Bio
I have been a Perl programmer since 1989 and I have attended YAPC::NA in 2002 and every year since 2006. Perl has been my favorite programming language (by far) since 1991 or earlier, but I’m very interested in Rust these days. Apart from Perl 6/Raku, Rust is the first language I have found that feels like it has the potential to replace Perl as my favorite programming language. It hasn’t happened yet, but it might!
My Talks
Direct Access to PDF Internals with PDF::Data
There are many existing PDF modules for Perl, most of which use high-level API calls and hide the PDF internals. PDF::Data takes a different approach, directly representing low-level PDF internals...
Making Sense of Regular Expressions
Do you tend to avoid complex regular expressions — even if you’re a competent Perl programmer — because they appear to be indecipherable by mere mortals? I’ll try to make some sense of it all… or m...