him drunk. He wonders if
he's the first author ever to use the words
ullage, twyndyllyngs, and
wef in an autobiography. Since he
wasn't allowed to read the other biographies in this
book before publication, he couldn't make any funny
jokes about the people, which is what he normally does in these
things. Pseudorandom quote: " e snawe snitered ful snart,  at snayped e wylde"—Sir Gawain, author or authoress unknown. He feels love in nature, harmony in prose. I'd like to slip out of third person and thank Melissa, Aaron, Morb, Stuart, and my family. Thanks! Ron Pacheco
is a software engineer and educator who lives in New England with his
wife and two boys. His career has been a combination of university
teaching, corporate employment, and private consulting. His favorite
binary is /usr/bin/perl; a Perl programmer for
over 10 years, he uses it almost daily because it gets
stuff done! Ron can be contacted via email at ron@pacheco.net. Dean Peters
is a graying code-monkey who by day is a mild-mannered IIS/.NET
programmer, but by night becomes a not-so-evil Linux genius as he
develops software and articles for his blogs, http://HealYourChurchWebSite.com and
http://blogs4God.com. Richard Rose
began life at an early age and rapidly started absorbing information,
finding that he liked the taste of information relating to computers
the best. He has since feasted upon information from the University
of Bristol, England, where he earned a BSc with Honors. He lives in
Bristol but currently does not work, and he will be returned for
store credit as soon as somebody can find the receipt. Richard writes
programs for the intellectual challenge. He also turns his hand to
system administration and has done the obligatory time in tech
support. For fun, he juggles, does close-up magic, and plays the
guitar badly. He can also be found on IRC, where he currently is a
network operator known as rik on the Open and Free
Technology Community (irc.oftc.net). Mads Toftum
is a longtime Perl hacker and Apache abuser who has been working in
the ISP business since 1995. He spends way too much of his spare time
playing with Unix, Apache, OpenSSL, and other security-related tools.
At times, he can be found in the kitchen inventing new dishes or
trying out new ideas from his ever-growing collection of cookbooks.
He can be reached at ora@toftum.org. Iain Truskett
(http://iain.truskett.id.au)
created and maintains the Perl Books site (http://books.perl.org) and a dozen modules on
CPAN, including WWW::Yahoo::Groups [Hack #44]. Eric Vitiello
is the owner of Perceive Designs (http://www.perceive.net), a web design and
programming firm located in Louisville, Kentucky. He likes to write
database-driven code in a variety of languages, entertain his
children, and make wine from various fruits. Sometimes, he even gets
to leave his house. You can contact him at
eric@perceive.net.
Acknowledgments
Attempting to write a 300+ page book in two months (and failing) is a
monumental effort, and if it weren't for a number of
spirits (of both the physical and imbibed), we'd be
much worse off.
Kevin
Thanks to all the impatient emails encouraging me to finish the book
so I could work on AmphetaDesk, to Rich and Ken for being my
scapegoats ("well, hey, at least
I'm not that
late"), and to all the folks on IRC who swore not to
tell Rael I was goofing off . . . you're not half as
worthless as I made you out to be. To Bruce, for making it easier to
serve in heav'n than reign in hell, and to Neil for
the days of enjoyment with The Sandman, along
with a reiteration I knowingly reverse.
Tara
Kevin's been an excellent coauthor to work with on
this book. Thanks, Kev. My family has been their usual incredibly
patient selves as I worked on this book. Thanks, family. A lot of
this book has been the work of some great contributors. They had good
ideas, they had fun applications, and they had amusing comments in
their code. A big thanks to all of them who took the time and effort
to help us.
And thank you for reading.
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